<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I picked up those little girls that drowned, all I could think about was my grandbabies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37121]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I picked up those little girls that drowned, all I could think about was my grandbabies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14269]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappy France! Unhappy King! [Fr., Malheureuse France! Malheureux roi!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappy France! Unhappy King! [Fr., Malheureuse France! Malheureux roi!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. - "Time", July 2, 1956.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When that report comes out, we'll have a better idea. We're going to have to wait for that report to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38135]]></link><description><![CDATA[When that report comes out, we'll have a better idea. We're going to have to wait for that report to come back May 1, and then we'll study it and we'll sit down with the president and university officials and decide what we're going to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Caterpillar plant invited us to come. As you can imagine, the president gets invited to a lot of places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Caterpillar plant invited us to come. As you can imagine, the president gets invited to a lot of places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52059]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas Eve They were all looking for a king To slay their foes, and lift them high; Thou cam'st, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve They were all looking for a king To slay their foes, and lift them high; Thou cam'st, a little baby thing That made a woman cry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9940]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work your way up or rust your way out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work your way up or rust your way out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43695]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizend of the world: ask not what American will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside. [Fr., L'honneur est comme une ile escarpee et sans bords;  On n'y peut plus rentrer des qu'on en est dehors.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had 420 females and 723 males compete in the last two years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38533]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had 420 females and 723 males compete in the last two years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles   It has been observed that nowhere does Scripture attempt a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles   It has been observed that nowhere does Scripture attempt a deductive argument for the existence of God, like those of Thomas Aquinas, for example. This fact ought not to be taken to imply, however, that such an effort is unjustifiable and necessarily useless. The distinctiveness of the Biblical approach is its immediacy. The theistic proofs for God's existence constitute a laborious, painstaking, and patient justification of theism. They attempt to set forth in rational argument what the soul grasps intuitively. But for the Bible, the deepest proof of God's existence is just life itself. The knowledge of God and man's knowledge of himself are closely intertwined. If only God could be written off neatly and cleanly, how simple things would be! But the hound of heaven pads after us all. He does not let us go. There is no escaping him...; when least expected, he closes in. The explanation for this is man's creation in the image of God. His identity is known theologically, in relation to the God who as a man in his true significance cannot survive permanently in isolation from his Maker. Without God, man is the chance product of unthinking fate, and so of little worth. The current loss of identity and the emergence of the faceless man in today's culture are testimony to the effects of losing our God. The knowledge of God is given in the same movement in which we know ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reality is that most of us sit at home and read about the Super Bowl and the $1,000 parties, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31433]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reality is that most of us sit at home and read about the Super Bowl and the $1,000 parties, and we won't have an opportunity to participate. When I look at a $400 ticket, I blanch. This allows everyday people to get involved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24750]]></link><description><![CDATA[The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus of Nazareth, without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander, Caesar, Mahomet, and Napoleon; without science and learning, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus of Nazareth, without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander, Caesar, Mahomet, and Napoleon; without science and learning, He shed more light on things human and divine than all philosophers and schools combined; without the eloquence of schools, He spoke words of life such as never were spoken before or since, and produced effects which lie beyond the reach of any orator or poet; without writing a single line, He has set more pens in motion, and furnished themes for more sermons, orations, discussions, learned volumes, works of art and sweet songs of praise, than the whole army of great men of ancient and modern times. Born in a manger, and crucified as a malefactor, He now controls the destinies of the civilized world, and rules a spiritual empire which embraces one-third of the inhabitants of the globe. There never was in this world a life so unpretending, modest, and lowly in its outward form and condition, and yet producing such extraordinary effects upon all ages, nations, and classes of men. The annals of history produce no other example of such complete and astonishing success in spite of the absence of those material, social, literary, and artistic powers and influences which are indispensable to success for a mere man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elizabeth's 3-pointers broke the game open. She's been doing that for the last week or so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elizabeth's 3-pointers broke the game open. She's been doing that for the last week or so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People don't come into your life by accident. Everyone that crosses your path serves a purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62853]]></link><description><![CDATA[People don't come into your life by accident. Everyone that crosses your path serves a purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've spent most of my life golfing - the rest I've just wasted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17806]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've spent most of my life golfing - the rest I've just wasted]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Best of all, I only missed one spare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Best of all, I only missed one spare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kissing-and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kissing-and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows how to be poor knows everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47896]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows how to be poor knows everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rainbows apologize for angry skies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rainbows apologize for angry skies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33532]]></link><description><![CDATA[An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before you can do something you must first be something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before you can do something you must first be something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ocean asks for nothing but thosewho stand by her shoresgradually attune themselves to her rhythmCharles Dickens in David Copperfield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ocean asks for nothing but thosewho stand by her shoresgradually attune themselves to her rhythmCharles Dickens in David Copperfield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40804]]></link><description><![CDATA[They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification of a better career option and higher salary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful sanctuaries, paved parking lots, and new liturgies will do very little for people who sit in worship with their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful sanctuaries, paved parking lots, and new liturgies will do very little for people who sit in worship with their fingers crossed and do not really believe the faith which is expounded. Often the layman dismisses what the preacher says as something irrelevant to his situation and generation. When he joins a group where he is no longer afraid to be frank, the supposedly faithful member often admits that he has never really accepted what he thinks he has heard. He has, for example, grave reservations about the idea of creation. Did not the world evolve of itself? Do we really need the hypothesis of Infinite Purpose to make sense of the physical, biological, and psychological development? These questions seldom come to the surface when the Church provides merely a one-way preaching. There is little chance of renewal if all that we have is the arrangement by which one speaks and the others listen. One trouble with this conventional system is that the speaker never knows what the unanswered questions are, or what reservations remain in the layman's mentality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those were big foul shots. We weren't up by that much and he just kept walking up there and making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those were big foul shots. We weren't up by that much and he just kept walking up there and making free throws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sinners' follies are the just sport of God's infinite wisdom and power; and those attempts of the kingdom of Satan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sinners' follies are the just sport of God's infinite wisdom and power; and those attempts of the kingdom of Satan, which in our eyes are formidable, in his are despicable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liars are always most disposed to swear. [It., A giurar presti i mentitor son sempre.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liars are always most disposed to swear. [It., A giurar presti i mentitor son sempre.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smile - It's the second best thing you can do with your lips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smile - It's the second best thing you can do with your lips.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humore is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humore is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is not satisfaction. It is the grateful, faithful, fruitful use of what we have, little or much. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is not satisfaction. It is the grateful, faithful, fruitful use of what we have, little or much. It is to take the cup of Providence, and call upon the name of the Lord. What the cup contains is its contents. To get all that is in the cup is the act and art of contentment. Not to drink because one has but half a cup, or because one does not like its flavor, or because somebody else has silver to one's own glass, is to lose the contents; and that is the penalty, if not the meaning, of discontent. No one is discontented who employs and enjoys to the utmost what he has. It is high philosophy to say, we can have just what we like if we like what we have; but this much at least can be done, and this is contentment: to have the most and best in life by making the most and best of what we have.   ... Maltbie D. Babcock August 7, 2000 Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866   For all the vigour of his polemic, St. Paul does not content himself with the denunciation of error, but finds the best defense against its insidious approaches in a closer adherence to the love of God and faith in Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19541]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a real shock, and I felt bad for his wife and family. I've known his wife since we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30367]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a real shock, and I felt bad for his wife and family. I've known his wife since we were babies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30367</guid></item></channel></rss>