<?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[Gifts are hooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts are hooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years... Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The film begins with the title card from an Old Arabian Proverb: And the Prophet said, 'And lo, the beast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The film begins with the title card from an Old Arabian Proverb: And the Prophet said, 'And lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty. And it stayed its hand from killing. And from that day, it was as one dead.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the whirligig of time Brings in his revenges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the whirligig of time Brings in his revenges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60365]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A couple of hours talking to travel agents can save you a lot of headaches down the road. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37087]]></link><description><![CDATA[A couple of hours talking to travel agents can save you a lot of headaches down the road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57153]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just trying to break down those barriers and make sure the program is as good as any other [Scouting] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38220]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just trying to break down those barriers and make sure the program is as good as any other [Scouting] program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This gives us a range of things we could do. Some of that is pretty big dollar amounts. The next ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31908]]></link><description><![CDATA[This gives us a range of things we could do. Some of that is pretty big dollar amounts. The next step will be ... how do we choose among those options and how do we pay for it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh my debt of praise, how weighty is it, and how far run up! Oh that others would lend me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh my debt of praise, how weighty is it, and how far run up! Oh that others would lend me to pay, and teach me to praise!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51425]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24826]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The forecasts for the second-half of the year for the most part seem to support a recovery, but to some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34039]]></link><description><![CDATA[The forecasts for the second-half of the year for the most part seem to support a recovery, but to some extent, that's already priced into the market, so you're not seeing that much stock reaction. There's not a lot of conviction and some people will take profits. But I think there will continue to be a moderately upwards bias for the remainder of the year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's still low interest rates, and we're a good buy here in Houston. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40995]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's still low interest rates, and we're a good buy here in Houston.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look before and after, And pine for what is not,  Our sincerest laughter   With some pain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54625]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look before and after, And pine for what is not,  Our sincerest laughter   With some pain is fraught:    Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48654]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61456]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Friday   Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good Friday   Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. The whole work is His, not ours, from first to last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a poet or an artist puts himself into his Productions he is criticized. But that is exactly what God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8431]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a poet or an artist puts himself into his Productions he is criticized. But that is exactly what God does, he does so in Christ. And precisely that is Christianity. The creation was really only completed when God included himself in it. Before the coming of Christ, God was certainly in the creation, but as an invisible sign, like the watermark in paper. But the creation was completed by the Incarnation because God thereby included himself in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The amount of time required to complete a government project is precisely equal to the length of time already spent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The amount of time required to complete a government project is precisely equal to the length of time already spent on it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly energy continues to do well, but technology has also attracted increasing amounts of funds, and we're seeing growth stocks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly energy continues to do well, but technology has also attracted increasing amounts of funds, and we're seeing growth stocks start to perform better than they have for some time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In modern war, the longest purse decides oftener than the longest sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47265]]></link><description><![CDATA[In modern war, the longest purse decides oftener than the longest sword.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she might love him ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26989]]></link><description><![CDATA[God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she might love him]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're a young couple just trying to survive anyway and then a storm comes and strips you of everything, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30926]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're a young couple just trying to survive anyway and then a storm comes and strips you of everything, you don't have much choice but to move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We might not need Barry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34859]]></link><description><![CDATA[We might not need Barry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a close friend of the Transportation Minister and this makes my work easier, ... Otherwise my business would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a close friend of the Transportation Minister and this makes my work easier, ... Otherwise my business would have been much slower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13364]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loud is the summer's busy song The smallest breeze can find a tongue,  While insects of each tiny size ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loud is the summer's busy song The smallest breeze can find a tongue,  While insects of each tiny size   Grow teasing with their melodies,    Till noon burns with its blistering breath     Around, and day lies still as death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19307]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17731]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18450]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was shocked; I couldnÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢t believe what I was seeing, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31430]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was shocked; I couldnÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢t believe what I was seeing,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jeff's a great athlete that maintains himself in excellent physical condition. He has a tremendous motor and plays 110 percent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jeff's a great athlete that maintains himself in excellent physical condition. He has a tremendous motor and plays 110 percent every second he's on the field. He leads by example and plays with a tremendous amount of intensity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48243]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy and persistence conquer all things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energy and persistence conquer all things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  It was no exceptional thing for Jesus to withdraw Himself "into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  It was no exceptional thing for Jesus to withdraw Himself "into the wilderness to pray." He was never for one moment of any day out of touch with God. He was speaking and listening to the Father all day long; and yet He, who was in such constant touch with God, felt the need, as well as the joy, of more prolonged and more quiet communion with Him... Most of the reasons that drive us to pray for strength and forgiveness could never have driven Him; and yet He needed prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To kill a relative of whom you are tired is one thing. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20911]]></link><description><![CDATA[To kill a relative of whom you are tired is one thing. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is a genuine pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44378]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19675]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The concert was all about raising awareness, but Peter looked like he was having trouble raising his own awareness - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The concert was all about raising awareness, but Peter looked like he was having trouble raising his own awareness - he looked wasted,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50015]]></link><description><![CDATA[To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50015</guid></item></channel></rss>