<?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[To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11831]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26146]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19241]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appreciate what you have before it becomes what you had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Appreciate what you have before it becomes what you had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12381]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only understand friendship or scorched earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65229]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only understand friendship or scorched earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . th' approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light,  When falling dews with spangles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59930]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . th' approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light,  When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade,   And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66636]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47377]]></link><description><![CDATA[As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957  Above all, desire to please Christ; dread ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957  Above all, desire to please Christ; dread his disapproval above everything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604 For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604 For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made a Nosegay in the meadow with his disciples and preached upon the lily. For the flowers have great virtues for all senses. For the flower glorifies God and the root parries the adversary. For the flowers have their angels even the words of God's creation. For there is a language of flowers. For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15991]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the sun shine in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the sun shine in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of studying for finals, what about just going to the Bahamas and catching some rays? Maybe you'll flunk, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of studying for finals, what about just going to the Bahamas and catching some rays? Maybe you'll flunk, but you might have flunked anyway; that's my point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we had some good looks early. We just missed them. If we make those shots we might get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41928]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we had some good looks early. We just missed them. If we make those shots we might get off on a roll.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to make children good is to make them happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to make children good is to make them happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20940]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you look at a list of companies we serve . . . you start to get a feel for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36785]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you look at a list of companies we serve . . . you start to get a feel for what we are able to do in customizing our training to meet your needs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing good or evil save in the will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61592]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing good or evil save in the will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52318]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American...is far more virulent than any antipathy he can work up against foreigners...Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53338]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12782]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22899]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53929]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are they are they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent being toward God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27040]]></link><description><![CDATA[I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19369]]></link><description><![CDATA[History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My hat is in the ring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62633]]></link><description><![CDATA[My hat is in the ring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FRIEND: A member of the opposite sex in your acquaintance who has some flaw which makes sleeping with him/her totally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11108]]></link><description><![CDATA[FRIEND: A member of the opposite sex in your acquaintance who has some flaw which makes sleeping with him/her totally unappealing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18573]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What babe new born is this that in a manger cries? Near on her lowly bed his happy mother lies. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8632]]></link><description><![CDATA[What babe new born is this that in a manger cries? Near on her lowly bed his happy mother lies.  Oh, see the air is shaken with white and heavenly wings--   This is the Lord of all the earth, this is the King of Kings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what so tedious as a twice-told tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57921]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4359]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two stable outlooks versus one (negative by Moody's) confirms bullish outlook for the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two stable outlooks versus one (negative by Moody's) confirms bullish outlook for the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is woman there is magic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is woman there is magic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The Moon, their Mistress, had expired before;  The winds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The Moon, their Mistress, had expired before;  The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air,   And the clouds perish'd; darkness had no need    Of aid from them--she was the Universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to make sure I really do leave this company in the best shape I can. After that, there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28405]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to make sure I really do leave this company in the best shape I can. After that, there are a number of options open that look to be quite exciting. But I doubt I'll be working full-time in the Vail Valley.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way Prescott is going to get through something to do with transport policy, is if the public think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way Prescott is going to get through something to do with transport policy, is if the public think there are too many damn things on the road, and use the railways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33233</guid></item></channel></rss>