<?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[I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5393]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45700]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them do a polygraph. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them do a polygraph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did tell the President that we need a lot of Colin Powell and very little of Rumsfeld ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39081]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did tell the President that we need a lot of Colin Powell and very little of Rumsfeld]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24078]]></link><description><![CDATA[The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate corrodes the vessel that carries it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate corrodes the vessel that carries it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13447]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17637]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- you don't have enough goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31779]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody takes steps in the wrong direction. Everybody has the opportunity to take steps in the right direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody takes steps in the wrong direction. Everybody has the opportunity to take steps in the right direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This wide and generous spirit of love, not the religious egotist's longing to get away from the world to God, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7702]]></link><description><![CDATA[This wide and generous spirit of love, not the religious egotist's longing to get away from the world to God, is the fruit of true self-oblation; for a soul totally possessed by God is a soul totally possessed by Charity. By the path of self-offering, the Church and the soul have come up to the frontiers of the Holy. There we are required, not to cast the world from us, but to do our best for all others as well as ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which costs little is less valued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21281]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which costs little is less valued.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shared sovereignty doesn't work, because sovereignty depends on being able to exercise authority, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shared sovereignty doesn't work, because sovereignty depends on being able to exercise authority,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all had accepted the need for organization and order in civilian life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19151]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural support dedicatedly spending 9 billion dollars a month on helping people would be a formidable enemy of evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In death a hero, as in life a friend!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11266]]></link><description><![CDATA[In death a hero, as in life a friend!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48969]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and which will never grow dim or doubtful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No language is rude that can boast polite writers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24075]]></link><description><![CDATA[No language is rude that can boast polite writers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, it's a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20077]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, it's a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, 'Hey, can you give me a hand?' you can say, 'Sorry, got these sacks.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18257]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.   - William Hazlitt,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can the believing husband in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving wife in Hell? Can the believing father in Heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can the believing husband in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving wife in Hell? Can the believing father in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving children in Hell? Can the loving wife in Heaven be happy with her unbelieving husband in Hell? I tell]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63078]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23810]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God helps those who persevere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19187]]></link><description><![CDATA[God helps those who persevere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless ourwalking is our preaching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21130]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless ourwalking is our preaching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like all of us, as you grow old you need more maintenance and more fixing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like all of us, as you grow old you need more maintenance and more fixing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth-- that no evil can happen to a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth-- that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. - A Letter to Myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence. - A Letter to Myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get paid to impact the world, not be impacted by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21834]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get paid to impact the world, not be impacted by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4644]]></link><description><![CDATA[If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have always been at daggers-drawing, And one another clapper-clawing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have always been at daggers-drawing, And one another clapper-clawing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A master of straw eates a servant of steele. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49061]]></link><description><![CDATA[A master of straw eates a servant of steele.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750  Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750  Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the world can understand, if they do not comprehend doctrines. They are the graces about which there is no mystery, and they are within reach of all classes... [The poorest] Christian can every day find occasion for practicing love and humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tennis has given me soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tennis has given me soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So let it be in God's own might We gird us for the coming fight,  And, strong in Him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57951]]></link><description><![CDATA[So let it be in God's own might We gird us for the coming fight,  And, strong in Him whose cause is ours   In conflict with unholy powers,    We grasp the weapons he has given,--     The Light, and Truth, and Love of Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624   It is not that we keep His commandments first, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624   It is not that we keep His commandments first, and that then He loves; but that He loves us, and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace, which is revealed to the humble, but hidden from the proud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6152]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing today an unmistakable confirmation that there is in the country the emergence of a new political culture. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37525]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing today an unmistakable confirmation that there is in the country the emergence of a new political culture. A sense that the legacy of the rule of the gun can be resisted is now taking root.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10158]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just improve the things that are not so good. What is lacking in this conception is any sense that a society, an institution, or even a single human being, is an intricate system of fragile inter-relationships, whose complexities are little understood and easily destabilized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every countrey the sun rises in the morning. [In every country the sun rises in the morning.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49538]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every countrey the sun rises in the morning. [In every country the sun rises in the morning.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25076</guid></item></channel></rss>