<?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[All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12288]]></link><description><![CDATA[All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His sickness increases from the remedies applied to cure it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51806]]></link><description><![CDATA[His sickness increases from the remedies applied to cure it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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It's a beautiful addition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25666]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/354]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrestling is ballet with violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wrestling is ballet with violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends. -Theocritus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends. -Theocritus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of job opportunities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14124]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of job opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53259]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never bound to be and you just have to let go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What! the girl I adore by another embraced? What! the balm of her breath shall another man taste?  What! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11031]]></link><description><![CDATA[What! the girl I adore by another embraced? What! the balm of her breath shall another man taste?  What! pressed in the dance by another's man's knee?   What! panting recline on another than me?    Sir, she's yours; you have pressed from the grape its fine blue,     From the rosebud you've shaken the tremulous dew;      What you've touched you may take. Pretty waltzer--adieu!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179  Thou wayfaring Jesus -- a pilgrim and stranger,  Exiled from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179  Thou wayfaring Jesus -- a pilgrim and stranger,  Exiled from heaven by love at Thy birth: Exiled again from Thy rest in the manger,  A fugitive child 'mid the perils of earth -- Cheer with Thy fellowship all who are weary,  Wandering far from the land that they love: Guide every heart that is homeless and dreary,  Safe to its home in Thy presence above.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search for truth is more precious than its possession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47773]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search for truth is more precious than its possession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888 Vain is the chiming of forgotten bells  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888 Vain is the chiming of forgotten bells  That the wind sways above a ruined shrine.  Vainer his voice in whom no longer dwells  Hunger that craves immortal Bread and Wine. Light songs we breathe, that perish with our breath,  Out of our lips that have not kissed the rod.  They shall not live who have not tasted death.  They only sing who are struck dumb by God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64825]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old. [said when George Burns was only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35942]]></link><description><![CDATA[My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old. [said when George Burns was only 64. He lived to be 100]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas Eve A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Thou honour'st his obedience, he thy law. Into thy secret life-will he doth see; Thou fold'st him round in live love perfectly--  One two, without beginning, without end; In love, life, strength, and truth, perfect without a flaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He beat the bushes without taking the birds. [Fr., [Il] battoit les buissons sans predre les ozillons.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14930]]></link><description><![CDATA[He beat the bushes without taking the birds. [Fr., [Il] battoit les buissons sans predre les ozillons.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14930</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[Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All history, of course, is the history of wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19358]]></link><description><![CDATA[All history, of course, is the history of wars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21758]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A farmer's market is worth more thaneverything I've written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15170]]></link><description><![CDATA[A farmer's market is worth more thaneverything I've written.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45194]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He ne'er consider'd it as loth To look a gift-horse in the mouth,  And very wisely would lay forth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17432]]></link><description><![CDATA[He ne'er consider'd it as loth To look a gift-horse in the mouth,  And very wisely would lay forth   No more upon it than 'twas worth;    But as he got it freely, so     He spent it frank and freely too:      For saints themselves will sometimes be,       Of gifts that cost them nothing, free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a 100 percent shot, an explosive shot as opposed to a smooth, rhythmical timing of the leg. It's like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32971]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a 100 percent shot, an explosive shot as opposed to a smooth, rhythmical timing of the leg. It's like hitting all out on a driver as opposed to putting a ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, It comes and sits softly on your shoulder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision isdrudgery. A vision with a task ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22660]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision isdrudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would have been nice, but we took care of what we needed to take care of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41348]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would have been nice, but we took care of what we needed to take care of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of God in peoples' lives allows a little outside organization in their lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32693]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of God in peoples' lives allows a little outside organization in their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44646]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14276]]></link><description><![CDATA[No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9514]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[It's a model that Alfred Hitchcock drew on for many of his movies.] If there was a film that inspired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37555]]></link><description><![CDATA[[It's a model that Alfred Hitchcock drew on for many of his movies.] If there was a film that inspired me in writing 'Panic,' it was 'North by Northwest,' ... Those are my favorite Hitchcock films -- the ones where ordinary, everyday people are going about their lives, and they take this dramatic left turn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mourn, little harebells, o'er the lea; Ye stately foxgloves fair to see!  Ye woodbines, hanging bonnilie   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mourn, little harebells, o'er the lea; Ye stately foxgloves fair to see!  Ye woodbines, hanging bonnilie   In scented bowers!    Ye roses on your thorny tree     The first o' flow'rs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction is the good man's shining scene; Prosperity conceals his brightest ray;  As night to stars, woe lustre gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction is the good man's shining scene; Prosperity conceals his brightest ray;  As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day will come when, after harnessing the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day will come when, after harnessing the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of Love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Italians are plunderers. [It., Gli Italiani tutti ladroni.]  Not all but a good part.   [It., Non ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23099]]></link><description><![CDATA[All Italians are plunderers. [It., Gli Italiani tutti ladroni.]  Not all but a good part.   [It., Non tutti, ma buona parte.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23099</guid></item></channel></rss>