<?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[Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52135]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew we had 90 minutes to find a goal but the first half was too hectic and we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40194]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew we had 90 minutes to find a goal but the first half was too hectic and we were too nervous,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226   Where there is fear of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226   Where there is fear of God to keep the house, the enemy can find no way to enter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17566]]></link><description><![CDATA[True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture is the art of how to waste space. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Architecture is the art of how to waste space.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54209]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.   - George Colman ("The Younger"), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.   - George Colman ("The Younger"),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 In the pure soul, whether it sing or pray, The Christ ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 In the pure soul, whether it sing or pray, The Christ is born anew from day to day. The life that knoweth Him shall bide apart And keep eternal Christmas in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24249]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63505]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35583]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all due respect to Columbus, I think everyone around the league coming into this game said Columbus didn't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31574]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all due respect to Columbus, I think everyone around the league coming into this game said Columbus didn't have a shot. And I think that's what we felt coming in too. Maybe we were a little complacent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries,  As motion and long-during action tires   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries,  As motion and long-during action tires   The sinewy vigor of the traveller.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crucial thing for genocide is that you have to show a special kind of intent to implement genocide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37247]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crucial thing for genocide is that you have to show a special kind of intent to implement genocide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast,  Serene, and resolute, and still,   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast,  Serene, and resolute, and still,   And calm, and self-possessed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For many years the Christians met in homes and never possessed any special buildings for their gatherings. As religio illicita, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6503]]></link><description><![CDATA[For many years the Christians met in homes and never possessed any special buildings for their gatherings. As religio illicita, no thought could be had of a permanent structure for gatherings. This would only facilitate matters for the Roman government in its merciless persecutions. The early Church was very conscious of its pilgrim character in a world which was at enmity with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[was prepared to take risks for the peace process, risks to secure agreement and risks to implement it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30118]]></link><description><![CDATA[was prepared to take risks for the peace process, risks to secure agreement and risks to implement it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6087]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. -Joan Baez.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are fortunes being made by turning fans into victims and all it starts by creating that frenzy known as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28214]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are fortunes being made by turning fans into victims and all it starts by creating that frenzy known as celebrity worship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5382]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most concerned of the first time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20334]]></link><description><![CDATA[What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50706]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Creed sets forth what Christ suffered in the sight of men, and then appositely speaks of that invisible and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7746]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Creed sets forth what Christ suffered in the sight of men, and then appositely speaks of that invisible and incomprehensible judgment which he underwent in the sight of God in order that we might know not only that Christ's body was given as the price of our redemption, but that he paid a greater and more excellent price in suffering in his soul the terrible torments of a condemned and forsaken man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This book fills a much-needed gap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25298]]></link><description><![CDATA[This book fills a much-needed gap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64838]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coach Bruce Weber told me in a meeting that all I have to do is play pretty well. The rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coach Bruce Weber told me in a meeting that all I have to do is play pretty well. The rest of the guys are doing well now. It takes a lot of pressure off Dee and especially myself. Luther and Deron and all the assists and rebounds and all the points that were lost, somebody has to make them up. In reality, you can't do all that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average child is an almost non- existent myth. To be normal one must be peculiar in some way or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average child is an almost non- existent myth. To be normal one must be peculiar in some way or another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63802]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most managers were trained to be the thing they mostdespise, bureaucrats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most managers were trained to be the thing they mostdespise, bureaucrats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617  We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617  We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition: that our life express Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless we give and devote ourselves to righteousness, we not only revolt from our Creator with wicked perfidy, but we also abjure our Savior Himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait;  O Shepherdess of England's fold,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18208]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait;  O Shepherdess of England's fold,   Behold this gate of pearl and gold!   - William Blake,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to do what the Republican Congress didn't have the decency to do, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42286]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to do what the Republican Congress didn't have the decency to do,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9722]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a member of the school board I played an integral role in keeping the district's approximately $8 million budget ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33745]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a member of the school board I played an integral role in keeping the district's approximately $8 million budget successfully in the black while building several additions and making many improvements. I also played a key role in negotiating many successful union contracts for the district. This experience will better able me to keep the sheriff's department spending in check, and to work well with the department's employee union.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13324</guid></item></channel></rss>