<?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[A child enters your home and makes so much noise for twenty years that you can hardly stand it: then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38586]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child enters your home and makes so much noise for twenty years that you can hardly stand it: then departs leaving the house so silent that you think you will go mad]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Washington is the only state with a positive balance of trade with China, something we are very proud of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Washington is the only state with a positive balance of trade with China, something we are very proud of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expressing anger is a form of public littering. -Willard Gaylin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expressing anger is a form of public littering. -Willard Gaylin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54939]]></link><description><![CDATA[The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There came to the beach a poor Exile of Erin, The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23039]]></link><description><![CDATA[There came to the beach a poor Exile of Erin, The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill;  For his country he sigh'd, when at twilight repairing.   To wander along by the wind-beaten hill.    But the day star attracted his eyes' sad devotion,     For it rose o'er his own native isle of the ocean,      Where once in the fire of his youthful emotion       He sang the bold anthem of Erin-go-bragh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45627]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose. [Fr., Je ne suis pas la rose, mais ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54438]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose. [Fr., Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j'ai vecu pres d'elle.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62924]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven't been willing to try ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21060]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven't been willing to try]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274   The tendency of the religions of all time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274   The tendency of the religions of all time has been to care more for religion than for humanity: Christ cared more for humanity than for religion -- rather, His care for humanity was the chief expression of His religion. He was not indifferent to observances, but the practices of the people bulked in His thoughts before the practices of the Church. It has been pointed out as a blemish on the immortal allegory of Bunyan that the Pilgrim never did anything -- anything but save his soul. The remark is scarcely fair, for the allegory is designedly the story of a soul in a single relation; and, besides, he did do a little. But the warning may well be weighed. The Pilgrim's one thought, his work by day, his dream by night, was escape. He took little part in the world through which he passed. He was a Pilgrim travelling through it; his business was to get through safe. Whatever this is, it is not Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[I used to believe] the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . . government, I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23574]]></link><description><![CDATA[[I used to believe] the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . . government, I've concluded, is now an insufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The correct strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreign clients is a Japanese strategy: ask questions. When you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The correct strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreign clients is a Japanese strategy: ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefully feel for pressure points. If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Suggest a recess or another meeting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14678]]></link><description><![CDATA[We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say that I am happy is an understatement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41906]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say that I am happy is an understatement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. We are personalities in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins. Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence. Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake -- a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention. And therefore the action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone exits your life, let them go with class and style. They mattered, if only for a little while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62933]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone exits your life, let them go with class and style. They mattered, if only for a little while.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The study of economy usually shows us that the best time for purchase was last year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The study of economy usually shows us that the best time for purchase was last year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you judge, investigate ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52742]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you judge, investigate]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So liv'd our sires, ere doctors learn'd to kill, And multiplied with theirs the weekly bill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26690]]></link><description><![CDATA[So liv'd our sires, ere doctors learn'd to kill, And multiplied with theirs the weekly bill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61264]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been frustrated as a council member in the past, whenever we get donated open space it's never usable. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34348]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been frustrated as a council member in the past, whenever we get donated open space it's never usable. This is the first time the land could be a benefit to the entire town to use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is the conclusion of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is the conclusion of fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame thenightmares because of my dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21681]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame thenightmares because of my dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is to be acknowledged that many passages in the Bible are abstruse, and not to be easily understood. Yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8039]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is to be acknowledged that many passages in the Bible are abstruse, and not to be easily understood. Yet we are not to omit reading the abstruser texts, which have any appearance of relating to us; but should follow the example of the Blessed Virgin, who understood not several of our Saviour's sayings, but kept them all in her heart. Were we only to learn humility thus, it would be enough; but we shall by degrees come to apprehend far more than we expected, if we diligently compare spiritual things to spiritual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume; The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves.  Sense is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume; The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves.  Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound;   When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam;    Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a bold mouse that nestles in the catts eare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49567]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a bold mouse that nestles in the catts eare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are so many kids. When school?s out, it all goes away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33386]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are so many kids. When school?s out, it all goes away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The delegates will see Omar as the best choice so, accordingly, Omar will win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32780]]></link><description><![CDATA[The delegates will see Omar as the best choice so, accordingly, Omar will win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60862]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life together under the Word will remain sound and healthy only where it does not form itself into a movement, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life together under the Word will remain sound and healthy only where it does not form itself into a movement, an order, a society... but rather where it understands itself as being a part of the one, holy, catholic, Christian Church, where it shares actively and passively in the sufferings and struggles of the whole Church. Every principle of selection, every separation connected with it that is not necessitated quite objectively by common work, local conditions, or family connections is of the greatest danger to a Christian community. When the way of intellectual or spiritual selection is taken, the human element always insinuates itself and robs the fellowship of its spiritual power and its effectiveness for the Church, and drives it into sectarianism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14803]]></link><description><![CDATA[An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45778]]></link><description><![CDATA[And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63020]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18116]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush, you must confess that you have been defeated in Iraq and in Afghanistan and you will be in Palestine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bush, you must confess that you have been defeated in Iraq and in Afghanistan and you will be in Palestine soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am delighted the president has signed this bill, ... Hawaii can now begin to develop alternative sources of water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32560]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am delighted the president has signed this bill, ... Hawaii can now begin to develop alternative sources of water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", because I would have liked to stand up in class and tell everybody, "You can make fun of the Cricket Boy if you want to, but to me he's just like everybody else." Then everybody would leave the Cricket Boy alone, and I'd invite him over to spend the night at my house, but after about five minutes of that loud chirping I'd have to kick him out. Maybe later we could get up a petition to get the Cricket Family run out of town. Bye, Cricket Boy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper,--"orthodoxy is my doxy,--heterodoxy is another man's doxy." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12638]]></link><description><![CDATA["Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper,--"orthodoxy is my doxy,--heterodoxy is another man's doxy."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17919]]></link><description><![CDATA[And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can you restrain your laughter, my friends? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can you restrain your laughter, my friends?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32502]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get people excited and there's a trickle-down effect. Just the names create interest. Robert Cray (who will perform at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38524]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get people excited and there's a trickle-down effect. Just the names create interest. Robert Cray (who will perform at the Grand in August), and national artists like that, I love seeing that kind of stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38524</guid></item></channel></rss>