<?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[We won't have a society if we destroy the environment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13312]]></link><description><![CDATA[We won't have a society if we destroy the environment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890   In the first ages, [catechizing] was a work of long time; months, sometimes years, were devoted to the arduous task of disabusing the mind of the incipient Christian of its pagan errors, and of moulding it upon the Christian faith. The Scriptures indeed were at hand for the study of those who could avail themselves of them, but St. Iranaeus does not hesitate to speak of whole races who had been converted to Christianity, without being able to read them. To be unable to read or write was in those times no evidence of want of learning; the hermits of the deserts were, in one sense of the word, illiterate, yet the great St. Anthony, though he knew not letters, was a match in disputation for the learned philosophers who came to try him.  ... John Henry Newman, "What is a University?" August 12, 2000   Any single verse of the Bible, taken in isolation, may actually be dangerous to your spiritual health. Every part of it must be read in relation to the whole message.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1926]]></link><description><![CDATA[My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're essentially at the same location as the old Isthmus Playhouse. But that is where the similarity starts and ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35642]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're essentially at the same location as the old Isthmus Playhouse. But that is where the similarity starts and ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1455]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12419]]></link><description><![CDATA[If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our God and soldiers we alike adore ev'n at the brink of danger; not before: After deliverance, both alike requited, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our God and soldiers we alike adore ev'n at the brink of danger; not before: After deliverance, both alike requited, Our God's forgotten, and our soldiers slighted]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49511]]></link><description><![CDATA[If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court,  And spawns his quarto, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3519]]></link><description><![CDATA[But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court,  And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,--   Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the fact that there is challenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39911]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the fact that there is challenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every castle of the air Sleeps in the fine black grains, and there  Are seeds for every romance, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every castle of the air Sleeps in the fine black grains, and there  Are seeds for every romance, or light   Whiff of a dream for a summer night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, white innocence, That thou shouldst wear the mask of guilt to hide  Thine awful and serenest countenance  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20965]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, white innocence, That thou shouldst wear the mask of guilt to hide  Thine awful and serenest countenance   From those who know thee not!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A confession has to be part of your new life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9650]]></link><description><![CDATA[A confession has to be part of your new life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter nights were made for warm snuggles and warmer hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter nights were made for warm snuggles and warmer hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I grew up in dirt-poor hillbilly country. We lived this dry-below-the-waist kind of scene. If you were a sensual woman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28127]]></link><description><![CDATA[I grew up in dirt-poor hillbilly country. We lived this dry-below-the-waist kind of scene. If you were a sensual woman you were in league with that which is un-Christlike. Where I come from, a cockroach is a roach, and a cockerel is a rooster because they can't bring themselves to say cock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.   - William Makepeace Thackeray,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50793]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43230]]></link><description><![CDATA[A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the morning mountaines, in the evening fountaines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49549]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the morning mountaines, in the evening fountaines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47353]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all professionals in here and everyone can give a little more and be a little better. We have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37353]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all professionals in here and everyone can give a little more and be a little better. We have to play with more confidence and more urgency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the schoolmaster of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming in my freshman year we were a .500 team. Ohio State hasn't done it since the 1980s, so it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming in my freshman year we were a .500 team. Ohio State hasn't done it since the 1980s, so it means a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61014]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49337]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action. -Coriolanus. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think she was very astute, along with the prime minister and her other advisers, to recognize that to let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38456]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think she was very astute, along with the prime minister and her other advisers, to recognize that to let this go unanswered would have, in the minds of many, confirmed their worst suspicions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Midwest has always been rough, but the East Coast and the Carolinas have been good to us. And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31276]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Midwest has always been rough, but the East Coast and the Carolinas have been good to us. And the West Coast has been really good to us, too. Canada not so much, but that was before the album came out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to believe in yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64113]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to believe in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can resist anything except temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58920]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can resist anything except temptation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that shakes falles not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49107]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that shakes falles not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism: The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism: The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will make an end of my dinner--there's pippins and seese to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13271]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will make an end of my dinner--there's pippins and seese to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no accidents. God's just trying to remain anonymous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17662]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no accidents. God's just trying to remain anonymous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my finest moment, when all of my fantastic dreams have come true...I will be utterly and completely alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59064]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my finest moment, when all of my fantastic dreams have come true...I will be utterly and completely alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no small pleasure in sweet water. [Lat., Est in aqua dulci non invidiosa voluptas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61298]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no small pleasure in sweet water. [Lat., Est in aqua dulci non invidiosa voluptas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot strike out in your first major-league at-bat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41868]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot strike out in your first major-league at-bat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59231]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, theres no knowing where you might be swept off to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think you ever go into a marriage to fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think you ever go into a marriage to fail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coaching helps you develop your leadership skills, clarify your values and guiding principles and build your reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coaching helps you develop your leadership skills, clarify your values and guiding principles and build your reputation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playing against that type of speed, we learned that we can move the ball if we execute. We've just got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Playing against that type of speed, we learned that we can move the ball if we execute. We've just got to be more fundamentally sound on the defensive side of the ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31314</guid></item></channel></rss>