<?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[Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He played awesome. You see his reflexes, on little tips in front, gloving them. He's a big-time goalie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32043]]></link><description><![CDATA[He played awesome. You see his reflexes, on little tips in front, gloving them. He's a big-time goalie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17434]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in the glances of his eye A penetrating keen and sly  Expression found its home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51084]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in the glances of his eye A penetrating keen and sly  Expression found its home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to me that money not be important to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21544]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to me that money not be important to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath no head, needes no heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath no head, needes no heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail  In monumental mockery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51276]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail  In monumental mockery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51276</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/6981]]></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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For of Fortune's sharpe adversite, The worste kynde of infortune is this,  A man to hav bent in prosperite, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57241]]></link><description><![CDATA[For of Fortune's sharpe adversite, The worste kynde of infortune is this,  A man to hav bent in prosperite,   And it remembren whan it passed is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge, The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark,  A moving radiance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge, The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark,  A moving radiance twinkles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11768]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said. "Disneyland burned down."  He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke.  I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What linebackers do is run and tackle, so you can't change the game to make it any easier. Besides, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30522]]></link><description><![CDATA[What linebackers do is run and tackle, so you can't change the game to make it any easier. Besides, this sort of thing really gets your focus sharp. What we're looking to do in this game, it kind of takes over everything else -- you really have to look at the opportunity you have instead of who's missing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17873]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He always hated that hed never be able to donate blood for someone else, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29338]]></link><description><![CDATA[He always hated that hed never be able to donate blood for someone else,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem right meet of decency does yield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem right meet of decency does yield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4040]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't do]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is love and light and vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is love and light and vision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25269]]></link><description><![CDATA[The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do take responsibility for my actions and offer my most sincere apologies, especially to Wendy's in San Jose and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29416]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do take responsibility for my actions and offer my most sincere apologies, especially to Wendy's in San Jose and its employees. I'm truly sorry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is going to take me two-and-a-half hours - so instead of a nice meal I'm going to be stuck ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41907]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is going to take me two-and-a-half hours - so instead of a nice meal I'm going to be stuck with beans on toast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of mind, when out of view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of mind, when out of view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61026]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particulars of which it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43686]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particulars of which it is composed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal,  And regards the quadrille ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11038]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal,  And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery   Than crushing His African children with slavery,    Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon     Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion,      Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows,       Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing a lot of new buying of the Canadian dollar. The central bank continues to tighten and everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34917]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing a lot of new buying of the Canadian dollar. The central bank continues to tighten and everyone is talking about the election. We expect continued strength in the Canadian dollar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has two countries, his own and France. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has two countries, his own and France.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AARP commends the Governor and the State Legislature for taking this unprecedented step in helping to ensure that New York's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40898]]></link><description><![CDATA[AARP commends the Governor and the State Legislature for taking this unprecedented step in helping to ensure that New York's most vulnerable citizens can stay warm this winter. With some people actually having to choose between filling their prescriptions and filling their oil tank, this funding couldn't have come at a better time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24412]]></link><description><![CDATA[The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ends must justify the means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ends must justify the means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These falls are typically always frozen, but they're getting shorter as the snow pack increases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34483]]></link><description><![CDATA[These falls are typically always frozen, but they're getting shorter as the snow pack increases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who awaits much can expect little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22714]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who awaits much can expect little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63489]]></link><description><![CDATA[God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was more interested in having a discussion on Proust than on Welles, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36928]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was more interested in having a discussion on Proust than on Welles,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is retail selling, and nobody is buying. Funds and major private portfolios are sitting and watching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28238]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is retail selling, and nobody is buying. Funds and major private portfolios are sitting and watching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you get free costs too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63455]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you get free costs too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4 a.m. (0400 GMT) this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41540]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4 a.m. (0400 GMT) this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are four from among the attackers (who were killed).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am, Sir, a brother of the angle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14412]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We went to some clear-out plays to attack and try to draw some fouls on them. I didn't know if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37677]]></link><description><![CDATA[We went to some clear-out plays to attack and try to draw some fouls on them. I didn't know if that was going to work, but eventually it did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference. In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55018]]></link><description><![CDATA[God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23933]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23933</guid></item></channel></rss>