<?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[The evil of riches, then, for institutions, for nations, for individuals, is that those who possess or seek to possess ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evil of riches, then, for institutions, for nations, for individuals, is that those who possess or seek to possess almost invariably overvalue possessions and so cease to live creatively. They stop loving God with all the heart and all the soul and all the strength and all the mind. They stop loving their neighbors, too. When you find a person of means who is not either a self-centered bore or a low person, you may know that God has worked a miracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them do a polygraph. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them do a polygraph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Niagara! wonder of this western world, And half the world beside! hail, beauteous queen  Of cataracts!" An angel who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44500]]></link><description><![CDATA["Niagara! wonder of this western world, And half the world beside! hail, beauteous queen  Of cataracts!" An angel who had been   O'er heaven and earth, spoke thus, his bright wings furled,    And knelt to Nature first, on the wild cliff unseen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're passing through, and this is the one place they can learn about the state, about blues, civil rights, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41130]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're passing through, and this is the one place they can learn about the state, about blues, civil rights, the Civil War, cotton ... and also the history and significance of this National Historic Landmark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small projects need much more help than great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small projects need much more help than great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is twice a conqueror, who can restrain himself in the hour of triumph. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51605]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is twice a conqueror, who can restrain himself in the hour of triumph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31463]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8689]]></link><description><![CDATA[The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16810]]></link><description><![CDATA[To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8175]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He put it into your heart first? Have you not often been cross with them? Sometimes unjust to them? Whence came the returning love that rose from unknown depths in your being, and swept away the anger and the injustice? You did not create that love. Probably you were not good enough to send for it by prayer. But it came. God sent it. He makes you love your children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59588]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10475]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wasn't a very detailed meeting, but he definitely established a feeling right off the bat. He thinks integrity's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30483]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wasn't a very detailed meeting, but he definitely established a feeling right off the bat. He thinks integrity's a real big thing. He praised the people that are positive about the program, and who want to uphold its achievements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity is not a religion but a relationship of love expressed toward God and men. The church is committed by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity is not a religion but a relationship of love expressed toward God and men. The church is committed by its Founder to reach out in love to every movement that upbuilds character and integrity in men, and every gesture that aims to resolve the differences that estrange human beings from each other. The Gospel in its free course goes hand-in-hand with the cup of cold water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit, now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit, now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the hills, and over the main, To Flanders, Portugal, or Spain;  The Queen commands, and we'll obey,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the hills, and over the main, To Flanders, Portugal, or Spain;  The Queen commands, and we'll obey,   Over the hills and far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ankle was going toward the left and my foot was going toward the right. I was shaking, and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39303]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ankle was going toward the left and my foot was going toward the right. I was shaking, and they kept covering my eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some falls the means are happier to rise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some falls the means are happier to rise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are cautiously investigating the deaths with murder, murder by contract and other possible charges in mind. I was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36528]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are cautiously investigating the deaths with murder, murder by contract and other possible charges in mind. I was the person in charge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY He has come! the Christ of God; Left for us His glad abode, Stooping from His throne of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6680]]></link><description><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY He has come! the Christ of God; Left for us His glad abode, Stooping from His throne of bliss, To this darksome wilderness. He has come! the Prince of Peace; Come to bid our sorrows cease; Come to scatter with His light All the darkness of our night. He, the Mighty King, has come! Making this poor world His home; Come to bear our sin's sad load,-- Son of David, Son of God! He has come whose name of grace Speaks deliverance to our race; Left for us His glad abode,-- Son of Mary, Son of God! Unto us a Child is born! Ne'er has earth beheld a morn, Among all the morns of time, Half so glorious in its prime! Unto us a Son is given! He has come from God's own heaven, Bringing with Him, from above, Holy peace and holy love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got ships for all different types of people and all different sizes, just like the hotel industry. There's some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42714]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got ships for all different types of people and all different sizes, just like the hotel industry. There's some people that love hotels like Bellagio, and others -- I'm staying in a hotel right now with I think six rooms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My role is come off the bench, run the team and do whatever I have to do to keep us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31932]]></link><description><![CDATA[My role is come off the bench, run the team and do whatever I have to do to keep us flowing, ... With Gilbert, myself and Antonio, we pretty much have three guys who can run the point but all of us can also can penetrate and get to the basket or create shots for our teammates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There should be many judges, for few will always do the will of few. [It., Bisogna che i giudici siano ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23506]]></link><description><![CDATA[There should be many judges, for few will always do the will of few. [It., Bisogna che i giudici siano assai, perche pochi sempre fanno a modo de' pochi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49076]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How like the leper, with his own sad cry Enforcing his own solitude, it tolls!  That lonely bell set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4137]]></link><description><![CDATA[How like the leper, with his own sad cry Enforcing his own solitude, it tolls!  That lonely bell set in the rushing shoals,   To warn us from the place of jeopardy!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The building is cool now, but in four to six hours, it can heat up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39759]]></link><description><![CDATA[The building is cool now, but in four to six hours, it can heat up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palm Sunday Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877   The entrance into Jerusalem [on Palm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Palm Sunday Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877   The entrance into Jerusalem [on Palm Sunday] has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions -- even parading without a permit! Also, when Jesus "set his face to go to Jerusalem," what was involved was direct action, an open confrontation and public demonstration of the incompatibility of evil with the Kingdom of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it's only through sharing that friendships are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it's only through sharing that friendships are born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55279]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43785]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who excuses himself accuses himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4293]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who excuses himself accuses himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's about consciously creating the second half of our lives, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40829]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about consciously creating the second half of our lives,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thirty years after drafting the US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson warned of the dangers posed by the corporation, writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thirty years after drafting the US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson warned of the dangers posed by the corporation, writing of the need to "crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." Today, instead, the aristocracy of the corporation has grown to full maturity, wielding power over the state and its laws in the service of corporate aims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54063]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smiles form the channels of a future tear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smiles form the channels of a future tear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12697]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is still not as fast as today's silicon chips, but we can make it orders of magnitude better. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38298]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is still not as fast as today's silicon chips, but we can make it orders of magnitude better. We have a very clear picture of how to move on. Developing the first car is much harder than making a car that can go faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55010</guid></item></channel></rss>