<?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 higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52232]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It did a great deal of good, physically and mentally for me. I felt fresh out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37347]]></link><description><![CDATA[It did a great deal of good, physically and mentally for me. I felt fresh out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22128]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. - 1963.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think all great innovations are built on rejections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think all great innovations are built on rejections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I think I'd be better off dead. No, wait, not me, you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I think I'd be better off dead. No, wait, not me, you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very difficult to fail at pornography ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47736]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very difficult to fail at pornography]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful. [Fr., L'or meme a la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful. [Fr., L'or meme a la laideur donne un teint de beaute:  Mais tout devient affreux avec la pauvrete.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man alive can say, "This shall not happen to me ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42389]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man alive can say, "This shall not happen to me]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He loves basketball, and he loves the Heat. So it was a beautiful, beautiful thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29220]]></link><description><![CDATA[He loves basketball, and he loves the Heat. So it was a beautiful, beautiful thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A radical is one who speaks the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52928]]></link><description><![CDATA[A radical is one who speaks the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for a camel To thread the postern of a small needle's eye. -King Richard II. Act v. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55830]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for a camel To thread the postern of a small needle's eye. -King Richard II. Act v. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us take to our hearts a lesson-- No lesson could braver be--  From the ways of the tapestry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us take to our hearts a lesson-- No lesson could braver be--  From the ways of the tapestry weavers   On the other side of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyrant, step from the throne, and give place to thy master. [Fr., Tyran, descends du trone et fais place a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyrant, step from the throne, and give place to thy master. [Fr., Tyran, descends du trone et fais place a ton maitre.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. -Roy L. Smith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45516]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. -Roy L. Smith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch the behaviour of the actors, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watch the behaviour of the actors,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is an interactive conversation that pulls people toward becoming comfortable with the language of personal responsibility and commitment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is an interactive conversation that pulls people toward becoming comfortable with the language of personal responsibility and commitment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6416]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he fall into wrath and bitterness, and a judging spirit towards his neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  When all is done, the hell of hells, the torment of torments, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  When all is done, the hell of hells, the torment of torments, is the everlasting absence of God, and the everlasting impossibility of returning to his presence; sayes the Apostle, it is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Yet there was a case, in which David found an ease, to fall into the hands of God, to scape the hands of men: When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearefull thing, to fall into the hands of the living God; but to fall out of the hands of the living God, is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42901]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34279]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19239]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills -- neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26441]]></link><description><![CDATA[She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm approaching this like this is my Finals, really. We got three more games; if he puts me out there, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28779]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm approaching this like this is my Finals, really. We got three more games; if he puts me out there, I'm going to be ready. I'm looking real forward to these games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45603]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55278]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawn to the dregs of a democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawn to the dregs of a democracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5763]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music . . .can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music . . .can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since when was genius found respectable? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since when was genius found respectable?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2054]]></link><description><![CDATA[As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And hail their queen, fair regent of the night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43072]]></link><description><![CDATA[And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61496]]></link><description><![CDATA[I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10882]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had great team strategy and a really good run to make it to the head of the pack. Unfortunately ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42293]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had great team strategy and a really good run to make it to the head of the pack. Unfortunately now it is over for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is humble is confident and wise. He who brags is insecure and lacking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21041]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is humble is confident and wise. He who brags is insecure and lacking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our starting pitchers did an excellent job and we played pretty good defense today, so it's a good way to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our starting pitchers did an excellent job and we played pretty good defense today, so it's a good way to start.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34549</guid></item></channel></rss>