<?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[Beauty is ten, nine of which is dressing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is ten, nine of which is dressing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What used to seem inappropriate has become commonplace. The question is: Is Discovery going to make clear about whether Disney ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32181]]></link><description><![CDATA[What used to seem inappropriate has become commonplace. The question is: Is Discovery going to make clear about whether Disney funded the programs or provided any services? Essentially, if it's nothing more than an infomercial, will it be presented as such? Or will it be presented as an independent production that's separate from promoting a theme park?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The patients are happier, and we can serve more patients. More patients mean more revenues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38562]]></link><description><![CDATA[The patients are happier, and we can serve more patients. More patients mean more revenues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17358]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's quite striking to see a system where there are no barriers to access. You really have the feeling that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42126]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's quite striking to see a system where there are no barriers to access. You really have the feeling that the public health authorities want the people in Cuba to be healthy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My prediction? This move will be completely forgotten. Few to nobody will use it. And, 6 to 12 months from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42165]]></link><description><![CDATA[My prediction? This move will be completely forgotten. Few to nobody will use it. And, 6 to 12 months from now, Oracle will have to give a real response to the open-source threat it faces. Tossing a lightweight database in front of a fast-moving market that wants free, open, and killer databases just won't fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way they're so proper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39282]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way they're so proper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8728]]></link><description><![CDATA[And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is what feelings sound like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is what feelings sound like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some pursue happiness - others create it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some pursue happiness - others create it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750  Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750  Humility and love are precisely the graces which the men of the world can understand, if they do not comprehend doctrines. They are the graces about which there is no mystery, and they are within reach of all classes... [The poorest] Christian can every day find occasion for practicing love and humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing up in Brooklyn in the '40s and following the war in the papers and on the radio every day, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growing up in Brooklyn in the '40s and following the war in the papers and on the radio every day, the world looked very different to us then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gamaun is a dainty steed, Strong, black, and of a noble breed,  Full of fire, and full of bone, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gamaun is a dainty steed, Strong, black, and of a noble breed,  Full of fire, and full of bone,   With all his line of fathers known;    Fine his nose, his nostrils thin,     But blown abroad by the pride within;      His mane is like a river flowing,       And his eyes like embers glowing        In the darkness of the night,         And his pace as swift as light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47922</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 time to begin most things is ten years ago. -Mignon McLaughlin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1821]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time to begin most things is ten years ago. -Mignon McLaughlin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564   Man cannot make a redemptive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564   Man cannot make a redemptive art, but he can make an art that communicates what he experiences of redemption as a man and what he knows of it as an artist. God in his infinite wisdom may use an art work as an instrument of redemption, but what serves or can serve that purpose is beyond the knowledge of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With various people complaining about "price gouging... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58686]]></link><description><![CDATA[With various people complaining about "price gouging... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed" or "gouging" — not even when they bulldoze people's homes in order to turn the land over to businesses that will pay more taxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The product that will not sell without advertising will not sell profitably with advertising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The product that will not sell without advertising will not sell profitably with advertising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Endure the present, and watch for better things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Endure the present, and watch for better things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60123]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheek . . . Flushing white and mellow'd red;  Gradual tints, as when there glows   In snowy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheek . . . Flushing white and mellow'd red;  Gradual tints, as when there glows   In snowy milk the bashful rose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe God has a plan. God has a direction for me. He may put me on a few detours, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe God has a plan. God has a direction for me. He may put me on a few detours, but the path with ultimately reveal itself. My job is to be a decent human being no matter how rocky the road gets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could call 'show biz,' filmmaking, the original arena for outsourcing because ever since I've been making movies, Hollywood has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34214]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could call 'show biz,' filmmaking, the original arena for outsourcing because ever since I've been making movies, Hollywood has been threatened with outsourcing, be it Italy, be it Australia, New Zealand, and certainly, Canada,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just happened to make the last play. If the game lasts another minute, (Missouri State) wins. That's just how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37174]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just happened to make the last play. If the game lasts another minute, (Missouri State) wins. That's just how this game was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart. Itis not the conviction that something will turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart. Itis not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certaintythat something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whole Foods has become, obviously, a Wall Street darling in the recent past and for good reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whole Foods has become, obviously, a Wall Street darling in the recent past and for good reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their meetings made December June. Their every parting was to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their meetings made December June. Their every parting was to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fattest hog in Epicurus' sty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fattest hog in Epicurus' sty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It'd be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22854]]></link><description><![CDATA[It'd be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43932]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those guys put you in a situation to win every game. That's why they are in the top four. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those guys put you in a situation to win every game. That's why they are in the top four.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the highest tribute we can pay him, our appreciation for his superlative writing, his incomparable writing. Quite frankly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38549]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the highest tribute we can pay him, our appreciation for his superlative writing, his incomparable writing. Quite frankly, I've never experienced writing like this before, except for 'Fences,' something that addresses me as an individual, addresses me as a black man and addresses the history of the African-American culture and the African-American experience in this country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1368]]></link><description><![CDATA[I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness of human habitations are what human nature habitually abhors; while on the contrary, haze, mist, and the haunting spirits of the mountains are what human nature seeks, and yet can rarely find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65303]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we know is not much; what we do not know is immense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9475]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we know is not much; what we do not know is immense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  God does not lead His children around hardship, but leads them straight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  God does not lead His children around hardship, but leads them straight through hardship. But He leads! And amidst the hardship, He is nearer to them than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20946]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet's darling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet's darling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47312]]></link><description><![CDATA[While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned; it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are much more likely to notice an infection when your data disappears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33702]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are much more likely to notice an infection when your data disappears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  This Christian claim [of universal validity] is naturally offensive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  This Christian claim [of universal validity] is naturally offensive to the adherents of every other religious system. It is almost as offensive to modern man, brought up in the atmosphere of relativism, in which tolerance is regarded almost as the highest of the virtues. But we must not suppose that this claim to universal validity is something that can quietly be removed from the Gospel without changing it into something entirely different from what it is... Jesus' life, his method, and his message do not make sense, unless they are interpreted in the light of his own conviction that he was in fact the final and decisive word of God to men... For the human sickness there is one specific remedy, and this is it. There is no other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4138]]></link><description><![CDATA[A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. [Lat., Beneficium non in eo quot fit aut datur consistit sed in ipso dantis aut facientis animo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4138</guid></item></channel></rss>