<?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[So many of us were single and young, there were no boundaries between work and home. It was a tremendously ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34966]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many of us were single and young, there were no boundaries between work and home. It was a tremendously productive period for all of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children make the most desirable opponents in Scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children make the most desirable opponents in Scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23497]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65224]]></link><description><![CDATA[American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world rewards the appearance of merit oftener than merit itself. [Fr., Le monde recompense plus souvent les apparences de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27386]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world rewards the appearance of merit oftener than merit itself. [Fr., Le monde recompense plus souvent les apparences de merite que le merite meme.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30720]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30720</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[I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44755]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had my labour for my travail. -Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56061]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had my labour for my travail. -Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've got pretty much their whole team back. They've been playing together for about two years now. ... We've got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38079]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've got pretty much their whole team back. They've been playing together for about two years now. ... We've got to get up for it. We can't play as flat as we did today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62452]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If hard work were really a virtue, then mules would be saints. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18732]]></link><description><![CDATA[If hard work were really a virtue, then mules would be saints.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13045]]></link><description><![CDATA[In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are all kinds of forms that have to be filled in on the typewriter. I don't know why, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37016]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are all kinds of forms that have to be filled in on the typewriter. I don't know why, but universities are one of the worst for insisting on forms. There is absolutely no sense to it. They insist on putting all the information into a little box.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15557]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roosevelt plays an up-tempo -- I call it helter-skelter -- kind of game, and they try to pull you into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roosevelt plays an up-tempo -- I call it helter-skelter -- kind of game, and they try to pull you into it. If they get you into it, you're in trouble. They play a bumping and pushing style, and if it's not called, your kids try to do it, too. It worked (for them) tonight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by.  Fill up my pilgrim's scrip ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3928]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by.  Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me,   For Christ's sweet sake and charity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never allow a person to tell you "no" who doesn't have the power to say "yes." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never allow a person to tell you "no" who doesn't have the power to say "yes."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53293]]></link><description><![CDATA[All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The President will continue to be haunted by insinuations of cheating and corruption, and each time these stories come out, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The President will continue to be haunted by insinuations of cheating and corruption, and each time these stories come out, it obviously will not be good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53553]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, Staretz, 1833  We must always be on our guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.  ... St. Basil the Great  January 3, 1998  Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970  For us in the Pacific, in Asia, in India, and in Africa, Christian unity is not an optional extra. It is an urgent necessity, for our divisions are a real stumbling-block to the proclamation of the Gospel... Mission is at the heart of the divine reality. It is the will of God and the Kingdom of God which are to be made known. Wherever we are, our purpose is not to propagate the Church as an end in itself, but to proclaim Christ as Lord of all life and as Saviour of all men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61943]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the student is ready the teacher will appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22122]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the student is ready the teacher will appear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5481]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light fantastic round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light fantastic round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11753]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then, when somebody comes up, act like they just woke up and go, "What was THAT?!".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can look at this as a success. We can definitely expect to back here. Manitoba and Winnipeg are very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39373]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can look at this as a success. We can definitely expect to back here. Manitoba and Winnipeg are very important markets to us, and the event has a very good chance of growing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In most instances, all an argument proves is that two people are present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56992]]></link><description><![CDATA[In most instances, all an argument proves is that two people are present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker. [Fr., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56218]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker. [Fr., Quand nous veoyons un homme mal chausse, nous disons que ce n'est pas merveille, s'il est chausstier.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Impossible' is not a scientific term. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20655]]></link><description><![CDATA['Impossible' is not a scientific term.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan has probably been a key player in more Republican presidential campaigns and Republican party platforms and Republican administrations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan has probably been a key player in more Republican presidential campaigns and Republican party platforms and Republican administrations than any other economist in the country. He's a wonderful politician.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nevertheless, limited core inflation in January will not deter the ECB from hiking interest rates by a further 25 basis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nevertheless, limited core inflation in January will not deter the ECB from hiking interest rates by a further 25 basis points on Thursday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To "leave a sting within a brother's heart.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54695]]></link><description><![CDATA[To "leave a sting within a brother's heart.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53056]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23592]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well done is better than well said. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well done is better than well said. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I assume she is not sincere because if you're smart enough to be on the Supreme Court, you should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30034]]></link><description><![CDATA[I assume she is not sincere because if you're smart enough to be on the Supreme Court, you should be smarter than the president.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30034</guid></item></channel></rss>