<?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[We have to strive for the completion of legal and institutional facilities this year. I hope it can be completed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30902]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to strive for the completion of legal and institutional facilities this year. I hope it can be completed in the first semester or the third quarter of 2006 at the latest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public safety personnel will investigate door alarms and will respond to the building as needed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public safety personnel will investigate door alarms and will respond to the building as needed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53959]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25787]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live as you would have wished to live when you are dying ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live as you would have wished to live when you are dying]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Right now], if I want an encrypted e-mail service, I'll go to an encrypted e-mail company. It's not my first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34603]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Right now], if I want an encrypted e-mail service, I'll go to an encrypted e-mail company. It's not my first thought to go to the post office for that kind of service,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66474]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well rooted. Because if it means anything it means the in-sanctity of species which are not human.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You can't have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something terrible happens, and you might say, "God help us!", or "Jesus Christ!" -- the poor, crippled prayers that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something terrible happens, and you might say, "God help us!", or "Jesus Christ!" -- the poor, crippled prayers that are hidden in the minor blasphemies of people for whom in every sense God is dead, except that they still have to speak to him, if only through clenched teeth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3185]]></link><description><![CDATA[The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.   - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm pretty hopeful that the public will be favorable to it this time because we have had some comments that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm pretty hopeful that the public will be favorable to it this time because we have had some comments that the lily pads are getting to be too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49868]]></link><description><![CDATA[The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21047]]></link><description><![CDATA[For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9177]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never insult anyone by accident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never insult anyone by accident.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I met Billy Goldenberg, my musical director and composer, who's earned 32 Emmy nominations by the way, in 1981. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29922]]></link><description><![CDATA[I met Billy Goldenberg, my musical director and composer, who's earned 32 Emmy nominations by the way, in 1981.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say, best men are moulded out of faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51397]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say, best men are moulded out of faults.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some flowers of Eden ye yet inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some flowers of Eden ye yet inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19511]]></link><description><![CDATA[What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. -Harry Truman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59847]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. -Harry Truman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints O Lord! how happy should we be, If we could leave our cares to Thee,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints O Lord! how happy should we be, If we could leave our cares to Thee,   If we from self could rest; And feel at heart that One above, In perfect wisdom, perfect love,   Is working for the best. For when we kneel and cast our care Upon our God in humble prayer,   With strengthened souls we rise, Sure that our Father Who is nigh, To hear the ravens when they cry,   Will hear His children's cries. O may these anxious hearts of ours The lesson learn from birds and flowers,   And learn from self to cease, Leave all things to our Father's will, And in His mercy trusting still,   Find in each trial peace!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most;  When all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62009]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most;  When all is won that all desire to woo,   The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52333]]></link><description><![CDATA[It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea came to me in a dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea came to me in a dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the movies brought the war into it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41679]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the movies brought the war into it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When this old cap was new 'Tis since two hundred years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2753]]></link><description><![CDATA[When this old cap was new 'Tis since two hundred years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want us to become complacent. I want to open the offense up more and force opponents to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40590]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want us to become complacent. I want to open the offense up more and force opponents to play the full width and depth of the field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune favours the bold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune favours the bold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  You go to your saint and find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  You go to your saint and find God working and manifest in him. He got near to God by some saint of his that went before him, or that stood beside him, in whom he saw the divine presence. That saint again lighted his fire at some flame before him; and so the power of the sainthoods animates and fills the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47590]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The angel of spring, the mellow-throated nightingale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The angel of spring, the mellow-throated nightingale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11114]]></link><description><![CDATA[In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is the foundation of most governments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is the foundation of most governments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think any of the firefighters keep this job just for the pay. They take pride in being firefighters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29274]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think any of the firefighters keep this job just for the pay. They take pride in being firefighters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some self-confronting questions: "Where do I want to be at any given time?" "How am I going to get there? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some self-confronting questions: "Where do I want to be at any given time?" "How am I going to get there? "What do I have to do to get myself from where I am to where I want to be?"... "What's the first, small step I can take to get moving?".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65479]]></link><description><![CDATA[In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has given us confidence. Next year is going to be great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31057]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has given us confidence. Next year is going to be great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My circumstances do not make me what I am, they reveal who I havechosen to be. (from James Allen). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21489]]></link><description><![CDATA[My circumstances do not make me what I am, they reveal who I havechosen to be. (from James Allen).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19426]]></link><description><![CDATA[It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19426</guid></item></channel></rss>