<?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[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221  It is the fellowship of the Cross to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221  It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to is not Christian. If any member refuses to bear that burden, he denies the law of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot step into the same river twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64893]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot step into the same river twice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47242]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're more than ready to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36152]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're more than ready to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47830]]></link><description><![CDATA[After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes your heart beat, ... We love to blow the walls out ... Of all the guys who started ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29293]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes your heart beat, ... We love to blow the walls out ... Of all the guys who started out at Sun, we are one of the few rock 'n' roll groups left. We're survivors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Woodrow Wilson, the apparent failure, belongs the undying honor, which will grow with the growing centuries, of having saved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62236]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Woodrow Wilson, the apparent failure, belongs the undying honor, which will grow with the growing centuries, of having saved the "little child that shall lead them yet." No other statesman but Wilson could have done it. And he did it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those holidays add to the magnitude of the after-Christmas shopping day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those holidays add to the magnitude of the after-Christmas shopping day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1885]]></link><description><![CDATA[How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think, therefore I am - I think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27675]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, therefore I am - I think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27675</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[Stupid is as stupid does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stupid is as stupid does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reach the top, keep climbing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12710]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reach the top, keep climbing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52375]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I stay up so late that I have my morning coffee before I go to bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I stay up so late that I have my morning coffee before I go to bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10820]]></link><description><![CDATA[No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35818]]></link><description><![CDATA[I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54062]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's absolutely devastating, ... It's one  thing to see it on TV, and it's another to talk to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33593]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's absolutely devastating, ... It's one  thing to see it on TV, and it's another to talk to a mom and dad and children who have lost everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man.  When Duty whispers low, Thou must, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13052]]></link><description><![CDATA[So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man.  When Duty whispers low, Thou must,   The youth replies, I can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's my people. That's the way that our fans react. For us, that's normal. I know over here, it's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30327]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's my people. That's the way that our fans react. For us, that's normal. I know over here, it's not typical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941   We distrust the providence of God when, after we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941   We distrust the providence of God when, after we have used all our best endeavors and begged His blessing upon them, we torment ourselves about the wise issue and event of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just stopped to see if Donnie wanted a ride, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just stopped to see if Donnie wanted a ride,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61604]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dwelt in a city enchanted, And lonely indeed was my lot;  . . . .   Though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dwelt in a city enchanted, And lonely indeed was my lot;  . . . .   Though the latitude's rather uncertain,    And the longitude also is vague,     The persons I pity who know not the City      The beautiful City of Prague.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wagner's music is better than it sounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wagner's music is better than it sounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46746]]></link><description><![CDATA[For florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business is more exciting than any game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business is more exciting than any game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29566]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people of this city have lost a great warrior, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33475]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people of this city have lost a great warrior,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63052]]></link><description><![CDATA[The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is life distilled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is life distilled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness of affection shed over its toils, a reflection for the individual of the loving providence which watches over Humanity. In her there is treasure enough of consoling tenderness to allay every pain. Moreover for every one of us she is the initiator of the future. The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come. Through her the Family, with its divine mystery of reproduction, points to Eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some councils have only two or three pupils who need this help. That is not a big enough group to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some councils have only two or three pupils who need this help. That is not a big enough group to build up real expertise in dealing with them. They will look at using specialists like Spark of Genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64921]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be interesting to see how she reconciles her rhetoric of 2004, when she said that the election (for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53866]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be interesting to see how she reconciles her rhetoric of 2004, when she said that the election (for governor) was all about experience, when in this race, she's at a decided experience disadvantage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above;  Ask of the great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above;  Ask of the great sum what is light;   Ask what is darkness of the night;    Ask sin of what may be forgiven;     Ask what is happiness of heaven;      Ask what is folly of the crowd;       Ask what is fashion of the shroud;        Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss;         Ask of thyself what beauty is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26942</guid></item></channel></rss>