<?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[One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51073]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20446]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23427]]></link><description><![CDATA[They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15178]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  We must confess our sins in order to obtain pardon; but we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  We must confess our sins in order to obtain pardon; but we must see our sins in order to confess. How few of those who think that they have confessed and been pardoned have ever seen their sin!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like seaweed; even if you have pushed it away, you will not prevent it from coming back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like seaweed; even if you have pushed it away, you will not prevent it from coming back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44971]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I loved every minute of it. But to say I had a little stress would be an understatement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38340]]></link><description><![CDATA[I loved every minute of it. But to say I had a little stress would be an understatement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swallow sweeps The slimy pool, to build his hanging house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swallow sweeps The slimy pool, to build his hanging house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in Fench; I never did succeed in making those idiots ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59596]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in Fench; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41433]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinions have vested interests just as men have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinions have vested interests just as men have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just stupid and unacceptable to the Mariners. This has sullied the reputation of the Seattle Mariners, and for that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31916]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just stupid and unacceptable to the Mariners. This has sullied the reputation of the Seattle Mariners, and for that it's terribly disappointing. We'll try to eradicate this, and we'll take strong internal action against the transgressors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put his shoulder to the wheel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put his shoulder to the wheel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14327]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3470]]></link><description><![CDATA[In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their rise is one of difficulty, whose merits are impeded by poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their rise is one of difficulty, whose merits are impeded by poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65061]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everything about his job except its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57059]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38589]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll have to wait and see what the results and lessons learned from the Genesis mishap reviews are to see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll have to wait and see what the results and lessons learned from the Genesis mishap reviews are to see how they will affect Mars Sample Return designs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's about always showing new stuff. Do not become stagnant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40624]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about always showing new stuff. Do not become stagnant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more indicators that are getting better than are getting worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34091]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more indicators that are getting better than are getting worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing happens until something moves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing happens until something moves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, Do all the good you can,  To all the people you can,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14106]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, Do all the good you can,  To all the people you can,   In all the ways you can,    As long as ever you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47983]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world around you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57094]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. - The Deer Park.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every crisis offers you extra desired power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every crisis offers you extra desired power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your life is an occasion. Rise to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act as if it were impossible to fail ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act as if it were impossible to fail]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253  The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think for yourself whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As along as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,  Atoms or systems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,  Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd,   And now a bubble burst, and now a world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2220]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who avoids complaint invites happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63866]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who avoids complaint invites happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64383]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64383</guid></item></channel></rss>