<?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[For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5302]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were moving out of there pretty fast, ... I figured they were up to no good. I was just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28171]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were moving out of there pretty fast, ... I figured they were up to no good. I was just trying to get out of their way. They hit the back of my car, fishtailed and then they rolled it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity is the soul of wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity is the soul of wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31492]]></link><description><![CDATA[People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. It's not viewed as a serious continent. It's a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people don't do what common sense demands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were horrified. They were asking what it was, and we were saying, 'Sadly it's probably ill,' and you're trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28956]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were horrified. They were asking what it was, and we were saying, 'Sadly it's probably ill,' and you're trying to make it as light as you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47864]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Property rights are not the rights of property; they are the rights of humans with regard to property. They are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Property rights are not the rights of property; they are the rights of humans with regard to property. They are a particular kind of human right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body yet endures ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body yet endures]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60530]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wind favors him who has no destined port. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22679]]></link><description><![CDATA[No wind favors him who has no destined port.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diversity, that is my motto. [Fr., Diversite, c'est ma devise.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diversity, that is my motto. [Fr., Diversite, c'est ma devise.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just when you think you've finally hit bottom, someone tosses you a shovel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just when you think you've finally hit bottom, someone tosses you a shovel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it's kind of hard to prioritize things when you're not sure you've got enough money to run your everyday ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39281]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it's kind of hard to prioritize things when you're not sure you've got enough money to run your everyday things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the things now enjoyed by civilization have been created by some man and sold by another man before anybody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8827]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the things now enjoyed by civilization have been created by some man and sold by another man before anybody really enjoyed the ;benefits of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old muleskinners told how the mules were waiting at the shaft when they arrived each morning. They wanted relief from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old muleskinners told how the mules were waiting at the shaft when they arrived each morning. They wanted relief from the heat, deerflies and mosquitoes just like the men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My real fear is that there will be revenge acts. That has happened in the past. That could be very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33552]]></link><description><![CDATA[My real fear is that there will be revenge acts. That has happened in the past. That could be very bloody and lead to more serious problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance,  For the future in the distance,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17840]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance,  For the future in the distance,   And the good that I can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coward calls himself cautious, the miser thrifty. [Lat., Timidus se vocat cautum, parcum sordidus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coward calls himself cautious, the miser thrifty. [Lat., Timidus se vocat cautum, parcum sordidus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself a mathematician and scientist of genius, found it quite ridiculous that anyone should suppose that rational processes could lead to any ultimate conclusions about life, but easily accepted the authority of the Scriptures. With us, it is the other way `round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18138]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you can see just walking around Portland is evidence of what's going on in construction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29640]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you can see just walking around Portland is evidence of what's going on in construction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2850]]></link><description><![CDATA[If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to do some old traditional folk songs. We haven't completely set up a list. We'll play some music ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37836]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to do some old traditional folk songs. We haven't completely set up a list. We'll play some music from modern Celtic rock bands like the Seven Nations. We'll play a couple of more contemporary Irish tunes that I wouldn't call rock; they're more contemporary ballads. We haven't set it all out yet, but they run the gamut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26357]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The alligator's popular, ... We're the only Cajun booth out here, and people like Cajun food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37958]]></link><description><![CDATA[The alligator's popular, ... We're the only Cajun booth out here, and people like Cajun food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10298]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not wish to inhibit the artistic merits of our students, but there will be warnings before particularly racy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31630]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not wish to inhibit the artistic merits of our students, but there will be warnings before particularly racy films.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[until the accused are in custody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41097]]></link><description><![CDATA[until the accused are in custody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Many drugs are prescribed outside their official recommendations, she says. Neurontin, for example, was initially approved only for epilepsy. But, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41454]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Many drugs are prescribed outside their official recommendations, she says. Neurontin, for example, was initially approved only for epilepsy. But, after a slow start, it grew to become a $US2.3 billion ($3 billion today) blockbuster for its owner, Pfizer, in 2003.] About 80 per cent of the prescriptions were for unapproved uses - conditions like bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, insomnia, restless legs syndrome, hot flashes, migraines and tension headaches, ... In fact, Neurontin has become a sort of all-purpose restorative for chronic discomfort of almost any type - yet there is almost no good published evidence that it works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13793]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born  With nowhere yet to rest my head, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born  With nowhere yet to rest my head,   Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river,  Making a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river,  Making a poet out of a man.   The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain--    For the reed that grows never more again     As a reed with the reeds of the river.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11582]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies. Therefore it is important to prevent any knowledge or understanding of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For though his body's under hatches, His soul has gone aloft. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14095]]></link><description><![CDATA[For though his body's under hatches, His soul has gone aloft.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe). [Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe). [Lat., Summarum summa est aeternum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2583]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need to be mad as hell about this situation, but they aren't. We haven't gotten the message across. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30392]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need to be mad as hell about this situation, but they aren't. We haven't gotten the message across.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficulties that show what men are ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12259]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficulties that show what men are]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56905]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, to begin with, you can pray. Pray!, you say scornfully, pray! I knew it would all fizzle out, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, to begin with, you can pray. Pray!, you say scornfully, pray! I knew it would all fizzle out, and come to nothing. I could pray! Yes, you could pray, and, whatever you may think about it -- using it as a poor makeshift of a thing much lower than a second-best, not really a best at all, on which men fall back only when they can do nothing effectively, and are too fidgety to be able to do nothing at all -- Christ holds that prayer is a tremendous power which achieves what, without it, was a sheer impossibility. And this amazing thing you can set into operation. And the fact that you are not so using it, and simply don't believe in it and its efficiency and efficacy as our fathers did, and that so many nowadays agree with you, is certainly a major reason why the churches are so cold, and the promises seem so tardy of fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13868</guid></item></channel></rss>