<?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[Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see not our own backs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48807]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see not our own backs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom. [Lat., Omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom. [Lat., Omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody investing on the assumption of who's going to win the election is skating on thin ice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody investing on the assumption of who's going to win the election is skating on thin ice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged-- keep on-- there are divine things, well envelop'd; I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged-- keep on-- there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thousand year a poor man watched Before the gate of Paradise:  But while one little nap he snatched, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45060]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thousand year a poor man watched Before the gate of Paradise:  But while one little nap he snatched,   It oped and shut. Ah! was he wise?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53132]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When last the young Orlando parted from you, He left a promise to return again  Within a hour; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15288]]></link><description><![CDATA[When last the young Orlando parted from you, He left a promise to return again  Within a hour; and pacing through the forest,   Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy,    Lo, what befell!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65494]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62100]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25286</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[A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment. [Lat., Res severa est verum gaudium.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13935]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment. [Lat., Res severa est verum gaudium.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57994]]></link><description><![CDATA[For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are to accept the teaching of Jesus at all, then the only test of the reality of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7858]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are to accept the teaching of Jesus at all, then the only test of the reality of a man's religion is his attitude to his fellow men. The only possible proof that a man loves God is the demonstrated fact that he loves his fellow men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65440]]></link><description><![CDATA[The actuality of all of material Nature is therefore kept out of action and that of all corporeality along with it, including the actuality of my body, the body of the cognizing subject.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kings are earth's gods; in vice their law's their will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kings are earth's gods; in vice their law's their will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember. - Aenid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember. - Aenid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't care. I've been saying that the whole time. We're blessed to be playing in this tournament regardless. I'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't care. I've been saying that the whole time. We're blessed to be playing in this tournament regardless. I'd love to [get a chance to] play [Villanova], because I think we can show our toughness. I look forward to the challenge. We worked hard to get here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudice is being down on something you're not up on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudice is being down on something you're not up on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our goal is to do a larger volume of sales at a lower price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our goal is to do a larger volume of sales at a lower price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48970]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. - Nursery Rhymes of England, 1844. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46274]]></link><description><![CDATA[If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. - Nursery Rhymes of England, 1844.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty. [Fr., Il n'y a que le premier obstacle qui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3947]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty. [Fr., Il n'y a que le premier obstacle qui coute a vaincre la pudeur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14616]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fall back upon a name? rest, rot in that? Not keep it noble, make it nobler? Fools! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fall back upon a name? rest, rot in that? Not keep it noble, make it nobler? Fools!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely nice. It's kind of like home-court advantage because I played here two years in high school and then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29067]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely nice. It's kind of like home-court advantage because I played here two years in high school and then a bunch of times in college. I'm real familiar with the gym and the baskets have nice shooting rims. I'm glad we're back in Denver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Head Start plays a big role. We start at a younger age to cut the barriers of culture, but education ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Head Start plays a big role. We start at a younger age to cut the barriers of culture, but education I think that's more important than anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269   The offertory is the first essential action of the Liturgy, because in it we make the costly and solemn oblation, under tokens, of our very selves and all our substance, that they may be transformed, quickened, and devoted to the interests of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh as much as you breathe, Love as much as you live ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh as much as you breathe, Love as much as you live]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found;  And 'tis joy that moves the pinion  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found;  And 'tis joy that moves the pinion   When the wheel of time goes round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's still frustrating to us that a national environmental organization that's never seen it or knows nothing about it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's still frustrating to us that a national environmental organization that's never seen it or knows nothing about it is trying to preserve a piece of land that's got oil wells all over it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27414]]></link><description><![CDATA[What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, sometimes they lean on you, and sometimes it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, sometimes they lean on you, and sometimes it's just enough to know that they are standing by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46768]]></link><description><![CDATA[In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/560]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Noble houskeepers neede no dores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Noble houskeepers neede no dores.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I crave hungrily to be used to show the way of liberty to a soul in bondage, instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7958]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I crave hungrily to be used to show the way of liberty to a soul in bondage, instead of caring only that it be delivered; if I nurse my disappointment when I fail, instead of asking that another the word of release may be given, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quarreling is like cutting water with a sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quarreling is like cutting water with a sword.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fattest hog in Epicurus' sty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fattest hog in Epicurus' sty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be too busie gets contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49999]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be too busie gets contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49999</guid></item></channel></rss>