<?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[The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art;  Under lowly eaves   Lives the happy heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art;  Under lowly eaves   Lives the happy heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger that persuades to evil. [Lat., Malesuada fames.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger that persuades to evil. [Lat., Malesuada fames.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66710]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said to the Nightingale: "Hail, all hail!  Pierce with thy trill the dark,   Like a glittering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said to the Nightingale: "Hail, all hail!  Pierce with thy trill the dark,   Like a glittering music-spark,    When the earth grows pale and dumb."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That just gives [Jamestown] confidence. That's a big part of what's going on. This team, three games ago, had 20 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32144]]></link><description><![CDATA[That just gives [Jamestown] confidence. That's a big part of what's going on. This team, three games ago, had 20 hits against the University of Mary, so it's capable of doing it. Right now our confidence is just lacking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51393]]></link><description><![CDATA[That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45326]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15963]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe for (senior quarterback Aaron) Boehme and a couple guys it's big, but most are going at it as another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe for (senior quarterback Aaron) Boehme and a couple guys it's big, but most are going at it as another game, which is probably good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38725]]></link><description><![CDATA[an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the heritages from history which prevents us so often from seeing the Church, with all its greatness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6676]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the heritages from history which prevents us so often from seeing the Church, with all its greatness and misery, in its true light, is the distinction between the "empirical" and the "ideal" Church. It is to such a degree an element of our thinking that we hardly notice it. It has been since the first centuries a standard view, a means to give account of the, indeed, often disappointing state and quality of Christian faith and practice in the Church as it appeared. As such it is understandable; but nevertheless it proceeds more from the counsels of worldly wisdom than from the faith-as-response by which the Church should live, and the call to incessant renewal under which the Church stands as "God's own household", "growing into a holy temple in the Lord". However stubborn and refractory the stuff of ordinary reality may be -- and it is -- the Church, though with clear realism seeing this reality, can never permit itself to put the divine indicatives and imperatives, which are her peculiar directives and points of orientation, behind considerations which are properly speaking worldly in character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13903]]></link><description><![CDATA[This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20650]]></link><description><![CDATA[The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentiallyconstructed by the time childhood is over, but as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21906]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentiallyconstructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essencedeveloping, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age willstimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ''need'' cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35763]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ''need'' cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's going to be an awesome experience to serve people. Most people in college think spring break is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31593]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's going to be an awesome experience to serve people. Most people in college think spring break is going down to the beach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66114]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56417]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any bad news can throw us, and the jobs report was perceived as bad news, seen as a sign that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any bad news can throw us, and the jobs report was perceived as bad news, seen as a sign that the recovery is fragile, but that's not necessarily true. In the last two recessions, a pickup in employment only happened a year after the recession had ended. So just because unemployment is higher doesn't mean we're not on track for a recovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing some very strong global growth trends so that should prop up exports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36352]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing some very strong global growth trends so that should prop up exports.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Why not, why not, why not." "Why not?" and "Yeah." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24133]]></link><description><![CDATA["Why not, why not, why not." "Why not?" and "Yeah."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sop to Cerebus. If I can find Cerebus a sop, I shall be at rest for one day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sop to Cerebus. If I can find Cerebus a sop, I shall be at rest for one day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6100]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61094]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But who would scorn the month of June, Because December with his breath so hoary,  Must come? Much rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48728]]></link><description><![CDATA[But who would scorn the month of June, Because December with his breath so hoary,  Must come? Much rather should he court the ray,   To hoard up warmth against a wintry day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood--  Our soldiers were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13191]]></link><description><![CDATA[When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood--  Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good.   Oh! the roast beef of England.    And Old England's roast beef.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47722]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still, this group won the most games in a season in 23 years. We came into this game winning 17 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still, this group won the most games in a season in 23 years. We came into this game winning 17 out of our last 19 games. We gave our community a lot to be proud of. We didn't make them proud with this performance, but one game isn't going to take anything away from their accomplishments this year. That (St. V-M) was a very good team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be firstovercome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be firstovercome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee is rich enough that wants nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee is rich enough that wants nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can make a trade every day if I want to, but that's not going to help us. A trade ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32635]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can make a trade every day if I want to, but that's not going to help us. A trade that would get us better rarely comes along. They're very difficult to find. Good trades are very difficult in our league and don't happen very often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like I can contribute. I'm not playing the way that I want to. With the new rules and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like I can contribute. I'm not playing the way that I want to. With the new rules and with the new systems we have, I'm not playing as much. I'm not playing up to my standards, that's first and foremost. I'm the one who has to look at myself in the mirror every day and I have high expectations for myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is obviously a direct driver of inflation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34923]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is obviously a direct driver of inflation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so hard when I have to, And so easy when I want to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21598]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so hard when I have to, And so easy when I want to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haste is of the Devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste is of the Devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21555]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The memories of my family outings are still a source of strength to me. I remember we'd all pile into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11730]]></link><description><![CDATA[The memories of my family outings are still a source of strength to me. I remember we'd all pile into the car - I forget what kind it was - and drive and drive. I'm not sure where we'd go, but I think there were some trees there. The smell of something was strong in the air as we played whatever sport we played. I remember a bigger, older guy we called "Dad." We'd eat some stuff, or not, and then I think we went home. I guess some things never leave you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66907]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66907</guid></item></channel></rss>