<?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[Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. •Anonymous    Many an opportunity is lost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. •Anonymous    Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What an interesting irony that the foremost chip promoter in the world comes from Wisconsin and Wisconsin would be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39567]]></link><description><![CDATA[What an interesting irony that the foremost chip promoter in the world comes from Wisconsin and Wisconsin would be the first state to say, 'Hey, at least get our permission first'. It's good that lawmakers in Wisconsin are paying attention to the fact that this technology even exists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have notyet learned how to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have notyet learned how to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutions" that get rid of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutions" that get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take the goods the gods provide thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take the goods the gods provide thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The timing of the bombings was clearly designed to wreak the greatest level of havoc and carnage. They are an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30124]]></link><description><![CDATA[The timing of the bombings was clearly designed to wreak the greatest level of havoc and carnage. They are an attack on the democratic process and cannot be justified by any political cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ships feare fire more then water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ships feare fire more then water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62471]]></link><description><![CDATA[YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMYANK.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45967]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   The greatest curse which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   The greatest curse which can be entailed upon mankind is a state of war. All the atrocious crimes committed in years of peace -- all that is spent in peace by the secret corruptions or by the thoughtless extravagances of nations -- are mere trifles compared with the gigantic evils which stalk over the world in a state of war. God is forgotten in war -- every principle of Christian charity is trampled upon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My goal as a Christian (is) to sound the alarm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39569]]></link><description><![CDATA[My goal as a Christian (is) to sound the alarm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a woman like a dew-drop, She's so purer than the purest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5789]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a woman like a dew-drop, She's so purer than the purest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tie business went into the doldrums in the mid-1990s. Now there is definitely a dress-up trend among younger consumers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35656]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tie business went into the doldrums in the mid-1990s. Now there is definitely a dress-up trend among younger consumers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep down, I'm pretty superficial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3364]]></link><description><![CDATA[An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolve and thou art free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolve and thou art free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. This is hard. It is perhaps not so hard to forgive a single injury. But to forgive the incessant provocations of daily life -- to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter, the deceitful son -- how can we do it? Only, I think, by remembering where we stand, by meaning our words when we say in our prayers each night, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." We are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it means to refuse God's mercy for ourselves. There is no hint of exceptions and God means what He says.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66914]]></link><description><![CDATA[All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12930]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53644]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. - Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This cat has been terrorizing people with cats. If you have a cat in your house this cat is trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32743]]></link><description><![CDATA[This cat has been terrorizing people with cats. If you have a cat in your house this cat is trying to get in your house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just gave up on acting for a couple of years until Good Will Hunting came around, and since it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31162]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just gave up on acting for a couple of years until Good Will Hunting came around, and since it was Gus, it was hard to say no.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59574]]></link><description><![CDATA[A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After ten years in therapy, my psychologist told me something very touching, he said, no hablo ingles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51988]]></link><description><![CDATA[After ten years in therapy, my psychologist told me something very touching, he said, no hablo ingles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if we weren't what we thought all along? What if we were likeable, lovable even, funny and talented and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66919]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if we weren't what we thought all along? What if we were likeable, lovable even, funny and talented and easy to be around, easy to like? Then our self concept was a lie, told to us by cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It humiliates millions and millions of ordinary peace-loving Muslims, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28567]]></link><description><![CDATA[It humiliates millions and millions of ordinary peace-loving Muslims,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Every true prayer has its background and its foreground. The foreground of prayer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Every true prayer has its background and its foreground. The foreground of prayer is the intense, immediate desire for a certain blessing which seems to be absolutely necessary for the soul to have; the background of prayer is the quiet, earnest desire that the will of God, whatever it may be, should be done. What a picture is the perfect prayer of Jesus in Gethsemane! In front burns the strong desire to escape death and to live; but behind there stands, calm and strong, the craving of the whole life for the doing of the will of God... Leave out the foreground, let there be no expression of the will of him who prays, and there is left a pure submission which is almost fatalism. Leave out the background, let there be no acceptance of the will of God, and the prayer is only an expression of self-will, a petulant claiming of the uncorrected choice of him who prays. Only when the two are there together, the special desire resting on the universal submission, the universal submission opening into the special desire, is the picture perfect and the prayer complete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's most tragic is that this denial of basic education leads to over 1 million unnecessary child and maternal deaths ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33146]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's most tragic is that this denial of basic education leads to over 1 million unnecessary child and maternal deaths a year. Moreover, children who have never seen the inside of a classroom are precisely those that face the most acute poverty, and should be the prime target of the international community if it is at all serious about realizing the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals of halving extreme poverty by 2015.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   Every action of our lives touches on some chord ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57067]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In many ways, states attempting to shore up corporate tax collections are fighting a losing battle against economic reality, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31698]]></link><description><![CDATA[In many ways, states attempting to shore up corporate tax collections are fighting a losing battle against economic reality,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft and faire goes farre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft and faire goes farre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel pretty good about (the retirement) because frankly there are not too many guys in my business who can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29864]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel pretty good about (the retirement) because frankly there are not too many guys in my business who can do it. I feel grateful the university has been so good to me and my family. I have a chancellor that has been very supportive of me, and his cooperation on what I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it. I think that is very unique to have a situation like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9325]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21678]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61841]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64808]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64808</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[Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of them made the ultimate sacrifice for their country and we must never forget what they have given to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of them made the ultimate sacrifice for their country and we must never forget what they have given to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28883</guid></item></channel></rss>