<?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[From the moment it is touched, the heart cannot dry up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25790]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the moment it is touched, the heart cannot dry up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26576]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are jumping on it quicker, ... They are doing well. I'm kinda proud of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33183]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are jumping on it quicker, ... They are doing well. I'm kinda proud of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. [Lat., Omnia sunt hominum tenui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60019]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. [Lat., Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo:  Et subito casu, quae valuere, ruunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deceive not thy Physitian, Confessor, nor Lawyer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deceive not thy Physitian, Confessor, nor Lawyer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is happy for you that possess the talent of pleasing with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46688]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is happy for you that possess the talent of pleasing with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24619]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is always jealous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is always jealous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark. [Lat., Nos fragili vastum ligno sulcavimus aequor.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44005]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark. [Lat., Nos fragili vastum ligno sulcavimus aequor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11891]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is sweeter than life itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is sweeter than life itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Red velvet roomrolls me in its mouthand swallows me to sleep**. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Red velvet roomrolls me in its mouthand swallows me to sleep**.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/683]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34514]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4766]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes"; They will say, "Women don't have what it takes";]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War will cease when men refuse to fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27657]]></link><description><![CDATA[War will cease when men refuse to fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I care to know is that a man is a human being--that is enough for me; he can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26268]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I care to know is that a man is a human being--that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The March sunne raises but dissolves not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The March sunne raises but dissolves not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are very much focused ... on what more we can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37060]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are very much focused ... on what more we can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[It's a model that Alfred Hitchcock drew on for many of his movies.] If there was a film that inspired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37555]]></link><description><![CDATA[[It's a model that Alfred Hitchcock drew on for many of his movies.] If there was a film that inspired me in writing 'Panic,' it was 'North by Northwest,' ... Those are my favorite Hitchcock films -- the ones where ordinary, everyday people are going about their lives, and they take this dramatic left turn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,  Can blazon evil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,  Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  The very Nazis look at you with wonderment and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  The very Nazis look at you with wonderment and an open contempt! For even they are sure that to live for nothing higher than oneself is to lose life; that life, to be called life, can be found only in serving something bigger than one's personal interests; something that crowds these out of mind and heart, till one forgets about them and lives wholly, and without exception, for that other, worthier thing... It is long since Aristotle told us that only barbarians have as their ideal the wish to live as they please, and to do what they like. And the New Testament gravely sets us down before the Cross, and bids us gaze, and still gaze, and keep gazing, till the fact has soaked itself into our minds that that, not less than that, is now the standard set us, and that whatever in our lives clashes with that is sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23079]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet is someone who is astonished by everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25281]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such a little man could not have made so big a depression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such a little man could not have made so big a depression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very important that they keep us thinking and keep us learning. That's the point of a university. Marquette is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32167]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very important that they keep us thinking and keep us learning. That's the point of a university. Marquette is trying to do that within a Catholic context.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Sudan supports us as people say, I do not see what's bad about that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28742]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Sudan supports us as people say, I do not see what's bad about that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26465]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are going to do something, you will see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28745]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are going to do something, you will see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43461]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak to me of love,said St Francis tothe almond tree,and the tree blossomed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak to me of love,said St Francis tothe almond tree,and the tree blossomed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4454]]></link><description><![CDATA[A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24675]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't wish to imply that there aren't good things about you or that you're not an extraordinary person but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25940]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't wish to imply that there aren't good things about you or that you're not an extraordinary person but I'd rather let other people enjoy the surprise]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd. And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16326]]></link><description><![CDATA[To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd. And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat. (Death levels sceptre and the law.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat. (Death levels sceptre and the law.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11157</guid></item></channel></rss>