<?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[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916   Assuredly there is but one way in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916   Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate us, to repay their evil deeds with benefits, to return blessings for reproaches. It is that we remember not to consider men's evil intention but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine is better than ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine is better than ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will no longer tolerate from this day the security anarchy, the armed chaos and the kidnappings, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41316]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will no longer tolerate from this day the security anarchy, the armed chaos and the kidnappings,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind tohimself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind tohimself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought the safetys and the cornerbacks would be a lot quicker and I didn't think they'd let us get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought the safetys and the cornerbacks would be a lot quicker and I didn't think they'd let us get over the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would be able to use federal money to pay our staff, which is on duty 24 hours a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41499]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would be able to use federal money to pay our staff, which is on duty 24 hours a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18895]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/177]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a remarkable collection even then. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39327]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a remarkable collection even then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not every question that deserves an answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52762]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not every question that deserves an answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9264]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The underlying questions are always: What is the Church? What is the Church for? If that is not kept in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6427]]></link><description><![CDATA[The underlying questions are always: What is the Church? What is the Church for? If that is not kept in mind, the lay ministry, about which so much is being said at present, remains on the level of a many-sided activity in which the self-assertion of the laity threatens to be more evident than a new manifestation of the Church in modern society. The responsible participation of the laity in the discharge of the Church's divine calling is not primarily a matter of idealism and enthusiasm or organizational efficiency, but a new grasp and commitment to the meaning of God's redemptive purpose with mankind and with the world in the past, the present, and the future: a purpose which has its foundation and inexhaustible content in Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61496]]></link><description><![CDATA[I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I scrambled to the top of the precipice where Nick was waiting. "That was fun," I said. "You bet it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11691]]></link><description><![CDATA[I scrambled to the top of the precipice where Nick was waiting. "That was fun," I said. "You bet it was," said Nick. "Let's climb higher." "No," I said. "I think we should be heading back now." "We have time," Nick insisted. I said we didn't, and Nick said we did. We argued back and forth like that for about 20 minutes, then finally decided to head back. I didn't say it was an interesting story.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thoughtto be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thoughtto be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think education is expensive, try ignorance! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13410]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He decried that any wouldadd another hue unto the rainbowyet we would ope tosaffron and jadeand pink and roseand olive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60447]]></link><description><![CDATA[He decried that any wouldadd another hue unto the rainbowyet we would ope tosaffron and jadeand pink and roseand olive and tanscarlet and indigos***the quote is from Shakespeare's King John.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose nature is so far from doing harms, That he suspects none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose nature is so far from doing harms, That he suspects none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self. Look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self. Look within;...You will find there, perchance, slavish thoughts, slavish desires, and in your daily life and conduct slavish habits. Conquer these; cease to be a slave to self, and no man will have the power to enslave you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can look into the seeds of time And say which grain will grow and which will not,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20732]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can look into the seeds of time And say which grain will grow and which will not,  Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear   Your favors nor your hate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45492]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If he regains competence, then the state can proceed with their case. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39135]]></link><description><![CDATA[If he regains competence, then the state can proceed with their case.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The district was closed after the village informed me there were breaks in the water system and the Health Department ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37122]]></link><description><![CDATA[The district was closed after the village informed me there were breaks in the water system and the Health Department said our buildings were unsafe for water production. But they told me (Wednesday) that village water had been tested and passed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas. Only individuals can do this. A group of individuals may, however, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas. Only individuals can do this. A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64879]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment proves to have detrimental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37529]]></link><description><![CDATA[They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment proves to have detrimental consequences to students.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64715]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't long for the unripe grape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't long for the unripe grape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.  [Fr., L'heure de la justice ne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58317]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.  [Fr., L'heure de la justice ne sonne pas   Aux cadrans de ce monde.]   - Maurice Maeterlinck, Measure of the Hours,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41595]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is not received. It is achieved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is not received. It is achieved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skeptics are never deceived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skeptics are never deceived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investor confidence about profits at exporters is getting much stronger for the coming fiscal year. The dollar's advance is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investor confidence about profits at exporters is getting much stronger for the coming fiscal year. The dollar's advance is a major support for the bullish outlook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I 'll speak in a monstrous little voice. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I 'll speak in a monstrous little voice. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46997]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46997</guid></item></channel></rss>