<?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[Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of people's jobs and lives and economic well-being depending on moving water through the delta in an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31904]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of people's jobs and lives and economic well-being depending on moving water through the delta in an ecologically sound manner. It's hard to imagine a more important issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to put out a unified message that downtown is working. We need to move forward with a positive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37768]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to put out a unified message that downtown is working. We need to move forward with a positive message.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/674]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More and more, churches have become gathering places that offer a panoply of services, and one of them is retail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30192]]></link><description><![CDATA[More and more, churches have become gathering places that offer a panoply of services, and one of them is retail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52017]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43922]]></link><description><![CDATA[For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What king so strong, Can tie the gall up in a slanderer's tongue? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51396]]></link><description><![CDATA[What king so strong, Can tie the gall up in a slanderer's tongue?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart,  Said, when he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13091]]></link><description><![CDATA[So, in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart,  Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft,   "With our own feathers, not by others' hand    Are we now smitten."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A simple "I love you" means more than money... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63074]]></link><description><![CDATA[A simple "I love you" means more than money...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought;  Souls to souls can never teach   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought;  Souls to souls can never teach   What unto themselves was taught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941   The dual role of personification of the past and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941   The dual role of personification of the past and preserver of a subcultural ethos, a role clergymen play quite avidly, takes its toll when they speak of God. Because of the role they have been willing to play, when they use the word God it is heard in a certain way. It is heard, often with deference and usually with courtesy, as a word referring to the linchpin of the era of Christendom (past) or as the totem of one of the tribal subcultures (irrelevant). The only way clergy can ever change the way in which the word they use is perceived is to refuse to play the role of antiquarian and medicine man in which the society casts them; but this is difficult, because it is what they are paid for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The variety of all things forms a pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60425]]></link><description><![CDATA[The variety of all things forms a pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 ft/sec, is a cow that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 ft/sec, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt toshut our eyes against a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21333]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt toshut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of thesiren, till she transforms us into beasts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great dowry is a bed full of brables. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49032]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great dowry is a bed full of brables.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.  [Ger., Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergiebt,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.  [Ger., Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergiebt,   Ach! der ist bald allein.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a dog he hunts in dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a dog he hunts in dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lilly's current valuation still provides an attractive entry point. The stock trades at a modest 8% to 10% premium to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lilly's current valuation still provides an attractive entry point. The stock trades at a modest 8% to 10% premium to its peers against 2006 and 2007 earnings and at a discount against our 2008 to 2010 forecast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery will get you everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery will get you everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing, who would ever have been spared?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flirting is the art of keeping intimacy at a safe distance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flirting is the art of keeping intimacy at a safe distance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as could ken thy chalky cliffs, When from thy shore the tempest beat us back,  I stood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57907]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as could ken thy chalky cliffs, When from thy shore the tempest beat us back,  I stood upon the hatches in the storm,   And when the dusky sky began to rob    My earnest-gaping sight of thy land's view,     I took a costly jewel from my neck,      A heart it was, bound in with diamonds,       And threw it toward thy land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I'm not a crook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I'm not a crook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Software companies have sold off aggressively but some information technology managers have indicated a willingness to spend in that area. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Software companies have sold off aggressively but some information technology managers have indicated a willingness to spend in that area.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52548]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is like snow... You never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is like snow... You never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11788]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This happens, and my God, I've never seen a case of hard feelings. I bet this would deepen their friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39564]]></link><description><![CDATA[This happens, and my God, I've never seen a case of hard feelings. I bet this would deepen their friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15436]]></link><description><![CDATA[How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53610]]></link><description><![CDATA[None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch. [Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque  Qui fasse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch. [Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque  Qui fasse a l'univers connaitre un vrai monqrque.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A strong nor'wester's blowing, Bill; Hark! don't ye hear it roar now?  Lord help 'em, how I pities them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56168]]></link><description><![CDATA[A strong nor'wester's blowing, Bill; Hark! don't ye hear it roar now?  Lord help 'em, how I pities them   Unhappy folks on shore, now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, Staretz, 1833  We must always be on our guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.  ... St. Basil the Great  January 3, 1998  Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970  For us in the Pacific, in Asia, in India, and in Africa, Christian unity is not an optional extra. It is an urgent necessity, for our divisions are a real stumbling-block to the proclamation of the Gospel... Mission is at the heart of the divine reality. It is the will of God and the Kingdom of God which are to be made known. Wherever we are, our purpose is not to propagate the Church as an end in itself, but to proclaim Christ as Lord of all life and as Saviour of all men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart is ever at your service, my lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55225]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart is ever at your service, my lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is wont to hide herself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is wont to hide herself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64839]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We might have gotten the win, but we ran out of tires near the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30213]]></link><description><![CDATA[We might have gotten the win, but we ran out of tires near the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30213</guid></item></channel></rss>