<?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[If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9546]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do the best you can to make the transition as easy as possible. It doesn't guarantee that a kid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28631]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do the best you can to make the transition as easy as possible. It doesn't guarantee that a kid is going to make it, but it gives you a better shot if you help him along.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8432]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're just as good as we are. They look like West Point, just not as many of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33453]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're just as good as we are. They look like West Point, just not as many of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still in the early stages (of recovery). The market is still suffering from excess capacity on the North Atlantic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31739]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still in the early stages (of recovery). The market is still suffering from excess capacity on the North Atlantic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58477]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56752]]></link><description><![CDATA[A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy!  Float near me; do not yet depart!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy!  Float near me; do not yet depart!   Dead times revive in thee:    Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art!     A solemn image to my heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There wasn't anything I could do about it. I lost three docks. I've been here 35 years, and I've never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40408]]></link><description><![CDATA[There wasn't anything I could do about it. I lost three docks. I've been here 35 years, and I've never seen devastation like this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: From Thee all skill and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: From Thee all skill and science flow,  All pity, care and love,  All calm and courage, faith and hope;  O pour them from above. And part them, Lord, to each and all,  As each and all shall need, To rise like incense, each to Thee,  In noble thought and deed. And hasten, Lord, that perfect day  When pain and death shall cease, And Thy just rule shall fill the earth  With health and light and peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perish discretion when it interferes with duty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perish discretion when it interferes with duty]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[At Bacchus, which has 140 seats in its main dining room,] the booths and the corners are the most requested ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31381]]></link><description><![CDATA[[At Bacchus, which has 140 seats in its main dining room,] the booths and the corners are the most requested tables, ... If you're four persons as opposed to two, my first option would be to give it to four. But if I'm not busy I'll accommodate two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11749]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't really do that. I can't share a lot of things with him. I feel like the disease is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40329]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't really do that. I can't share a lot of things with him. I feel like the disease is progressing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things have changed throughout the state and a lot of farmers now have off-farm income. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things have changed throughout the state and a lot of farmers now have off-farm income.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most powerful assertiveness technique is to repeat your command with the confidence that the child will soon yield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3383]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most powerful assertiveness technique is to repeat your command with the confidence that the child will soon yield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53997]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34511]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63474]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gospels cannot explain the Resurrection; it is the Resurrection which alone explains the Gospels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6711]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Gospels cannot explain the Resurrection; it is the Resurrection which alone explains the Gospels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  The missionary goes out to men of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  The missionary goes out to men of other faiths and of no faith, not to argue, not to make comparisons, never to claim a superior knowledge or revelation, but to tell of a glorious deed, of the New Creation that has occurred and of the New Being that has appeared and into which men may enter. This is testimony, the apostolic testimony, and this, with the energy of love, is the missionary motive. The insistent task of missionary education and responsibility is to engender this motive throughout the Church, a task that can only be accomplished as men are confronted anew with the message of the Bible and with its supreme and central story, the story of the cross.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54506]]></link><description><![CDATA[And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't force things..they will happen quite nicely on their own ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't force things..they will happen quite nicely on their own]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is like manure: It's not worth anything unless you spread it around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is like manure: It's not worth anything unless you spread it around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53949]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did as many as we felt we could do in a short period of time and still do it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40116]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did as many as we felt we could do in a short period of time and still do it well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is nothing short of a huge coup to have the president come in right before the election. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35087]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is nothing short of a huge coup to have the president come in right before the election.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47380]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is also brought to a point of zero in the beginning of the story, and I think you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30236]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is also brought to a point of zero in the beginning of the story, and I think you can say that about a lot of my films in that they are often about people who are brought to the point of zero in the beginning of the film.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is never too late to have a happy childhood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5884]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is never too late to have a happy childhood]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19513]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive;" or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture -- in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17025]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under which king, Bezonian? speak, or die! -King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under which king, Bezonian? speak, or die! -King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19886]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men carry about them that which is poyson to serpents: for if it be true that is reported, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46869]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men carry about them that which is poyson to serpents: for if it be true that is reported, they will no better abide the touching with man's spittle than scalding water cast upon them: but if it happed to light within their chawes or mouth, especially if it come from a man that is fasting, it is present death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to ask our visitors who our visitors are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33779]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to ask our visitors who our visitors are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33779</guid></item></channel></rss>