<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like your way of conditioning and contracting with the saints. Do this and I'll do that! Here's one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62307]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like your way of conditioning and contracting with the saints. Do this and I'll do that! Here's one for t'other. Save me and I'll give you a taper or go on a pilgrimage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46891]]></link><description><![CDATA[True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2270]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art no better than a fly. Conquer thy heart that thou mayest become somebody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Willie's done a great job. He's got his degree. He's already got a job lined up at a bank. He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Willie's done a great job. He's got his degree. He's already got a job lined up at a bank. He's going to be a loan officer. I'm real proud of him and what he's done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment. Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17420]]></link><description><![CDATA[MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33575]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, poor our sex! this fault in us I find, The error of our eye directs our mind.  What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, poor our sex! this fault in us I find, The error of our eye directs our mind.  What error leads must error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison eith this order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand, Whistling aloud to bear his courage up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand, Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear always springs from ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear always springs from ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still!  But they have left an aching void  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26933]]></link><description><![CDATA[What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still!  But they have left an aching void   The world can never fill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58164]]></link><description><![CDATA[The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse! how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55928]]></link><description><![CDATA[O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse! how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The developers have to go back to the drawing board. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The developers have to go back to the drawing board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're seeing it now with a big migration from Java to PHP in Web development. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41413]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're seeing it now with a big migration from Java to PHP in Web development.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41413</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civil servant doesn't make jokes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64200]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civil servant doesn't make jokes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18036]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Death! O Change! O Time! Without you, O! the insufferable eyes  Of these poor Might-Have-Beens,   These ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45675]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Death! O Change! O Time! Without you, O! the insufferable eyes  Of these poor Might-Have-Beens,   These fatuous, ineffectual yesterdays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet still a sad, good Christian at the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet still a sad, good Christian at the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away,  But wait, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58896]]></link><description><![CDATA[So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away,  But wait, my friend, for a different day;   Wait till you want to want to!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent. [Lat., Cave ne quidquam incipias, quod post poeniteat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent. [Lat., Cave ne quidquam incipias, quod post poeniteat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think any of us would hesitate. I might pack differently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33754]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think any of us would hesitate. I might pack differently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65426]]></link><description><![CDATA[A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relationships based on obligation lack dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44839]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61806]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falseness often lurks beneath fair hair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falseness often lurks beneath fair hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All history is a Bible--a thing stated in words by me more than once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19317]]></link><description><![CDATA[All history is a Bible--a thing stated in words by me more than once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rumor forthwith flies abroad, dispersed throughout the small town. [Lat., Fama volat parvam subito vulgata per urbem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rumor forthwith flies abroad, dispersed throughout the small town. [Lat., Fama volat parvam subito vulgata per urbem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream, An', taught by time, I tak' it so--exceptin' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream, An', taught by time, I tak' it so--exceptin' always steam,  From coupler-flange to spindle-guide I see thy Hand, O God--   Predestination in the stride o' yon connectin'-rod.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In fact, one thing that I have noticed...is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being endlessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27852]]></link><description><![CDATA[In fact, one thing that I have noticed...is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being endlessly clever. I think you'll find the facts also work if you assume everyone is endlessly stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty;  Follow the straight line, thou shalt see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty;  Follow the straight line, thou shalt see   The curved line ever follow thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20650]]></link><description><![CDATA[The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slackers aren't stupid, they are just too lazy to do anything about their situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slackers aren't stupid, they are just too lazy to do anything about their situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888  "Secret" sins, such as are not known ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888  "Secret" sins, such as are not known to be sins (it may be) to ourselves, make way for those that are "presumptuous". Thus pride may seem to be nothing but a frame of mind belonging unto our wealth and dignity, or our ... abilities; sensuality may seem to be but a lawful participation of the good things of this life; passion and peevishness, but a due sense of the want of respect that we must suppose owing unto us; covetousness, a necessary care of ourselves and of our families. If the seeds of sin are covered with such pretences, they will in time spring up and bear bitter fruit in the minds and the lives of men; and the beginning of all apostasy, both in religion and in morality, lies in just such pretences. Men plead that they can do so-and-so lawfully, until they can do things openly unlawful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Me therefore studious of laborious ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Me therefore studious of laborious ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58036</guid></item></channel></rss>