<?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[Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57841]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is no other way of counteracting the antagonism of language and race. It is God's own method of producing an entente cordiale, and no other plan is worth a farthing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pretty Lark, climbing the Welkin cleer, Chaunts with a cheer, Heer peer-I neer my Deer;  Then stooping thence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24093]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pretty Lark, climbing the Welkin cleer, Chaunts with a cheer, Heer peer-I neer my Deer;  Then stooping thence (seeming her fall to rew)   Adieu (she saith) adieu, deer Deer, adieu.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can fool all of the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4969]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can fool all of the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50431]]></link><description><![CDATA[An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David's shooting about 90 percent from the free throw line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33766]]></link><description><![CDATA[David's shooting about 90 percent from the free throw line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59710]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or herself in love, which is a sincere gift of self.BENEDICT XVI, ANGELUS, Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, Sunday, 22 May 2005]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Continuing a short series on prayer: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Continuing a short series on prayer:   Madness frequently discovers itself merely by unnecessary deviation from the usual modes of the world. My poor friend Christopher Smart showed the disturbance of his mind, by falling upon his knees, and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place. Now although, rationally speaking, it is greater madness not to pray at all, than to pray as Smart did, I am afraid there are so many who do not pray, that their understanding is not called in question... I did not think he ought to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6107]]></link><description><![CDATA[As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a progressive country change is constant; ... change ... is inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5582]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a progressive country change is constant; ... change ... is inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64276]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51542]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you  His absolute 'shall'? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you  His absolute 'shall'?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9534]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/354]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth. [Lat., Mendaci homini ne verum quidem dicenti credere solemus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26117]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth. [Lat., Mendaci homini ne verum quidem dicenti credere solemus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's just like a grandpa to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40971]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's just like a grandpa to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A two-year old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3599]]></link><description><![CDATA[A two-year old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In campaigns, the goal is to be a stable leader, clear on your record, accomplishments and base, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31215]]></link><description><![CDATA[In campaigns, the goal is to be a stable leader, clear on your record, accomplishments and base,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is borne of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is borne of failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44374]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12800]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the worse appear the better reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the worse appear the better reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This deal may get people to start dusting off their files about newspaper values. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34323]]></link><description><![CDATA[This deal may get people to start dusting off their files about newspaper values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Frank and I had never played together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38060]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Frank and I had never played together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism is in fact history on the run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism is in fact history on the run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there's been an Angela Merkel -factor, as well as something more subtle happening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there's been an Angela Merkel -factor, as well as something more subtle happening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65782]]></link><description><![CDATA[To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's been some conflict with old-time ranchers being engulfed with new development. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39270]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's been some conflict with old-time ranchers being engulfed with new development.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious. [Fr., Tout ce qu'on dit de trop est fade et ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57341]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious. [Fr., Tout ce qu'on dit de trop est fade et rebutant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some days I practice positive thinking, and other days I'm not positive I am thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59160]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some days I practice positive thinking, and other days I'm not positive I am thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14310]]></link><description><![CDATA[May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26441]]></link><description><![CDATA[She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain we call old notions fudge And bend our conscience to our dealing.  The Ten Commandments will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59131]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain we call old notions fudge And bend our conscience to our dealing.  The Ten Commandments will not budge   And stealing will continue stealing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a ball hog, plain and simple. He could probably be our best player on offense, but we need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33446]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a ball hog, plain and simple. He could probably be our best player on offense, but we need him over there on defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51473]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51473</guid></item></channel></rss>