<?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[Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The valuable assistance of Germany in this matter demonstrates that the war on terrorism is global, and together we will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The valuable assistance of Germany in this matter demonstrates that the war on terrorism is global, and together we will work with our allies to ensure that terrorist acts are prevented and that justice is done,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13687]]></link><description><![CDATA[each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if virtuous, were too frightened to run for office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store,  . . . .   Live today, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store,  . . . .   Live today, tomorrow is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There must be more to life than having everything. Judy Newman -Maurice Sendak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24880]]></link><description><![CDATA[There must be more to life than having everything. Judy Newman -Maurice Sendak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The apple blossoms' shower of pearl, Though blent with rosier hue,  As beautiful as woman's blush,   As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The apple blossoms' shower of pearl, Though blent with rosier hue,  As beautiful as woman's blush,   As evanescent too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not pleading with the Father, but expressing the Father's good pleasure is the key-note of true intercession. Forgiveness is God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not pleading with the Father, but expressing the Father's good pleasure is the key-note of true intercession. Forgiveness is God's idea, God's desire; and it is He who appoints both the Judge and the Counsel for the Defense. It was He who inaugurated the priestly work, that men might receive His cleansing and turn to the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world. God has provided for himself a Lamb. It is He who sends His Son to be our Elder Brother, and to incorporate us as adopted sons into the circle of His Fatherly love. So then it is the voice of His beloved Son which is most clearly heard by the Father in heaven. In that voice of intercession, all the voices of intercession are contained and heard. The Son is talking to the Father about us, and what He says is not Please but Yes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town,  Yon towers, whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8920]]></link><description><![CDATA[My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town,  Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds,   Must kiss their own feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When danger approaches, sing to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29551]]></link><description><![CDATA[When danger approaches, sing to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, having the speedometer in the front windshield was something I've never experienced before, and that took some getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40381]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, having the speedometer in the front windshield was something I've never experienced before, and that took some getting used to. The power was there, and every red light was a temptation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2433]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every why hath a wherefore. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every why hath a wherefore. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of what the government said is lies upon lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28516]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of what the government said is lies upon lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25040]]></link><description><![CDATA[To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you can get by with. The maximum is the most you're capable of. The optimum is the amount or degree of anything that is most favorable toward the ends you desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a passionate believer in the inherent creativity possessed by all people and our inherent ability--if it's not clouded by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1611]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a passionate believer in the inherent creativity possessed by all people and our inherent ability--if it's not clouded by convention--to appreciate authentic beauty in all forms, whether we like it or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63139]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/482]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28579]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The net is not spread for the hawk or the kite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The net is not spread for the hawk or the kite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26308]]></link><description><![CDATA[If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The punctual tide draws up the bay, With ripple of wave and hiss of spray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The punctual tide draws up the bay, With ripple of wave and hiss of spray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is spiritualized imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is spiritualized imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, oftentimes, excusing of a fault, Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51347]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, oftentimes, excusing of a fault, Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53528]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think this is a bearish report because average hourly earnings are ticking up significantly. That is obviously a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34919]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think this is a bearish report because average hourly earnings are ticking up significantly. That is obviously a direct driver of inflation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22888]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes one hour of preparation for each minute of presentation time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27704]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes one hour of preparation for each minute of presentation time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52272]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1355]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make any gain some outlay is necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50895]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make any gain some outlay is necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't help the look of accusation in your eyes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't help the look of accusation in your eyes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The company has prototypes running right now that are killing things. The basic science is done. A lot of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The company has prototypes running right now that are killing things. The basic science is done. A lot of the scientists developing this were physicists who were doing military-directed physics in Russia and have moved on to more peaceful programs in the United States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatience, gloom, self-occupation, unloving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7783]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatience, gloom, self-occupation, unloving prejudices, reckless tongue, feverish desires, with all the damage they have caused to Christ's Body, be set aside, because -- because, in spite of all, he longs for God and Eternal Life: then he must set aside and forgive all that the impatience, selfishness, bitter and foolish speech, and sudden yieldings to base impulse by others have caused him to endure. Hardness is the one impossible thing. Harshness to others in those who ask and need the mercy of God sets up a conflict at the very heart of personality and shuts the door upon grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of values and deliberately to choose the lower ones: to know that, however much these values may differ with different people at different stages of spiritual growth, for one's self there must be no compromise with that which one knows to be the lower value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57187]]></link><description><![CDATA[The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the younger generation, we've been raised to think that everything is OK and if you look down on anyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30027]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the younger generation, we've been raised to think that everything is OK and if you look down on anyone else, you judge anyone else, then you're a racist or you're a religious zealot, or you're not open-minded. So I think that people my age have been forced to be too accepting and too open-minded, whereas older people are sometimes narrow- minded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bob's devotion to the craft of filmmaking and his wealth of head-and-heart knowledge about what we do and how we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bob's devotion to the craft of filmmaking and his wealth of head-and-heart knowledge about what we do and how we do it was a special gift to his fellow directors,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. [Lat., De vitiis nostris ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60494]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. [Lat., De vitiis nostris scalam nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa calcamus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vesper bell from far That seems to mourn for the expiring day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vesper bell from far That seems to mourn for the expiring day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strength of women is the pretense of weakness, and the weakness of men is the pretense of strength ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strength of women is the pretense of weakness, and the weakness of men is the pretense of strength]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11916]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talking payes no toll. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talking payes no toll.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they can't win in fair fight, they resort to all sorts of sly tricks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50810]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they can't win in fair fight, they resort to all sorts of sly tricks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50810</guid></item></channel></rss>