<?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[Gracie comes home from the hospital after visiting a sick friend. (George) 'Where did you get the flowers?' (Gracie) 'I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gracie comes home from the hospital after visiting a sick friend. (George) 'Where did you get the flowers?' (Gracie) 'I went to visit Mable.' (George) 'Yeah, so?' (Gracie) 'WELL, you told me to take her flowers!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles, King & Martyr, 1649   Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles, King & Martyr, 1649   Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. Likewise, the indwelling Christ, though unseen, will be made evident to others from the love which he imparts to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't remember what you can infer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't remember what you can infer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving but like morning light it scattered the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18616]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can be an ACE: Attitude + Commitment = Excellence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can be an ACE: Attitude + Commitment = Excellence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age comes at a bad time. -San Banducci. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age comes at a bad time. -San Banducci.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. [Vulgate Lat., Pax huic domui.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45866]]></link><description><![CDATA[And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. [Vulgate Lat., Pax huic domui.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to really beat them because they beat us last year when we were undefeated (7-0). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39388]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to really beat them because they beat us last year when we were undefeated (7-0).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have faith in yourself you don’t need others to believe in you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65596]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have faith in yourself you don’t need others to believe in you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51873]]></link><description><![CDATA[When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unix is the answer, but only if you phrase the question very carefully. Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unix is the answer, but only if you phrase the question very carefully. Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are. Unix: It's not just 'User-Unfriendly', it's 'Proactively User-Hostile' !]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on sin:  Evil is the soul's choice of the not-God. The corollary is that damnation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on sin:  Evil is the soul's choice of the not-God. The corollary is that damnation or hell, is the permanent choice of the not-God. God does not (in the monstrous old-fashioned phrase) "send" anybody to hell; hell is that state of the soul in which its choice becomes obdurate and fixed; the punishment (so to call it) of that soul is to remain eternally in that State which it has chosen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the hills, and over the main, To Flanders, Portugal, or Spain;  The Queen commands, and we'll obey,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the hills, and over the main, To Flanders, Portugal, or Spain;  The Queen commands, and we'll obey,   Over the hills and far away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against nature and within nature there is no freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against nature and within nature there is no freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the present time, there are probably only a few areas in which one might be able to move forward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35512]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the present time, there are probably only a few areas in which one might be able to move forward by evidence-based benchmarks,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The number is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder augments the grandeur, for the appearance of care is highly contrary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The number is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder augments the grandeur, for the appearance of care is highly contrary to our ideas of magnificence. Besides, the stars lie in such apparent confusion, as makes it impossible on ordinary occasion to reckon them. This gives them the advantage of a sort of infinity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To tolerant everything is too teach nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59429]]></link><description><![CDATA[To tolerant everything is too teach nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife that shall be my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50624]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife that shall be my master.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people do not have houses or homes, and they still wanted to give to help people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people do not have houses or homes, and they still wanted to give to help people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62334]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On me, on me Time and change can heap no more!  The painful past with blighting grief   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18333]]></link><description><![CDATA[On me, on me Time and change can heap no more!  The painful past with blighting grief   Hath left my heart a withered leaf.    Time and change can do no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So true is that old saying, Corruptio optimi pessima. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10196]]></link><description><![CDATA[So true is that old saying, Corruptio optimi pessima.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rigid judgmentalopinionscan block descentof Spirit's pinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rigid judgmentalopinionscan block descentof Spirit's pinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27478]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The skips (elevators) that once lifted about 4 tons of salt to the surface were eventually replaced with hydraulic hoists ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The skips (elevators) that once lifted about 4 tons of salt to the surface were eventually replaced with hydraulic hoists that can bring up as much as 19 tons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm pushing hard for affordable housing. I'm encouraging developers to bring in projects at a lower cost to locals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42333]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm pushing hard for affordable housing. I'm encouraging developers to bring in projects at a lower cost to locals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda   We ought to see far enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20243]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda   We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. •G. K. Chesterton  Often a noble face hides filthy ways. •Euripides  The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19084]]></link><description><![CDATA[In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Important principles may and must be inflexible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Important principles may and must be inflexible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a timing issue. Once he had surgery, he didn't gear up to be ready for Feb. 23 or even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29875]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a timing issue. Once he had surgery, he didn't gear up to be ready for Feb. 23 or even Spring Training. He was gearing up for Opening Day. Our hope, and I think everyone's hope, would be it he could have through Spring Training, and then a determination be made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45588]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For some extraordinary reason, the Church moves in an atmosphere of antiquity. I have no doubt that it makes for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7901]]></link><description><![CDATA[For some extraordinary reason, the Church moves in an atmosphere of antiquity. I have no doubt that it makes for dignity; I have also no coubt that there are times when it makes for complete irrelevance; for, if there is one thing that is true of religion it is that it must always be expressible in contemporary terms. Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62546]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To create an improved new habitat in a remote area where the prairie dog can thrive without any human interference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38594]]></link><description><![CDATA[To create an improved new habitat in a remote area where the prairie dog can thrive without any human interference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52525]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book.   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63609]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60015]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60015</guid></item></channel></rss>