<?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[A woman's dress should be like a barbed- wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15353]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's dress should be like a barbed- wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt is the brother of shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt is the brother of shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're trying to do on a personal level is to make connections so that more kids, especially in low-income ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40991]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're trying to do on a personal level is to make connections so that more kids, especially in low-income areas, have more adults in their life. All of these things add up to better lives, safer lives, better schools and communities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were a purist about language, you might think that this was a disease that people were contracting from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42401]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were a purist about language, you might think that this was a disease that people were contracting from contact with the show. If you are somebody who delights in that ephemeral novelty in language, then you realize that people are so impressed with what the show and that it's affected them so much, that at least mildly in their own language practices, they want to be a part of it, and I think that's interesting to see happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is with those who persevere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46158]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is with those who persevere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/805]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23213]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them 'disease of the week' movies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12306]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct. [Lat., Sua quisque exempla debet aequo animo pati.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct. [Lat., Sua quisque exempla debet aequo animo pati.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42952]]></link><description><![CDATA[In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known--that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still don't know much about directing a movie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still don't know much about directing a movie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24803]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to stop Sharon. His lethal policies are drawing blood on both sides. That's why we need a serious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36241]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to stop Sharon. His lethal policies are drawing blood on both sides. That's why we need a serious intervention -- international troops. And we need to end the occupation if there is to be security for both people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60004]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to tell if a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26156]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to tell if a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2800]]></link><description><![CDATA[People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.... That if they will top telling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45593]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.... That if they will top telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You souls of geese, That bear the shapes of men, how have you run  From slaves that apes would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10499]]></link><description><![CDATA[You souls of geese, That bear the shapes of men, how have you run  From slaves that apes would men!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character must be kept bright as well as clean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character must be kept bright as well as clean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24775]]></link><description><![CDATA[A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is better than revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is better than revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A buck of the first head. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55488]]></link><description><![CDATA[A buck of the first head. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did several tests to determine how strong the solution needed to be to kill the bacteria. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33817]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did several tests to determine how strong the solution needed to be to kill the bacteria.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890   In the first ages, [catechizing] was a work of long time; months, sometimes years, were devoted to the arduous task of disabusing the mind of the incipient Christian of its pagan errors, and of moulding it upon the Christian faith. The Scriptures indeed were at hand for the study of those who could avail themselves of them, but St. Iranaeus does not hesitate to speak of whole races who had been converted to Christianity, without being able to read them. To be unable to read or write was in those times no evidence of want of learning; the hermits of the deserts were, in one sense of the word, illiterate, yet the great St. Anthony, though he knew not letters, was a match in disputation for the learned philosophers who came to try him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't follow. I'd be at the bottom to catch ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25986]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't follow. I'd be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood. [Fr., Toutes les passions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45606]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood. [Fr., Toutes les passions ne sout autre chose que les divers degres de la chaleur et de la froideur du sang.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48185]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth. Carl Jung -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth. Carl Jung -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9469]]></link><description><![CDATA[So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54544]]></link><description><![CDATA[The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64410]]></link><description><![CDATA[A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42801]]></link><description><![CDATA[By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If she's playing like she was today, she can be a one man team. When you give any team three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37784]]></link><description><![CDATA[If she's playing like she was today, she can be a one man team. When you give any team three or four chances after shots like we were giving them, they are going to hit those shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country--whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country--whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less;--still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter "O." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter "O."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27448</guid></item></channel></rss>