<?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[Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  We have all the reason in the world to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  We have all the reason in the world to believe that the goodness and justice of God is such as to make nothing necessary to be believed by any man which, by the help of due instruction, may not be made sufficiently plain to a common understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(King Ferdinand:) In love, I hope--sweet fellowship in shame! (Berowne:) One drunkard loves another of the name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22930]]></link><description><![CDATA[(King Ferdinand:) In love, I hope--sweet fellowship in shame! (Berowne:) One drunkard loves another of the name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a tide in the affairs of women Which, taken at the flood, leads--God knows where. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62010]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a tide in the affairs of women Which, taken at the flood, leads--God knows where.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14549]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Best I Ever Had ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Best I Ever Had]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility. You may remember, when I was talking about sexual morality, I warned you that the centre of Christian morals did not lie there. Well, now we have come to the centre. According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea-bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3083]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60985]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're scared, buy a big dog and tie it around your waist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34635]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're scared, buy a big dog and tie it around your waist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smell a rat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smell a rat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics, n: Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics, n: Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2008]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10112]]></link><description><![CDATA[I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20279]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to conduct yourself properly before your superiors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50259]]></link><description><![CDATA[How to conduct yourself properly before your superiors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pay me for my work but I don't do it for the money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pay me for my work but I don't do it for the money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the Charger AN ASS congratulated a Horse on being so ungrudgingly andcarefully provided for, while he himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Charger AN ASS congratulated a Horse on being so ungrudgingly andcarefully provided for, while he himself had scarcely enough toeat and not even that without hard work. But when war broke out,a heavily armed soldier mounted the Horse, and riding him to thecharge, rushed into the very midst of the enemy. The Horse waswounded and fell dead on the battlefield. Then the Ass, seeingall these things, changed his mind, and commiserated the Horse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are apt to overlook the hand and heart of God in our afflictions, and to consider them as mere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7613]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are apt to overlook the hand and heart of God in our afflictions, and to consider them as mere accidents, and unavoidable evils. This view makes them absolute and positive evils, which admit of no remedy or relief. If we view our troubles and trials aside from the divine design and agency in them, we cannot be comforted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really comprehensive. I wasn't familiar with early science fiction. It's cool to see the roots of sci-fi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30635]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really comprehensive. I wasn't familiar with early science fiction. It's cool to see the roots of sci-fi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courtney's students, teachers and other students have signed up to volunteer to work the different shifts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courtney's students, teachers and other students have signed up to volunteer to work the different shifts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroes became heroes flaws and all. You don't have to be perfect tofulfill your dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroes became heroes flaws and all. You don't have to be perfect tofulfill your dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope they (teens) will be able to manage their money in a manner that is really successful for them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40807]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope they (teens) will be able to manage their money in a manner that is really successful for them and will provide for them for the rest of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People talk about it being so heavy, but right now it feels weightless around my neck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35787]]></link><description><![CDATA[People talk about it being so heavy, but right now it feels weightless around my neck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9711]]></link><description><![CDATA[If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what we like. But we couldn't put them away. They just kept hanging around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34196]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what we like. But we couldn't put them away. They just kept hanging around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart. Itis not the conviction that something will turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart. Itis not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certaintythat something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48256]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't play better than that, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40199]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't play better than that,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63186]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36824]]></link><description><![CDATA[The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12724]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a bit shocking no movie has done it by now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31687]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a bit shocking no movie has done it by now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can see the improvement. I can do so many things now offensively. Last year, I was still trying to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38295]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can see the improvement. I can do so many things now offensively. Last year, I was still trying to figure things out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38295</guid></item></channel></rss>