<?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 meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26826]]></link><description><![CDATA[A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were very wrong in October. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were very wrong in October.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60335]]></link><description><![CDATA[A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44369]]></link><description><![CDATA[My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This drug has a very high likelihood of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35450]]></link><description><![CDATA[This drug has a very high likelihood of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45043]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who laughs, lasts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20109]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who laughs, lasts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4838]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started a big part of my career in Vegas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41012]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started a big part of my career in Vegas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its constituency far beyond the degree to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24473]]></link><description><![CDATA[No organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its constituency far beyond the degree to which its leadership is representative. -Edgar Powell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instinct and reason how can we divide? 'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instinct and reason how can we divide? 'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more productive people are, the more governments can tax and confiscate. So the more productive people are, the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more productive people are, the more governments can tax and confiscate. So the more productive people are, the more costly it is for governments to kill them. Evidence indicates that governments respond to this economic incentive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2139]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flatterer is a secret enemy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13817]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flatterer is a secret enemy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The archdiocese also is disappointed that this has taken so long. Obviously, this isn't anything we have any desire to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32461]]></link><description><![CDATA[The archdiocese also is disappointed that this has taken so long. Obviously, this isn't anything we have any desire to prolong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may define therapy as a search for value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59122]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may define therapy as a search for value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14036]]></link><description><![CDATA[I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God heals, and the doctor takes the fee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18940]]></link><description><![CDATA[God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fancy light from Fancy caught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fancy light from Fancy caught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942  Few have defined what free will is, although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942  Few have defined what free will is, although it repeatedly occurs in the writings of all. Origen seems to have put forward a definition generally agreed upon among ecclesiastical writers when he said that it is a faculty of the reason to distinguish between good and evil, a faculty of the will to choose one or the other. Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every parting there is an image of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45563]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every parting there is an image of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct,or more uncertain in its success, than to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21726]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct,or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in theintroduction of a new order of things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Make our earth an Eden like the heaven above. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Make our earth an Eden like the heaven above.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is strength without a double share of wisdom? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57957]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is strength without a double share of wisdom?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Malice drinks one half of its own poison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Malice drinks one half of its own poison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45974]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labours of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did the best he could. I actually have to thank him for that, because he did compete hurt. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39831]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did the best he could. I actually have to thank him for that, because he did compete hurt. He was never 100 percent for about three-quarters of the season. He had high expectations for himself and he does everything at 100 percent. He really wanted to be a state wrestling champion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far more important to me is, that I should be loyal to what I regard as the law of my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far more important to me is, that I should be loyal to what I regard as the law of my political life, which is this: a belief that that country is best governed, which is least                     governed ...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27550]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66103]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60293]]></link><description><![CDATA[On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. Of this he wrote to James Madison: As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no Past, so long as Books shall live! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4547]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13029]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He confesses his guilt who flies from his trial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50550]]></link><description><![CDATA[He confesses his guilt who flies from his trial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(S)ex scenes and bathroom jokes are my bread and butter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39025]]></link><description><![CDATA[(S)ex scenes and bathroom jokes are my bread and butter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They shall knaw a file, and flee unto the mountains of Hepsidam whar the lion roareth and the Wang Doodle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48086]]></link><description><![CDATA[They shall knaw a file, and flee unto the mountains of Hepsidam whar the lion roareth and the Wang Doodle mourneth for its first born--ah!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will not become a saint through other people's sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52424]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will not become a saint through other people's sins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful relay. You play ball like that you're going to win a bunch of games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful relay. You play ball like that you're going to win a bunch of games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got just bits and pieces on Madison. But we've never worried about that before, you know, about being matched ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40786]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got just bits and pieces on Madison. But we've never worried about that before, you know, about being matched up with anybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The remarkable thing about the terror in Iraq, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The remarkable thing about the terror in Iraq,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34954</guid></item></channel></rss>