<?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[In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44163]]></link><description><![CDATA[In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45155]]></link><description><![CDATA[First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; and finally, the undecided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18116]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59982]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is only good for one thing- they will cash your check in a small town. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is only good for one thing- they will cash your check in a small town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breaking his oath and resolution, like A twist of rotten silk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breaking his oath and resolution, like A twist of rotten silk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a physician, Senator Frist has a moral calling to save lives and alleviate suffering. He joins Nancy Reagan, dozens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17015]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a physician, Senator Frist has a moral calling to save lives and alleviate suffering. He joins Nancy Reagan, dozens of Nobel Laureates, thousands of scientists, and millions of patients across the nation in calling for an end to the restrictions that have shackled the search for new cures. I applaud his courage in putting patients over politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27479]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he as a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything one thing is impossible: rationality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63607]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64464]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64424]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O heaven! were man But constant, he were perfect. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55340]]></link><description><![CDATA[O heaven! were man But constant, he were perfect. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32667]]></link><description><![CDATA[For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is world's best launch team. Congratulations for another awesome performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41733]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is world's best launch team. Congratulations for another awesome performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Said the little Eohippus, "I am going to be a horse,  And on my middle fingernails   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Said the little Eohippus, "I am going to be a horse,  And on my middle fingernails   To run my earthly course!    . . . .     I'm going to have a flowing tail!      I'm going to have a mane!       I'm going to stand fourteen hands high        On the Psychozoic plain!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Back home, people are really, really friendly. We grew up playing the same games and doing the same things. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Back home, people are really, really friendly. We grew up playing the same games and doing the same things. It's different here because we don't have the same connection with kids. We're homesick most of the time, but we know we're here for a purpose and you try and make your dream happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the highest-ranking union officers in the state is given a half-million-dollar gift by a sitting U.S. senator. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30729]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the highest-ranking union officers in the state is given a half-million-dollar gift by a sitting U.S. senator. That is precisely the type of transaction the Senate wants to know about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sweet disorder in the dresse Kindles in cloathes a wantonnesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2737]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sweet disorder in the dresse Kindles in cloathes a wantonnesse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are words the heart can't express ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are words the heart can't express]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is present by Love alone. By Love alone He is great and glorious. By Love alone He liveth and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6182]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is present by Love alone. By Love alone He is great and glorious. By Love alone He liveth and feeleth in other persons. By Love alone He enjoyeth all the creatures, by Love alone He is pleasing to Himself, by Love alone He is rich and blessed. The Soul is shrivelled up and buried in a grave that does not love. But that which does love wisely and truly is the joy and end of all the world, the King of Heaven, and the Friend of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55187]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51577]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dick Cheney blows birds outof the sky for pleasurebut he drops bombs onIraqi childrenfor power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dick Cheney blows birds outof the sky for pleasurebut he drops bombs onIraqi childrenfor power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The social being for the more inexperienced players. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39219]]></link><description><![CDATA[The social being for the more inexperienced players.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  Every single time a sacrament is celebrated, God takes action, there and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7689]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  Every single time a sacrament is celebrated, God takes action, there and then -- does something, not on Calvary, but in that church. And what He does is to come to each soul partaking in the Sacrament and to assure it that He stands to the best and biggest of His promises and to the fullness of His grace in Christ... de-universalizes the Scriptures and individualizes them, makes them a personal promise, couched no longer in general terms but offered to very you and very me, as individually as if they covered no other but referred to you and me alone. We may be cold and dead and unresponsive. None the less, something happens in the Sacrament. For God stands to His side of the Covenant, whether we stand to ours or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16550]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort. [Lat., Maliuolum solacii genus est turba miserorum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9119]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort. [Lat., Maliuolum solacii genus est turba miserorum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10624]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the guys were a little anxious out there early on and the shots just weren't falling. But we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the guys were a little anxious out there early on and the shots just weren't falling. But we got the shots we wanted and were in the right spots to score, so that's all you can ask. As long as we do that, the shots are going to fall eventually.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21586]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O ye who teach the ingenuous youth of nations-- Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain;  I pray ye flog ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48754]]></link><description><![CDATA[O ye who teach the ingenuous youth of nations-- Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain;  I pray ye flog them upon all occasions,   It mends their morals--never mind the pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matt Dillon was the kind of guy who's low-key but stands for what is right. And he goes about seeing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matt Dillon was the kind of guy who's low-key but stands for what is right. And he goes about seeing that things turn out that way -- with, of course, a lot of people suffering along the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has a coarse texture and a rich, beefy taste only matched by hanger steak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30736]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has a coarse texture and a rich, beefy taste only matched by hanger steak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59984]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their eyes seem'd rings from whence the gems were gone. [It., Parean l'occhiaje anella senza gemme.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their eyes seem'd rings from whence the gems were gone. [It., Parean l'occhiaje anella senza gemme.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   George Brush, the hero of [Thornton Wilder's] "Heaven's My Destination", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   George Brush, the hero of [Thornton Wilder's] "Heaven's My Destination", a textbook salesman and evangelist extraordinary, is the innocent fool, in the kindliest sense of both the noun and the adjective. He is striving to be the fool in Christ, sowing the inevitable amazement, consternation and wrath that must ensue when Christ's fool runs at large among the worldly wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['A took my father grossly, full of bread, With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43398]]></link><description><![CDATA['A took my father grossly, full of bread, With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;  And how his audit stands, who knows save heaven?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't even get an allowance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15849]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't even get an allowance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot strike out in your first major-league at-bat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41868]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot strike out in your first major-league at-bat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has a hard shot off a quick release. It's hard to get the puck off his stick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38572]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has a hard shot off a quick release. It's hard to get the puck off his stick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing the most intense bargaining among big states that we have seen since the end of the Cold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35953]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing the most intense bargaining among big states that we have seen since the end of the Cold War, with war in the offing and no certainty about the outcome,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35953</guid></item></channel></rss>