<?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[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099  What does this desire and this inability of ours proclaim to us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099  What does this desire and this inability of ours proclaim to us but that there was once in man a genuine happiness, of which nothing now survives but the mark and the empty outline; and this he vainly tries to fill from everything that lies around him, seeking from things that are not there the help that he does not get from those that are present? Yet they are quite incapable of filling the gap, because this infinite gulf can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object -- that is, God, Himself. He alone is man's veritable good, and since man has deserted Him it is a strange thing that there is nothing in nature that has not been capable of taking His place for man: stars, sky, earth, elements, plants, cabbages, leeks, animals, insects, calves, serpents, fever, plague, war, famine, vices, adultery, incest. And since he has lost the true good, everything can equally appear to him as such -- even his own destruction, though that is so contrary at once to God, to reason, and to nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden grain,  Oft have I seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1970]]></link><description><![CDATA[E'en in mid-harvest, while the jocund swain Pluck'd from the brittle stalk the golden grain,  Oft have I seen the war of winds contend,   And prone on earth th' infuriate storm descend,    Waste far and wide, and by the roots uptorn,     The heavy harvest sweep through ether borne,      As light straw and rapid stubble fly       In dark'ning whirlwinds round the wintry sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At first I thought, if I were Superman, a perfect secret identity would be "Clark Kent, Dentist," because you could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11770]]></link><description><![CDATA[At first I thought, if I were Superman, a perfect secret identity would be "Clark Kent, Dentist," because you could save money on tooth X-rays. But then I thought, if a patient said, "How's my back tooth?" and you just looked at it with your X-ray vision and said, "Oh it's okay," then the patient would probably say, "Aren't you going to take an X-ray, stupid?" and you'd say, "Aw fuck you, get outta here," and then he probably wouldn't even pay his bill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the human spirit itself that failed at Paris. It is no use passing judgments and making scapegoats of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62235]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the human spirit itself that failed at Paris. It is no use passing judgments and making scapegoats of this or that individual statesman or group of statesmen. Idealists make a great mistake in not facing the real facts sincerely and resolutely. They believe in the power of the spirit, in the goodness which is at the heart of things, in the triumph which is in store for the great moral ideals of the race. But this great faith only too often leads to an optimism which is sadly and fatally at variance with actual results. It is the realist and not the idealist who is generally justified by events. We forget that the human spirit, the spirit of goodness and truth in the world, is still only an infant crying in the night, and that the struggle with darkness is as yet mostly an unequal struggle. . . . Paris proved this terrible truth once more. It was not Wilson who failed there, but humanity itself. It was not the statesmen that failed, so much as the spirit of the peoples behind them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deception is a cruel act... It often has many players on different stages that corrode the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deception is a cruel act... It often has many players on different stages that corrode the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   A really patient man neither complains nor seeks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   A really patient man neither complains nor seeks to be pitied; he will speak simply and truly of his trouble, without exaggerating its weight or bemoaning himself. If others pity him, he will accept their compassion patiently, unless they pity him for some ill he is not enduring, in which case he will say so with meekness, and abide in patience and truthfulness, combating his grief and not complaining of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16480]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: "Behold a God or a guardian angel!" [Lat., Intrantis medici facies tres esse videntur  Aegrotanti; hominis, Daemonis, atque Dei.   Cum primum accessit medicus dixitque salutem,    En Deus aut custos angelus, aeger ait.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism... .It is understandable why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29699]]></link><description><![CDATA[For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism... .It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. - The Importance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. - The Importance of Living, 1937.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27726]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. - My Summer in a Garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51424]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63602]]></link><description><![CDATA[A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould,  The more the marble wastes   The more the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould,  The more the marble wastes   The more the statue grows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carlos felt really strong at the foot of the decisive climb, so we put Calvente and Piil up front to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carlos felt really strong at the foot of the decisive climb, so we put Calvente and Piil up front to set the pace. With about six kilometers to go Carlos hit a bad patch and instead of risking a total meltdown, he made the sensible choice to ride at his own pace and he did actually manage to limit his time loss quite well. The other day Carlos was a bit better than Mancebo and today it was the other way round. The time differences are still very small. The way it looks right now Heras and Menchov are the strongest. But there's almost two full weeks left and a lot can happen in that time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let his tormentor conscience find him out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let his tormentor conscience find him out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I picked up those little girls that drowned, all I could think about was my grandbabies, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37120]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I picked up those little girls that drowned, all I could think about was my grandbabies,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is a fine field for talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is a fine field for talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God, I--I also--am an American! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God, I--I also--am an American!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't find people of integrity who operate in that zone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35955]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't find people of integrity who operate in that zone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck! A man who's not afraid to say his say,  Though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4859]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck! A man who's not afraid to say his say,  Though a whole town's against him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disney Hall is truly astonishingly beautiful. There is something about those silver petals that just makes you want to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disney Hall is truly astonishingly beautiful. There is something about those silver petals that just makes you want to be inside them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel a lot more comfortable with each game. Things seem to get easier and more natural for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel a lot more comfortable with each game. Things seem to get easier and more natural for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays. [Fr., Je veux que le dimanche chaque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays. [Fr., Je veux que le dimanche chaque paysan ait sa poule au pot.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest  That best becomes the table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest  That best becomes the table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our outlook for the balance of the fiscal year remains cautious as we expect continued softness in our Canadian conventional ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our outlook for the balance of the fiscal year remains cautious as we expect continued softness in our Canadian conventional television business and stable performance from our remaining operations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou hadst once entered into the mind of Jesus, and hadst tasted, yea, even a little of his tender ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7970]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou hadst once entered into the mind of Jesus, and hadst tasted, yea, even a little of his tender love, then wouldst thou care nought for thine own convenience or inconvenience, but wouldst rather rejoice at trouble brought upon thee, because the love of Jesus maketh a man to despise himself. He that loveth Jesus and is inwardly true and free from inordinate affections, is able to turn himself readily unto God, and to rise above himself in spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs, Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48734]]></link><description><![CDATA[For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs, Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58453]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was supposed to be Urban Growth Management fees, but all it did was fuel sprawl, ... It didn't control ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28715]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was supposed to be Urban Growth Management fees, but all it did was fuel sprawl, ... It didn't control anything because it was uncontrolled at City Hall. It was a mess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a managed or well-conducted one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a managed or well-conducted one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65711]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insist on yourself; never imitate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insist on yourself; never imitate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, and we've already taken all the classes and shots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, and we've already taken all the classes and shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amiable weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amiable weakness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography helps people to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography helps people to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19416]]></link><description><![CDATA[May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In doing nothing men learn to do evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48805]]></link><description><![CDATA[In doing nothing men learn to do evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bear and the FoxA bear boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all animals he was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bear and the FoxA bear boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all animals he was the most tender in his regard for man, for he had such respect for him that he would not even touch his dead body. A Fox hearing these words said with a smile to the Bear, Oh! that you would eat the dead and not the living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close theywere to success when they gave up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close theywere to success when they gave up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37229]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man must go back to nature for information. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man must go back to nature for information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27121]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33130]]></link><description><![CDATA[For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33130</guid></item></channel></rss>