<?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 John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888  "Secret" sins, such as are not known ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888  "Secret" sins, such as are not known to be sins (it may be) to ourselves, make way for those that are "presumptuous". Thus pride may seem to be nothing but a frame of mind belonging unto our wealth and dignity, or our ... abilities; sensuality may seem to be but a lawful participation of the good things of this life; passion and peevishness, but a due sense of the want of respect that we must suppose owing unto us; covetousness, a necessary care of ourselves and of our families. If the seeds of sin are covered with such pretences, they will in time spring up and bear bitter fruit in the minds and the lives of men; and the beginning of all apostasy, both in religion and in morality, lies in just such pretences. Men plead that they can do so-and-so lawfully, until they can do things openly unlawful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43255]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a creature That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague  To beguile many and be beguiled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58909]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a creature That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague  To beguile many and be beguiled by one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a Lenten series on prayer:  If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a Lenten series on prayer:  If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a real good kid. Real quick, great skills. You'll see a lot of him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29191]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a real good kid. Real quick, great skills. You'll see a lot of him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issues seem to be the changing environment that we live in. There's much more access to in-home entertainment, there's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issues seem to be the changing environment that we live in. There's much more access to in-home entertainment, there's much more competition with lots of different kinds of arts, and there's a lot more fear of the unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is not innocence but sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is not innocence but sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even critics of the economy say we are resilient. We are more than resilient, we are tough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even critics of the economy say we are resilient. We are more than resilient, we are tough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20408]]></link><description><![CDATA[For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48214]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25872]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65997]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43618]]></link><description><![CDATA[When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of its stall, then the fire-breathing union begins anew . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3421]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45045]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/852]]></link><description><![CDATA[To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4506]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn,  Shine by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53005]]></link><description><![CDATA[But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn,  Shine by the side of every path we tread   With such a lustre he that runs may read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bottom line is this -- for how long can the military remain restrained? That we are just around the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bottom line is this -- for how long can the military remain restrained? That we are just around the corner from a major confrontation is not in doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figured maybe it was some sort of a surprise celebration for our new Teacher of the Year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figured maybe it was some sort of a surprise celebration for our new Teacher of the Year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doug Melvin's contract is absolutely being extended, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doug Melvin's contract is absolutely being extended,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50873]]></link><description><![CDATA[In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Network security and the ability to operate in the face of disaster are some of the top concerns for integrated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Network security and the ability to operate in the face of disaster are some of the top concerns for integrated communications providers. In today's converged telecom market, security solutions are more critical than ever before and Telecom NEXT is the only place to see the latest advances in network security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger may be foolish and obsurd, and one may be irritated when in the wrong; but a man never feels ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger may be foolish and obsurd, and one may be irritated when in the wrong; but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is at bottom right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26843]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until death all is life. (Where there's life there's hope.)  [Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until death all is life. (Where there's life there's hope.)  [Sp., Hasta la muerte todo es vida.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/520]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5542]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think the juggernaut will just roll on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31686]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think the juggernaut will just roll on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's not going to be charged because she's a victim and she's scared. It wouldn't serve anything to put her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37727]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's not going to be charged because she's a victim and she's scared. It wouldn't serve anything to put her in jail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47586]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like for her to make more shots for us, but that's not the role she's embraced. Players figure out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37178]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like for her to make more shots for us, but that's not the role she's embraced. Players figure out what their own roles are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature and art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10742]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature and art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4563]]></link><description><![CDATA[The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3485]]></link><description><![CDATA[All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.   - Francis Bacon,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law sutes consume time, and mony, and rest, and friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law sutes consume time, and mony, and rest, and friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should do whatever we can. If you can donate 5 cents, $1,000 or $100,000, we appreciate it. Or, at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38121]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should do whatever we can. If you can donate 5 cents, $1,000 or $100,000, we appreciate it. Or, at least, put them into your prayers,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64341]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64341</guid></item></channel></rss>