<?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[We've been on a smooth downward trend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29643]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been on a smooth downward trend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18442]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60536]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything has been figured out, except how to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything has been figured out, except how to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All styles are good except the tiresome kind. [Fr., Tous les genres sont bons, hors le genre ennuyeux.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58103]]></link><description><![CDATA[All styles are good except the tiresome kind. [Fr., Tous les genres sont bons, hors le genre ennuyeux.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59768]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public conciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15053]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Tribune, on a long-term basis, it's terrific. While in the short term there's a lot of dilution, ultimately this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34325]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Tribune, on a long-term basis, it's terrific. While in the short term there's a lot of dilution, ultimately this will be a monster success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57865]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our winners make you laugh ? but they also make you think, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our winners make you laugh ? but they also make you think,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45867]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're talking to a lot of major groups that may not have considered us in the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40404]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're talking to a lot of major groups that may not have considered us in the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy is going to catch the attention of the market. It's probably a force that's not going to leave because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energy is going to catch the attention of the market. It's probably a force that's not going to leave because we're in transition from concern about oil to concerns about natural gas and how that will affect consumer spending as we head into winter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY   What should I think of my child, if I found that he limited his faith in me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8095]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY   What should I think of my child, if I found that he limited his faith in me and hope from me to the few promises he had heard me utter! The faith that limits itself to the promises of God seems to me to partake of the paltry character of such a faith in my child -- good enough for a Pagan, but for a Christian a miserable and wretched faith. Those who rest in such a faith would feel yet more comfortable if they had God's bond instead of His word, which they regard not as the outcome of His character but as a pledge of His honour. They try to believe in the truth of His word, but the truth of His Being they understand not. In His oath they persuade themselves that they put confidence: in himself they do not believe, for they know Him not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignore, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignore, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all Damned Things is the individual human being. The social engineers, statistician, psychologist, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this Damned Thing into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the Damned Thing will not fit into the slot assigned it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. the psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the Damned Thing will not fit into their slots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/158]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you'll be right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you'll be right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will cheat at play, will cheat you any way ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5817]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will cheat at play, will cheat you any way]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48641]]></link><description><![CDATA[A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He would always tell us to never let our guard down. At times, we would tell him, 'You're so uptight, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39527]]></link><description><![CDATA[He would always tell us to never let our guard down. At times, we would tell him, 'You're so uptight, you just need to relax.' But if he wasn't like that I don't know if we would have taken some games as seriously as we did. It was good for him to be on our case about it all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7395]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More and more, churches have become gathering places that offer a panoply of services, and one of them is retail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30192]]></link><description><![CDATA[More and more, churches have become gathering places that offer a panoply of services, and one of them is retail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy,  A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62556]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy,  A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63080]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57260]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's all about wearing horizontal stripes in the right way. I think it's a reality that bigger horizontal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34626]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's all about wearing horizontal stripes in the right way. I think it's a reality that bigger horizontal stripes don't flatter bigger body types. I think that thinner stripes are certainly more flattering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/211]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18315]]></link><description><![CDATA[My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9858]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids - and sometimes more than half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patrons from around the world have always been gearing together for benefits--it's the serendipity effect, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patrons from around the world have always been gearing together for benefits--it's the serendipity effect,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47366]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've directed traditional operas and it's been wonderful. But despite all the work they require, operettas are just plain fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've directed traditional operas and it's been wonderful. But despite all the work they require, operettas are just plain fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When eating an elephant take one bite at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32260]]></link><description><![CDATA[When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59882]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -Niels Bohr.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977  We shall benefit very much from the Sacrament if this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977  We shall benefit very much from the Sacrament if this thought has been impressed and engraved upon our minds that none of the brethren can be injured, despised, rejected, abused, or in any way offended by us, without [our] injuring, despising, and abusing Christ by the wrongs we do; that we cannot disagree with our brethren without at the same time disagreeing with Christ; that we cannot love Christ without loving Him in the brethren; that we ought to take the same care of our brethren's bodies as we take of our own; for they are members of our body; and that, as no part of our body is touched by any feeling of pain which is not spread among all the rest, so we ought not to allow a brother to be affected by any evil, without being touched with compassion for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum  Caliginosa nocte premit deus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17092]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum  Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23229]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23229</guid></item></channel></rss>