<?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[I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25499]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. [Motto of Vraibleusia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14624]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up. [Motto of Vraibleusia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as the family, but also produce much of the background social capital without which the other major institutions of society could not function nearly as effectively as they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My family begins with me, your family ends with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15165]]></link><description><![CDATA[My family begins with me, your family ends with you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is very uncommon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is very uncommon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may justly say, with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, I came, saw, and overcame. -King Henry IV. Part II. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may justly say, with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, I came, saw, and overcame. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctors gave her over--to an ass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctors gave her over--to an ass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a market with great potential. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32659]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a market with great potential.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[A spokesman for Andersen reiterated the firm's statement given on Wednesday.] Reaching out to the groups affected in this case ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29655]]></link><description><![CDATA[[A spokesman for Andersen reiterated the firm's statement given on Wednesday.] Reaching out to the groups affected in this case is consistent with our commitment to address the issues raised by Enron's collapse in a straightforward and constructive manner, ... We think it is in the best interests of all parties to deal expeditiously and responsibly with what has occurred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17834]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is hideously fragile [and] there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is hideously fragile [and] there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He comes to the world, as a gentleman comes To a lodging ready furnished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50159]]></link><description><![CDATA[He comes to the world, as a gentleman comes To a lodging ready furnished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4045]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Princes have no way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Princes have no way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3216]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5558]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45482]]></link><description><![CDATA[The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The planets in their station list'ning stood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56517]]></link><description><![CDATA[The planets in their station list'ning stood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lost reputation is the best degree for Christ's service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6817]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lost reputation is the best degree for Christ's service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1321]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58715]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an ill councell that hath no escape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49575]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an ill councell that hath no escape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . . .  Less base ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . . .  Less base the fear of death than fear of life.   O Britain! infamous for suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience means self-suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience means self-suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moments of their deepest, most agonising spiritual difficulties, cling only to the free verdict of the heart? Oh, Thou didst know that Thy deed would be recorded in books, would be handed down to remote times and the utmost ends of the earth, and Thou didst hope that man, following Thee, would cling to God and not ask for a miracle. But Thou didst not know that when man rejects miracle he rejects God too; for man seeks not so much God as the miraculous. And as man cannot bear to be without the miraculous, he will create new miracles of his own for himself, and will worship deeds of sorcery and witchcraft, though he might be a hundred times over a rebel, heretic and infidel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this one I just want to make sure it was OK. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30711]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this one I just want to make sure it was OK.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child kicks its legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7639]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child kicks its legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough... It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again," to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again," to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike: it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That somehow they can't shut up -- that they're dangerous, ... That somehow you get them in a room and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32999]]></link><description><![CDATA[That somehow they can't shut up -- that they're dangerous, ... That somehow you get them in a room and they are just going to start spouting classified information to somebody who is an enemy of the United States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[West played really well. But I think we got a little ahead of ourselves, too . . . I hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39392]]></link><description><![CDATA[West played really well. But I think we got a little ahead of ourselves, too . . . I hope it was an eye-opener.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to live the rest of our lives there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62746]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to live the rest of our lives there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She bears her down majestically near, Speed on her prow, and terror in her tier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56166]]></link><description><![CDATA[She bears her down majestically near, Speed on her prow, and terror in her tier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   If you wanted a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   If you wanted a label for us, would you find a better than a Sadducean Age? We also are not worrying about immortality, hardly believe in it, or at least are not sure; we, too, have limited ourselves to this dust-speck of time, leaving unclaimed the vast inheritance beyond of which Christ told us; we, too, are putting all our zeal and passion and enthusiasm into things of this earth here, quite sure that that is the only road to progress, and that this everlasting chatter about the soul is quite beside the point. And they are all so earnest and so certain, work so hard, are animated often by such lofty motives, are so sure that there is really no manner of need for Christ: that given this, and this, and this, each of them pushing forward his particular panacea -- the world will manage very well; that to talk about Christ, and changing people's hearts, and making us new creatures, is merely to lose precious time and wander from the practical into vague day-dreaming of which nothing comes. And year by year their voices grow a little harder, and they eye Christ more and more askance, feel sourly that He is a bit of a nuisance and a stumbling-block to progress, keeping people quiet who should not be quiet, lulling them with these dim, immaterial, fantastic, spiritual hopes of His which they think have no body, and can not have. Once more the whisper grows, "Were He not far better away?" Meantime we can ignore Him, they say; and they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53723]]></link><description><![CDATA["The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be a procedure to present the government to parliament for discussion and approval. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41287]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be a procedure to present the government to parliament for discussion and approval.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have some big, long, thin boys. We probably got away with a few fouls, but it's the aggressive team ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37638]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have some big, long, thin boys. We probably got away with a few fouls, but it's the aggressive team that gets the calls. Today I thought we earned the calls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been an attitudinal shift in the railways. They are trying to respond to market needs, but there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31475]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been an attitudinal shift in the railways. They are trying to respond to market needs, but there is no denying the fact that the government of India is not able to invest in infrastructure in the way that China is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31475</guid></item></channel></rss>