<?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[No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46132]]></link><description><![CDATA[No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day  Can tell the definition   So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day  Can tell the definition   So clear of victory,    As he, defeated, dying,     On whose forbidden ear      The distant strains of triumph       Break agonized and clear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32017]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19921]]></link><description><![CDATA[People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to make sure that we are prepared when and if something does happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42353]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to make sure that we are prepared when and if something does happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is like a kiss...you must share it to enjoy it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is like a kiss...you must share it to enjoy it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60957</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[If you love your customer to death, you can't go wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15754]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you love your customer to death, you can't go wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  We, and all things, exist in God's lnfinitude ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  We, and all things, exist in God's lnfinitude now; our individuality begins with it; our personality grows strong because of it; and we know, if we know anything, that while the more we approach the good the more we please God, at the same time the more we approach the good the more nobly distinctive, the more beautifully individual do our characters become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves,  And therefore are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves,  And therefore are they very dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jewelled coryphee With quivering wings like shielding gauze outspread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jewelled coryphee With quivering wings like shielding gauze outspread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54733]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["How does the Water Come down at Lodore?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61307]]></link><description><![CDATA["How does the Water Come down at Lodore?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can hate. It costs to love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can hate. It costs to love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12708]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your heart is free, have the courage to follow it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your heart is free, have the courage to follow it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A favorite has no friend! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1304]]></link><description><![CDATA[A favorite has no friend!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: THE ELEMENTS OF PRAYER   Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: THE ELEMENTS OF PRAYER   Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us.  Its use: to turn our will to His will.  Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if we don't win another game, we beat Superman tonight. When they bring him in, everybody knows the game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if we don't win another game, we beat Superman tonight. When they bring him in, everybody knows the game is over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've invested a lot here, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've invested a lot here,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  If the ordinary canons of history, used in every other case, hold good in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  If the ordinary canons of history, used in every other case, hold good in this case, Jesus is undoubtedly an historical person. If he is not an historical person, the only alternative is that there is no such thing as history at all -- it is delirium, nothing else; and a rational being would be better employed in the collection of snuff-boxes. And if history is impossible, so is all other knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan, And then deny him merit if you can.  Where he falls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27381]]></link><description><![CDATA[View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan, And then deny him merit if you can.  Where he falls short, 'tis Nature's fault alone   Where he succeeds, the merit's all his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23620]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Venezuela is privileged to be able to help the United States in this time of need, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Venezuela is privileged to be able to help the United States in this time of need,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is neither wise nor brave to question God. It is the folly of a prideful heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13662]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is neither wise nor brave to question God. It is the folly of a prideful heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17628]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the last couple of months, I've been contacting clients and giving them that opportunity. You're getting much more bang ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35328]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the last couple of months, I've been contacting clients and giving them that opportunity. You're getting much more bang for your buck doing a fixed-rate mortgage than doing an adjustable-rate mortgage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world nothing is sure but death and taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62231]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian Mission is thus anchored in dogma, is a result of what ordinary Christians believe. It is God's plan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian Mission is thus anchored in dogma, is a result of what ordinary Christians believe. It is God's plan, God's activity; but because God became man and took up manhood into Himself, it is God's will embodied in active obedience on the part of the Christian individual, the Christian group within the Church, and the Christian Church as a whole -- we are all involved in it, all of us, in our various callings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63165]]></link><description><![CDATA[No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66373]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48855]]></link><description><![CDATA[No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,— A stage, where every man must play a part; And mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,— A stage, where every man must play a part; And mine a sad one. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fisherman and His NetsA fisherman, engaged in his calling, made a very successful cast and captured a great haul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fisherman and His NetsA fisherman, engaged in his calling, made a very successful cast and captured a great haul of fish. He managed by a skillful handling of his net to retain all the large fish and to draw them to the shore; but he could not prevent the smaller fish from falling back through the meshes of the net into the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I no sooner in my heart divin'd My heart, which by a secret harmony  Still moves with thine, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58527]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I no sooner in my heart divin'd My heart, which by a secret harmony  Still moves with thine, joined in connection sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prices are going to be very volatile. Our natural gas immune system has been compromised, so to speak. When it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prices are going to be very volatile. Our natural gas immune system has been compromised, so to speak. When it gets very cold in New England, we're going to see a much higher price spike in California than we might have without Katrina.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66704]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5976]]></link><description><![CDATA[It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42963]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf,  They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking,   But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking    How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho!     How pleasant it is to have money!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't think it was going to be kind of weird, but it (was). I was having fun. I love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31049]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't think it was going to be kind of weird, but it (was). I was having fun. I love those guys and I miss them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,  And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,  And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;   Arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51341</guid></item></channel></rss>