<?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[The doctrine of the blessed Trinity is a reminder of the supernaturalness of biblical Christianity. The doctrine defies rationalization, yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6725]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctrine of the blessed Trinity is a reminder of the supernaturalness of biblical Christianity. The doctrine defies rationalization, yet it provides for the believer the answer to the unity and diversity of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a divorce and a legal separation is that a legal separation gives a husband time to hide ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55188]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a divorce and a legal separation is that a legal separation gives a husband time to hide his money]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921  Thou knowest well how to excuse and color thine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921  Thou knowest well how to excuse and color thine own deeds; but thou art not willing to receive the excuses of others. It were more just that thou shouldest accuse thyself, and excuse thy brother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will probably not get appropriate numbers of volunteers just looking in largely underserved communities. We have to be creative. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38223]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will probably not get appropriate numbers of volunteers just looking in largely underserved communities. We have to be creative. ... We have to go to suburban units to assist us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50381]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13065]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and to damn the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19783]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14036]]></link><description><![CDATA[I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15435]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it. [Lat., Arcanum neque tu scrutaveris ullius unquam, commissumve teges et vino tortus et ira.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65931]]></link><description><![CDATA[How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Round numbers are always false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Round numbers are always false.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50249]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The possibility of rejection was ever present. St. Paul did not establish himself in a place and go on preaching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7974]]></link><description><![CDATA[The possibility of rejection was ever present. St. Paul did not establish himself in a place and go on preaching for years to men who refused to act on his teaching. When once he had brought them to a point where decision was clear, he reminded that they should make their choice. If they rejected him, he rejected them... He did not simply "go away"; he openly rejected those who showed themselves unworthy of his teaching. It was part of the Gospel that men might "judge themselves unworthy of eternal life". It is a question which needs serious consideration whether the Gospel can be truly preached if this element is left out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, notthe hated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21159]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, notthe hated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do it, dump it, or change it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do it, dump it, or change it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, a little more tepid than what markets were expecting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, a little more tepid than what markets were expecting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that makes manifest an ignorance or disregard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47565]]></link><description><![CDATA[[expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that makes manifest an ignorance or disregard of the fundamental equality as regards the right to self-preservation, the creature in human shape who acts in this way is to be treated by any and all other rational humans as a wild, clever, and therefore very dangerous animal, to be destroyed (if necessary) in order to safeguard the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the people have no tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47258]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the people have no tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34243]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world always looks brighter from behind a smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62882]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world always looks brighter from behind a smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn. -As You Like It. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55684]]></link><description><![CDATA[The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't graduate from any of them (Colleges) and look at me now mom! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't graduate from any of them (Colleges) and look at me now mom!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57137]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27509]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has expanded beyond my wildest dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31206]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has expanded beyond my wildest dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wouldn't be unthinkable that he would chase her out with a baseball bat, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36930]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wouldn't be unthinkable that he would chase her out with a baseball bat,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm more computer handy now. I've learned a lot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32962]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm more computer handy now. I've learned a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't do a very good job at defending tonight. A few times, our corners got sealed inside and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33517]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't do a very good job at defending tonight. A few times, our corners got sealed inside and we got burned on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24989]]></link><description><![CDATA[The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain,  And bear the marks upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4376]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain,  And bear the marks upon a blushing face,   OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so,  Having a thousand tongues t' allure him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45571]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so,  Having a thousand tongues t' allure him   And but one to bid him go.    When lips invite,     And eyes delight,      And cheeks as fresh as rose in June,       Persuade delay,--        What boots to say         Forego me now, come to me soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  Words are merely carriers of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  Words are merely carriers of the secret, supernatural communications, the light and call of God. That is why spiritual books bear such different meanings for different types and qualities of soul, why each time we read them they give us something fresh, as we can bear it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man's credit is as good as his money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10610]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man's credit is as good as his money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56954]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a backlash in traditionally high-quality suburban school districts from parents who are starting to question, 'Is our math program ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37531]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a backlash in traditionally high-quality suburban school districts from parents who are starting to question, 'Is our math program really the best?' ... Children still fall through the cracks even in traditionally good school districts, and charter schools are all about helping kids get a better education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis ismalpractice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21186]]></link><description><![CDATA[In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis ismalpractice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15672]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15672</guid></item></channel></rss>