<?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[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  The very Nazis look at you with wonderment and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  The very Nazis look at you with wonderment and an open contempt! For even they are sure that to live for nothing higher than oneself is to lose life; that life, to be called life, can be found only in serving something bigger than one's personal interests; something that crowds these out of mind and heart, till one forgets about them and lives wholly, and without exception, for that other, worthier thing... It is long since Aristotle told us that only barbarians have as their ideal the wish to live as they please, and to do what they like. And the New Testament gravely sets us down before the Cross, and bids us gaze, and still gaze, and keep gazing, till the fact has soaked itself into our minds that that, not less than that, is now the standard set us, and that whatever in our lives clashes with that is sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  Tell God all that is in your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one's heart, its pleasures and its pains, to a dear friend. Tell Him your troubles, that He may comfort you; tell Him your joys, that He may sober them; tell Him your longings, that He may purify them; tell Him your dislikes, that He may help you conquer them; talk to Him of your temptations, that He may shield you from them: show Him the wounds of your heart, that He may heal them; lay bare your indifference to good, your depraved tastes for evil, your instability. Tell Him how self-love makes you unjust to others, how vanity tempts you to be insincere, how pride disguises you to yourself and others.  If you thus pour out all your weaknesses, needs, troubles, there will be no lack of what to say. You will never exhaust the subject. It is continually being renewed. People who have no secrets from each other never want for subjects of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for there is nothing to be held back; neither do they seek for something to say. They talk out of the abundance of the heart, without consideration they say just what they think. Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I can tell you what I believe: When tens of thousands of innocent souls have perished in Darfur-when 11 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18969]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I can tell you what I believe: When tens of thousands of innocent souls have perished in Darfur-when 11 million children are without health insurance-when our colossal debt subjects our economic future to the whims of Asian bankers-no one can tell me that faith demands this Senate spend its time arguing over a handful of judges. No one with those priorities can use my faith to intimidate me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no way to shut Michelle down completely. I've never seen a team take her totally out of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39389]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no way to shut Michelle down completely. I've never seen a team take her totally out of a game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56138]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60339]]></link><description><![CDATA[All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money was hard to come by. Nobody had a nickel one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money was hard to come by. Nobody had a nickel one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53650]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46182]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're not adults. They're kids. There's a lot of reasons why Connecticut shouldn't be so far behind the rest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28203]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're not adults. They're kids. There's a lot of reasons why Connecticut shouldn't be so far behind the rest of the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings, But the immensest empire is too narrow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings, But the immensest empire is too narrow for two kings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What used to seem inappropriate has become commonplace. The question is: Is Discovery going to make clear about whether Disney ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32181]]></link><description><![CDATA[What used to seem inappropriate has become commonplace. The question is: Is Discovery going to make clear about whether Disney funded the programs or provided any services? Essentially, if it's nothing more than an infomercial, will it be presented as such? Or will it be presented as an independent production that's separate from promoting a theme park?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the proteins look very similar. Without the labeling, it would be like trying to find a specific potato within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41360]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the proteins look very similar. Without the labeling, it would be like trying to find a specific potato within a couple hundred thousand of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night, Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44473]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night, Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hat is the ultimatum moriens of respectability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hat is the ultimatum moriens of respectability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread. [Sp., Todos los duelos con pan son buenos (or son menos).] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13181]]></link><description><![CDATA[All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread. [Sp., Todos los duelos con pan son buenos (or son menos).]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55159]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's got the skill and everything else he needs to be one of the top goalies in the league. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30072]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's got the skill and everything else he needs to be one of the top goalies in the league. I believe he's really sharp. I never have to tell him anything twice. He's got that visualization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every madman considers everyone else a madman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every madman considers everyone else a madman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas gift suggestions:To your enemy, forgiveness.To an opponent, tolerance.To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas gift suggestions:To your enemy, forgiveness.To an opponent, tolerance.To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour, Found thee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour, Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in; A sure and safe one, though thy master missed it. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very good news. A lot of larger institutions have already adopted this approach. At least for today, this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33370]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very good news. A lot of larger institutions have already adopted this approach. At least for today, this is the best thing we can offer our patients.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing  Memory and desire, stirring   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2981]]></link><description><![CDATA[April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing  Memory and desire, stirring   Dull roots with spring rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the duty of the Security Council now to take a decision to immediately lift sanctions on Libya, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28922]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the duty of the Security Council now to take a decision to immediately lift sanctions on Libya, which has cooperated fully with the court to end this case,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suborbital flights will offer millions of people the opportunity to experience the greatest adventure available, space travel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suborbital flights will offer millions of people the opportunity to experience the greatest adventure available, space travel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15795]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more or less free hand in the cultural field. By frustrating the scribe's craving for commanding action, the trader draws upon himself the scribe's wrath and scorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More are taken in by hope than by cunning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10836]]></link><description><![CDATA[More are taken in by hope than by cunning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're here because we want to go to the Orient House. We're here because this is our city. It's an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36238]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're here because we want to go to the Orient House. We're here because this is our city. It's an occupied city, I know. They have arms, they have weapons, they have police, they have mortar guns, but it is Palestinian and it is under occupation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20552]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are like fine wine. They all start out fresh, fruity and intoxicating to the mind and then they turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are like fine wine. They all start out fresh, fruity and intoxicating to the mind and then they turn full-bodied with age until they go sour and vinegary and give you a headache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity: A name is the blueprint of the thing we call character. You ask, What's in a name? I answer, Just about everything you do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The Ottoman Empire] has the body of a sick old man, who tried to appear healthy, although his end was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59903]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The Ottoman Empire] has the body of a sick old man, who tried to appear healthy, although his end was near.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47740]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. - The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52032]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. - The Heart's Domain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deputy auditor has done a great job, but it's difficult to get things done without him around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42108]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deputy auditor has done a great job, but it's difficult to get things done without him around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17993]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64859]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64859</guid></item></channel></rss>