<?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[Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage";. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage";.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of wonderful candidates out there, and to be selected shocked me. It caught me off guard. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33870]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of wonderful candidates out there, and to be selected shocked me. It caught me off guard. It shows that this award is more than just being a great athlete. It shows you have to work hard in the classroom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he shall die Take him and cut him in little stars And he will make the face of heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11416]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he shall die Take him and cut him in little stars And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the time of year people start shopping for space heaters, but business hasn't been above normal, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30281]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the time of year people start shopping for space heaters, but business hasn't been above normal,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57436]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65963]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress of humanity, far from being the result of government, has been made entirely without its aid and in the face if its constant and bitter opposition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou dost slander her and torture me, Never pray more; abandon all remorse;  On horror's head horrors accumulate; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12015]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou dost slander her and torture me, Never pray more; abandon all remorse;  On horror's head horrors accumulate;   Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed;    For nothing canst thou to damnation add     Greater than that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397   The concept of Israel as the chosen people does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397   The concept of Israel as the chosen people does not imply a certain divine favoritism, as some seem to think, but an opportunity of grace, a calling that involved the assumption of the servant role among the nations. It was the fact that they had interpreted themselves as special objects of God's favor, and rejected the servant role, that led to their own rejection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13637]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269   Those of a strong doctrinal background... assumed that Christ tied the knot when the catechism was memorized and parroted correctly. The result: a generation so obsessed with saying it right, they hardly dare say it at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13224]]></link><description><![CDATA[O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[said Adams. ''We're really going to miss Matt, but we're lucky we gained someone young like Neal who is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30160]]></link><description><![CDATA[said Adams. ''We're really going to miss Matt, but we're lucky we gained someone young like Neal who is a great teacher and person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't step twice into the same river. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14683]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't step twice into the same river.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't cry for a man who's left you, the next one may fall for your smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't cry for a man who's left you, the next one may fall for your smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not to be argued that the abuse of a thing proves that it is useless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50554]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not to be argued that the abuse of a thing proves that it is useless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never seen a reaction like that, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29745]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never seen a reaction like that,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light seeking light doth light of light beguile. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light seeking light doth light of light beguile. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  As a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy has failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. It is the only power in the world that seems to overcome the so-called "laws of nature"; the occasions on which prayer has dramatically done this have been termed "miracles". But a constant, quieter miracle takes place hourly in the hearts of men and women who have discovered that prayer supplies them with a steady flow of sustaining power in their daily lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have cheveril consciences that will stretch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9788]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The higher cost of money puts a strain on those who were highly leveraged going into it. Developers who have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33991]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher cost of money puts a strain on those who were highly leveraged going into it. Developers who have enough equity going into this are much more insulated and can continue on with their projects. Those who were reaching quite a bit could be in a bind now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touchstone ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touchstone]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wants to talk to students and make them aware of what's going to happen come July 1 to their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31774]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wants to talk to students and make them aware of what's going to happen come July 1 to their [federal] student aid, he wants to tell them about the legislation that he's introduced to reverse those changes that are about to hit and he also wants to get them energized and mobilized to fight the changes if they feel they're being wronged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13538]]></link><description><![CDATA[To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure. -Joseph Joubert.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44937]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature. [Lat., Omni autem in re consensio omnium gentium lex naturae putanda est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we have a good chance to do well again. We have a lot of depth this year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we have a good chance to do well again. We have a lot of depth this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrifty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrifty fem'ly-tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticismof one, go ahead, get married. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21851]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticismof one, go ahead, get married.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a leap of faith. The agreement is under 10 pages long and we could have signed 100 pages, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41940]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a leap of faith. The agreement is under 10 pages long and we could have signed 100 pages, but what counts is not words but deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The birds chaunt melody on every bush, The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun,  The green leaves quiver ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The birds chaunt melody on every bush, The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun,  The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind,   And make a checkered shadow on the ground;    Under their sweet shade, Aaron, let us sit,     And whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds,      Replying shrilly to the well-tuned horns,       As if a double hunt were heard at once,        Let us sit down and mark their yellowing noise;         And after conflict such as was supposed          The wand'ring prince and Dido once enjoyed,           When with a happy storm they were surprised,            And curtained with a counsel-keeping cave,             We may, each wreathed in the other's arms,              Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber,               Whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds                Be unto us as is a nurse's song                 Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble heart will always capitulate to reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53123]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to bring it out into the open because it's still a dirty little secret in many households. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to bring it out into the open because it's still a dirty little secret in many households.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11024]]></link><description><![CDATA[On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   It is a rare campus indeed where the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   It is a rare campus indeed where the Christian universe of discourse is the shared basis of allegiance and the common currency of intellectual exchange. More likely, the Christian faith is an archaic facade, a bit of Victorian fretwork on the front of the house, of which polite note is made at Commencement, but not the common premise of teaching and research and learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,  And marching single in an endless file, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,  And marching single in an endless file,   Bring diadems and fagots in their hands;    To each they offer gifts after his will,     Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all;      I, in my pleached garden watched the pomp       Forgot my morning wishes, hastily        Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day         Turned and departed silent. I too late          Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If men are God's gift to women, then God must really love gag gifts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17415]]></link><description><![CDATA[If men are God's gift to women, then God must really love gag gifts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17415</guid></item></channel></rss>