<?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[Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. [Lat., Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. [Lat., Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we had better go into the minute secrets of the campaign, so far as I know them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we had better go into the minute secrets of the campaign, so far as I know them, because I see the reporters are present, who are taking it all down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who scratch their hair with one finger. [Fearing to discompose their curls. Dandies.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who scratch their hair with one finger. [Fearing to discompose their curls. Dandies.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute laws which the people have made and within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute laws which the people have made and within the limits of a constitution which they have established.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6095]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18874]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47319]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47240]]></link><description><![CDATA[My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[College students have a lot of things they are concerned about, but the fact that 39 percent is most concerned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40253]]></link><description><![CDATA[College students have a lot of things they are concerned about, but the fact that 39 percent is most concerned with the war in Iraq is worth studying because that's about 20 percentage points higher than the general public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11063]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are deeply sorry that this happened. Sometimes you can't control it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39235]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are deeply sorry that this happened. Sometimes you can't control it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59624]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're off and running. People are holding our feet to the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34352]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're off and running. People are holding our feet to the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis Centennial  Holding [the Way of Affirmation], we see that every created thing is, in its degree, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8528]]></link><description><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis Centennial  Holding [the Way of Affirmation], we see that every created thing is, in its degree, an image of God, and the ordinate and faithful appreciation of that thing a clue, which, truly followed, will lead back to Him. Holding [the Way of Rejection], we see that every created thing, the highest devotion to moral duty, the purest conjugal love, the saint and the seraph, is no more than an image; that every one of them, followed for its own sake and isolated from its source, becomes an idol whose service is damnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame;  He hides ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless a love of virtue light the flame, Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame;  He hides behind a magisterial air   He own offences, and strips others' bare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15277]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music . . .can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music . . .can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This would be the biggest pipeline built in the last 20 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37785]]></link><description><![CDATA[This would be the biggest pipeline built in the last 20 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the hallmark of the year appeared to be a realization that we can't let transportation deteriorate any further. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the hallmark of the year appeared to be a realization that we can't let transportation deteriorate any further.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put thyself into the trick of singularity. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put thyself into the trick of singularity. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My soul to-day Is far away  Sailing the Vesuvian Bay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23101]]></link><description><![CDATA[My soul to-day Is far away  Sailing the Vesuvian Bay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/118]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is happy agony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is happy agony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord says, "As surely as I live, your children will be like jewels. You will be as proud of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23270]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord says, "As surely as I live, your children will be like jewels. You will be as proud of them as a bride is of her jewels."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of my favorite tunes we cover is by Barry Cowsill, an artist I recently got into. He was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34193]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of my favorite tunes we cover is by Barry Cowsill, an artist I recently got into. He was a New Orleans native and recently passed away from hurricane Katrina.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15665]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51630]]></link><description><![CDATA[That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5274]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. It's making the extra call and caring a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think this is a bearish report because average hourly earnings are ticking up significantly, ... That is obviously ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34918]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think this is a bearish report because average hourly earnings are ticking up significantly, ... That is obviously a direct driver of inflation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/71]]></link><description><![CDATA[The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/71</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is confirmed by the heart, confessed by the tongue, and acted upon by the body ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is confirmed by the heart, confessed by the tongue, and acted upon by the body]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that's gone:  Violets plucked the sweetest rain  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that's gone:  Violets plucked the sweetest rain   Makes not fresh nor grow again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happy to announce that our long national vigil involving Angel [de] la Cruz is over. I thank the Lord ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35865]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happy to announce that our long national vigil involving Angel [de] la Cruz is over. I thank the Lord Almighty for his blessings,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would infer from the statement that the Fed is somewhat more sanguine on the economic recovery. Perhaps they believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36835]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would infer from the statement that the Fed is somewhat more sanguine on the economic recovery. Perhaps they believe that $55 oil prices are, at least for the time being, something of the past and that jobs are just improving at a moderate pace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  It must have been a most blessed discovery, that of an old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  It must have been a most blessed discovery, that of an old Latin Bible which he found in the Erfurt Library about this time. He had never seen the Book before. It taught him another lesson than that of fasts and vigils... Luther learned now that a man was saved not by singing masses, but by the infinite grace of God: a more credible hypothesis. He gradually got himself founded, as on the rock. No wonder he should venerate the Bible, which had brought this blessed help to him. He prized it as the Word of the Highest must be prized by such a man. He determined to hold by that, as through life and to death he firmly did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4451]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4451</guid></item></channel></rss>