<?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[Don't belive what others tell you. You belive in what you belive; there is nothing better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't belive what others tell you. You belive in what you belive; there is nothing better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12217]]></link><description><![CDATA[If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And though you duck them ne'er so long, Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;  On eagles' wings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54749]]></link><description><![CDATA[And though you duck them ne'er so long, Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;  On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,   While virtuous actions are but borne to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54749</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[Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter: that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter: that when he speaks, The air, a chartered libertine, is still. -King Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the punishment fit the crime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the punishment fit the crime]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evaluation and judgment are responses to what exists, sorting the things that pass before us into categories of good, bad, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evaluation and judgment are responses to what exists, sorting the things that pass before us into categories of good, bad, and indifferent. But a rational life, the life of a valuer, does not consist essentially in reaction. It consists in action. Man does not find his values, like the other animals; he creates them. The primary focus of a valuer is not to take the world as it comes and pass judgment. His primary focus is to identify what might and ought to exist, to uncover potentialities that he can exploit, to find ways of reshaping the world in the image of his values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61356]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You tell your doctor, that y' are ill And what does he, but write a bill,  Of which you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26710]]></link><description><![CDATA[You tell your doctor, that y' are ill And what does he, but write a bill,  Of which you need not read one letter,   The worse the scrawl, the dose the better.    For if you knew but what you take,     Though you recover, he must break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For any man with half an eye, What stands before him may espy;  But optics sharp it needs I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56260]]></link><description><![CDATA[For any man with half an eye, What stands before him may espy;  But optics sharp it needs I ween,   To see what is not to be seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a Lenten series on prayer:  If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a Lenten series on prayer:  If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66896]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no problem having money in the bank. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35753]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no problem having money in the bank.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36985]]></link><description><![CDATA[This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7406]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64581]]></link><description><![CDATA[There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10323]]></link><description><![CDATA[True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught, which else fee will  Would not admit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught, which else fee will  Would not admit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love God and trust your feelings. Be loyal to them. Don't betray them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love God and trust your feelings. Be loyal to them. Don't betray them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't have all chiefs, you've got to have Indians too ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43747]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't have all chiefs, you've got to have Indians too]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[misrepresented its own studies and the concerns of physicians suggesting the drug may increase the risk of heart problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35975]]></link><description><![CDATA[misrepresented its own studies and the concerns of physicians suggesting the drug may increase the risk of heart problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45791]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the runs of Iona.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest  Save he who courts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16164]]></link><description><![CDATA[No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest  Save he who courts the flattery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2513]]></link><description><![CDATA[When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47174]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is -- and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woosel cock so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill,  The throstle with his note so true,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woosel cock so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill,  The throstle with his note so true,   The wren with little quill--    . . . .     The finch, the sparrow, and the lark,      The plain-song cuckoo grey,       Whose note full many a man doth mark,        And dares not answer nay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4248</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[The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries. [Lat., Miserias properant suas  Audire miseri.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42768]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries. [Lat., Miserias properant suas  Audire miseri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is the child of peril. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is the child of peril.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That wasn't the end of it, either. This man and his lady friend, that I knew nothing about before this, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31246]]></link><description><![CDATA[That wasn't the end of it, either. This man and his lady friend, that I knew nothing about before this, came to the shelter and offered me a way out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In view of history, I sincerely wish that the ravages of war will never be repeated. With all the Japanese ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34517]]></link><description><![CDATA[In view of history, I sincerely wish that the ravages of war will never be repeated. With all the Japanese public, I mourn for those who perished in battles and lost their lives in the horrors of war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23610]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mike says he's taken more cruises with me than he has with his wife. Which is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mike says he's taken more cruises with me than he has with his wife. Which is true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government of laws, and not of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17970]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government of laws, and not of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It won't free up enormous amounts of capacity (on freeways) in the near term. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34594]]></link><description><![CDATA[It won't free up enormous amounts of capacity (on freeways) in the near term.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go;  The horse knows the way   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go;  The horse knows the way   To carry the sleigh,    Through the white and drifted snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle that we tread upon  In corporal sufferance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle that we tread upon  In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great   As when a giant dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a close friend of the Transportation Minister and this makes my work easier, ... Otherwise my business would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a close friend of the Transportation Minister and this makes my work easier, ... Otherwise my business would have been much slower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17501]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The light upon her face Shines from the windows of another world.  Saints only have such faces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14863]]></link><description><![CDATA[The light upon her face Shines from the windows of another world.  Saints only have such faces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good composer does not imitate; he steals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good composer does not imitate; he steals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that know anything in this world know that, as the first great opposition of hell, the world, and corrupt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7015]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that know anything in this world know that, as the first great opposition of hell, the world, and corrupt nature, is against faith to God by Christ; so the next great opposition made against us, is against our love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7015</guid></item></channel></rss>