<?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[You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43576]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14273]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26345]]></link><description><![CDATA[At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge has three degrees-opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge has three degrees-opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition. -PLOTINUS.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asking 'who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Asking 'who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth:  The prince my brother hath outgrown me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18402]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth:  The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bat and the WeaselsA BAT who fell upon the ground and was caught by a Weasel pleaded to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1512]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bat and the WeaselsA BAT who fell upon the ground and was caught by a Weasel pleaded to be spared his life. The Weasel refused, saying that he was by nature the enemy of all birds. The Bat assured him that he was not a bird, but a mouse, and thus was set free. Shortly afterwards the Bat again fell to the ground and was caught by another Weasel, whom he likewise entreated not to eat him. The Weasel said that he had a special hostility to mice. The Bat assured him that he was not a mouse, but a bat, and thus a second time escaped. It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My reputation grows with every failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53867]]></link><description><![CDATA[My reputation grows with every failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unbelievable. He was great. It was the best I've seen him -- I've had Gibby for three years, and he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unbelievable. He was great. It was the best I've seen him -- I've had Gibby for three years, and he's had some great performances, including a no-hitter against Maryland, but today was the best performance I've seen him have -- total control, total command. ... He was outstanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's general. What should we fear? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51321]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's general. What should we fear?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/192]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There would have to be a structural shift in prices to change their perspective, ... Right now, there's a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37550]]></link><description><![CDATA[There would have to be a structural shift in prices to change their perspective, ... Right now, there's a lot of speculation built into oil prices -- the majors will have to see that turn into fundamentals in order to change their plans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indecision is the graveyard of good intentions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indecision is the graveyard of good intentions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou art terrible to many, then beware of many. [Lat., Multis terribilis, caveto multos.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51953]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou art terrible to many, then beware of many. [Lat., Multis terribilis, caveto multos.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The learned man knows that he is ignorant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The learned man knows that he is ignorant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only religion is kindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only religion is kindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46377]]></link><description><![CDATA[It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit for each of them, however small. This will help you focus on what you have done instead of what you haven't gotten around to do. It may sound simplistic, but it works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33133]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The commissions taint the whole process, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35067]]></link><description><![CDATA[The commissions taint the whole process,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is the madness of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is the madness of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bubble winked at me, and said, "You'll miss me brother, when you're dead." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59392]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bubble winked at me, and said, "You'll miss me brother, when you're dead."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2255]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign. [Fr., Qui ne sait dissimuler, ne sait regner.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54482]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign. [Fr., Qui ne sait dissimuler, ne sait regner.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them -- but at the same time I sensed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them -- but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say;  Stops every fool that passes by,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45339]]></link><description><![CDATA[The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say;  Stops every fool that passes by,   And frights the school-boy from his play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...I mean just these sixteen accomplishments or whatever: I mean, we've got a major rapport - relationship of economics, major ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52978]]></link><description><![CDATA[...I mean just these sixteen accomplishments or whatever: I mean, we've got a major rapport - relationship of economics, major in the security, and all of that, we should not lose sight of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64005]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck is the residue of design. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luck is the residue of design.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We saw Pang's application and it seemed she would be a very good fit for this family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30497]]></link><description><![CDATA[We saw Pang's application and it seemed she would be a very good fit for this family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the exception a few individuals, most of the defendants prefer to remain silent when asked to enter plea of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28425]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the exception a few individuals, most of the defendants prefer to remain silent when asked to enter plea of guilty or not guilty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?" do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21741]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?" do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems that when we don't shoot the ball well, we stop working hard. And tonight we didn't make anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31303]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems that when we don't shoot the ball well, we stop working hard. And tonight we didn't make anything and I think we get discouraged and didn't play as hard on defense. That's a heart issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind a frowning Providence He hides a smiling face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind a frowning Providence He hides a smiling face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61548]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear, not to skin his sheep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51563]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear, not to skin his sheep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most curious offspring of shame is shyness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56139]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most curious offspring of shame is shyness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I talk to people when I go out, I find that most of them can remember at least one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30501]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I talk to people when I go out, I find that most of them can remember at least one incident that they knew of going back to the '70s and '80s.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car. [Lat., Fulgente trahit constrictos Gloria curru  Non minus ignotos generosis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17371]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But men are men; the best sometimes forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51438]]></link><description><![CDATA[But men are men; the best sometimes forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24369]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46749]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890   In the first ages, [catechizing] was a work of long time; months, sometimes years, were devoted to the arduous task of disabusing the mind of the incipient Christian of its pagan errors, and of moulding it upon the Christian faith. The Scriptures indeed were at hand for the study of those who could avail themselves of them, but St. Iranaeus does not hesitate to speak of whole races who had been converted to Christianity, without being able to read them. To be unable to read or write was in those times no evidence of want of learning; the hermits of the deserts were, in one sense of the word, illiterate, yet the great St. Anthony, though he knew not letters, was a match in disputation for the learned philosophers who came to try him.  ... John Henry Newman, "What is a University?" August 12, 2000   Any single verse of the Bible, taken in isolation, may actually be dangerous to your spiritual health. Every part of it must be read in relation to the whole message.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he that makes his soul his surety, I think, does give the best security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57278]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he that makes his soul his surety, I think, does give the best security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57278</guid></item></channel></rss>