<?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[A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14900]]></link><description><![CDATA[A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36602]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary  Continuing a short series on prayer:  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary  Continuing a short series on prayer:  The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This case is wholly without merit both factually and legally.(US District Judge in commenting on the Fox network lawsuitagainst Al ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47355]]></link><description><![CDATA[This case is wholly without merit both factually and legally.(US District Judge in commenting on the Fox network lawsuitagainst Al Franken's book).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66172]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5181]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there;  And 'twill be found, upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there;  And 'twill be found, upon examination,   The latter has the largest congregation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember the Viper:--'twas close at your feet, How you started and threw yourself into my arms;  Not a strawberry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember the Viper:--'twas close at your feet, How you started and threw yourself into my arms;  Not a strawberry there was so ripe nor so sweet   As the lips which I kiss'd to subdue your alarms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in the wit is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55447]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in the wit is out. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407  The surest symbol of a heart not yet fully subdued ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407  The surest symbol of a heart not yet fully subdued to God and His will is going to be found in the areas of money, sex, and power: in wanting these things for ourselves. The surest symbol of spiritual earnestness will be the checkbook, the affections, and the ego-drive surrendered to Him. A disciple must have discipline. He must not be afraid of being asked by God for some of the time, the money, and the pleasure he has been in the habit of calling his "own". This does not mean that there will not be time for the family, and time for some healthy diversion. But it does mean that we are never -- on vacation, or wherever we may be -- exempt from our primary commitment to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That makes it a lot more exciting for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35442]]></link><description><![CDATA[That makes it a lot more exciting for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46143]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46284]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man is a Communist." You never heard a real American talk in that manner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absurdity of it gets played out in the day-to-day lives of Border Patrol agents. Everybody knows somebody [in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absurdity of it gets played out in the day-to-day lives of Border Patrol agents. Everybody knows somebody [in the U.S. illegally] who has some kind of relationship with a Border Patrol agent. Either someone in their family is married to one, or they're sleeping with one. People's lives are very complicated and intertwined and they're not very clear-cut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A college joke to cure the dumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23245]]></link><description><![CDATA[A college joke to cure the dumps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher.  To show us where she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher.  To show us where she stood there rests alone   Tiber; and that too hastens to be gone.    Learn, hence what fortune can. Towns glide away;     And rivers, which are still in motion, stay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10877]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figured something out in 2004 and last year kind of carried it over. This year, I'm trying to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31504]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figured something out in 2004 and last year kind of carried it over. This year, I'm trying to be consistent. I'm not a home run hitter. My job is just to drive in runs when they are there and just get on base and score anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like we are making a crucial step in helping to preserve the Boulder area, and this very special ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like we are making a crucial step in helping to preserve the Boulder area, and this very special corner of the West.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16166]]></link><description><![CDATA[By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often you have to rely on intuition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often you have to rely on intuition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2243]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fine woman shows her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2834]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fine woman shows her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58724]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is to teach those who have never gone hunting how to respect farming traditions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40121]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is to teach those who have never gone hunting how to respect farming traditions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as yourdominant aspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22709]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as yourdominant aspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open confession is good for the soul ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Open confession is good for the soul]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We spend just as much time on special teams as we do offense and defense. That can make a difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40418]]></link><description><![CDATA[We spend just as much time on special teams as we do offense and defense. That can make a difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't be upset if they lost. I think everyone would like to keep a record intact. But we understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33653]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't be upset if they lost. I think everyone would like to keep a record intact. But we understand records are there to be broken. One day, somebody's going to do it. The Colts have a very good opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stern Daughter of the Voice of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stern Daughter of the Voice of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  When our lives are focused on God, awe and wonder lead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  When our lives are focused on God, awe and wonder lead us to worship God, filling our inner being with a fullness we would never have thought possible. Awe prepares the way in us for the power of God to transform us and this transformation of our inner attitudes can only take place when awe leads us in turn to wonder, admiration, reverence, surrender, and obedience toward God.  ... James Houston, The Transforming Power of Prayer July 23, 2000 Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   Christ came, not so much to preach the Gospel, as that there might be a Gospel to preach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind and of a good tone of breeding. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest ;man and to the gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In God, we live every commonplace as well as the most exalted moment of our being. To trust in Him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8092]]></link><description><![CDATA[In God, we live every commonplace as well as the most exalted moment of our being. To trust in Him when no need is pressing, when things seem going right of themselves, may be harder than when things seem going wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42765]]></link><description><![CDATA[And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are years that ask questions and years that answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52739]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are years that ask questions and years that answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3165]]></link><description><![CDATA[All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45009]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10725]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56748</guid></item></channel></rss>