<?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[Something has gone wrong with taking this young man out of the Dominican Republic. I'm frustrated, I'm angry, I'm sad. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something has gone wrong with taking this young man out of the Dominican Republic. I'm frustrated, I'm angry, I'm sad. Somehow, I feel partly responsible, you know?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,  And fight our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,  And fight our own shadows forever?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter Leaves us doubly serious shortly after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter Leaves us doubly serious shortly after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to fill time is to waste it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14576]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to fill time is to waste it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something terrible happens, and you might say, "God help us!", or "Jesus Christ!" -- the poor, crippled prayers that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something terrible happens, and you might say, "God help us!", or "Jesus Christ!" -- the poor, crippled prayers that are hidden in the minor blasphemies of people for whom in every sense God is dead, except that they still have to speak to him, if only through clenched teeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you."   - Iphicrates, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2495]]></link><description><![CDATA["My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you."   - Iphicrates,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25991]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099  With us, our denomination is a source of pride: we feel an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099  With us, our denomination is a source of pride: we feel an intimate link with our fellow church-member in Fiji, and we think how wonderful it is that we belong to a communion which spans the entire globe. We do not normally reflect that this sense of solidarity is very often gained at the expense of the unity which we ought to be experiencing with our fellow-Christian next door who belongs to a different denomination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You own a dog; you feed a cat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12699]]></link><description><![CDATA[You own a dog; you feed a cat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66863]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consumers deserve the option of choosing the combination of services that fits their needs and encouraging greater purchasing flexibility through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consumers deserve the option of choosing the combination of services that fits their needs and encouraging greater purchasing flexibility through standalone DSL furthers this goal,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! [Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! [Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15635]]></link><description><![CDATA[To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the kind of intractable problem that can probably only be resolved through negotiations, and those negotiations may have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37503]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the kind of intractable problem that can probably only be resolved through negotiations, and those negotiations may have to include the Boeing-Airbus dispute - which, given its complexity, should be settled through negotiations anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my country we go to prison first and then become President. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66439]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my country we go to prison first and then become President.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see my reputation is at stake; My fame is shrewdly gored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53892]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see my reputation is at stake; My fame is shrewdly gored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43297]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   The greatest curse which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   The greatest curse which can be entailed upon mankind is a state of war. All the atrocious crimes committed in years of peace -- all that is spent in peace by the secret corruptions or by the thoughtless extravagances of nations -- are mere trifles compared with the gigantic evils which stalk over the world in a state of war. God is forgotten in war -- every principle of Christian charity is trampled upon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scientists have to worry about their future, and they may opt to leave Iraq looking for a better future ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32992]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scientists have to worry about their future, and they may opt to leave Iraq looking for a better future ... there may be some scientists who have a deep grudge against the United States. Who knows [if they] are going to try to find some way to get revenge?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't even really remember what happened. I just put my elbow back and I guess I hit him. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't even really remember what happened. I just put my elbow back and I guess I hit him. It wasn't intentional. I was just playing hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Czar has a cold all Russia coughs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12515]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Czar has a cold all Russia coughs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25921]]></link><description><![CDATA[For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is this paradox in pride--it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48229]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is this paradox in pride--it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great catch is like watching girls go by, the last one you see is always the prettiest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3752]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great catch is like watching girls go by, the last one you see is always the prettiest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My object all sublime I shall achieve in time--  To let the punishment fit the crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52565]]></link><description><![CDATA[My object all sublime I shall achieve in time--  To let the punishment fit the crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. -John Pfeiffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. -John Pfeiffer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn while you're young', he often said, 'there is much to enjoy, down here below, life for the living, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn while you're young', he often said, 'there is much to enjoy, down here below, life for the living, and rest for the dead!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5293]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915   When law and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915   When law and sin ceased to be distinguished in Israel, compassion induced Him to appoint judges again. If these are gifted with heroic qualities, to vanquish the oppressors of Israel, it is nevertheless not this heroism that forms their principal characteristic. That consists in judging. They restore... the authority of the law. For this reason, God raises up judges, not princes. The title sets forth both their work and the occasion of their appointment. Israel is free and powerful when its law is observed throughout the land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25414]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry, because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women do most delight in revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women do most delight in revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23867]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Death thought about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Death thought about it, Cats, he said eventually, Cats are Nice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk - If one as to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Risk - If one as to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell that to the Marines--the sailors won't believe it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell that to the Marines--the sailors won't believe it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23756</guid></item></channel></rss>