<?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[I would rather put my 10 bucks into the community than put it into Wal-Mart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather put my 10 bucks into the community than put it into Wal-Mart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27669]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2959]]></link><description><![CDATA[A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is dependent on effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is dependent on effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Sin is not only manifested in certain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and feelings. Lust and hate are sins as well as adultery and murder. And, in the traditional Christian view, despair and chronic boredom -- unaccompanied by any vicious act -- are serious sins. They are expressions of man's separation from God, as the ultimate good, meaning, and end of human existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54911]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16742]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses, there is at last one that makes the heart run over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It pays to plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46664]]></link><description><![CDATA[It pays to plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When [he] kisses you he isn't doing anything else. You're his whole universe..and the moment is eternal because he doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23854]]></link><description><![CDATA[When [he] kisses you he isn't doing anything else. You're his whole universe..and the moment is eternal because he doesn't have any plans and isn't going anywhere. Just kissing you...it's overwhelming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14939]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say that a farm boy knows how to milk a cow is to say that we can send him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47193]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say that a farm boy knows how to milk a cow is to say that we can send him out to the barn with an empty pail and expect him to return with milk. To say that a criminologist understands crime is not to say that we can send him out with a grant or a law and expect him to return with a lower crime rate. He is more likely to return with a report on why he has not succeeded yet, and including the inevitable need for more money, a larger staff, more sweeping powers, etc.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situations is clear ... they have to change the situation and come back to the level of standard VAT. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41585]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situations is clear ... they have to change the situation and come back to the level of standard VAT.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58375]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich -- something for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich -- something for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a reason, nor a power, nor a coercive force. It is nothing but a general formula, a statistical table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Detroit Deputy Mayor Anthony Adams largely concurs.] I think they actually have a pretty good relationship, ... I think as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29475]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Detroit Deputy Mayor Anthony Adams largely concurs.] I think they actually have a pretty good relationship, ... I think as with any strong leaders, you're going to have points of contention where they are going to express their strengths. That doesn't mean they don't respect one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17649]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13163]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24753]]></link><description><![CDATA["A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're pleased with our employees' ability to deliver a customer-centric experience. Additionally, we're gearing up to open a record number ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30433]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're pleased with our employees' ability to deliver a customer-centric experience. Additionally, we're gearing up to open a record number of new stores in the coming year as we continue to grow our business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Holy Land needs bridges, not walls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10109]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Holy Land needs bridges, not walls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. No matter what, no matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25920]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. No matter what, no matter where, it's always home, if love is there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You bring young men together.. put them in a confinedspace.. and then give them a license to kill(re war). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45954]]></link><description><![CDATA[You bring young men together.. put them in a confinedspace.. and then give them a license to kill(re war).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23896]]></link><description><![CDATA[HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28863]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26143]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The airlines are part of the overall surveillance network. We have a history of working with CDC to identify passengers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39581]]></link><description><![CDATA[The airlines are part of the overall surveillance network. We have a history of working with CDC to identify passengers who might be ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59238]]></link><description><![CDATA[One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the brain gets as dry as an empty nut, When the reason stands on its squarest toes,  When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46755]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the brain gets as dry as an empty nut, When the reason stands on its squarest toes,  When the mind (like a beard) has a "formal cut,"--   There is a place and enough for the pains of prose;    But whenever the May-blood stires and glows,     And the young year draws to the "golden prime,"      And Sir Romeo sticks in his ear a rose,--       Then hey! for the ripple of laughing rhyme!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If hard work were really a virtue, then mules would be saints. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18732]]></link><description><![CDATA[If hard work were really a virtue, then mules would be saints.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has found his soul's life in God is happy -- not, In truth, with perfect happiness: that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8077]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has found his soul's life in God is happy -- not, In truth, with perfect happiness: that is not granted to men in this world, but a foretaste thereof --he has a secret joy which is beyond the reach of temptation, unrest, and sorrow; a quiet confidence and steadfastness which abide even while the waves and storms of life sweep over him... When the soul has sincerely given itself up to God, He fills it with His own peace, a peace which makes all earthly things indifferent -- as before His Presence, absorbing the heart. It is our strength, our comfort, our guide, the deeper and more confirmed it becomes, the greater our spiritual perfection; so that in truth to obtain and preserve this peace is the real secret of the interior life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the second game in a row we came out turning the ball over. The pressure is probably what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29629]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the second game in a row we came out turning the ball over. The pressure is probably what caused it. When you get in a game like this, you can't turn the ball over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She went her unremembering way, She went and left in me  The pang of all the partings gone,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45577]]></link><description><![CDATA[She went her unremembering way, She went and left in me  The pang of all the partings gone,   And partings yet to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. The indications are that such an impairment is brought about not by strengthening the individual and pitting him against the possessors of power, but by distributing and diversifying power and pitting one category or unit of power against the other. Where power is one, the defeated individual, however strong and resourceful, can have no refuge and no recourse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Senator Frist is a good man, he's simply advocating a bad policy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Senator Frist is a good man, he's simply advocating a bad policy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63165]]></link><description><![CDATA[No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53654]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9882]]></link><description><![CDATA[In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in the environment. That reliance can also lead to delusions of control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9882</guid></item></channel></rss>