<?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[Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The underlying questions are always: What is the Church? What is the Church for? If that is not kept in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6427]]></link><description><![CDATA[The underlying questions are always: What is the Church? What is the Church for? If that is not kept in mind, the lay ministry, about which so much is being said at present, remains on the level of a many-sided activity in which the self-assertion of the laity threatens to be more evident than a new manifestation of the Church in modern society. The responsible participation of the laity in the discharge of the Church's divine calling is not primarily a matter of idealism and enthusiasm or organizational efficiency, but a new grasp and commitment to the meaning of God's redemptive purpose with mankind and with the world in the past, the present, and the future: a purpose which has its foundation and inexhaustible content in Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writes in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52883]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writes in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22658]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no night without stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66095]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no night without stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to tell a story of violence and intolerance but in a contemporary way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41429]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to tell a story of violence and intolerance but in a contemporary way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The internal qualities once said to embody manhood- sure footedness, inner strength, confidence of purpose- are merchandised to men to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The internal qualities once said to embody manhood- sure footedness, inner strength, confidence of purpose- are merchandised to men to enhance their manliness. What passes for masculinity is being extracted and sold back to men. Literally in the case of Viagra.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If folly were griefe every house would weepe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49508]]></link><description><![CDATA[If folly were griefe every house would weepe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They came out and pretty much had their way with us offensively. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28387]]></link><description><![CDATA[They came out and pretty much had their way with us offensively.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The London Stock Exchange is a critical piece on the chess board. So you have to put a big premium ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The London Stock Exchange is a critical piece on the chess board. So you have to put a big premium on the price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fellowship with God means warfare with the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fellowship with God means warfare with the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28374]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If anything prepares you to be president, it's being a Red Sox fan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4786]]></link><description><![CDATA[If anything prepares you to be president, it's being a Red Sox fan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64193]]></link><description><![CDATA[People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4838]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a tough kid. He wrestles a whole match. He doesn't stop wrestling. If you take a second off with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28353]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a tough kid. He wrestles a whole match. He doesn't stop wrestling. If you take a second off with that kid -- obviously that's the result your going to get. But we're going to prepare for him because we're definitely going to see him again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65263]]></link><description><![CDATA[A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17354]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power. How naive the cliche that money is the root of evil!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66379]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be hard to blame you for having trouble taking much of what is said in Washington seriously. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42830]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be hard to blame you for having trouble taking much of what is said in Washington seriously. You heard about the Medicare actuary who was forced to fudge the numbers and lie to Congress to keep his job. You heard the falsified numbers in Iraq on everything from the cost of the war to the number of trained Iraqi troops to a slam dunk case for weapons of mass destruction. You heard about the administration sponsored fake newscasts to mislead people all across America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We haven't raised our rates since 1992. In that time, the consumer price index has increased by 53 percent; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31118]]></link><description><![CDATA[We haven't raised our rates since 1992. In that time, the consumer price index has increased by 53 percent; but we have kept our rates steady over that time because we have managed costs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33533]]></link><description><![CDATA[An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[House prices are likely to remain relatively flat for an extended period, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36611]]></link><description><![CDATA[House prices are likely to remain relatively flat for an extended period,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatience, gloom, self-occupation, unloving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7783]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatience, gloom, self-occupation, unloving prejudices, reckless tongue, feverish desires, with all the damage they have caused to Christ's Body, be set aside, because -- because, in spite of all, he longs for God and Eternal Life: then he must set aside and forgive all that the impatience, selfishness, bitter and foolish speech, and sudden yieldings to base impulse by others have caused him to endure. Hardness is the one impossible thing. Harshness to others in those who ask and need the mercy of God sets up a conflict at the very heart of personality and shuts the door upon grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring your own boots, work gloves and dress for cold weather. It is going to get dirty out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring your own boots, work gloves and dress for cold weather. It is going to get dirty out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with alacrity towards one that accrues to its own advantage; nor does it ever move towards social purposes on its own initiative, but only under heavy pressure, while its motion towards anti-social purposes is self-sprung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report says that you, Fidentinus, recite my compositions in public as if they were your own. If you allow them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Report says that you, Fidentinus, recite my compositions in public as if they were your own. If you allow them to be called mine, I will send you my verses gratis; if you wish them to be called yours, pray buy them, that they may be mine no longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no crime to steal from a thief ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59067]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no crime to steal from a thief]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer,  And, singing gently ever,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58450]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer,  And, singing gently ever,   Dips under the water clear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4598]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My son already knows how to program my phone. I think technology is good. ... They are learning the skills ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40527]]></link><description><![CDATA[My son already knows how to program my phone. I think technology is good. ... They are learning the skills they need at a much younger age. They have their own computers. They have it all. They're spoiled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was like Hazel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30357]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was like Hazel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55535]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are moms who choose not to work outside the home, but they aren't polishing silver; they're playing with their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34385]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are moms who choose not to work outside the home, but they aren't polishing silver; they're playing with their kids -- (or) home schooling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They came together and talked to each other, played very smart. They put together great shots and came together when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33358]]></link><description><![CDATA[They came together and talked to each other, played very smart. They put together great shots and came together when they needed to to get that win in the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4005]]></link><description><![CDATA[When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Garner) told me he's been in the big leagues a long time and to listen to him, ... He's taught ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34790]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Garner) told me he's been in the big leagues a long time and to listen to him, ... He's taught me a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[peace for allwants Isabelle.. Iraq AfghanistanPalestine and Israel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4940]]></link><description><![CDATA[peace for allwants Isabelle.. Iraq AfghanistanPalestine and Israel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60767]]></link><description><![CDATA[What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60767</guid></item></channel></rss>