<?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[It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14145]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61264]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's one of the things that the Marines and the Army feel they're lacking right now, particularly the Marines, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37209]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's one of the things that the Marines and the Army feel they're lacking right now, particularly the Marines, which have very few women in those roles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. -Pearl S. Buck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56475]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one;  Belshazzar's correspondence   Concluded and begun    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one;  Belshazzar's correspondence   Concluded and begun    In that immortal copy     The conscience of us all      Can read without its glasses       On revelation's wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24084]]></link><description><![CDATA[We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure. Each one of us requires ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55040]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure. Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45406]]></link><description><![CDATA[I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be regarded as envious and ill-natured? [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14015]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be regarded as envious and ill-natured? [Lat., Ego si risi quod ineptus  Pastillos Rufillus olet, Gargonius hircum, lividus et mordax videar?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good cheape is deare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good cheape is deare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dress does not give knowledge. [Sp., La ropa no da ciencia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dress does not give knowledge. [Sp., La ropa no da ciencia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit. [Lat., Principiis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit. [Lat., Principiis obsta: sero medicina paratur,  Cum mala per longas convaluere moras.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crowning blessing of life -- to be born with a bias to some pursuit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crowning blessing of life -- to be born with a bias to some pursuit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is apparently some connection between dissatisfaction with oneself and proneness to credulity. The urge to escape our real self ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52286]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is apparently some connection between dissatisfaction with oneself and proneness to credulity. The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious. The refusal to see ourselves as we are develops a distaste for facts and cold logic. There is no hope for the frustrated in the actual and the possible. Salvation can come to them only from the miraculous, which seeps through a crack in the iron wall of inexorable reality. They asked to be deceived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more useful than silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more useful than silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just have to keep playing hard. We can't get all excited about where we are now, then come out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39440]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just have to keep playing hard. We can't get all excited about where we are now, then come out and not play well. If we just come out each game and play our hardest, then we can stay in control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963   The... task of the ministry is, not to undertake some specialist activity from which the rest of the faithful are excluded, but to pioneer in doing that which the whole church must do. And the ministry itself is no originator, but receives its task from Christ. The ordained ministers only exercise the ministry which Christ himself has first exercised, and which he continues to exercise through them, and through their activity in the whole church also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/720]]></link><description><![CDATA[We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got a call, there's been a bomb, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42658]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got a call, there's been a bomb,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61321]]></link><description><![CDATA[OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sit, happy married lovers; Phillis trifling with a plover's Egg, while Corydon uncovers with a grace the Sally Lunn, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26561]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sit, happy married lovers; Phillis trifling with a plover's Egg, while Corydon uncovers with a grace the Sally Lunn,  Or dissects the luck pheasant--that, I think, were passing pleasant   As I sit along at present, dreaming darkly of a dun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friday afternoon is usually not the best time to get people's attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friday afternoon is usually not the best time to get people's attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2196]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are very pleased that our ships are making a difference in their lives and contributing to the recovery of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42719]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are very pleased that our ships are making a difference in their lives and contributing to the recovery of New Orleans,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53384]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16456]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14338]]></link><description><![CDATA[All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27732]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own. - Oscar Firkins: Memoirs and Letters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2154]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor prevents a "hardening of the attitudes." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor prevents a "hardening of the attitudes."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing I found most striking in monitoring eviction cases was that judges didn't adjust anything (rent) for hurricane damage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing I found most striking in monitoring eviction cases was that judges didn't adjust anything (rent) for hurricane damage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he sang every night as he went to bed. 'Let us be happy down here below: the living should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35620]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he sang every night as he went to bed. 'Let us be happy down here below: the living should live, though the dead be dead.' Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's rare to have someone like him, someone who can keep moving. We didn't have to blitz a lot, just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39395]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's rare to have someone like him, someone who can keep moving. We didn't have to blitz a lot, just used a three-man line with eight defensive backs sometimes to get pressure. It didn't matter who we were playing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42761]]></link><description><![CDATA[That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1364]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604  All that which our blessed Saviour wrought in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604  All that which our blessed Saviour wrought in his mortal body, he did it for our example and instruction, to the end that, following his steps, according to our poor ability, we might without offense pass over this present life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6648</guid></item></channel></rss>