<?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 thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58589]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In honest plainness thou hast heard me say My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness,  Being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22932]]></link><description><![CDATA[In honest plainness thou hast heard me say My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness,  Being full of supper and distemp'ring draughts,   Upon malicious knavery does thou come    To start my quiet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44591]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man provokes me with impunity. [Lat., Nemo me impune lacessit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2547]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man provokes me with impunity. [Lat., Nemo me impune lacessit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic. Goddamn it Otto, you have Lupis... one of those two doesn't sound right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54638]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love the concept of someone becoming a star through a process that started with their local radio stations. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30420]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love the concept of someone becoming a star through a process that started with their local radio stations. For us the Showdown is like having hundreds of talent scouts evaluating tens of thousands of artists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57337]]></link><description><![CDATA[O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19457]]></link><description><![CDATA[History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live of love, it is when Jesus sleeps   To sleep near Him, though stormy waves beat nigh. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7347]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live of love, it is when Jesus sleeps   To sleep near Him, though stormy waves beat nigh. Deem not I shall awake Him! On these deeps   Peace reigns, like that the Blessed know on high. To Hope, the vovage seems one little day;   Faith's hand shall soon the veil between remove; 'Tis Charity that swells my sail alway.     I live of love!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a woman an inch and she thinks she's a ruler ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a woman an inch and she thinks she's a ruler]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, aggressive, intellectualized modes that may indeed cause them pain, for most women the ego is like a fragile African Violet, grown in secret from a seed, carefully nursed and fertilized and sheltered from too much sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it was there, perhaps it dissipated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33721]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it was there, perhaps it dissipated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52230]]></link><description><![CDATA[...brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is so much the first among equals of that world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40288]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is so much the first among equals of that world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never done this before. This is the best feeling in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28367]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never done this before. This is the best feeling in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27750]]></link><description><![CDATA[One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrate the eye before the eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14826]]></link><description><![CDATA[The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66084]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr   Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr   Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is part of our responsibility to assist in the non-aviation domain. The whole purpose is that people will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32915]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is part of our responsibility to assist in the non-aviation domain. The whole purpose is that people will not know when we're going to be there or if we are going to be there. It's a preventative approach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle--and is not a buff jerkin in a most sweet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51295]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle--and is not a buff jerkin in a most sweet robe of durance?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky;  Not half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky;  Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves,   When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . make the abhorrent eye Roll back and close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . make the abhorrent eye Roll back and close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The increase in gasoline prices and the prospect of a long, expensive winter is depressing sentiment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39110]]></link><description><![CDATA[The increase in gasoline prices and the prospect of a long, expensive winter is depressing sentiment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12875</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[Contentious fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentious fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin;  And when eyes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin;  And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such,   That, spider like, we feel the tenderest touch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For why drives on that ship so fast, Without or wave or wind?  The air is cut away before, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56167]]></link><description><![CDATA[For why drives on that ship so fast, Without or wave or wind?  The air is cut away before,   And closes from behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4063]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61400]]></link><description><![CDATA[And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10746]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought I had it. My coach (Brian Johnson) told me to hit if off the front of the rim ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39380]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought I had it. My coach (Brian Johnson) told me to hit if off the front of the rim and bounce back for a 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28291]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have wrought great use out of evil tools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14298]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have wrought great use out of evil tools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But everyone is responsible for protecting children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39425]]></link><description><![CDATA[But everyone is responsible for protecting children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46270]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46270</guid></item></channel></rss>