<?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[The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too, who appear to suffer from them. Their domination is expressed in that fact- that the people from whom they claim sacrifice accept them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visualize, 'prayerize', 'actionize', and your wishes will come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visualize, 'prayerize', 'actionize', and your wishes will come true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6016]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59594]]></link><description><![CDATA[I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful.(in reply to her husband who had asked how she felt moments before her death.). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful.(in reply to her husband who had asked how she felt moments before her death.).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He pares his apple that will cleanly feed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13199]]></link><description><![CDATA[He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity; for what has posterity done for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity; for what has posterity done for us?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They simply don't want a recession. It's an insurance policy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37051]]></link><description><![CDATA[They simply don't want a recession. It's an insurance policy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56318]]></link><description><![CDATA[An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16831]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The water is the same on both sides of the boat ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The water is the same on both sides of the boat]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65505]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Professionalism is knowing how to do it, when to do it, and doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Professionalism is knowing how to do it, when to do it, and doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nine tenths of education is encouragement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nine tenths of education is encouragement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had a thousand major shareholders that I know would be selling stock because of portfolio diversification, I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37826]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had a thousand major shareholders that I know would be selling stock because of portfolio diversification, I would rather do a secondary offering than have them sell in dribs and drabs. It makes a lot of sense to do it in one fell swoop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This nation has dehumanized its adversariescalling them Huns, wops, gooks, Japs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/750]]></link><description><![CDATA[This nation has dehumanized its adversariescalling them Huns, wops, gooks, Japs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saints need sinners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saints need sinners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5763]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  We must try to be at one and the same time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  We must try to be at one and the same time for the Church and against the Church. They alone can serve her faithfully whose consciences are continually exercised as to whether they ought not, for Christ's sake, to leave her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55203]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant theirwhole life in the hands of some other person. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22178]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant theirwhole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this methodof searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consistssolely in moving toward self-sufficiency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are so many girls, and so few princes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17478]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are so many girls, and so few princes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm hoping he will play more minutes on Friday but there are aspects to his game that you won't see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32583]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm hoping he will play more minutes on Friday but there are aspects to his game that you won't see for about six weeks. I think he's an outstanding goal-kicker and a very good kicker in general play - but he's just got to build his way into the games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves. . -Hubert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves. . -Hubert Humphrey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I call him the unpolished diamond. We polished him off today and he was really shining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I call him the unpolished diamond. We polished him off today and he was really shining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The delegates will see Omar as the best choice so, accordingly, Omar will win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32780]]></link><description><![CDATA[The delegates will see Omar as the best choice so, accordingly, Omar will win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They got up on us in the beginning and we weren't able to catch up. It went by so fast, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29489]]></link><description><![CDATA[They got up on us in the beginning and we weren't able to catch up. It went by so fast, it is just a blur to me,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars,  Dream, and so dream all night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars,  Dream, and so dream all night without a stir.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11637]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We faced one of the best pitchers in the country today, a tremendous competitor and a class act, and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34467]]></link><description><![CDATA[We faced one of the best pitchers in the country today, a tremendous competitor and a class act, and he was magnificent. It was a great college baseball game. We made it interesting in the ninth, but we were just too far in the hole at that point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted topleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21934]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted topleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44522]]></link><description><![CDATA[O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience. [Lat., Durum! sed levius fir patientia  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45720]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience. [Lat., Durum! sed levius fir patientia  Quicquid corrigere est nefas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With a written agreement you have a prayer; with averbal agreement you have nothing but air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22395]]></link><description><![CDATA[With a written agreement you have a prayer; with averbal agreement you have nothing but air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2284]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53264]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53264</guid></item></channel></rss>