<?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 secret to humor is surprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret to humor is surprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the process of building a church. Hopefully this way we can start out doing good works on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42374]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the process of building a church. Hopefully this way we can start out doing good works on that land even before the church is built.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13235]]></link><description><![CDATA[However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know any other way to lead but by example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know any other way to lead but by example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24826]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5297]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Lafayette Parish wants to attract new businesses and have jobs, it needs to address the facility needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39524]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Lafayette Parish wants to attract new businesses and have jobs, it needs to address the facility needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now the only thing that will beat us is ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now the only thing that will beat us is ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Changed to a lapwing by th' avenging god, He made the barren waste his lone abode,  And oft on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Changed to a lapwing by th' avenging god, He made the barren waste his lone abode,  And oft on soaring pinions hover'd o'er   The lofty palace then his own no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How oft my guardian angel gently cried, "Soul, from thy casement look, and thou shalt see  How he persists ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59440]]></link><description><![CDATA[How oft my guardian angel gently cried, "Soul, from thy casement look, and thou shalt see  How he persists to knock and wait for thee!"   And, O! how often to that voice of sorrow,    "To-morrow we will open," I replied,     And when the morrow came I answered still, "To-morrow."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22029]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under all speech that is good for anything three lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under all speech that is good for anything three lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using [it] against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52899]]></link><description><![CDATA['I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using [it] against uncivilised tribes.' **********WinstonChurchill, Secretary of State, British War Office, 1919, authorisinguse of chemical weapons against Iraqis.. in the first of 6invasions of Iraq by agents of Anglo Iranian Oil (BritishPetroleum) in the last 100 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  In this age when it seems tacitly assumed that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  In this age when it seems tacitly assumed that the Church is concerned only with another world than this, and in this world with nothing but individual conduct as bearing on prospects in that other world, hardly anyone reads the history of the Church in respect to its exercise of political influence. It is often assumed that the Church exercises little such influence and ought to exercise none; it is further assumed that this assumption is self-evident and has always been made by reasonable men. As a matter of fact the assumption is entirely modern and unjustified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49010]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  But how shall we rest in God? By giving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  But how shall we rest in God? By giving ourselves wholly to Him. If you give yourself by halves, you cannot find full rest -- there will ever be a lurking disquiet in that half which is withheld... All peace and happiness in this world depend upon unreserved self-oblation to God. If this be hearty and entire, the result will be an unfailing, ever-increasing happiness, which nothing can disturb. There is no real happiness in this life save that which is the result of a peaceful heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudice is the reason of fools ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudice is the reason of fools]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I loved all the Aaron Spelling shows, ‘Beverly Hills 90210' and ‘Models Inc.' At that time, I had pet rats ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46444]]></link><description><![CDATA[I loved all the Aaron Spelling shows, ‘Beverly Hills 90210' and ‘Models Inc.' At that time, I had pet rats I was raising and I always named all the baby rats after the characters in the shows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alias is, perhaps typically, a puzzle this year. The Vaughn storyline is not what it seems, but that's all I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alias is, perhaps typically, a puzzle this year. The Vaughn storyline is not what it seems, but that's all I can say, or the writers will kill me. They know where I live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It says a lot for the boys. They're not taking anything for granted and they're wrestling every match like it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37344]]></link><description><![CDATA[It says a lot for the boys. They're not taking anything for granted and they're wrestling every match like it's their last match. They're going out there and dominating and we're going to step it up here the next couple weeks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you are will show in what you do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21246]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you are will show in what you do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47490]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it is a proof of the fact that those taking recourse to violent oppression are in their subconsciousness convinced of the untenability of their own doctrines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's errors are his portals of discovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13357]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's errors are his portals of discovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49957]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's trying, but you only have to go through it one time. Anything for my chance. I want them to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39142]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's trying, but you only have to go through it one time. Anything for my chance. I want them to know that I will sacrifice my body to do whatever they ask me to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need a plumber to install showers; we want to expand the playground for the children; we also want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41498]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need a plumber to install showers; we want to expand the playground for the children; we also want to incorporate classes that will benefit the mothers into our schedule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44155]]></link><description><![CDATA[People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In misery's darkest caverns known, His useful care was ever nigh,  Where hopeless Anguish pour'd his groan,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46468]]></link><description><![CDATA[In misery's darkest caverns known, His useful care was ever nigh,  Where hopeless Anguish pour'd his groan,   And lonely want retir'd to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47869]]></link><description><![CDATA[What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The forehead is the gate of the mind. [Lat., Frons est animi janua.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27512]]></link><description><![CDATA[The forehead is the gate of the mind. [Lat., Frons est animi janua.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47353]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited by a large family of carpenters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25150]]></link><description><![CDATA[... being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited by a large family of carpenters and architects. Every morning when you wake up, the house is a little different. Maybe there is a new turret, or some walls have moved. Or perhaps someone has temporarily removed the floor under your bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole, It does not look likely to stir a man's soul.  'Tis the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole, It does not look likely to stir a man's soul.  'Tis the deeds that were done 'neath the moth-eaten rag,   When the pole was a staff, and the rag was a flag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58153]]></link><description><![CDATA[The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would have liked that the wish for appeasement had prevailed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34957]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would have liked that the wish for appeasement had prevailed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44637]]></link><description><![CDATA[A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1108]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10420</guid></item></channel></rss>