<?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[Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10639]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19014]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31756]]></link><description><![CDATA[We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14570]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just thrilled to have her, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35343]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just thrilled to have her,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity is a battle, not a dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity is a battle, not a dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their familiescame and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, So. What did you think?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is to be acknowledged that many passages in the Bible are abstruse, and not to be easily understood. Yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8039]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is to be acknowledged that many passages in the Bible are abstruse, and not to be easily understood. Yet we are not to omit reading the abstruser texts, which have any appearance of relating to us; but should follow the example of the Blessed Virgin, who understood not several of our Saviour's sayings, but kept them all in her heart. Were we only to learn humility thus, it would be enough; but we shall by degrees come to apprehend far more than we expected, if we diligently compare spiritual things to spiritual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This might be the biggest parade we've ever had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32283]]></link><description><![CDATA[This might be the biggest parade we've ever had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vow is a snare for sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61031]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vow is a snare for sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness in giving creates love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness in giving creates love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames;  The garden-walks are passional   To bachelors and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2982]]></link><description><![CDATA[The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames;  The garden-walks are passional   To bachelors and dames.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2286]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; Lofty and sour to them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56055]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16365]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read my little fable: He that runs may read.  Most can raise the flowers now,   For all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read my little fable: He that runs may read.  Most can raise the flowers now,   For all have got the seed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot flea a stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50129]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot flea a stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[there's nothing to go back to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40062]]></link><description><![CDATA[there's nothing to go back to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are twice armed if we fight with faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15026]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are twice armed if we fight with faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on sin:  Evil is the soul's choice of the not-God. The corollary is that damnation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on sin:  Evil is the soul's choice of the not-God. The corollary is that damnation or hell, is the permanent choice of the not-God. God does not (in the monstrous old-fashioned phrase) "send" anybody to hell; hell is that state of the soul in which its choice becomes obdurate and fixed; the punishment (so to call it) of that soul is to remain eternally in that State which it has chosen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18631]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. [Lat., Utque alios industria, ita hunc ignavia ad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. [Lat., Utque alios industria, ita hunc ignavia ad vamam protulat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive shortwave facilities scattered about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9075]]></link><description><![CDATA[A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive shortwave facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We aren't going to go out and support an opponent of the current governor and sully the name of teachers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We aren't going to go out and support an opponent of the current governor and sully the name of teachers before a special session.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13758]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to work at a higher level than they would have without all that information just a few clicks away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The No. 1 thing the victim wants is for this to be over with. For some victims the process, it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The No. 1 thing the victim wants is for this to be over with. For some victims the process, it's months later (and) you're getting this call, and you've got to show up again. It's all going to come back up again, and you feel that you've managed to forget about it you're sleeping through the night the last thing you want is to bring this all back up again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God. If thou understandest not... the things which are beneath thee, how shalt thou comprehend those which are above thee? Submit thyself unto God, and humble thy sense to faith, and the light of knowledge shall be given thee, as shall be profitable and necessary unto thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to cover our bases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31598]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to cover our bases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wonder why we're electing Democrats and Republicans who seem to be more extreme than the average Democrat or Republican, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wonder why we're electing Democrats and Republicans who seem to be more extreme than the average Democrat or Republican, and when they get to the statehouse, they don't seem to talk to one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an unskillful servant gathers many herbs, flowers, and seeds in a garden, you gather them out that are useful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7359]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an unskillful servant gathers many herbs, flowers, and seeds in a garden, you gather them out that are useful, and cast the rest out of sight; so Christ deals with our performances. All the ingredients of self that are in them He takes away, and adds incense to what remains, and presents it to God. This is the cause that the saints at the last day, when they meet their own duties and performances, know them not, they are so changed from what they were when they went out of their hand. "Lord, when saw we Thee naked or hungry?" So God accepts a little, and Christ makes our little a great deal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As cold as any stone. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55950]]></link><description><![CDATA[As cold as any stone. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44788]]></link><description><![CDATA[The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5974]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The habit does not make the monk. [Lat., Cucullus (or Cuculla) non facit monachum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The habit does not make the monk. [Lat., Cucullus (or Cuculla) non facit monachum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strong flows of international capital into emerging markets reflect a number of important trends. In addition to continuing significant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39090]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strong flows of international capital into emerging markets reflect a number of important trends. In addition to continuing significant global economic growth, national authorities in numerous emerging market economies have improved economic policy management in recent years, which has led to greater growth, lower inflation and reductions in the ratio of public debt to GDP.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want Cellar Roots to be here another 35 years and to still fulfill our basic mission yet adapt to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37809]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want Cellar Roots to be here another 35 years and to still fulfill our basic mission yet adapt to changes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535   I desire now to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535   I desire now to make no more pleas with Christ; verily, he hath not put me to a loss by what I suffer; he oweth me nothing; for in my bonds, how sweet and comfortable have the thoughts of him been to me, wherein I find a sufficient recompense of reward!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54174]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was our extra scorer a lot. She's just really competitive. She was our outside threat. And we won a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39758]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was our extra scorer a lot. She's just really competitive. She was our outside threat. And we won a couple of games with her shooting free throws down the stretch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45041]]></link><description><![CDATA[You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9445]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1241</guid></item></channel></rss>