<?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 am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is beating into submission, imprisoning, and killing...The authority of man-made law is entirely due to weapons of the constables ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is beating into submission, imprisoning, and killing...The authority of man-made law is entirely due to weapons of the constables who enforce obedience to its provisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men think all men mortal, but themselves. If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20620]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men think all men mortal, but themselves. If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43139]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contrary to what many people may think, the nation's children are faring better in many respects than they have in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contrary to what many people may think, the nation's children are faring better in many respects than they have in previous years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel important.'' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you recall that night in June Upon the Danube River;  We listened to the landler-tune,   We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you recall that night in June Upon the Danube River;  We listened to the landler-tune,   We watched the moonbeams quiver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44711]]></link><description><![CDATA[The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2452]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've also achieved the American nightmare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles  Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles  Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in a very dark place. Put one little tallow candle in the middle of a large hall, and it will give a good deal of light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60403]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25787]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65218]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. - Dune, "Litany Against Fear", 1965.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In keeping with Miramax tradition, I was instructed to find the 'hottest young stars around' to cast in the movie. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29977]]></link><description><![CDATA[In keeping with Miramax tradition, I was instructed to find the 'hottest young stars around' to cast in the movie. I got a list of two names: Michelle Monaghan and Casey Affleck. I was lucky enough to get them both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52914]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fall with awareness and acceptance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fall with awareness and acceptance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to have an elaborate stage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32189]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to have an elaborate stage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the first time we've seen this many houses in the million-dollar range on the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31231]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the first time we've seen this many houses in the million-dollar range on the market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out with potato salad in his hand, pretending he's throwing up, is not what I call hospitality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine,  For of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine,  For of all powers the mightiest far art thou,   Lord over men on earth, and Gods in Heaven;    Yet even from thee thyself hath been withheld     One thing--to undo what thou thyself hast ruled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds-- The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband an' 'e gives 'er all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds-- The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband an' 'e gives 'er all she needs;  But, oh, the little cargo-boats, that sail the wet seas roun',   They're just the same as you an' me, a'-plyin' up an' down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among Christians so much prominence has been given to the disciplinary effects of sorrow, affliction, bereavement, that they have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among Christians so much prominence has been given to the disciplinary effects of sorrow, affliction, bereavement, that they have been in danger of overlooking the other and more obvious side: that by every joy, by every favor, by every sign of prosperity -- yea, and by these chiefly -- God designs to educate and discipline His children. This one-sided view of the truth has made many morbid, gloomy Christians, who look for God's hand only in the lightning and never think of seeing it in the sunlight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist   Almighty God, who created humanity after your image and gave them living souls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist   Almighty God, who created humanity after your image and gave them living souls that they may seek you and rule your creation, teach us so to investigate the works of your hand that we may subdue the earth to our use, and strengthen our intelligence for your service. And grant that we may so receive your Word as to believe in him whom you sent to give us the science of salvation and the forgiveness of our sins. All this we ask in the name of the same Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sing away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird  Always gayest of the gay,   Though a woodland roundelay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sing away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird  Always gayest of the gay,   Though a woodland roundelay    You ne'er sung not heard;     Though your life from youth to age      Passes is a narrow cage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/265]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  It is not in the gifts He received but in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  It is not in the gifts He received but in the virtues He practiced that Christ is our model. That which is asked of you, so that you may resemble Him, is to make the same use as He did of the gifts of God, according to the measure in which you have received them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel in every smile a chain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56693]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel in every smile a chain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/193]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is justice with no mercy, Ira Flatowwill have to come back countless times asa lab rat for all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/257]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is justice with no mercy, Ira Flatowwill have to come back countless times asa lab rat for all the cruelty he has promoted on NPR.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She sees the same qualities in me that she saw in young Phil Crane. Phil Crane today isn't the Phil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39827]]></link><description><![CDATA[She sees the same qualities in me that she saw in young Phil Crane. Phil Crane today isn't the Phil Crane of 35 years ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He must of necessity fear many whom many fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51606]]></link><description><![CDATA[He must of necessity fear many whom many fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Continuing a short series on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Continuing a short series on Romans 8:   [Of vv. 26,27]   Nor are we alone in our struggles. The Holy Spirit supports our helplessness. Left to ourselves we do not know what prayers to offer or how to offer them. But in those inarticulate groans which rise from the depth of our being, we recognize the voice of none other than the Holy Spirit. He makes intercession; and His intercession is sure to be answered. For God Who searches the inmost recesses of the heart can interpret His own Spirit's meaning. He knows that His own Will regulates Its petitions, and that they are offered for men dedicated to His service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Red, Hot and Blue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Red, Hot and Blue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, when guests have gone, the host remembers Sweet courteous things unsaid.  We two have talked our hearts out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, when guests have gone, the host remembers Sweet courteous things unsaid.  We two have talked our hearts out to the embers,   And now go hand in hand down to the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her that ruled the rost in the kitchen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither doesbathing-that's why we recommend it daily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21204]]></link><description><![CDATA[People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither doesbathing-that's why we recommend it daily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226   Where there is fear of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226   Where there is fear of God to keep the house, the enemy can find no way to enter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have defined Ladies as people who did not do things themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23968]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have defined Ladies as people who did not do things themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pump you up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pump you up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have at least four to five different potato dishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38155]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have at least four to five different potato dishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8688]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11303]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42862]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/714</guid></item></channel></rss>