<?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[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  Too many Christians still live with crossed fingers, sweating out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  Too many Christians still live with crossed fingers, sweating out their good luck as a portent of calamity. To see them, you would never guess that God's good pleasure, and not the goddess of fate, rules human destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agribusiness professionals are concerned that there's been a decline in the number of farmers who make purchases based on their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agribusiness professionals are concerned that there's been a decline in the number of farmers who make purchases based on their long-standing relationships with businesses. Our study shows they are correct and provides insight into how today's farmer makes those decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benito Mussolini is being put through the grinder of a television biography and the result resembles Italian sausage-of the spicy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benito Mussolini is being put through the grinder of a television biography and the result resembles Italian sausage-of the spicy variety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we all may read more about the impact of public hospital closures on inner cities, the fact is we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33469]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we all may read more about the impact of public hospital closures on inner cities, the fact is we are also seeing the potential for an impending access crisis in suburbs with high-poverty populations. These high-poverty suburbs exist disproportionately in California, Texas, and other areas in the south.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55133]]></link><description><![CDATA[The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866   Christ was common to all in love, in teaching, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866   Christ was common to all in love, in teaching, in tender consolation, in generous gifts, in merciful forgiveness. His soul and his body, his life and his death and his ministry were, and are, common to all. His sacraments and his gifts are common to all. Christ never took any food or drink, nor anything that his body needed, without intending by it the common good of all those who shall be saved, even unto the last day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4162]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55392]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Season your admiration for a while With an attent ear. . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Season your admiration for a while With an attent ear. . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foolproof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66004]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11894]]></link><description><![CDATA[... government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16267]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having access to broadband is instrumental for so many businesses today and can greatly assist the running of an organisation, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having access to broadband is instrumental for so many businesses today and can greatly assist the running of an organisation, particularly those in more remote areas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11765]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like "Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice."  Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8806]]></link><description><![CDATA[In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fan votes are really great, but to get the players and coaches, then you know you have the respect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fan votes are really great, but to get the players and coaches, then you know you have the respect of the league. There are a lot more important things. It's a personal goal, and if I make it, it would be the icing on the cake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a big need for speech-language personnel to meet the needs of (students). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30144]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a big need for speech-language personnel to meet the needs of (students).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From small beginnings come great things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3942]]></link><description><![CDATA[From small beginnings come great things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2973]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55018]]></link><description><![CDATA[God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8595]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it by means of natural association or emotional or spiritual union. There is no way from one person to another. However loving and sympathetic we try to be, however sound our psychology however frank and open our behaviour we cannot penetrate the incognito of the other man, for there are no direct relationships, not even between soul and soul. Christ stands between us, and we can only get into touch with our neighbors through Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1769]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some days I practice positive thinking, and other days I'm not positive I am thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59160]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some days I practice positive thinking, and other days I'm not positive I am thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3824]]></link><description><![CDATA[By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a Virginian but an American. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a Virginian but an American.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The campaign was successful. Equal conditions were created for all candidates and that gives me hope the election will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36709]]></link><description><![CDATA[The campaign was successful. Equal conditions were created for all candidates and that gives me hope the election will be democratic and transparent,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round;  But round himself, all tender like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5150]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round;  But round himself, all tender like gold,   The sun's sweet ray is hovering found.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every Christian, by virtue of membership in the Church, has a vocation to share in the ministry of Christ to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every Christian, by virtue of membership in the Church, has a vocation to share in the ministry of Christ to the world which has been entrusted to the Church. The vocation is answered in the home and office and factory and field. There it is that the People of God bears its witness to the vocation of the People of God, a people with a people's diversity and complex vitality, a people comprising a multiplicity of cultures and histories and colours and tongues, a people and not a collection of individuals, a people bound together in allegiance to one King and in obedience to one purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves,  And therefore are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves,  And therefore are they very dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the best thing that happened to me, a tournament like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28912]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the best thing that happened to me, a tournament like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil be to him who evil thinks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil be to him who evil thinks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn,  Some moment when the moon was blood  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16064]]></link><description><![CDATA[When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn,  Some moment when the moon was blood   Then surely I was born.    With monstrous head and sickening cry     And ears like errant wings,      The devil's walking parody       On all four-footed things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13427]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56925</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[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  As the great test of medical practice is that it heals the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  As the great test of medical practice is that it heals the patient, so the great test of preaching is that it converts and builds up the hearers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/596]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5340]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end.  A candle burned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61722]]></link><description><![CDATA[It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end.  A candle burned on the table;   A candle burned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To many fame comes too late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19489]]></link><description><![CDATA[To many fame comes too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were clearly a better team with our injuries. With three weight classes out - you have a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30958]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were clearly a better team with our injuries. With three weight classes out - you have a problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is a philosophical reason...The resources on earth won't last forever, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32983]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is a philosophical reason...The resources on earth won't last forever,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the NBA scheduling, a lot of times it puts the onus on teams traveling. You play Utah one night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32633]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the NBA scheduling, a lot of times it puts the onus on teams traveling. You play Utah one night and a team like Phoenix is resting and waiting for you the next night. That's tough. So you run into some circumstances like that more, it seems, on the road than you do at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money. [Lat., Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money. [Lat., Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attitudes are more important than facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attitudes are more important than facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3446</guid></item></channel></rss>