<?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[There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9037]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a good sign, a good step the village is taking toward incorporating renewable energy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36995]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a good sign, a good step the village is taking toward incorporating renewable energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity sees the need not the cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity sees the need not the cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get when you don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17344]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The throne of another is not stable for thee. [Lat., Alieno in loco  Haud stabile regnum est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The throne of another is not stable for thee. [Lat., Alieno in loco  Haud stabile regnum est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was bearish on U.S. equities earlier this year but have now turned positive. Stocks are only getting cheaper and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31964]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was bearish on U.S. equities earlier this year but have now turned positive. Stocks are only getting cheaper and cheaper, and the U.S. economy is strong, as are corporate profits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sick StagA sick stag lay down in a quiet corner of its pasture-ground. His companions came in great numbers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sick StagA sick stag lay down in a quiet corner of its pasture-ground. His companions came in great numbers to inquire after his health, and each one helped himself to a share of the food which had been placed for his use; so that he died, not from his sickness, but from the failure of the means of living. Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress has a duty to taxpayers to make informed decisions when carrying out its legislative, appropriation, and oversight functions. Such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congress has a duty to taxpayers to make informed decisions when carrying out its legislative, appropriation, and oversight functions. Such decisions require access to timely and accurate information, and when access is restricted, we are unable to provide oversight and fulfill our constitutional responsibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever. -Nancy Kerrigan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11397]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose. [Fr., Je ne suis pas la rose, mais ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54438]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose. [Fr., Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j'ai vecu pres d'elle.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29754]]></link><description><![CDATA[That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most prepared are the most dedicated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most prepared are the most dedicated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would love to be loved for what I am, and not for what I have! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66098]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would love to be loved for what I am, and not for what I have!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65936]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long. [It., Non e il mondam romore alro che un fiato  Di vento, che vien quinci et or vien quindi,   E muta nome, perche muta lato.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11854]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52088]]></link><description><![CDATA[The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination by invisible agents and innocent germ carriers, by the most varied forms of contact, or simply by breathing the common air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;  So perish all, whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;  So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow   For others' good, or melt at others' woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. [Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virga sive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17977]]></link><description><![CDATA[So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. [Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virga sive bacillum vere superius inflexum sit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16361]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He laughs best who laughs last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24215]]></link><description><![CDATA[He laughs best who laughs last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48628]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64795]]></link><description><![CDATA[I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19875]]></link><description><![CDATA[HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in love is not complete until he is married. Then he is finished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25794]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in love is not complete until he is married. Then he is finished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The heart's slavish and dogged devotion to its idol ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The heart's slavish and dogged devotion to its idol is what fathers of the Church have called "the bondage of the will". This bondage becomes most painfully apparent in our lives when we earnestly feel the need of changing but cannot; when we are attracted to another value that for one reason or another conflicts with the desires of our true god --that value nearest and dearest to us. But our true god lies so deeply inside us that often we are not even consciously aware of its presence or of what it actually is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist  Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist  Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/677]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since Heaven's eternal year is thine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since Heaven's eternal year is thine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In high school, we never paid any attention. Everyone was like, 'No.' We pretty much got scolded for that. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34659]]></link><description><![CDATA[In high school, we never paid any attention. Everyone was like, 'No.' We pretty much got scolded for that. It had the player's mother's name, high school, where they used to live when they were 3 years old. Every detail is in there. They put so much time in, and we didn't even look at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13208]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397   No one can deny that the New Testament has variety ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397   No one can deny that the New Testament has variety as well as unity. It is the variety which gives interest to the unity. What is it in which these people, differing as widely as they do, are vitally and fundamentally at one, so that through all their differences they form a brotherhood and are conscious of an indissolubale spiritual bond? There can be no doubt that that which unites them is a common relation to Christ -- a common faith in Him, involving religious convictions about Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1263</guid></item></channel></rss>