<?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[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916   Assuredly there is but one way in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916   Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate us, to repay their evil deeds with benefits, to return blessings for reproaches. It is that we remember not to consider men's evil intention but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3045]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study to be what you wish to seem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study to be what you wish to seem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She that fails to command her thoughts will soon lose command of her actions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59151]]></link><description><![CDATA[She that fails to command her thoughts will soon lose command of her actions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So shaken as we are, so wan with care. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55831]]></link><description><![CDATA[So shaken as we are, so wan with care. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48140]]></link><description><![CDATA[The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow;  But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,   And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood,    Till fell the first from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men,     And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not worth a button. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50998]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not worth a button.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17253]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2040]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17566]]></link><description><![CDATA[True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52141]]></link><description><![CDATA[What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent on the people's will in such a way that they may be peaceably changed if conflict occurs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FRIEND: A member of the opposite sex in your acquaintance who has some flaw which makes sleeping with him/her totally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11108]]></link><description><![CDATA[FRIEND: A member of the opposite sex in your acquaintance who has some flaw which makes sleeping with him/her totally unappealing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is so little to be so large! Why, a train of cars, or a whale-back barge  Couldn't carry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3631]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is so little to be so large! Why, a train of cars, or a whale-back barge  Couldn't carry the freight   Of the monstrous weight    Of all of his qualities, good and great.     And tho' one view is as good as another      Don't take my word for it. Ask his mother!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27209]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17955]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The United States has requested NATO relief support in the form of food supplies. NATO Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Center ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37058]]></link><description><![CDATA[The United States has requested NATO relief support in the form of food supplies. NATO Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Center (EADRCC) is coordinating responses to this request by allies and NATO partners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57189]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IODA is excited at the opportunity to distribute the vast catalog of the China Record Corporation, ... We are proud ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39994]]></link><description><![CDATA[IODA is excited at the opportunity to distribute the vast catalog of the China Record Corporation, ... We are proud to help make China's rich musical history accessible for the first time to scholars, students and fans of Chinese culture around the globe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the other be where he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . let the other be where he may.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17406]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He grabbed that rail, ... He just hadn't realized that we had switched on the electricity yet, and that's what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38168]]></link><description><![CDATA[He grabbed that rail, ... He just hadn't realized that we had switched on the electricity yet, and that's what we're going to do with this television ad as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to give it up to Evanston. They went into their trap and we stopped attacking and we played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32374]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to give it up to Evanston. They went into their trap and we stopped attacking and we played timid. We were lucky we were able to hang on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12600]]></link><description><![CDATA[When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heresie may be easier kept out, then shooke off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heresie may be easier kept out, then shooke off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66216]]></link><description><![CDATA[I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66093]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent. [Lat., Adhue neminem cognovi poetam, qui sibi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46854]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent. [Lat., Adhue neminem cognovi poetam, qui sibi non optimus videretur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53711]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering.  There is a crack in everything.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering.  There is a crack in everything.   That's how the light gets in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine  That cravens my weak hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine  That cravens my weak hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wounded spirit who can bear? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48653]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wounded spirit who can bear?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's sloppy and it's chaotic, but the degree to which it improves precision in the retrieval process can be quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30418]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's sloppy and it's chaotic, but the degree to which it improves precision in the retrieval process can be quite significant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great strokes make not sweete musick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great strokes make not sweete musick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! my child, where is the Pen That can do justice to the Hen?  Like Royalty, she goes her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! my child, where is the Pen That can do justice to the Hen?  Like Royalty, she goes her way,   Laying foundations every day,    Though not for Public Buildings, yet     For Custard, Cake and Omelette.      Of if too old for such a use       They have their fling at some abuse,        As when to censure Plays Unfit         Upon the stage they make a Hit          Or at elections seal the Fate           Of an Obnoxious Candidate.            No wonder, Child, we prize the Hen,             Whose Egg is Mightier than the Pen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her hair tells us she is Marlene Dietrich meets maverick. She's a woman who carries red hair beautifully because she's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her hair tells us she is Marlene Dietrich meets maverick. She's a woman who carries red hair beautifully because she's bold in character, especially with that rocker-red. Her bedroom eyes give us a come-hither kind of look. But ... she wants you to know just when you have her figured out, she's gonna fool you!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus   For some years now I have read through the Bible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus   For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59319]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49751</guid></item></channel></rss>