<?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[Our fishy ancestors had the anatomy for it. You can imagine how valuable this system would be if you were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fishy ancestors had the anatomy for it. You can imagine how valuable this system would be if you were aquatic, because water is so conductive. But it doesn't work on land - air doesn't conduct electricity as well. When it happens, it's called a lightning bolt and you don't need special receptors to sense it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lofty oak from a small acorn grows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lofty oak from a small acorn grows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53762]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the church:  We must not admit for one moment the truth of a statement often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the church:  We must not admit for one moment the truth of a statement often made, that the man who devotes himself to the establishment of the church, declining to be involved in all sorts of activities for the improvement of social conditions, is indifferent to, or heedless of, the sufferings and injustices under which men suffer. He is nothing of the kind: he is simply a man who is sure of his foundation, and is convinced that the only way to any true advancement is spiritual, and is Christ; and therefore he persists, in spite of all appearances, in clinging to Christ as the only foundation, and in building all his hopes for the future on the acceptance of Christ. He is not content with attacks upon symptoms of evil; they seem to him superficial: he goes to the roots. He cannot be content with teaching men Christian principles of conduct, "Christian ideals of social life" -- still less with the establishment of colleges and clubs. Nothing but Christ Himself, faith in Christ, the obedience of Christ, seems to him equal to the need, and nothing else is his work but the establishment of that foundation. In doing this he is not showing indifference to social evils, he is not standing aloof from beneficent movements; he is actively engaged in laying the axe to the roots of the trees which bear the evil. That is not indifference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5311]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been the providence of Nature to give this creature [the cat] nine lives instead of one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5483]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  Prayer and love are learned in the hour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart has turned to stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I never see a bachelor of threescore again? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I never see a bachelor of threescore again? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me-I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me-I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63430]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66384]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light of day ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light of day]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24248]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, "What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6168]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  It is vain for bishops and pious bigwigs to discuss ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  It is vain for bishops and pious bigwigs to discuss what dreadful things will happen if wild skepticism runs its course. It has run its course. It is vain for eloquent atheists to talk of the great truths that will be revealed if once we see free thought begin. We have seen it end. It has no more questions to ask; it has questioned itself. You cannot call up any wilder vision than a city in which men ask themselves if they have any selves. You cannot fancy a more skeptical world than that in which men doubt whether there is a world. It might certainly have reached its bankruptcy more quickly and cleanly if it had not been feebly hampered by the application of indefensible laws of blasphemy or by the absurd pretense that modern England is Christian. But it would have reached the bankruptcy anyhow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deafe gaines the injury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deafe gaines the injury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real wealth is ideas plus energy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real wealth is ideas plus energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that the police cannot ask questions of the person that knows most about the crime is an infamous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that the police cannot ask questions of the person that knows most about the crime is an infamous decision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44336]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by living, by losing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11304]]></link><description><![CDATA[I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by living, by losing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never think of the future--it comes soon enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never think of the future--it comes soon enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22907]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you give yourself, you receive more than you give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64352]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don;  And through the blue heavens above us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don;  And through the blue heavens above us   The very clouds move on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24798]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning how to show kindness and express genuine love to yourself and others doesn't have to be easy for you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning how to show kindness and express genuine love to yourself and others doesn't have to be easy for you to know it's the right thing to always do..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45929]]></link><description><![CDATA[One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consciousness: That annoying time between naps ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consciousness: That annoying time between naps]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I 'll warrant him heart-whole. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55678]]></link><description><![CDATA[I 'll warrant him heart-whole. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12736]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speculation has picked up in Western Canada, while housing markets in Central Canada appear to be coming in for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speculation has picked up in Western Canada, while housing markets in Central Canada appear to be coming in for a soft landing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34514]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50522]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57564]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral. (on the career dedication of her husband, the Miami Dolphins' coach)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little sister of the Poor . . . .  The Poor, and their concerns, she has   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little sister of the Poor . . . .  The Poor, and their concerns, she has   Monopolized, because of which    It falls to me to labor as     A Little Brother of the Rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary   As out of Jesus' affliction came a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary   As out of Jesus' affliction came a new sense of God's love and a new basis for love between men, so out of our affliction we may grasp the splendor of God's love and how to love one another. Thus the consummation of the two commandments was on Golgotha; and the Cross is, at once, their image and their fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;  We bear the burden and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24835]]></link><description><![CDATA[With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;  We bear the burden and the heat   Of the long day, and wish 'twere done.    Not till the hours of light return     All we have built as we discern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6103]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No good man ever became suddenly rich. [Lat., Repente dives nemo factus est bonus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61430]]></link><description><![CDATA[No good man ever became suddenly rich. [Lat., Repente dives nemo factus est bonus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It gave me chills. The men carrying Jesus and the women carrying Mary, and I'm not even Catholic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29141]]></link><description><![CDATA[It gave me chills. The men carrying Jesus and the women carrying Mary, and I'm not even Catholic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47958</guid></item></channel></rss>