<?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[If we devote our time disparaging the products of our business rivals, we hurt business generally, reduce confidence, and increase ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15784]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we devote our time disparaging the products of our business rivals, we hurt business generally, reduce confidence, and increase discontent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between Nov. 5 and 19, the young hunter must take one of two offered safety courses that are 10 hours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between Nov. 5 and 19, the young hunter must take one of two offered safety courses that are 10 hours long and must pass one of the two courses to be eligible for the Ohio Youth Hunting Day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I can do it By aught that I can speak in his dispraise,  She shall not long continue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56557]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I can do it By aught that I can speak in his dispraise,  She shall not long continue love to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take it and return it: the kiss of love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take it and return it: the kiss of love]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43925]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand,  And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59267]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand,  And the brown rocks left bare on every hand,   As if the ebbing tide would flow no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who fears to speak of Ninety-Eight? Who blushes at the name?  When cowards mock the patriot's fate,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who fears to speak of Ninety-Eight? Who blushes at the name?  When cowards mock the patriot's fate,   Who hangs his head for shame?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59710]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or herself in love, which is a sincere gift of self.BENEDICT XVI, ANGELUS, Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, Sunday, 22 May 2005]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your definition of success and happiness is very important when it's time for the spotlight or limelight to shine on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your definition of success and happiness is very important when it's time for the spotlight or limelight to shine on you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15871]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46622]]></link><description><![CDATA[More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fascism is capitalism plus murder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fascism is capitalism plus murder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51243]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one loves somebody everything is clear -- where to go, what to do -- it all takes care of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25795]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one loves somebody everything is clear -- where to go, what to do -- it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er  The devil himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51265]]></link><description><![CDATA[With devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er  The devil himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7943]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be no doubt about whether we love our neighbor or not. Be sure that, in proportion as you advance in fraternal charity, you are increasing your love of God, for His Majesty bears so tender an affection for us that I cannot doubt He will repay our love for others by augmenting, and in a thousand different ways, that which we bear for Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest Romans, when asked where were his politics, replied, "Imperium et libertas." That would not make a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46947]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest Romans, when asked where were his politics, replied, "Imperium et libertas." That would not make a bad programme for a British Ministry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15001]]></link><description><![CDATA[As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blushing is the colour of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blushing is the colour of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do we think that when the day has been idly spent and squandered away by us, we shall be fit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do we think that when the day has been idly spent and squandered away by us, we shall be fit to work when the night and darkness come -- when our understanding is weak, and our memory frail, and our will crooked, and by long custom of sinning obstinately bent the wrong way, what can we then do in religion? What reasonable or acceptable service can we then perform to God? When our candle is just sinking into the socket, how shall our light "so shine before men that they may see our good works"?... I will not pronounce anything concerning the impossibility of a death-bed repentance, but I am sure that it is very difficult, and, I believe, very rare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Klose injured we supposedly had a striker problem. But we definitely do not have a problem and you could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40184]]></link><description><![CDATA[With Klose injured we supposedly had a striker problem. But we definitely do not have a problem and you could see that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24171]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15827]]></link><description><![CDATA[In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All kinds of cooperation with Israel should be stopped and the boycott should be reactivated, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29892]]></link><description><![CDATA[All kinds of cooperation with Israel should be stopped and the boycott should be reactivated,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's not growing, it's going to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21633]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's not growing, it's going to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye tuneful cobblers! still your notes prolong, Compose at once a slipper and a song;  So shall the fair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye tuneful cobblers! still your notes prolong, Compose at once a slipper and a song;  So shall the fair your handiwork peruse,   Your sonnets sure shall please--perhaps your shoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, They damn those authors whom they never read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, They damn those authors whom they never read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19885]]></link><description><![CDATA[In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60086]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63128]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly, like a millionaire intent on going broke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65523]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10068]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there's been an Angela Merkel -factor, as well as something more subtle happening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there's been an Angela Merkel -factor, as well as something more subtle happening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58678]]></link><description><![CDATA[We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent--the power to do the right thing the first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent--the power to do the right thing the first time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis enough-- Who listens once will listen twice;  Her heart be sure is not of ice,   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62012]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis enough-- Who listens once will listen twice;  Her heart be sure is not of ice,   And one refusal no rebuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1150]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The landlady and Tam grew gracious Wi' favours secret, sweet and precious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The landlady and Tam grew gracious Wi' favours secret, sweet and precious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of you.  O, Father, give to your child what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of you.  O, Father, give to your child what he himself knows not how to ask.  Teach me to pray. Pray yourself in me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can guard him. He's strong with a low center of gravity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40355]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can guard him. He's strong with a low center of gravity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40355</guid></item></channel></rss>