<?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[Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20792]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For, bless the gude mon, gin he had his ain way, He's na let a cat on the Sabbath say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54593]]></link><description><![CDATA[For, bless the gude mon, gin he had his ain way, He's na let a cat on the Sabbath say "mew;"  Nae birdie maun whistle, nae lambie maun play,   An' Phoebus himsel' could na travel that day,    As he'd find a new Joshua in Andie Agnew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow! -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow! -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were at such a fever pitch over getting to setting the referendum date and amount ... that I think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36740]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were at such a fever pitch over getting to setting the referendum date and amount ... that I think having gotten to that point everybody heaved a sigh of relief and the air went out of the tires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Markets are now focused squarely on inflation, ... Will it follow the great growth we've seen and force the Fed's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Markets are now focused squarely on inflation, ... Will it follow the great growth we've seen and force the Fed's hand to take rates up faster than the market currently anticipates?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knavery and flattery are blood relations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knavery and flattery are blood relations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt. [Lat., Dum ne ob male facta peream, parvi aestimo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt. [Lat., Dum ne ob male facta peream, parvi aestimo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33568]]></link><description><![CDATA[My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60054]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach Thy hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach Thy hand For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on the the lake of Galilee: The wine of life is spilt upon the sand, My heart is as some famine-murdered land Whence all good things have perished utterly, And well I know my soul in Hell must lie If I this night before God's throne must stand. "He sleeps perchance, or rideth to the chase, Like Baal, when his prophets holed that name From morn to noon on Carmel's smitten height." Nay, peace! I shall behold, before the night, The feet of brass, the robe more white than flame, The wounded hands, the weary human face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sky has made a lot of acquisitions. We're a disciplined acquirer. We have a strong track record. This is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sky has made a lot of acquisitions. We're a disciplined acquirer. We have a strong track record. This is the third acquisition that's been over $2 billion in deposits, so it's not outsized. This isn't something we don't know what to do with. So we're already in motion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65576]]></link><description><![CDATA[The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64693]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2686]]></link><description><![CDATA[By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20091]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54798]]></link><description><![CDATA[True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, atthe huge waves of the seas, at the long course ofrivers, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21845]]></link><description><![CDATA[People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, atthe huge waves of the seas, at the long course ofrivers, at the vast compass of the oceans, at the circular motion of thestars, and they pass themselves without even wondering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26550]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness, and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time flies never to be recalled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time flies never to be recalled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to die than to live on with a bad reputation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47056]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence come these hatreds...? They are an expression of a desperate effort to suppress an awareness of our inadequacy, worthlessness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence come these hatreds...? They are an expression of a desperate effort to suppress an awareness of our inadequacy, worthlessness, guilt and other shortcomings of the self. Self-contempt is here transmuted into hatred of others- and there is a most determined and persistent effort to mask this switch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is spoke as a Christians ought to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is spoke as a Christians ought to speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3087]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie!" till you can find a rock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie!" till you can find a rock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15691]]></link><description><![CDATA[One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's got to be the ultimate goal, ... that's what everybody wants to see done in the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39993]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's got to be the ultimate goal, ... that's what everybody wants to see done in the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our enemies will tell the rest with pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our enemies will tell the rest with pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we're trying to keep pace (with Montreal) so much as we're trying to win as many games ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32353]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we're trying to keep pace (with Montreal) so much as we're trying to win as many games as possible before we finish the season,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two other parts [Moore] played from the '50s are so different from Evelyn Ryan. The character she played in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37207]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two other parts [Moore] played from the '50s are so different from Evelyn Ryan. The character she played in The Hours was a woman who fled the oppression of her home. Evelyn Ryan stayed. She chose to brave it out, because she was determined to make sure every one of those 10 kids of hers made it out of that house intact. It's heroic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Junior Blind Olympics provides an inspirational opportunity for blind and visually impaired children to challenge their abilities, surmount sight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37447]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Junior Blind Olympics provides an inspirational opportunity for blind and visually impaired children to challenge their abilities, surmount sight barriers and achieve their dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. "God wishes," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52303]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. "God wishes," said Calvin, "that one should put aside all humanity when it is a question of striving for His glory.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present, and keep the promise to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present, and keep the promise to posterity. Peter Ferdinand Drucker -Harold J. Seymour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For man is man, and master of his fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51695]]></link><description><![CDATA[For man is man, and master of his fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions ... These are ingredients for catastrophe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36805]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions ... These are ingredients for catastrophe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916  No heart can conceive that treasury of mercies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916  No heart can conceive that treasury of mercies which lies in this one privilege, in having liberty and ability to approach unto God at all times, according to His mind and will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26500</guid></item></channel></rss>