<?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[As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18146]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14976]]></link><description><![CDATA[And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand--the habit of mind which theologians call--and rightly--faith in God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are trying and we continue to try. We have increased oil production to over 10 million barrels a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40148]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are trying and we continue to try. We have increased oil production to over 10 million barrels a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19590]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own:  He who, secure within, can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own:  He who, secure within, can say,   Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   The mystery revealed, in a unique degree ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   The mystery revealed, in a unique degree and form, in Christ's life, is really a universal spiritual human law: the law of suffering and sacrifice, as the one way to joy and possession, which has existed, though veiled till now, since the foundation of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insanity destroys reason, but not wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Information is the seed for an idea, and only grows when it's watered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Information is the seed for an idea, and only grows when it's watered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9940]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3397]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Novelty is the great parent of pleasure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Novelty is the great parent of pleasure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't win the presidency if you don't carry Florida. That gives us a leg up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28629]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't win the presidency if you don't carry Florida. That gives us a leg up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weak withering age no rigid law forbids. With frugal nectar, smooth and slow with balm,  The sapless habit daily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weak withering age no rigid law forbids. With frugal nectar, smooth and slow with balm,  The sapless habit daily to bedew,   And give the hesitating wheels of life    Gliblier to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The governor needs to stay on message, and that is getting people out of New Orleans, provide stability for them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The governor needs to stay on message, and that is getting people out of New Orleans, provide stability for them and rebuild. The governor must look like the leader at all times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale;  Look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13221]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale;  Look down with an utter contempt upon butter,   And never touch bread till its toasted--or stale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky,  The dew shall weep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky,  The dew shall weep thy fall to-night;   For thou must die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IBM's unwavering focus -- from one end of our organization to the other -- is on delivering open, on demand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33856]]></link><description><![CDATA[IBM's unwavering focus -- from one end of our organization to the other -- is on delivering open, on demand solutions and services that are channel-ready, as well as offering partner programs that truly stimulate an ecosystem of growth, collaboration and innovation. We are dedicated to being the IT industry's partner of choice and we are honored that the Business Partner community selected IBM as the company they most want to partner with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense a historical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17120]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense a historical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62411]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10321]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can't hurt you unless you let them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10245]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can't hurt you unless you let them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole;  How here he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole;  How here he sipp'd, how there he plunder'd snug,   And suck'd all o'er like an industrious bug.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are but a drop of water in a pool filled with diversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57052]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are but a drop of water in a pool filled with diversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57052</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[God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17651]]></link><description><![CDATA[God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr The Mother sits by the rough-hewn byre where her Baby smiles, and the secret ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr The Mother sits by the rough-hewn byre where her Baby smiles, and the secret fire shines on her face. Her hand rests by an iron spike from the wood thrust high  ("The nails in His hands!" ) An open chink in the rude, cold shed lets in the sky, and the Star that led shepherds and kings pours down its light: a silver shaft through the frosty night  ("The spear in His side!") Her hands reach out, as to push away the cross-crowned hill and the bloody day; they touch a rough, unyielding wall: the stable side, of stone piled tall  ("The stone -- rolled away!").]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52648]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity. (after a game his team lost to the New York Nets) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57603]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity. (after a game his team lost to the New York Nets)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all fooles wore white Caps, wee should seeme a flock of geese. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49507]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all fooles wore white Caps, wee should seeme a flock of geese.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4951]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In small communities, so many big things happen that it's hard to choose just one person to honor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42002]]></link><description><![CDATA[In small communities, so many big things happen that it's hard to choose just one person to honor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says:  The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16103]]></link><description><![CDATA[And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says:  The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet   Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For thence,--a paradox Which comforts while it mocks,--  Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail:   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45488]]></link><description><![CDATA[For thence,--a paradox Which comforts while it mocks,--  Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail:   What I aspired to be,    And was not, comforts me:     A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65842]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In view of history, I sincerely wish that the ravages of war will never be repeated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34516]]></link><description><![CDATA[In view of history, I sincerely wish that the ravages of war will never be repeated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment…. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment…. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sinews of affairs are cut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sinews of affairs are cut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46377]]></link><description><![CDATA[It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit for each of them, however small. This will help you focus on what you have done instead of what you haven't gotten around to do. It may sound simplistic, but it works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24791]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24791</guid></item></channel></rss>