<?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[It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53528]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to the red of it, There's not a thread of it,  No, not a shred of it,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to the red of it, There's not a thread of it,  No, not a shred of it,   In all the spread of it,    From foot to head,     Not heroes bled for it,      Faced steel and lead for it,       Precious blood shed for it,        Bathing in red.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's done can't be undone. [Fr., Ce qui est faicr ne se peult desfaire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50669]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's done can't be undone. [Fr., Ce qui est faicr ne se peult desfaire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was taught truth, that's when I got my freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53772]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was taught truth, that's when I got my freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With good and gentle-humored hearts I choose to chat where'er I come  Whate'er the subject be that starts.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10085]]></link><description><![CDATA[With good and gentle-humored hearts I choose to chat where'er I come  Whate'er the subject be that starts.   But if I get among the glum    I hold my tongue to tell the truth     And keep my breath to cool my broth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call it the ripple in a great big water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37537]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call it the ripple in a great big water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5649]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a leader says, 'Let's go!'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5077]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a leader says, 'Let's go!'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves -- blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one step from fanaticism to barbarism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52213]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one step from fanaticism to barbarism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28390]]></link><description><![CDATA[First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ask people not to duck the ropes, but they can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29383]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ask people not to duck the ropes, but they can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3952]]></link><description><![CDATA[It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These loggers are heavily armed, organized groups who are sometimes linked to drug traffickers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36593]]></link><description><![CDATA[These loggers are heavily armed, organized groups who are sometimes linked to drug traffickers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he started, the population was about 7,000 people and now it's up to over 40,000 people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33103]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he started, the population was about 7,000 people and now it's up to over 40,000 people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm interested not only in that it's beautiful and that it's Gorham, but also what it tells us about society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm interested not only in that it's beautiful and that it's Gorham, but also what it tells us about society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are we going to build a house without doors and windows, or are we going to put doors and windows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are we going to build a house without doors and windows, or are we going to put doors and windows in the dang thing so it can be used?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy gown? Why, ay--come, tailor, let us see't. O mercy, God, what masquing stuff is there?  What's this, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy gown? Why, ay--come, tailor, let us see't. O mercy, God, what masquing stuff is there?  What's this, a sleeve? 'Tis like a demi-cannon.   What, up and down carved like an apple tart?    Here's snip and nip and cut and slish and slash,     Like to a censer in a barber's shop.      Why, what's a devil's name, tailor, call'st thou this?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, . . . thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wind-tippling cordial, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, . . . thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wind-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Price stability, exchange rate stability, consistency of economic policy. That is all taking place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Price stability, exchange rate stability, consistency of economic policy. That is all taking place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn from the beasts the physic of the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way,  That private reason 'tis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12633]]></link><description><![CDATA[And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way,  That private reason 'tis more just to curb,   Than by disputes the public peace disturb;    For points obscure are of small use to learn,     But common quiet is mankind's concern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character, the counsels, and example of our Washington . . . they will guide us through the doubts and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character, the counsels, and example of our Washington . . . they will guide us through the doubts and difficulties that beset us; they will guide our children and our children's children in the paths of prosperity and peace, while America shall hold her place in the family of nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like many of the leaders and teacher [in the church], perhaps I failed to prepare people for the way of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like many of the leaders and teacher [in the church], perhaps I failed to prepare people for the way of suffering. I had not suffered much myself and did not help people to be ready for it. But the fact is: when you follow Jesus, what happened to Him happens to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven  To serve the devil in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20229]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven  To serve the devil in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18755]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's clear Israel has suspended the peace process, despite the so-called moderation of the Arab world, because it has no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36240]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's clear Israel has suspended the peace process, despite the so-called moderation of the Arab world, because it has no interest in peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's give the individual the space to grow, instead of the economy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's give the individual the space to grow, instead of the economy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real "you" never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real "you" never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63228]]></link><description><![CDATA[All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt, yet start at shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt, yet start at shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When that report comes out, we'll have a better idea. We're going to have to wait for that report to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38135]]></link><description><![CDATA[When that report comes out, we'll have a better idea. We're going to have to wait for that report to come back May 1, and then we'll study it and we'll sit down with the president and university officials and decide what we're going to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon --but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx --the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacred cows make the best hamburger ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sacred cows make the best hamburger]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16348</guid></item></channel></rss>