<?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[Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In oratory the will must predominate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22226]]></link><description><![CDATA[In oratory the will must predominate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price action was incredible. A move like that leads me to believe that something is circulating. Something is known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38805]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price action was incredible. A move like that leads me to believe that something is circulating. Something is known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to know what's going on in everyone's lives and how I can relate to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to know what's going on in everyone's lives and how I can relate to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/211]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man once asked to shake hands with me, the "greatest Englishman who ever lived." I replied, "F**k off, I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23060]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man once asked to shake hands with me, the "greatest Englishman who ever lived." I replied, "F**k off, I'm Irish."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little journeys and good cost bring safe home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little journeys and good cost bring safe home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That might be an omen that I need to leave whatever I brought from there and just start completely over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40549]]></link><description><![CDATA[That might be an omen that I need to leave whatever I brought from there and just start completely over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11871]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring  In the spring,   And wait upon her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring  In the spring,   And wait upon her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is another name for opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45048]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is another name for opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the light at the end of the tunnel. The world can be polio-free in another 12 to 18 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30805]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the light at the end of the tunnel. The world can be polio-free in another 12 to 18 months everywhere, and the poorest countries in the world are committed to turning this around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23620]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smile don't frown Look up don't look downBelieve in yourself Don't let yourself goJust be who you areAnd let your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smile don't frown Look up don't look downBelieve in yourself Don't let yourself goJust be who you areAnd let your live flow..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10108]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As if thou e'er wert angry But with thy tailor! and yet that poor shred  Can bring more to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58567]]></link><description><![CDATA[As if thou e'er wert angry But with thy tailor! and yet that poor shred  Can bring more to the making up of a man,   Than can be hoped from thee; thou art his creature;    And did he not, each morning, new create thee,     Thou'dst stink and be forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  Jesus Christ suffered and died to sanctify death and suffering; he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  Jesus Christ suffered and died to sanctify death and suffering; he has been all that was great, and all that was abject, in order to sanctify in himself all things except sin, and to be the model of every condition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see it making sense for Wal-Mart from a dollars-and-cents standpoint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35557]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see it making sense for Wal-Mart from a dollars-and-cents standpoint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the American ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the American public by such companies as Enron, Global Crossing, Tyco and Adelphia, we finally got the ringleader. Maybe now we can lower the nation's terror alert to periwinkle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62549]]></link><description><![CDATA[For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kallis is a methodical run machine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kallis is a methodical run machine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is blynde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is blynde.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48420]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Church is not a tribe for the improvement in holiness of people who think it would be pleasant to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7857]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Church is not a tribe for the improvement in holiness of people who think it would be pleasant to be holy, a means to the integration of character for those who cannot bear their conflicts. It is a statement of the divine intention for humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. No matter what, no matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25920]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. No matter what, no matter where, it's always home, if love is there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee's compliance than on threats or sanctions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee's compliance than on threats or sanctions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind the clouds is the sun still shining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19255]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54035]]></link><description><![CDATA[For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife,  That's the true pathos and sublime   Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19609]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife,  That's the true pathos and sublime   Of human life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is the biggest motivator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is the biggest motivator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An imitative creature is man; whoever is foremost, leads the herd. [Ger., Der Mensch ist ein nachahmendes Geschopf.  Und ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20573]]></link><description><![CDATA[An imitative creature is man; whoever is foremost, leads the herd. [Ger., Der Mensch ist ein nachahmendes Geschopf.  Und wer Vorderste ist, fuhrt die Heerde.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y a que le premier pas qui coute.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The birds have ceased their songs, All save the blackbird, that from yon tall ash,  'Mid Pinkie's greenery, from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The birds have ceased their songs, All save the blackbird, that from yon tall ash,  'Mid Pinkie's greenery, from his mellow throat,   In adoration of the setting sun,    Chants forth his evening hymn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22042]]></link><description><![CDATA[The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not born for ourselves alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48887]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not born for ourselves alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9467]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ascension Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ascension Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540 Jesus shall reign where'er the sun Does its successive journeys run, His kingdom stretch from shore to shore, Till moons shall wax and wane no more. For him shall endless prayer be made,  And princes throng to crown his head; His name, like sweet perfume, shall rise With every morning sacrifice. People and realms of every tongue Dwell on his love with sweetest song, And infant-voices shall proclaim Their early blessings on his name. Blessings abound where'er he reigns; The prisoners leap to lose their chains; The weary find eternal rest, And all the sons of want are blest. Let every creature rise and bring Honors peculiar to our King; Angels descend with songs again, And earth repeat the loud amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman, amends may never come to late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman, amends may never come to late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The driver veered off the roadway edge where his motorcycle struck a section of guardrail causing an ejection, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The driver veered off the roadway edge where his motorcycle struck a section of guardrail causing an ejection,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary, on a shilling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary, on a shilling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He told us the game wasn't over. He told us (the Bulldogs) weren't going to quit. We got lackadaisical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30605]]></link><description><![CDATA[He told us the game wasn't over. He told us (the Bulldogs) weren't going to quit. We got lackadaisical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26826]]></link><description><![CDATA[A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But since cause and effect is under the personal control of God, He can introduce into the situation other causes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7656]]></link><description><![CDATA[But since cause and effect is under the personal control of God, He can introduce into the situation other causes than the ones which we ourselves can control. When in faith we come to God for cleansing from the mess we have made of things, and when we ask for power to reverse causes we have set in motion, God sends in other causes by His Holy Spirit. It may be by direct intervention, or by a combination of circumstances which He controls. We can, therefore, be delivered from the wrath to come, because God will add other causes than those that we have initiated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most tragic cases are the ones where you find out someone was desperately trying to get help and didn't, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33040]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most tragic cases are the ones where you find out someone was desperately trying to get help and didn't, and as a result, someone died.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12430</guid></item></channel></rss>