<?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[Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have not yet begun to fight! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47229]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have not yet begun to fight!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17084]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear:  In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10105]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear:  In that the skill of conversation lies;   That shows and makes you both polite and wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will enter into Paradise, must have a good key. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49410]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will enter into Paradise, must have a good key.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;  For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;  For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind,   Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself;    And yet the end of all is bought thus dear,     The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear      To stop the air would hurt them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45942]]></link><description><![CDATA[But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46721]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17713]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity dispenseth with decorum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity dispenseth with decorum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   The gospel comprises indeed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man's redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation: and the corpuscularian or mechanical philosophy strives to deduce all the phenomena of nature from adiaphorous matter, and local motion. But neither the fundamental doctrine of Christianity nor that of the powers and effects of matter and motion seems to be more than an epicycle ... of the great and universal system of God's contrivances, and makes but a part of the more general theory of things, knowable by the light of nature, improved by the information of the scriptures: so that both these doctrines... seem to be but members of the universal hypothesis, whose objects I conceive to be the natural counsels, and works of God, so far as they are discoverable by us in this life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were so close against Auburn and Smiths Station and didn't get the win. Tonight we were finally able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37285]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were so close against Auburn and Smiths Station and didn't get the win. Tonight we were finally able to sniff out a win and get it against a very good Central team. Hopefully that will carry over through (spring break) and get us going in the right direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may forget the days of your anniversary or the loved ones birthday, but please don't forget those people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62916]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may forget the days of your anniversary or the loved ones birthday, but please don't forget those people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57006]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now rather thank I God there is no riskOf gravers scoring it with florid screed.Let my inscription be this soldier's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now rather thank I God there is no riskOf gravers scoring it with florid screed.Let my inscription be this soldier's disc.Wear it, sweet friend. Inscribe no date nor deed.But may thy heart-beat kiss it, night and day,Until the name grow blurred and fade away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel the coast is getting something rammed down the throat by the rest of the state and in particular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28696]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel the coast is getting something rammed down the throat by the rest of the state and in particular by Haley Barbour who used to be a lobbyist for the petroleum industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fine has been imposed because his duties don't allow him to be offering advice to the referee during the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35961]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fine has been imposed because his duties don't allow him to be offering advice to the referee during the course of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homeless people on the streets knew when she was getting her check. It was no secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homeless people on the streets knew when she was getting her check. It was no secret.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We continue to demand that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia get immediate access to Kosovo, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41092]]></link><description><![CDATA[We continue to demand that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia get immediate access to Kosovo,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eating with a dog nearby may turn some customers off. But then there are some people who do everything with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eating with a dog nearby may turn some customers off. But then there are some people who do everything with their dogs. We don't allow the dogs (in the dining patio area) because we were told it was a health code violation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   George Brush, the hero of [Thornton Wilder's] "Heaven's My Destination", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   George Brush, the hero of [Thornton Wilder's] "Heaven's My Destination", a textbook salesman and evangelist extraordinary, is the innocent fool, in the kindliest sense of both the noun and the adjective. He is striving to be the fool in Christ, sowing the inevitable amazement, consternation and wrath that must ensue when Christ's fool runs at large among the worldly wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission:"While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission:"While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless,day after day.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was concerned and when I asked Ashton if she was OK, she smiled. I knew then that she would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33394]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was concerned and when I asked Ashton if she was OK, she smiled. I knew then that she would be OK.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agreement in likes and dislikes--this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agreement in likes and dislikes--this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.   - George Colman ("The Younger"), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.   - George Colman ("The Younger"),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soul as white as Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57270]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soul as white as Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57270</guid></item><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[Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the heart is enlivened again, it feels like the sun coming out after a week of rainy days. There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19810]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the heart is enlivened again, it feels like the sun coming out after a week of rainy days. There is hope in the heart that chases the clouds away. Hope is a higher heart frequency and as you begin to reconnect with your heart, hope is waiting to show you new possibilities and arrest the downward spiral of grief and loneliness. It becomes a matter of how soon you want the sun to shine. Listening to the still, small voice in your heart will make hope into a reality. Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart Hope is a higher heart frequency, and as you begin to re-connect with your heart, hope is waiting to show you new possibilities and arrest the downward spiral of grief and loneliness. Listening to the still small voice in your heart will make hope into a reality. Benjamin Franklin, preface, Poor Richard's Almanac, 1758 He that lives upon hope will die fasting. -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that keepes his owne makes warre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that keepes his owne makes warre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a hug that said you're not alone. It was a hug that, just when I thought all my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53753]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a hug that said you're not alone. It was a hug that, just when I thought all my strength was used up, and I couldn't go on, renewed me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an insult to be just a great cover guy. I really think Deion Sanders set defensive-back play back. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34087]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an insult to be just a great cover guy. I really think Deion Sanders set defensive-back play back. All he would do is cover people and not strike anybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had the intelligence data; there just was no system in place to intercept them as they were entering the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39209]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had the intelligence data; there just was no system in place to intercept them as they were entering the country or as they were boarding the planes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never worry about action, but only about inaction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never worry about action, but only about inaction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you both; and in any case ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you both; and in any case have a nay-word, that you may know one another's mind, and the boy never need to understand anything; for 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness. Old folks, you know, have discretion, as they say, and know the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52468]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it. [Ger., Wer dem Publicum dient, ist ein armes Thier;  Er qualt sich ab, niemand bedankt sich dafur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to come to terms with the realization that one small man could change the course of history with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36638]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to come to terms with the realization that one small man could change the course of history with just a couple of shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out,  Even to a full disgrace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out,  Even to a full disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22732</guid></item></channel></rss>