<?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[You shine the light and you let them come out with their own words and they'll be exposed for what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39501]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shine the light and you let them come out with their own words and they'll be exposed for what they really are, which is ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun sets without thy assistance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51682]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun sets without thy assistance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She dominates pretty much everywhere she goes. She's hard to hit. She's probably the best in the district. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34264]]></link><description><![CDATA[She dominates pretty much everywhere she goes. She's hard to hit. She's probably the best in the district.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45239]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new Bali attacks after the London attacks show the resiliency of terrorists to strike targets when our guard is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new Bali attacks after the London attacks show the resiliency of terrorists to strike targets when our guard is down,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   The Abrahamic Covenant is not only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   The Abrahamic Covenant is not only totally different from the Mosaic Covenant, but there is no "throw-back" of any feature of the Mosaic period in Genesis. Abraham and Moses not only lived in two uniquely different worlds, but no Old Testament editor tried in any way to soften the glaring contrasts between the two spiritual giants. Abraham had no Tabernacle, with its minute ritual and special clergy. Abraham was given nothing like the detailed code of life demanded by the Sinai Covenant. Abraham was not even furnished with the basic Ten Commandments. And yet, when we turn to the New Testament, it is Abraham who holds the place of honor, and not Moses! Abraham is mentioned over seventy times in the New Testament, and half of these are in the Gospels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43942]]></link><description><![CDATA[This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12346]]></link><description><![CDATA[I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can you make a mistake and miss your fate? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb. [Lat., Nunquam aedepol temere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4121]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb. [Lat., Nunquam aedepol temere tinniit tintinnabulum;  Nisi quis illud tractat aut movet, mutum est, tacet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61356]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12973]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  The separate creaturely life, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  The separate creaturely life, as opposed to life in union with God, is only a life of various appetites, hungers, and wants, and cannot possibly be anything else. God Himself cannot make a creature to be in itself, or in its own nature, anything else but a state of emptiness. The highest life that is natural and creaturely can go no higher than this: it can only be a bare capacity for goodness and cannot possibly be a good and happy life but by the life of God dwelling in it and in union with it. And this is the two-fold life that, of all necessity, must be united in every good and happy and perfect creature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still. . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still. . . must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like fragile ice anger passes away in time. [Lat., Ut fragilis glacies interit ira mora.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like fragile ice anger passes away in time. [Lat., Ut fragilis glacies interit ira mora.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is to hope, though hope were lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19759]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is to hope, though hope were lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43536]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22905]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29579]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66760]]></link><description><![CDATA[All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are brave, others are just too stupid to be afraid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are brave, others are just too stupid to be afraid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a neighbor helping take care of the kids, and we just kind of jostled it. I called 24 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40949]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a neighbor helping take care of the kids, and we just kind of jostled it. I called 24 hours a day to see how everyone was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9628]]></link><description><![CDATA[My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looked like it was going to slip away, but it wasn't going to happen. We weren't about to let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42279]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looked like it was going to slip away, but it wasn't going to happen. We weren't about to let it slip away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of allothers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of allothers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. Therefore I do not see how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. Therefore I do not see how it is possible in the nature of things for any revival of religion to continue long. For religion must necessarily produce both industry and frugality, and these cannot but produce riches. But as riches increase, so will pride, anger, and love of the world in all its branches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the real secret of all that indignation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50369]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the real secret of all that indignation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin,  And to the stack or the barn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8937]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin,  And to the stack or the barn door   Stoutly struts his dames before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45974]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labours of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make the coming hour o'erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make the coming hour o'erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ignorant hath an Eagles wings, and an Owles eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ignorant hath an Eagles wings, and an Owles eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8946]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Keating: Seize the day! Make your lives extraordinary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Keating: Seize the day! Make your lives extraordinary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have been temporary successes, but always health care costs have bounced back with a vengeance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34068]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have been temporary successes, but always health care costs have bounced back with a vengeance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52743]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis, and I don't deserve that, either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44278]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis, and I don't deserve that, either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears;  Are they wet   Even yet    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears;  Are they wet   Even yet    With the thought of other years?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60715</guid></item></channel></rss>