<?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[Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in beliefs, ideas and possessions. The sterile radical, too, is basically conservative. He is afraid to let go of the ideas and beliefs he picked up in his youth lest his life be seen as empty and wasted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55720]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2139]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just neat to be part of the story now. I know if my grandfather was alive today, he'd be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35788]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just neat to be part of the story now. I know if my grandfather was alive today, he'd be very proud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Presents," I often say, endear Absents." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17444]]></link><description><![CDATA["Presents," I often say, endear Absents."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence their importance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence their importance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45082]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew he was going to get some time, but man. That's a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34463]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew he was going to get some time, but man. That's a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whom the Lord liveth he correcteth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48595]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whom the Lord liveth he correcteth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1021]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, "The Beryl Coronet".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Schools have quickly closed and thousands of people carrying machetes, some with guns, are rushing toward the military barracks. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Schools have quickly closed and thousands of people carrying machetes, some with guns, are rushing toward the military barracks. It could be bloody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy man be his dole! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy man be his dole! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coward, a most devout coward; religious in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10504]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coward, a most devout coward; religious in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee; When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The holydays of joy are the vigils of sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51024]]></link><description><![CDATA[The holydays of joy are the vigils of sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say, Bacchus, why so placid? What can there be In commune held by Pallas and by thee?  Her pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say, Bacchus, why so placid? What can there be In commune held by Pallas and by thee?  Her pleasure is in darts and battles; thine   In joyous feasts and draughts of rosy wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be very hard for me to do things somebody else's way, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35797]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be very hard for me to do things somebody else's way,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house... let no one ever come to you without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house... let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40476]]></link><description><![CDATA[If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of totally unacceptable employees -- those who can't do what they're told and those who can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32321]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of totally unacceptable employees -- those who can't do what they're told and those who can't do anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11361]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme, Have not we sworn it, many a time,  That we no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme, Have not we sworn it, many a time,  That we no more our verse would scrawl,   For Shakespeare he had said it all!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. [Lat., Improbi hominis est mendacio fallere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11523]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. [Lat., Improbi hominis est mendacio fallere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees ofyour trousers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees ofyour trousers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This really is a team in every sense of the word. We've been getting a lot of contributions from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35273]]></link><description><![CDATA[This really is a team in every sense of the word. We've been getting a lot of contributions from a lot of kids.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chess is not only knowledge and logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chess is not only knowledge and logic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much of anything is bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much of anything is bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  We see him exalting love for neighbor along with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  We see him exalting love for neighbor along with love for God. He reaches out to foreigners who are beyond the borders of the "Israel of God". He seeks the release of captives, prisoners, and slaves. He denounces the scribes and religious leaders who "devour the houses of widows". Despite his well-known requirement of loyalty that surpasses family ties, he insists that a man put the care of his own parents ahead of his obligations to his religion. His treatment of women is radically opposed to the strictures of that day. He exhibits sympathy and understanding toward children. He operates an out-patient clinic wherever he happens to be. He insists upon justice as the basis for everyday dealings between citizens. The social teaching of parables like "the good Samaritan" and incidents such as the encounter with the rich young ruler have had an effect upon his followers that cannot easily be measured. If one summary statement of Jesus' ethics can be made, it is that love of God is best shown by love of fellow men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to be careful we don't do a lot of miles on Friday and Saturday and keep the engine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34885]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to be careful we don't do a lot of miles on Friday and Saturday and keep the engine safe for the race on Sunday,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assumptions are the termites of relationships. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Assumptions are the termites of relationships.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to what he has heard. [Lat., Hi narrata ferunt alio; mensuraque ficti  Crescit et auditus aliquid novus adjicit auctor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14141]]></link><description><![CDATA[An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53910]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's the rock around which we normally build our innings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42696]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's the rock around which we normally build our innings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and almost never leave. Our lives are measured by those.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15298]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To manipulate an image is to control a people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46555]]></link><description><![CDATA[To manipulate an image is to control a people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Felix will not pitch for Venezuela. We felt it best that given his youth and inexperience that it would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Felix will not pitch for Venezuela. We felt it best that given his youth and inexperience that it would be far better for him to be with our club in spring training.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked squash, the bobwhite's call, and a young girl's giggle, has a sense of humor. Make no mistake about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5958</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[Most smiles are started by another smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most smiles are started by another smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66701</guid></item></channel></rss>