<?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[I know all about his (no-show) reputation and his temper. But I'm pretty darn confident he'll be here. I talked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know all about his (no-show) reputation and his temper. But I'm pretty darn confident he'll be here. I talked with him personally, and then with his agent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He confesses his guilt who flies from his trial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50550]]></link><description><![CDATA[He confesses his guilt who flies from his trial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, youare a whole, total person, not an apprentice person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, youare a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way tosomeplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you andexperienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great recipe for success is to work, and always work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[fed up with being their whipping boy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38226]]></link><description><![CDATA[fed up with being their whipping boy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65850]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are going to continue to drink. They're going to continue to smoke. They're going to continue to gamble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32409]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are going to continue to drink. They're going to continue to smoke. They're going to continue to gamble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Back at home, everybody always thought that David was going to be big time. When he was in Minnesota, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Back at home, everybody always thought that David was going to be big time. When he was in Minnesota, a lot of people thought that he was going to be a productive hitter there. But he's moved on to a bigger market and he's done what he's done, and he deserves everything that he's getting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Father! no prophet's laws I seek,-- Thy laws in Nature's works appear;--  I own myself corrupt and weak,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Father! no prophet's laws I seek,-- Thy laws in Nature's works appear;--  I own myself corrupt and weak,   Yet will I pray, for thou wilt hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, And till she stoop she must not be full-gorged,  For then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15058]]></link><description><![CDATA[My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, And till she stoop she must not be full-gorged,  For then she never looks upon her lure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no containment on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41151]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no containment on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves Interlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlight To divide us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32119]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves Interlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlight To divide us forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Land to which Desire forever flees; Time doth no present to our grasp allow,  Say in the fixed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear Land to which Desire forever flees; Time doth no present to our grasp allow,  Say in the fixed Eternal shall we seize   At last the fleeting Now?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who buys what he needs not, sells what he needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14776]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who buys what he needs not, sells what he needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1452]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11347]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've analyzed the best I can ... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47310]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've analyzed the best I can ... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bride received into the home is like a horse that you have just bought; you break her in by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4915]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bride received into the home is like a horse that you have just bought; you break her in by constantly mounting her and continually beating her]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed shrink is our friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed shrink is our friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18339]]></link><description><![CDATA[If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., Se a ciascun l'interno affanno  Si leggesse in fronte scritto,   Quanti mai, che invidia fanno,    Ci farebbero pieta!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do,  Must be an angel.   - Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14651]]></link><description><![CDATA[To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with political jokes is they get elected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1878]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two other parts [Moore] played from the '50s are so different from Evelyn Ryan. The character she played in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37207]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two other parts [Moore] played from the '50s are so different from Evelyn Ryan. The character she played in The Hours was a woman who fled the oppression of her home. Evelyn Ryan stayed. She chose to brave it out, because she was determined to make sure every one of those 10 kids of hers made it out of that house intact. It's heroic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thought driven home is better than three left on base. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22665]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thought driven home is better than three left on base.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49072]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So--now the danger dared at last, Look back and smile at perils past! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51101]]></link><description><![CDATA[So--now the danger dared at last, Look back and smile at perils past!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know we've got to create time out of no time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know we've got to create time out of no time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its like buying a bottle of milk and getting a bottle of orange........you just would not accept it would you???? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its like buying a bottle of milk and getting a bottle of orange........you just would not accept it would you????]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23865]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27876]]></link><description><![CDATA[My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   The mystery revealed, in a unique degree ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   The mystery revealed, in a unique degree and form, in Christ's life, is really a universal spiritual human law: the law of suffering and sacrifice, as the one way to joy and possession, which has existed, though veiled till now, since the foundation of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. [Lat., Crede mihi, miseris ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. [Lat., Crede mihi, miseris coelestia numina parcunt;  Nec semper laesos, et sine fine, premunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content makes poor men rich; Discontent makes rich men poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content makes poor men rich; Discontent makes rich men poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384   In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384   In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bishop has not laid hands upon him according to his traditions, God has Himself appointed him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In good King Charles's golden days When royalty no harm meant,  A zealous high-churchman was I,   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54489]]></link><description><![CDATA[In good King Charles's golden days When royalty no harm meant,  A zealous high-churchman was I,   And so I got preferment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26308]]></link><description><![CDATA[If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15741]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.in his farewell address.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't hit a home run with a witness who has admittedly lied for years but all of a sudden, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38288]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't hit a home run with a witness who has admittedly lied for years but all of a sudden, because he has a get-out-of jail-free card, has changed his mind. If the prosecution thinks it hit a home run they're not going to last the full nine innings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the devil was he doing in this galley? [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58408]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the devil was he doing in this galley? [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58408</guid></item></channel></rss>