<?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[It was like a battleground, helicopters, fire engines, my car door was crushed like an accordion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29431]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was like a battleground, helicopters, fire engines, my car door was crushed like an accordion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43767]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we have what we like 'tis hard to miss it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48783]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we have what we like 'tis hard to miss it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius . . . means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius . . . means the transcendent capacity of taking trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274   The end of all my labors has come. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274   The end of all my labors has come. All that I have written appears to me as much straw after the things that have been revealed to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26656]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But from the hoop's bewitching round, He very shoe has power to wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56220]]></link><description><![CDATA[But from the hoop's bewitching round, He very shoe has power to wound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In whatever place you meet me, Postumus, you cry out immediately, and your very first words are, "How do you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14067]]></link><description><![CDATA[In whatever place you meet me, Postumus, you cry out immediately, and your very first words are, "How do you do?" You say this, even if you meet me ten times in one single hour: you, Postumus, have nothing, I suppose, to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love;  The ivy climbs the laurel   To clasp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23107]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love;  The ivy climbs the laurel   To clasp the boughs above.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the conviction persists - though history has shown it to be a hallucination - that all the questions that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52105]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the conviction persists - though history has shown it to be a hallucination - that all the questions that the human mind has asked are questions that can be answered in terms of the alternatives that the questions themselves present. But in fact intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume - an abandonment that results from their decreasing vitality and change of urgent interest. We do not solve them: we get over them. Old questions are solved by disappearing, evaporating, while new questions corresponding to the changed attitude of endeavor and preference take their place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The underlying questions are always: What is the Church? What is the Church for? If that is not kept in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6427]]></link><description><![CDATA[The underlying questions are always: What is the Church? What is the Church for? If that is not kept in mind, the lay ministry, about which so much is being said at present, remains on the level of a many-sided activity in which the self-assertion of the laity threatens to be more evident than a new manifestation of the Church in modern society. The responsible participation of the laity in the discharge of the Church's divine calling is not primarily a matter of idealism and enthusiasm or organizational efficiency, but a new grasp and commitment to the meaning of God's redemptive purpose with mankind and with the world in the past, the present, and the future: a purpose which has its foundation and inexhaustible content in Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In King Cambyses' vein. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55867]]></link><description><![CDATA[In King Cambyses' vein. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now they got me out there in the package, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now they got me out there in the package,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the theater the audience wants to be surprised but by things that they expect ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59041]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the theater the audience wants to be surprised but by things that they expect]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, ". . . in the human heart that had better not be wibrated." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19045]]></link><description><![CDATA["There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, ". . . in the human heart that had better not be wibrated."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very pleased with my performance and being up there with Karin and Joane, both of whom I look up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very pleased with my performance and being up there with Karin and Joane, both of whom I look up to, is great. I hope to be in their seats in future years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ceremony and ritual spring from our heart of hearts: those who govern us know it well, for they would sooner ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ceremony and ritual spring from our heart of hearts: those who govern us know it well, for they would sooner deny us bread than dare alter the observance of tradition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4276]]></link><description><![CDATA[My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sense of death is most in apprehension. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sense of death is most in apprehension.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It humiliates millions and millions of ordinary peace-loving Muslims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28568]]></link><description><![CDATA[It humiliates millions and millions of ordinary peace-loving Muslims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rhine! the Rhine! a blessing on the Rhine! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Rhine! the Rhine! a blessing on the Rhine!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just shows how global basketball is, how unifying basketball is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28869]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just shows how global basketball is, how unifying basketball is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatched in the same nest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatched in the same nest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57265]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar  Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2721]]></link><description><![CDATA[And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar  Of the Russias to boot, for the rest of his days,   On the whole do you think he would have much to spare    If he married a woman with nothing to wear?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been "great changes.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool. [Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8684]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool. [Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A decision made at night may be changed in the morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11599]]></link><description><![CDATA[A decision made at night may be changed in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charisma, the celebrity, around John Paul was so strong that, in a way, the religious significance of the event ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charisma, the celebrity, around John Paul was so strong that, in a way, the religious significance of the event sort of fades from view. Benedict is obviously determined that is not going to happen. He's trying very hard to make sure the focus is on the ritual, not the person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25827]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In those days he was wiser than he is now--he used frequently to take my advice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1218]]></link><description><![CDATA[In those days he was wiser than he is now--he used frequently to take my advice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9618]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23791]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15088]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36599]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't be more proud of our guys. We started off 2-5 and won 9 of our last 10. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29491]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't be more proud of our guys. We started off 2-5 and won 9 of our last 10. We were a pretty handful until we got in point guard trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26798]]></link><description><![CDATA[In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident. -Sir Hugh Walpoe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25886</guid></item></channel></rss>