<?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[He who labours, prays. [Lat., Qui laborat, orat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23918]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who labours, prays. [Lat., Qui laborat, orat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old wise mans shaddow is better then a young buzzards sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49131]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old wise mans shaddow is better then a young buzzards sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grant to us, O Lord, to know that which is worth knowing, to love that which is worth loving, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grant to us, O Lord, to know that which is worth knowing, to love that which is worth loving, to praise that which pleaseth Thee most, to esteem that which is most precious unto Thee, and to dislike whatsoever is evil in Thins eyes. Grant us with true judgment to distinguish things that differ, and above all to search out and do what is well pleasing unto Thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force: Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good laugh is sunshine in the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63987]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good laugh is sunshine in the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did that a lot, he worked behind the scenes. He knew who he needed on board to make it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30164]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did that a lot, he worked behind the scenes. He knew who he needed on board to make it happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11854]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5785]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can find my biography in every fable that I read ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can find my biography in every fable that I read]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I want back is what I wasBefore the bed, before the knife,Before the brooch-pin and the salveFixed me in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26897]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I want back is what I wasBefore the bed, before the knife,Before the brooch-pin and the salveFixed me in this parenthesis;Horses fluent in the wind,A place, a time gone out of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He got there late and I briefed him. I'm not sure he didn't follow my lead out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40433]]></link><description><![CDATA[He got there late and I briefed him. I'm not sure he didn't follow my lead out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15721]]></link><description><![CDATA[All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664  A man may be haunted with doubts, and only grow thereby in faith. Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood... Doubt must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only cure for grief is action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18335]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only cure for grief is action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies,prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22687]]></link><description><![CDATA[The latter part of a man's life is taken up in curing the follies,prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate;  And whatever sky's above ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate;  And whatever sky's above me,   Here's a heart for every fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16390]]></link><description><![CDATA[A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My peace is gone, my heart is heavy. [Ger., Meine Ruh ist hin,  Mein Herz ist schwer.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19047]]></link><description><![CDATA[My peace is gone, my heart is heavy. [Ger., Meine Ruh ist hin,  Mein Herz ist schwer.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a blue print for how to make a national or state fund work after the success of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39196]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a blue print for how to make a national or state fund work after the success of the Florida catastrophe fund. Commissioners are calling for special sessions in legislature and are hoping that the process will be more seamless than it was in Florida.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology is Anthropology. [Ger., Die Theologie ist die Anthropologie.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology is Anthropology. [Ger., Die Theologie ist die Anthropologie.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a really nice surprise, ... We were the only newcomers, and doggone if we didn't take it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37509]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a really nice surprise, ... We were the only newcomers, and doggone if we didn't take it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm extremely proud of the kids. We hit this road trip (East won at Green River 72-67 Friday) head on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm extremely proud of the kids. We hit this road trip (East won at Green River 72-67 Friday) head on and got two big wins. We played with as much intensity and we've had all year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Faith' means not wanting to know what is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14997]]></link><description><![CDATA['Faith' means not wanting to know what is true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you must flie, flie well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49523]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you must flie, flie well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But sometimes you have to do what you have to do, ... You can?t depend on other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28249]]></link><description><![CDATA[But sometimes you have to do what you have to do, ... You can?t depend on other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yeah, I played center field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yeah, I played center field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [Fr., Hatez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [Fr., Hatez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre courage,  Vingt fois sur le metier remettez votre ouvrage.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men ... are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men ... are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26939]]></link><description><![CDATA[By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433  That crowd of Jews would have followed Christ at that moment because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433  That crowd of Jews would have followed Christ at that moment because He was giving them what they wanted [bread], and they wished to use Him for their plans and dreams and purposes. That attitude to Christ still lingers in men's minds. We would like Christ's gifts without Christ's Cross; we would like to use Christ instead of allowing Him to use us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63877]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64983]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the problem with forecast modeling. It assumes current conditions and normal weather throughout the period. That can go out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30684]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the problem with forecast modeling. It assumes current conditions and normal weather throughout the period. That can go out the window.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941   That fear which keeps from sin and excites the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941   That fear which keeps from sin and excites the soul to cleave more firmly to God, be the object of it what it will, is no servile fear, but a holy fear and due reverence unto God and His word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those only deserve a monument who do not need one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23485]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls. So]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26600]]></link><description><![CDATA[All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was he.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn." Ropo Oguntimehin Education is a companion which no future can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate it and no nepotism can enslave. -T.H. White.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13568</guid></item></channel></rss>