<?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[Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape;  Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest   Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26491]]></link><description><![CDATA[You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I saw fair Chloris walk alone, The feather'd snow came softly down,  As Jove, descending from his tow'r ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56709]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I saw fair Chloris walk alone, The feather'd snow came softly down,  As Jove, descending from his tow'r   To court her in a silver show'r.    The wanton snow flew to her breast,     As little birds into their nest;      But o'ercome with whiteness there,       For grief dissolv'd into a tear.        Thence falling on her garment hem,         To deck her, froze into a gem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It appears I am destined for something; I will live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14498]]></link><description><![CDATA[It appears I am destined for something; I will live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was motivation for us to win the region title on their home floor. It would have been nice to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38280]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was motivation for us to win the region title on their home floor. It would have been nice to have won it at home, but to win it there was special, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19061]]></link><description><![CDATA[In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're doing a lot of different stuff. We're not just doing the stuff we did last year. I don't want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34631]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're doing a lot of different stuff. We're not just doing the stuff we did last year. I don't want to get too in-depth on what we're doing, but it's all good stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a fair amount of resilience in the consumer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32880]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a fair amount of resilience in the consumer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In remembrance of Theresa Marie Schiavo: Issues of law and ethics, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41890]]></link><description><![CDATA[In remembrance of Theresa Marie Schiavo: Issues of law and ethics,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't run a government solely on a business basis ... Government should be human. It should have a heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18033]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't run a government solely on a business basis ... Government should be human. It should have a heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12685]]></link><description><![CDATA[No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward conduct the American people don't want from their elected leaders: Abusing power. Inserting the government into our private lives. Injecting religion into debates about public policy. Jumping through hoops to ingratiate themselves to their party’s base, while step by step, day by day, real problems that keep American families up at night fall by the wayside here in Washington.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50668]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let the University get in the way of your education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let the University get in the way of your education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They talk about the f------ mob; at least we've got principles! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36308]]></link><description><![CDATA[They talk about the f------ mob; at least we've got principles!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our goal with College Goal Sunday is to help break down some of the barriers that keep students and families ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our goal with College Goal Sunday is to help break down some of the barriers that keep students and families from filling out the form. College today, of course, is the passport to the American dream for so many students.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that every time I'm with you, makes me believe in magic? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that every time I'm with you, makes me believe in magic?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need forensic mathematicians, artists and psychologists as well as scientists. We're learning a little bit about all of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37565]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need forensic mathematicians, artists and psychologists as well as scientists. We're learning a little bit about all of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one. -Lord Halifax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good one. -Lord Halifax.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4061]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down aninvitation to dinner without giving an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21846]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down aninvitation to dinner without giving an excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13162]]></link><description><![CDATA[And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2263]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,--  We'll deserve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58122]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,--  We'll deserve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God cannot alter the past, though historians can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19550]]></link><description><![CDATA[God cannot alter the past, though historians can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13197]]></link><description><![CDATA[He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the ladder of success: Some people are at the top of the ladder, someare in the middle, still more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21581]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the ladder of success: Some people are at the top of the ladder, someare in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot moredon't even know there is a ladder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love him who tells you your faults in private. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love him who tells you your faults in private.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58143]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods. And if a man knows the law, people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey into oils and ochers all the enchantments of spring or autumn; or can liberate or intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses, 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept: the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose talk is of bullocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose talk is of bullocks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58603</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[Don Chaucer. well of English undefyled On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don Chaucer. well of English undefyled On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Threaten the oppressed and be prepared to face their onslaught, abuse them and be prepared for an even greater threat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Threaten the oppressed and be prepared to face their onslaught, abuse them and be prepared for an even greater threat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are going to set up a committee of three members from the Land and Development Committee and three from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are going to set up a committee of three members from the Land and Development Committee and three from the speedway to sit down to try to work out some of the issues. That's where we're at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unconscious humor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unconscious humor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow your heart, but don’t forget to take your brain with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow your heart, but don’t forget to take your brain with you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a private conversation between myself and another elected official, and that's the end of it. We can work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38122]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a private conversation between myself and another elected official, and that's the end of it. We can work on other issues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57666]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are our lame praises in comparison with His love? Nothing, and less than nothing; but love will stammer rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8035]]></link><description><![CDATA[What are our lame praises in comparison with His love? Nothing, and less than nothing; but love will stammer rather than be dumb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3178]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wyclif, Reformer, 1384  All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wyclif, Reformer, 1384  All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32311]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32311</guid></item></channel></rss>