<?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[Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band  That knits me to thy rugged ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band  That knits me to thy rugged strand!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is really good news. I compliment our staff, the leadership teams in the schools, the students and parents everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34179]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is really good news. I compliment our staff, the leadership teams in the schools, the students and parents everyone who had a part in that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15978]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is very impressive. I was in San Diego and he ran the 40 in a 4.3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31409]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is very impressive. I was in San Diego and he ran the 40 in a 4.3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All wish for knowledge, but no one wishes to pay the price of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50428]]></link><description><![CDATA[All wish for knowledge, but no one wishes to pay the price of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540   Visit, I beseech thee, O Lord, this habitation with thy mercy, and me with thy grace and salvation. Let thy holy angels pitch their tents round about and dwell here, that no illusion of the night may abuse me, the spirits of darkness may not come near to hurt me, no evil or sad accident oppress me; and let the eternal Spirit of the Father dwell in my soul and body, filling every corner of my heart with light and grace. Let no deed of darkness overtake me; and let thy blessing, most blessed God, be upon me for ever, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1694]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America—and change soon. We must help that change to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humble Hearts have humble desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humble Hearts have humble desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64126]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13553]]></link><description><![CDATA[An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We go to the hospital twice a week. She has had bone marrow biopsies, four blood transfusions and numerous tests. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40951]]></link><description><![CDATA[We go to the hospital twice a week. She has had bone marrow biopsies, four blood transfusions and numerous tests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392   Pierce that in you, that was the cause of Christ's piercing; that is sin and the lusts thereof. Look and be pierced with love of Him, who so loved you, that He gave Himself in this sort to be pierced for you. Look upon Him, and His heart opened, and from that gate of hope promise yourself, and look for all manner of things that good are: the deliverance from the evil of our present misery [and] the restoring to the good of our primitive felicity. Look back upon it with some pain; for one way or other, look upon it we must.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should all endure our own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48890]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should all endure our own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot masturbate]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44069]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32020]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48691]]></link><description><![CDATA[But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth. [Lat., Teneris, heu, lubrica moribus aetas!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth. [Lat., Teneris, heu, lubrica moribus aetas!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word spoken in due season, how good is it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48650]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word spoken in due season, how good is it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64640]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47184]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains. You can liberate a freeman, but you cannot liberate a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16769]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poem is the point at which our strength gave out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46776]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the quality of our inner lives I do not mean something characterized by ferocious intensity and strain. I mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8388]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the quality of our inner lives I do not mean something characterized by ferocious intensity and strain. I mean rather such a humble and genial devotedness as we find in the most loving of the saints. I mean the quality which makes contagious Christians, makes people catch the love of God from you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We plan to re-certify our bid. We don't anticipate any changes. And we believe we have a very good shot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33659]]></link><description><![CDATA[We plan to re-certify our bid. We don't anticipate any changes. And we believe we have a very good shot at winning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, there's a new generation of linens with finishes that don't wrinkle as much, that seem much more organic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39127]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, there's a new generation of linens with finishes that don't wrinkle as much, that seem much more organic, much more natural.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout,  Touched by light, with heavenly warning   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout,  Touched by light, with heavenly warning   Your transporting chords ring out.    Every leaf in every nook,     Every wave in every brook,      Chanting with a solemn voice       Minds us of our better choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Formula One is a strange world but if you have clear values, you can maintain the separation between truth and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Formula One is a strange world but if you have clear values, you can maintain the separation between truth and fiction. If people praise you, you cannot let it go to your head, because at the next race you could be criticized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns; to spend their strength  In furthest striving action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/506]]></link><description><![CDATA[For strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns; to spend their strength  In furthest striving action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind. [Lat., Medicus nihil aliud est quam animi consolatio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26704]]></link><description><![CDATA[A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind. [Lat., Medicus nihil aliud est quam animi consolatio.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59700]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it--peace! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it--peace!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're very athletic and they run the floor. They have tough-minded guys and they never give up. Even when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34524]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're very athletic and they run the floor. They have tough-minded guys and they never give up. Even when you have a lead, they always find a way to come back. It's an ACC game and it's going to be a close game I'm sure. We're just going to have to be consistent throughout the game; we can't have long periods where we don't score.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14964]]></link><description><![CDATA[An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palm Sunday Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877   The entrance into Jerusalem [on Palm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Palm Sunday Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877   The entrance into Jerusalem [on Palm Sunday] has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions -- even parading without a permit! Also, when Jesus "set his face to go to Jerusalem," what was involved was direct action, an open confrontation and public demonstration of the incompatibility of evil with the Kingdom of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44247</guid></item></channel></rss>