<?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[And the people we’ve become, well, they’ve never been the people who we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12552]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the people we’ve become, well, they’ve never been the people who we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.  I sing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57796]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.  I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes,   Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19049]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12719]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great actions are not always true sons Of great and mighty resolutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great actions are not always true sons Of great and mighty resolutions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We couldn't press like we wanted to, but our pressure defense in the half-court set was great. We took their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37586]]></link><description><![CDATA[We couldn't press like we wanted to, but our pressure defense in the half-court set was great. We took their big guy out of the game, and that really made the difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There shall be no more snow No weary noontide heat,  So we lift our trusting eyes   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17089]]></link><description><![CDATA[There shall be no more snow No weary noontide heat,  So we lift our trusting eyes   From the hills our Fathers trod:    To the quiet of the skies:     To the Sabbath of our God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10483]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people would rather get even instead of get ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people would rather get even instead of get ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["You are too free spoken," is your constant remark to me, Choerilus. He who speaks against you, Choerilus, is indeed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14064]]></link><description><![CDATA["You are too free spoken," is your constant remark to me, Choerilus. He who speaks against you, Choerilus, is indeed a free speaker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very pleased at the improvement we've made. I am pleased at our direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very pleased at the improvement we've made. I am pleased at our direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By merit raised To that bad eminence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27389]]></link><description><![CDATA[By merit raised To that bad eminence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59050</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[They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14110]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53319]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For dear is the Emerald Isle of the ocean, Whose daughters are fair as the foam of the wave,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23055]]></link><description><![CDATA[For dear is the Emerald Isle of the ocean, Whose daughters are fair as the foam of the wave,  Whose sons unaccustom'd to rebel commotion,   Tho' joyous, are sober--tho' peaceful, are brave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can afford to live anywhere else and I choose to stay here, and I am now raising my newborn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can afford to live anywhere else and I choose to stay here, and I am now raising my newborn child here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who hesitates is probably right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21438]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who hesitates is probably right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I embrace the Nerd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31993]]></link><description><![CDATA[I embrace the Nerd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to do what the Republican Congress didn't have the decency to do, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42286]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to do what the Republican Congress didn't have the decency to do,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where deep and misty shadows float In forest's depths is heard thy note.  Like a lost spirit, earthbound still, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where deep and misty shadows float In forest's depths is heard thy note.  Like a lost spirit, earthbound still,   Art thou, mysterious whip-poor-will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   The greatest curse which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   The greatest curse which can be entailed upon mankind is a state of war. All the atrocious crimes committed in years of peace -- all that is spent in peace by the secret corruptions or by the thoughtless extravagances of nations -- are mere trifles compared with the gigantic evils which stalk over the world in a state of war. God is forgotten in war -- every principle of Christian charity is trampled upon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1057]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. "I come to seek God because I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7457]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. "I come to seek God because I need Him", may be an adequate formula for prayer. "I come to adore His splendour, and fling myself and all that I have at His feet", is the only possible formula for worship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20567]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! Now I crank out crude imitations of what's already popular! It takes no time or thought, and most people don't care about the difference, anyway! And what good is originality if you can't crank it out?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1155]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Same-sex marriage is not the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Same-sex marriage is not the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful. [Fr., L'or meme a la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful. [Fr., L'or meme a la laideur donne un teint de beaute:  Mais tout devient affreux avec la pauvrete.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,  And trifles life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,  And trifles life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65598]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Wherever the missionary character of the doctrine of election is forgotten; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Wherever the missionary character of the doctrine of election is forgotten; wherever it is forgotten that we are chosen in order to be sent; wherever the minds of believers are concerned more to probe backwards from their election into the reasons for it in the secret counsel of God, than to press forward from their election to the purpose of it, ... that they should be Christ's ambassadors and witnesses to the ends of the earth, wherever men think that the purpose of election is their own salvation rather than the salvation of the world: then God's people have betrayed their trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a different matter with sheep. Once their wool is waterlogged, they drown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39662]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a different matter with sheep. Once their wool is waterlogged, they drown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gentle Spring!--in sunshine clad, Well dost thou thy power display!  For Winter maketh the light heart said,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gentle Spring!--in sunshine clad, Well dost thou thy power display!  For Winter maketh the light heart said,   And thou,--makest the sad heart gay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3963]]></link><description><![CDATA[To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were looking for a very good keeper, who has the ambition to play, but also knows Paul Robinson is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35071]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were looking for a very good keeper, who has the ambition to play, but also knows Paul Robinson is in front of him,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The English Infantry is the most formidable in Europe, but fortunately there is not much of it. [Fr., L'infanterie anglaise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The English Infantry is the most formidable in Europe, but fortunately there is not much of it. [Fr., L'infanterie anglaise est la plus redoubtable de l"Europe; heureusement, il n'y en a pas beaucoup.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A severe war lurks under the show of peace. [Lat., Mars gravior sub pace latet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45879]]></link><description><![CDATA[A severe war lurks under the show of peace. [Lat., Mars gravior sub pace latet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring;  Sea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring;  Sea ebb, by long ebbing, some respite doth give,   And sendeth good comfort, to such as shall live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of two evils choose the least. [Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of two evils choose the least. [Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14307</guid></item></channel></rss>