<?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[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709   In the way of virtue, there is no standing still; anyone who does not daily advance, loses ground. To remain at a standstill is impossible; he that gains not, loses; he that ascends not, descends. If one does not ascend the ladder, one must descend; if one does not conquer, one will be conquered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63281]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks does not understand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60044]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks does not understand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, I see nothing. Just a lot of thick brush, a harsh terrain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, I see nothing. Just a lot of thick brush, a harsh terrain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a shame somebody had to lose. They were just a little bit more patient than we were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38852]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a shame somebody had to lose. They were just a little bit more patient than we were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65693]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11186]]></link><description><![CDATA[To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17795]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a good, good man, very involved in the lives of his two teenage daughters, ... He was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39161]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a good, good man, very involved in the lives of his two teenage daughters, ... He was a big soccer coach. His wife and family were number one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24786]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we do not have love we will be unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NATO is not moving to the Pacific. NATO is not moving anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37056]]></link><description><![CDATA[NATO is not moving to the Pacific. NATO is not moving anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've spent most of my life golfing - the rest I've just wasted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17806]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've spent most of my life golfing - the rest I've just wasted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 -- bowling balls. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 -- bowling balls. But, that's a good problem. I don't really have a complaint about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought if we go close to 250 it could be a fighting total and we succeeded in getting close ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39405]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought if we go close to 250 it could be a fighting total and we succeeded in getting close to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a great ride, and it's time to move on to other things, but not without mixed feelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33460]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a great ride, and it's time to move on to other things, but not without mixed feelings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing is a sweat job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dancing is a sweat job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49314]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1685]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4867]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It appears that radiation and winds from the massive star triggered new stars to form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40970]]></link><description><![CDATA[It appears that radiation and winds from the massive star triggered new stars to form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18631]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherin he that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43854]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherin he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64989]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61967]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we lost power to that whole computer room, the UPS didn't kick in like it should. Apparently, the batteries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33829]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we lost power to that whole computer room, the UPS didn't kick in like it should. Apparently, the batteries in the UPS systems were not sufficiently strong enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20945]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What some invent, the rest enlarge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17925]]></link><description><![CDATA[What some invent, the rest enlarge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and soregretfully upon the closed door that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21185]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and soregretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which hasopened for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foolish tongues talke by the dozen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62478]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[because the hole is down in the ground, not up in the air. My father always told me, 'You ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35603]]></link><description><![CDATA[because the hole is down in the ground, not up in the air. My father always told me, 'You ought to play basketball, where the hole is way up there.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53742]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always remember this: 'A kiss will never miss, and after many kisses a miss becomes a misses'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always remember this: 'A kiss will never miss, and after many kisses a miss becomes a misses'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ruling eliminates the risk of a large-scale financial verdict, should increase the market's visibility of Philip Morris' long-term U.S. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ruling eliminates the risk of a large-scale financial verdict, should increase the market's visibility of Philip Morris' long-term U.S. tobacco market share and profit growth, and avoids press coverage of the industry airing its internal issues in public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42314]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such subtle covenants shall be made, Till peace itself is war in masquerade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such subtle covenants shall be made, Till peace itself is war in masquerade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can deny that the New Testament has variety as well as unity. It is the variety which gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8043]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can deny that the New Testament has variety as well as unity. It is the variety which gives interest to the unity. What is it in which these people, differing as widely as they do, are vitally and fundamentally at one, so that through all their differences they form a brotherhood and are conscious of an indissolubale spiritual bond? There can be no doubt that that which unites them is a common relation to Christ -- a common faith in Him, involving religious convictions about Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, For wise men say it is the wisest course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, For wise men say it is the wisest course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Murals were very popular then and the idea was pretty well received. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Murals were very popular then and the idea was pretty well received.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37262</guid></item></channel></rss>