<?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[Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and His Shadow A TRAVELER hired an Ass to convey him to a distant place. Theday being intensely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and His Shadow A TRAVELER hired an Ass to convey him to a distant place. Theday being intensely hot, and the sun shining in its strength, theTraveler stopped to rest, and sought shelter from the heat underthe Shadow of the Ass. As this afforded only protection for one,and as the Traveler and the owner of the Ass both claimed it, aviolent dispute arose between them as to which of them had theright to the Shadow. The owner maintained that he had let theAss only, and not his Shadow. The Traveler asserted that he had,with the hire of the Ass, hired his Shadow also. The quarrelproceeded from words to blows, and while the men fought, the Assgalloped off. In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just gave up on acting for a couple of years until Good Will Hunting came around, and since it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31162]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just gave up on acting for a couple of years until Good Will Hunting came around, and since it was Gus, it was hard to say no.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Studious of ease, and fond of humble things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before and after practicing Judo or engaging in a match, opponents bow to each other. Bowing is an expression of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before and after practicing Judo or engaging in a match, opponents bow to each other. Bowing is an expression of gratitude and respect. In effect, you are thanking your opponent for giving you the opportunity to improve your technique.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397   Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397   Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship -- and not as ends in themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advanced data services activity in the U.K. is following the classic pattern of adoption -- first gaining traction within the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advanced data services activity in the U.K. is following the classic pattern of adoption -- first gaining traction within the technologically savviest group and then spreading across the rest of the majority. Time plays a critical factor, as the services with an established utility from an extended period on the market are first to gain the most from the mainstream audience, who demand products and services that are relatively glitch-free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michael had one of his best years in many ways, although the fumbles were a great negative to the team. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Michael had one of his best years in many ways, although the fumbles were a great negative to the team. He took it quite personally, and he's done a very good job of working on everything this offseason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's one of those things that is a nightmare. That should never happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39477]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's one of those things that is a nightmare. That should never happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are born poets. we become orators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48886]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are born poets. we become orators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. -Victor Hugo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you kayak down Yucca Pen, it looks fine. The problem is its drainage area has been platted for development, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28176]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you kayak down Yucca Pen, it looks fine. The problem is its drainage area has been platted for development, so it drains a much larger upland area.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a positive cash flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a positive cash flow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll put that in my considering cap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59195]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll put that in my considering cap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel the overall market is showing a lot of life across the board. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42575]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel the overall market is showing a lot of life across the board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45627]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Christianity is pre-eminently the religion of the heart. It does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Christianity is pre-eminently the religion of the heart. It does not always ask words, but it always wants work. The motives and not the means are the things on which it passes judgment. And the man who shows by his life that he is not ashamed of the Gospel will assuredly one day find that the Gospel is not ashamed of him. There is much more which might be said, but I refrain. Ere I close, you will let me add my emphasis to the fact that it is in our life and conduct that we must show our devotion to Christ. The silent Gospel reaches further than the grandest rhetoric.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without economy none can be rich, and with it few will be poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth, "A large cold bottle, and a small hot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13190]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth, "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58153]]></link><description><![CDATA[The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107  Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107  Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires. The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65628]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every tub must stand upon its bottom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every tub must stand upon its bottom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66050]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light Winged Smoke Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and the messenger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light Winged Smoke Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night star-veiling, and by day Darkening the light and blotting out the sun; Go thou my incense upward from this hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.-Henry David Thoreau-.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives, And in their deaths had not divided been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16764]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives, And in their deaths had not divided been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[we have to provide them with agricultural assistance, invest in irrigation, build roads, and provide electric power and assistance in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28272]]></link><description><![CDATA[we have to provide them with agricultural assistance, invest in irrigation, build roads, and provide electric power and assistance in generating non-farm employment in rural areas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44160]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65603]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61248]]></link><description><![CDATA[First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom: the desire for desires ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom: the desire for desires]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you play with Sid, he's going to create chances. Once you get that puck, get your feet moving and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32050]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you play with Sid, he's going to create chances. Once you get that puck, get your feet moving and play a give-and-go type game because he's always flying and getting open ice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By refusing to implement the women’s contracting program and repeatedly failing to meet required contracting goals, this administration is undermining ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10028]]></link><description><![CDATA[By refusing to implement the women’s contracting program and repeatedly failing to meet required contracting goals, this administration is undermining virtually every existing opportunity for women business owners to break into the the good ol’ boy network of federal contracting]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideology has very little to do with "consciousness" -- it is profoundly unconscious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideology has very little to do with "consciousness" -- it is profoundly unconscious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Rome for everything. [Sp., Y a Roma pro todo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54403]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Rome for everything. [Sp., Y a Roma pro todo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The U.S. case is more important because of the economic implications, ... a nice psychological boost but you can't extrapolate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The U.S. case is more important because of the economic implications, ... a nice psychological boost but you can't extrapolate the U.S. ruling from this because of the different legal standards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34869</guid></item></channel></rss>