<?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[Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud,  A flash ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud,  A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,   Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   "The Bible," we are told sometimes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   "The Bible," we are told sometimes, "gives us such a beautiful picture of what we should be." Nonsense! It gives us no picture at all. It reveals to us a fact: it tells us what we really are; it says, This is the form in which God created you, to which He has restored you; this is the work which the Eternal Son, the God of Truth and Love, is continually carrying on within you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  Devotion signifies a life given, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  Devotion signifies a life given, or devoted, to God. He therefore is the devout man, who lives no longer to his own will, or the way and spirit of the world, but to the sole will of God, who considers God in everything, who serves God in everything, who makes all the parts of his common life, parts of piety, by doing everything in the name of God, and under such rules as are conformable to His glory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To go out 20 times and be able to come out on the good side all 20 of those times ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35467]]></link><description><![CDATA[To go out 20 times and be able to come out on the good side all 20 of those times is really a testament to the kids. These four seniors have been together playing for a long time, and I was really hoping to let them share in a 20-0 season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The onus is on us to demonstrate (there is enough water) to the Department of Water Resources. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The onus is on us to demonstrate (there is enough water) to the Department of Water Resources.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The arrows are from her dowry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The arrows are from her dowry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord had a job for me, but I had so much to do, I said, "You get somebody else--or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62098]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord had a job for me, but I had so much to do, I said, "You get somebody else--or wait till I get through."  I don't know how the Lord came out, but He seemed to get along:   But I felt kinda sneakin' like, 'cause I know'd I done Him wrong.    One day I needed the Lord--Needed Him myself--needed Him right away,     And He never answered me at all, but I could hear Him say      Down in my accusin' heart, "Nigger, I'se got too much to do,       You get somebody else or wait till I get through."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't mind playing tough teams to start. This is only Game 1, and we still have a long way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40366]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't mind playing tough teams to start. This is only Game 1, and we still have a long way to go. We are going to evaluate our film and go from there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which costs little is less valued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21281]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which costs little is less valued.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52318]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American...is far more virulent than any antipathy he can work up against foreigners...Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41520]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See things as you would have them be instead of as they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22229]]></link><description><![CDATA[See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24218]]></link><description><![CDATA[A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got a text message from (ISU assistant) coach (Todd) Fitch that said 'Congratulations, today is the day you've been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29736]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got a text message from (ISU assistant) coach (Todd) Fitch that said 'Congratulations, today is the day you've been waiting for' and it really has been. I'm finally a part of the Cyclone family. I guess I was before, but now I really am part of the team. It's a great day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was pretty obvious to everyone there that there was a significant group that had been part of that for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40437]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was pretty obvious to everyone there that there was a significant group that had been part of that for a long time that felt like there were still possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47090]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To manipulate an image is to control a people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46555]]></link><description><![CDATA[To manipulate an image is to control a people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17205]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music. . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is unacceptable. With all due respect to Columbus, I think everyone around the league looked at this game and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31573]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is unacceptable. With all due respect to Columbus, I think everyone around the league looked at this game and thought Columbus didn't have a shot, and I think maybe that is what we thought too. We were a little complacent, because I can think of one and half good chances we had. I think Kevin [Hartman] came up big to keep us in it, but it wasn't good enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negotiations, in the view of the government, are the only constructive way to a solution of this question. In this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Negotiations, in the view of the government, are the only constructive way to a solution of this question. In this way, the international community can feel confident in Iran's statements that its nuclear program serves only peaceful intentions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is bad luck to be superstitious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27759]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is bad luck to be superstitious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and he is us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13866]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and he is us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is engendered in the eyes; By gazing fed; and fancy dies  In the cradle where it lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51411]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is engendered in the eyes; By gazing fed; and fancy dies  In the cradle where it lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, As, poised on the curb, it inclined to my lips! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61310]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, As, poised on the curb, it inclined to my lips!  Not a full blushing goblet could tempt me to leave it,   The brightest that beauty or revelry sips.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not trying to be very highbrow about it. I think it's kind of silly that there are elements in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31824]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not trying to be very highbrow about it. I think it's kind of silly that there are elements in society that want to position sex as something that's taboo or dirty. What our publication does is put out the message that it's all good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2727]]></link><description><![CDATA[If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies. . . . It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57200]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I needed a spark in my life. You become closer to the Lord. The word becomes alive and real. After ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29434]]></link><description><![CDATA[I needed a spark in my life. You become closer to the Lord. The word becomes alive and real. After the class, I felt God was talking to me and I knew my purpose was to bring his love to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is safety in numbers. [Lat., Defendit numerus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44707]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is safety in numbers. [Lat., Defendit numerus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contrary to what many people may think, the nation's children are faring better in many respects than they have in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contrary to what many people may think, the nation's children are faring better in many respects than they have in previous years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golden Bill! Golden Bill! Lo, the peep of day;  All the air is cool and still,   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golden Bill! Golden Bill! Lo, the peep of day;  All the air is cool and still,   From the elm-tree on the hill,    Chant away:     . . . .      Let thy loud and welcome lay       Pour alway        Few notes but strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something terrible happens, and you might say, "God help us!", or "Jesus Christ!" -- the poor, crippled prayers that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something terrible happens, and you might say, "God help us!", or "Jesus Christ!" -- the poor, crippled prayers that are hidden in the minor blasphemies of people for whom in every sense God is dead, except that they still have to speak to him, if only through clenched teeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think of the garden after the rain; And hope to my heart comes singing,  "At morn the cherry-blooms ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13148]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think of the garden after the rain; And hope to my heart comes singing,  "At morn the cherry-blooms will be white,   And the Easter bells be ringing!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A buddy of mine, [Atlanta rookie] Jeff Francoeur, when he hit his first home run, I saw them give him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30634]]></link><description><![CDATA[A buddy of mine, [Atlanta rookie] Jeff Francoeur, when he hit his first home run, I saw them give him the silent treatment and ignore him. I had an idea that it might be coming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will you have all in all for prose and verse? Take the miracle of our age, Sir Philip Sidney. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will you have all in all for prose and verse? Take the miracle of our age, Sir Philip Sidney.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Initial reports are that the Saturn failed to stop at a stop sign or just didn't see the truck coming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Initial reports are that the Saturn failed to stop at a stop sign or just didn't see the truck coming and pulled out in front of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience:  A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience:  A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each person must live their life as a model for others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each person must live their life as a model for others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64226</guid></item></channel></rss>