<?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[But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58730]]></link><description><![CDATA[But ask now the beasts, any they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3799]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got the job done. We scored early. When we got up 3-0 we wanted to go on from there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39940]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got the job done. We scored early. When we got up 3-0 we wanted to go on from there but they played very well defensively.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62477]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24490]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . .  I crown thee king of intimate delights,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61715]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . .  I crown thee king of intimate delights,   Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness,    And all the comforts that the lowly roof     Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours      Of long uninterrupted evening, know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27212]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time moves in one direction, memory in another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time moves in one direction, memory in another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They need to be permanent employees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40089]]></link><description><![CDATA[They need to be permanent employees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He smiles, and sleeps!--sleep on And smile, thou little, young inheritor  Of a world scarce less young: sleep on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3627]]></link><description><![CDATA[He smiles, and sleeps!--sleep on And smile, thou little, young inheritor  Of a world scarce less young: sleep on and smile!   Thine are the hours and days when both are cheering    And innocent!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we wish for others determines what we allow for ourselves. Unknown  Stop the mindless wishing that things would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61799]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we wish for others determines what we allow for ourselves. Unknown  Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it. •Greg Anderson   A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. •Jean De La Bruyère   Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resources available for their gratification. •Robert Dato  A wish is a desire without an attempt. •Farmer Digest  Oh, the secret life of man and woman -- dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest. •Zelda Fitzgerald  Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. •Jean Toomer  Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be. •Anonymous  Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. •St. Augustine   When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. •Elizabeth Bowen   Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. •Goethe   Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since ancient Time began, Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden--  The weight of all this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since ancient Time began, Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden--  The weight of all this world, the hopes of man,   Conflict and pain, and fame immortal are his guerdon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue of her lively looks Excels the precious stone;  I wish to have none other books   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue of her lively looks Excels the precious stone;  I wish to have none other books   To read or look upon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had the lead in every third period of every game this year, so it's not like we were getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37349]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had the lead in every third period of every game this year, so it's not like we were getting killed, just finding ways to blow it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome. You must be willing to fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With tooth and nail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48539]]></link><description><![CDATA[With tooth and nail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice and Judgment are thy throne  Yet wondrous is thy grace; While truth and mercy joined in one,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice and Judgment are thy throne  Yet wondrous is thy grace; While truth and mercy joined in one,  Invite us near thy face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3362]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, Thou mak'st thy knife keen; but no metal can--  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, Thou mak'st thy knife keen; but no metal can--  No, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness   Of thy sharp envy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre. [A feather in hand is better than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4233]]></link><description><![CDATA[A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre. [A feather in hand is better than a bird in the air.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis too much proved,--that with devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er  The devil himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51264]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis too much proved,--that with devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er  The devil himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11450]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the students from just trying to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11734]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the students from just trying to yodel right off. You see, we build to that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't imagine being a paramedic going to the scene of a wreck. That's what that was, pretty much, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41862]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't imagine being a paramedic going to the scene of a wreck. That's what that was, pretty much, a wreck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to be in love than to watch it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45548]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to be in love than to watch it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hire people who want to make the best things in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63979]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep for. [Lat., Levia perpessi sumus  Si flenda ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58206]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep for. [Lat., Levia perpessi sumus  Si flenda patimur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can be done except little by little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can be done except little by little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt see; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24841]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt see; and that for fifty years wilt live out thy life in ample wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clown sees life simply, without complications. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8925]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clown sees life simply, without complications.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide would be my way of telling God that I quit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suicide would be my way of telling God that I quit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For he as studious--of his ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58038]]></link><description><![CDATA[For he as studious--of his ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26047]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   I think I have never heard a sermon preached on the story of Mary and Martha that did not attempt, somehow, somewhere, to explain away its text. Mary's, of course, was the better part -- the Lord said so, and we must not precisely contradict Him. But we will be careful not to despise Martha. No doubt, He approved of her, too. We could not get on without her, and indeed, having paid lip-service to God's opinion, we must admit that we greatly prefer her, for Martha was doing a really feminine job, whereas Mary was just behaving like any other disciple; and that is a hard pill to swallow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt there truth is--'tis her shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt there truth is--'tis her shadow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But a few times I was getting in there, getting to the hole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41873]]></link><description><![CDATA[But a few times I was getting in there, getting to the hole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Annuit coepis. [He (God) approves our undertakings.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Annuit coepis. [He (God) approves our undertakings.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43275</guid></item></channel></rss>