<?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[As wither'd roses yield a late perfume. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51546]]></link><description><![CDATA[As wither'd roses yield a late perfume.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2821]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can't give us any word ? alive, or what ? but we are hoping he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40941]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can't give us any word ? alive, or what ? but we are hoping he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17178]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23782]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63983]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With winsome cruelty she refuses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50397]]></link><description><![CDATA[With winsome cruelty she refuses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal or venial, without a will to be delivered from it, since confession was instituted for no other end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24421]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59572]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can have patience can have what he will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45751]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can have patience can have what he will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People in the Tug Valley can identify because they've been through hellacious floods. People here are willing to help however ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32975]]></link><description><![CDATA[People in the Tug Valley can identify because they've been through hellacious floods. People here are willing to help however they can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are serious about your goals, drop the conditions. Go directly to your goal. Be your goal! Conditions often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34569]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are serious about your goals, drop the conditions. Go directly to your goal. Be your goal! Conditions often disguise strategies for escaping accountability. Why not just take charge and create the experience you are looking for?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8505]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts, but beauty also lulls. Early associations endear, but they also confuse. Through that beautiful solemnity, the transporting or horrifying realities of which the Book tells may come to us blunted and disarmed, and we may only sigh with tranquil veneration when we ought to be burning with shame, or struck dumb with terror, or carried out of ourselves by ravishing hopes and adorations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chastity - you can carry it too far ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chastity - you can carry it too far]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap,  Not difficult, if thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2336]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap,  Not difficult, if thou hearken to me;   Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand,    They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain,     While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can it be, O Christ in heaven, that the holiest suffer most, That the strongest wander furthest, and more hopelessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can it be, O Christ in heaven, that the holiest suffer most, That the strongest wander furthest, and more hopelessly are lost?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bet your parents were proud of you, ... Even now, he has a bumper sticker on his truck showing off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bet your parents were proud of you, ... Even now, he has a bumper sticker on his truck showing off about collecting beer cans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very happy to have done two triple Axels, I wasn't thinking about the championship but was just focusing on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41389]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very happy to have done two triple Axels, I wasn't thinking about the championship but was just focusing on the two triple Axels. I'd give myself 95 out of 100 for today's skate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ripest fruit first falls. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ripest fruit first falls. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brady's First Law of Problem Solving: When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brady's First Law of Problem Solving: When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question: How would the Lone Ranger have handled this?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are years that ask questions and years that answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52739]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are years that ask questions and years that answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that contemplates hath a day without night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49331]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that contemplates hath a day without night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's too bad to want a thing and not be allowed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61093]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's too bad to want a thing and not be allowed it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A number of members of our local government, administration and local clergy will all go in and be guest readers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38686]]></link><description><![CDATA[A number of members of our local government, administration and local clergy will all go in and be guest readers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16642]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58835]]></link><description><![CDATA[When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[what power had I before I learned to yield? Shatter me Great Wind! I shall possess the field!from the poem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58380]]></link><description><![CDATA[what power had I before I learned to yield? Shatter me Great Wind! I shall possess the field!from the poem To A Milkweed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is the mask of one's own faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is the mask of one's own faults.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace at home, peace in the world ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace at home, peace in the world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was close. I'm going, 'Oh gosh,' but it was exciting for it to be our first game too. We're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42022]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was close. I'm going, 'Oh gosh,' but it was exciting for it to be our first game too. We're trying to have a winning season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have to make those plays, we've got the players to do it. So far we haven't had to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29187]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have to make those plays, we've got the players to do it. So far we haven't had to make those plays, and I hope we don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things like that don't bother me. Just one week ago, Paul said he wanted to play his whole career in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things like that don't bother me. Just one week ago, Paul said he wanted to play his whole career in one uniform. It's important for us to keep all our players in the right frame of mind, and it would be great if everyone felt good about everything for the whole year. But that's not the way the NBA season works. All I know is I talk to Paul and he tells me he wants to keep together and get better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody. He trusts his own visions. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody. He trusts his own visions. He obeys the attractions of an interior voice but will not listen to other men. He identifies the will of God with anything that makes him feel, within his own heart, a big, warm, sweet interior glow. The sweeter and the warmer the feeling is, the more he is convinced of his own infallibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5491]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63388]]></link><description><![CDATA[To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas blow for blow, disputing inch by inch, For one would not retreat, nor t'other flinch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3042]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas blow for blow, disputing inch by inch, For one would not retreat, nor t'other flinch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And out hearts, though stout and brave,  Still, like muffled drums, are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And out hearts, though stout and brave,  Still, like muffled drums, are beating   Funeral marches to the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, dainty and delicious! Food for the gods! Ambrosia for Apicius!  Worthy to thrill the soul of sea-born Venus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, dainty and delicious! Food for the gods! Ambrosia for Apicius!  Worthy to thrill the soul of sea-born Venus,   Or titillate the palate of Silenus!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These survey results clearly demonstrate that many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy. The Freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32807]]></link><description><![CDATA[These survey results clearly demonstrate that many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy. The Freedom Museum is designed to inspire people to understand and value their freedoms. The Freedom Museum will present freedoms in not merely a historical context, but in modern day examples, allowing people young and old to relate to modern day freedom debates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32807</guid></item></channel></rss>