<?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[October is a fine and dangerous season in America . . . a wonderful time to begin anything at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44900]]></link><description><![CDATA[October is a fine and dangerous season in America . . . a wonderful time to begin anything at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  It was no exceptional thing for Jesus to withdraw Himself "into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  It was no exceptional thing for Jesus to withdraw Himself "into the wilderness to pray." He was never for one moment of any day out of touch with God. He was speaking and listening to the Father all day long; and yet He, who was in such constant touch with God, felt the need, as well as the joy, of more prolonged and more quiet communion with Him... Most of the reasons that drive us to pray for strength and forgiveness could never have driven Him; and yet He needed prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature means Necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature means Necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49129]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The plans differ; the planners are all alike... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47644]]></link><description><![CDATA[The plans differ; the planners are all alike...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/575]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We, the United Iraqi Alliance, were surprised by the results. We were expecting more seats. The opponents have made it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37417]]></link><description><![CDATA[We, the United Iraqi Alliance, were surprised by the results. We were expecting more seats. The opponents have made it clear through their statements and warnings that they stand alongside the terrorists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want success, then don't rely on other people to do what YOU can do! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26381]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want success, then don't rely on other people to do what YOU can do!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58453]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56316]]></link><description><![CDATA[These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1087]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15100]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who first beholds the light of day In Spring's sweet flowery month of May  And wears an Emerald all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who first beholds the light of day In Spring's sweet flowery month of May  And wears an Emerald all her life,   Shall be a loved and happy wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890   Bernard [of Clairvaux] did not stop with love for God or Christ, he insisted also that the Christian must love his neighbors, including even his enemies. Not necessarily that he must feel affection for them -- that is not always possible in this life, though it will be in heaven -- but that he must treat them as love dictates, doing always for others what he would that they should do for him.  ... A. C. McGiffert, A History of Christian Thought  August 21, 2000   At the very moment when the pulpit has fallen strangely silent about sin, fiction can talk of little except evil, not indeed viewed as sin, but apparently as the invariable ways of a peculiarly repulsive insect, which it can't help, poor thing; and there is no manner of use expecting anything from it, except the nastiness natural to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890  One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to duty, is worth all the mere good thoughts, warm feelings, passionate prayers, in which idle people indulge themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sony has the access to the consumer market, not Cisco, so why re-create the wheel when you can partner with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sony has the access to the consumer market, not Cisco, so why re-create the wheel when you can partner with consumer electronics makers to reach the consumer?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has been very stressful for the people involved, particularly for class representatives who had counterclaims brought against them. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37240]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has been very stressful for the people involved, particularly for class representatives who had counterclaims brought against them. This is a huge relief to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a piece of the universe made alive ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a piece of the universe made alive]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith; and he that hath fellowship with a proud man shall be like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1391]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith; and he that hath fellowship with a proud man shall be like unto him. [Ecclesiasticus 13:1].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more merit, the less affection ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more merit, the less affection]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have received the resignation letter from Duran, effective on August 31, and today the president designated Carlos Marin to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28969]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have received the resignation letter from Duran, effective on August 31, and today the president designated Carlos Marin to be acting United States commissioner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some spend their entire lives wondering if they have made a difference in this world. The Marines don't have that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some spend their entire lives wondering if they have made a difference in this world. The Marines don't have that problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were able to visualize single nuclear pore complexes. This allowed us not only to watch as single pores formed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32592]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were able to visualize single nuclear pore complexes. This allowed us not only to watch as single pores formed but also to demonstrate that they formed from scratch without the help of already existing pores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing.  Few lend (but fools)   Their working tools.   - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing.  Few lend (but fools)   Their working tools.   - Thomas Tusser,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I will show myself To have more of the serpent than the dove;  That is--more knave than fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I will show myself To have more of the serpent than the dove;  That is--more knave than fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman doesn't need a perfect man. she just needs a special guy who can accept her the way she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62878]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman doesn't need a perfect man. she just needs a special guy who can accept her the way she is and make her feel special.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care;  Fashioned so slenderly,   Young and so fair! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care;  Fashioned so slenderly,   Young and so fair!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always prefer to believe the best of everybody--it saves so much trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always prefer to believe the best of everybody--it saves so much trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/118]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the first two years we'll probably take 10 because we want to build a nice foundation. After that, we'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38780]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first two years we'll probably take 10 because we want to build a nice foundation. After that, we'll probably do it more like the major league hall where there is no guaranteed amount.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fringed curtains of thine eye advance. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fringed curtains of thine eye advance. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13627]]></link><description><![CDATA[What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24806]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To minimize some of the challenges we try to standardize the process with our pre-departure orientation, binders full of information ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33275]]></link><description><![CDATA[To minimize some of the challenges we try to standardize the process with our pre-departure orientation, binders full of information on housing, registration, financial aid and other Northeastern logistics and contact details.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59208]]></link><description><![CDATA[With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We also met casting directors and others in the field and got to find out what they did and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29059]]></link><description><![CDATA[We also met casting directors and others in the field and got to find out what they did and they were really nice to me. At the end of the day, I'm proud of myself because a lot of people can't go up on a stage and talk in front of thousands of people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48627]]></link><description><![CDATA[For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great thoughts, like great deeds, need No trumpet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great thoughts, like great deeds, need No trumpet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now, my honey love, Will we return unto thy father's house  And revel it as bravely as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2761]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now, my honey love, Will we return unto thy father's house  And revel it as bravely as the best,   With silken coats and caps and golden rings,    With ruffs and cuffs and farthingales and things;     With scarfs and fans and double change of brav'ry,      With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knav'ry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2761</guid></item></channel></rss>