<?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[Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What light is to the eyes--what air is to the lungs--what love is to the heart, liberty is to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24722]]></link><description><![CDATA[What light is to the eyes--what air is to the lungs--what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57445]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a mystery to me, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30619]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a mystery to me,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A week ago, you could sense the soul of New Orleans from the people who were still around. There's no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30537]]></link><description><![CDATA[A week ago, you could sense the soul of New Orleans from the people who were still around. There's no people. It's like trying to interview someone's guitar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance, sweeps away all obstacles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21675]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20822]]></link><description><![CDATA[A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that will be, when all the stars are dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet thanks I must you con That you are thieves professed, that you work not  In holier shapes; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet thanks I must you con That you are thieves professed, that you work not  In holier shapes; for there is boundless theft   In limited professions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24775]]></link><description><![CDATA[A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can see the improvement. I can do so many things now offensively. Last year, I was still trying to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38295]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can see the improvement. I can do so many things now offensively. Last year, I was still trying to figure things out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reality of our communities reflects that in the loss of population, the loss of jobs. They [legislators] don't know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41734]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reality of our communities reflects that in the loss of population, the loss of jobs. They [legislators] don't know what's happening in Buffalo or Rochester or Binghamton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59751]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an ill councell that hath no escape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49575]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an ill councell that hath no escape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50552]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obedience alone gives the right to command ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obedience alone gives the right to command]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, everybody likes to see you around and get to know your new teammates. But everybody understands Manny's not on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, everybody likes to see you around and get to know your new teammates. But everybody understands Manny's not on the same page with all of us. Just like Pedro [Martinez]. Pedro was used to doing his own thing, but you win 15 to 20 games every year, you've earned the respect of your teammates, and nobody is going to [complain] about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a slow but perceptible fraying of our employment-based system, ... what I call the drip, drip, drip (of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34060]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a slow but perceptible fraying of our employment-based system, ... what I call the drip, drip, drip (of health coverage).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But to the purpose--for we cite our faults That they may hold excused our lawless lives;  And partly, seeing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25137]]></link><description><![CDATA[But to the purpose--for we cite our faults That they may hold excused our lawless lives;  And partly, seeing you are beautified   With goodly shape, and by your own report    A linguist, and a man of such perfection     As we do in our quality much want--]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21197]]></link><description><![CDATA[They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is just another confirmation that redistricting brought about fair representation for the people of Texas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32417]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is just another confirmation that redistricting brought about fair representation for the people of Texas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58011]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/820]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a poor man goes to the market, often he comes home with only tears ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47679]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a poor man goes to the market, often he comes home with only tears]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery magnifies danger, as the fog does the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystery magnifies danger, as the fog does the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  Jesus evidently felt deeply the emptiness and futility of much... religious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  Jesus evidently felt deeply the emptiness and futility of much... religious talk. He was interested only in those emotions and professions which could get themselves translated into character and action. Words have always been the bane of religion as well as its vehicle. Religious emotion has enormous motive force, but it is the easiest thing in the world for it to sizzle away in high professions and wordy prayers. In that case, it is a substitute and counterfeit, and a damage to the Reign of God among men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be,  And do the best to climb, and get to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a certain sense all men are historians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19321]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a certain sense all men are historians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever limits us, we call Fate ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever limits us, we call Fate]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin between myself and God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56381]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin between myself and God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5882]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remaining over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sylphs and ondines And the sea-kings and queens  Long ago, long ago, on the waves built a city, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60481]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sylphs and ondines And the sea-kings and queens  Long ago, long ago, on the waves built a city,   As lovely as seems    To some bard in his dreams,     The soul of his latest love-ditty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will definitely look at it through our office of seafood and determine whether there is something that requires further ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32903]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will definitely look at it through our office of seafood and determine whether there is something that requires further pursuit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running into debt isn't so bad. It's running into creditors that hurts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Running into debt isn't so bad. It's running into creditors that hurts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life itself is the proper binge. -Julia Child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life itself is the proper binge. -Julia Child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18160]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way. [Lat., Conveniens homini est hominem servare voluptas.  Et melius nulla quaeritur arte favor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the wanton Zephyr sings, And in the vale perfumes his wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62662]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the wanton Zephyr sings, And in the vale perfumes his wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm sure once we get everything squared away, all of our top players will play both ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm sure once we get everything squared away, all of our top players will play both ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60869]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27889]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43964]]></link><description><![CDATA[I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43964</guid></item></channel></rss>