<?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[In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10086]]></link><description><![CDATA[In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day it's going to dawn on the human race that war is as barbaric a means of resolving conflict ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5216]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day it's going to dawn on the human race that war is as barbaric a means of resolving conflict as cannibalism is as a means of coping with diet deficiencies]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus idly busy rolls their world away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus idly busy rolls their world away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This year we surprised a lot of people. I'm happy now that it's done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40323]]></link><description><![CDATA[This year we surprised a lot of people. I'm happy now that it's done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25602]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd; Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms: Nothing becomes him ill that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55480]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd; Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms: Nothing becomes him ill that he would well. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think some people found the production took away from the actual songs, which I can understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34510]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think some people found the production took away from the actual songs, which I can understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The water owns a power Divine, And conscious blushes into wine;  Its very nature changed displays   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27559]]></link><description><![CDATA[The water owns a power Divine, And conscious blushes into wine;  Its very nature changed displays   The power Divine that it obeys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manager with the in basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manager with the in basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941   The dual role of personification of the past and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941   The dual role of personification of the past and preserver of a subcultural ethos, a role clergymen play quite avidly, takes its toll when they speak of God. Because of the role they have been willing to play, when they use the word God it is heard in a certain way. It is heard, often with deference and usually with courtesy, as a word referring to the linchpin of the era of Christendom (past) or as the totem of one of the tribal subcultures (irrelevant). The only way clergy can ever change the way in which the word they use is perceived is to refuse to play the role of antiquarian and medicine man in which the society casts them; but this is difficult, because it is what they are paid for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remembrances embellish life but forgetfulness alone makes it possible. [Fr., Les souvenirs embellissent la vie, l'oubli seul la rend possible.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remembrances embellish life but forgetfulness alone makes it possible. [Fr., Les souvenirs embellissent la vie, l'oubli seul la rend possible.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows;  It comes, it grieves, it goes.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3555]]></link><description><![CDATA[A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows;  It comes, it grieves, it goes.   Once it rocked the summer rose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really used to be more of an offensive player, ... But people kept getting bigger, so now I'm more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39068]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really used to be more of an offensive player, ... But people kept getting bigger, so now I'm more defensive-minded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15931]]></link><description><![CDATA[To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/317]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic is the anatomy of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic is the anatomy of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end.  A candle burned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61722]]></link><description><![CDATA[It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end.  A candle burned on the table;   A candle burned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61814]]></link><description><![CDATA[His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38730]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16180]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64838]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59181]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48824]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639  One hundred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639  One hundred worshipers meeting together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become "unity" conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be doing as much as we can on a case. Every case should be an investigation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28646]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be doing as much as we can on a case. Every case should be an investigation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing that they do before they do anything is interventions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing that they do before they do anything is interventions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lehigh Valley economy in 2005 is a lot healthier than it has been in a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lehigh Valley economy in 2005 is a lot healthier than it has been in a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44107]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for. [Lat., Orandum est, ut sit mens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26698]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for. [Lat., Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call it a wardrobe. It's a magic place where children find out that the world is a place of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29227]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call it a wardrobe. It's a magic place where children find out that the world is a place of infinite possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63431]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41592]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44598]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. -Bruce Barton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22802</guid></item></channel></rss>