<?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[Life can be seen your eyes butit is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life can be seen your eyes butit is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26729]]></link><description><![CDATA[He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time undermines us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time undermines us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Although we ought always to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Although we ought always to raise our minds upwards towards God, and pray without ceasing, yet such is our weakness, which requires to be supported, such our torpor, which requires to be stimulated, that it is requisite for us to appoint special hours for this exercise, hours which are not to pass away without prayer, and during which the whole affections of our minds are to be completely occupied; namely, when we rise in the morning, before we commence our daily work, when we sit down to food, when by the blessing of God we have taken it, and when we retire to rest. This, however, must not be a superstitious observance of hours, by which, as it were, performing a task to God, we think we are discharged as to other hours. It should rather be considered a discipline by which our weakness is exercised and stimulated. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11181]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the state of this country worsens every day, ... It's full of garbage, there's a lot of crime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38487]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the state of this country worsens every day, ... It's full of garbage, there's a lot of crime and a lot of corruption in the government and police. It's all upside down ? everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure. Each one of us requires ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55040]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure. Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66239]]></link><description><![CDATA[I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a microwave fireplace in my house. The other night I laid down in front of the fire for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19895]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a microwave fireplace in my house. The other night I laid down in front of the fire for the evening in two minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pittsburgh will have a world-class facility to help celebrate the achievements of African-Americans, educate visitors on the contributions of African-Americans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pittsburgh will have a world-class facility to help celebrate the achievements of African-Americans, educate visitors on the contributions of African-Americans to the arts, culture, business and industry. The project will be a showcase for Southwestern Pennsylvania, and a tourist attraction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't play better than that, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40199]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't play better than that,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Head Start plays a big role. We start at a younger age to cut the barriers of culture, but education ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Head Start plays a big role. We start at a younger age to cut the barriers of culture, but education ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â I think that's more important than anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY He has come! the Christ of God; Left for us His glad abode, Stooping from His throne of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6680]]></link><description><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY He has come! the Christ of God; Left for us His glad abode, Stooping from His throne of bliss, To this darksome wilderness. He has come! the Prince of Peace; Come to bid our sorrows cease; Come to scatter with His light All the darkness of our night. He, the Mighty King, has come! Making this poor world His home; Come to bear our sin's sad load,-- Son of David, Son of God! He has come whose name of grace Speaks deliverance to our race; Left for us His glad abode,-- Son of Mary, Son of God! Unto us a Child is born! Ne'er has earth beheld a morn, Among all the morns of time, Half so glorious in its prime! Unto us a Son is given! He has come from God's own heaven, Bringing with Him, from above, Holy peace and holy love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand ofa neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand ofa neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will is that which has all power; it makes heaven and it makes hell: for there is no hell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8366]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will is that which has all power; it makes heaven and it makes hell: for there is no hell but where the will of the creature is turned from God, nor any heaven but where the will of the creature worketh with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty should accompany youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty should accompany youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61040]]></link><description><![CDATA[By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not accomodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not accomodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed desstroys its container or else there would be no fruition. -Florida Scott-Maxwell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26226]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61534]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  You rob, and spoile, and eat his people as bread, by Extortion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  You rob, and spoile, and eat his people as bread, by Extortion, and bribery, and deceitful waights and measures, and deluding oathes in buying and selling, and then come hither, and so make God your Receiver, and his house a den of Thieves. His house is Sanctum Sanctorum, The holiest of holies, and you make it onely Sanctuarium: It should be a place sanctified by your devotions, and you make it onely a Sanctuary to priviledge Maelfactors, a place that may redeeme you from the ill opinion of men, who must in charity be bound to thinke well of you, because they see you in here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bodily disease may be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12506]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bodily disease may be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of creativity is cynicism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of creativity is cynicism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I behold what pleasure is Pursuit, What life, what glorious eagerness it is,  Then mark how full Possession ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47750]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I behold what pleasure is Pursuit, What life, what glorious eagerness it is,  Then mark how full Possession falls from this,   How fairer seems the blossom than the fruit,--    I am perplext, and often stricken mute.     Wondering which attained the higher bliss,      The wing'd insect, or the chrysalis       It thrust aside with unreluctant foot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10233]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes only one other person to say it's so- one other point of reality to make something real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53064]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes only one other person to say it's so- one other point of reality to make something real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever. - The Brook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The latest GDP figure confirms Japan's economy is now on a solid recovery trend with consumer spending, wages and employment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36524]]></link><description><![CDATA[The latest GDP figure confirms Japan's economy is now on a solid recovery trend with consumer spending, wages and employment all showing improvement. There are more than enough reasons to expect that domestic demand-related stocks will rise further.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy is going to catch the attention of the market. It's probably a force that's not going to leave because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energy is going to catch the attention of the market. It's probably a force that's not going to leave because we're in transition from concern about oil to concerns about natural gas and how that will affect consumer spending as we head into winter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our differences are politics, our agreements principles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our differences are politics, our agreements principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farm Safety is important all year long, but we are proud to help Farm Bureau promote safety during spring planting. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Farm Safety is important all year long, but we are proud to help Farm Bureau promote safety during spring planting. Farm families need to be reminded about slowing down and taking proper safety precautions. By working together, we are keeping rural kids safe and healthy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are average athletes, then there are above-average athletes. He has started for four years - ever since he was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40591]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are average athletes, then there are above-average athletes. He has started for four years - ever since he was a freshman - and he has taken a beating. But this year, he's giving one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19455]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44395]]></link><description><![CDATA['Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5550]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable - he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46941]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not going to leave the well dry. We've got a good group of young kids that have come along ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34221]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not going to leave the well dry. We've got a good group of young kids that have come along and they're going to be good again next year. That's what I wanted to see. I didn't want to see the program go down. We've got a chance to build it up again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We stand for negotiations and emphasize that issues of this kind cannot be referred to the UN Security Council just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35735]]></link><description><![CDATA[We stand for negotiations and emphasize that issues of this kind cannot be referred to the UN Security Council just because of imagination about (Iran's) intentions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35735</guid></item></channel></rss>