<?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[[According to some experts, the American Healthcare system is on the brink of failure.] We certainly are in a health ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41452]]></link><description><![CDATA[[According to some experts, the American Healthcare system is on the brink of failure.] We certainly are in a health care crisis, ... If we had set out to design the worst system that we could imagine, we couldn't have imagined one as bad as we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a great tournament for us. We are a much stronger team the way we played this week. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38652]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a great tournament for us. We are a much stronger team the way we played this week. It looks like we are going to keep this lineup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary  Gladly shall I come whenever bodily strength will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary  Gladly shall I come whenever bodily strength will allow to join my testimony with yours in Olney pulpit, that God is love. As yet I have not recovered from the fatigues of my American expedition. My shattered bark is scarce worth docking any more. But I would fain wear, not rust, out. Oh! my dear Mr. Newton, indeed and indeed I am ashamed that I have done and suffered so little for Him that hath done and suffered so much for ill and hell-deserving me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of Him who loves us in spite of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9651]]></link><description><![CDATA[In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of Him who loves us in spite of what we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51412]]></link><description><![CDATA[So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't do a very good job at defending tonight. A few times, our corners got sealed inside and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33517]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't do a very good job at defending tonight. A few times, our corners got sealed inside and we got burned on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And still the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting  On the pallid bust of Pallas  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52982]]></link><description><![CDATA[And still the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting  On the pallid bust of Pallas   Just above my chamber door;    And his eyes have all the seeming     Of a demon's that is dreaming,      And the lamplight o'er him streaming       Throws his shadow on the floor,        And my soul from out that shadow,         That lies floating on the floor,          Shall be lifted--nevermore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can have all he desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51172]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can have all he desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate Path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing. -Seng-Ts'an. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12242]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate Path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing. -Seng-Ts'an.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58311]]></link><description><![CDATA[True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099  The glory of God is a living man; and the life of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099  The glory of God is a living man; and the life of man consists in beholding God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I can do it By aught that I can speak in his dispraise,  She shall not long continue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56557]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I can do it By aught that I can speak in his dispraise,  She shall not long continue love to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swings the scaly horror of his folded tail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Swings the scaly horror of his folded tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50533]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis bad enough in man or woman To steal a goose from off a common;  But surely he's without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59124]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis bad enough in man or woman To steal a goose from off a common;  But surely he's without excuse   Who steals a common from the goose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells!  What a world of merriment their melody foretells!   How ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells!  What a world of merriment their melody foretells!   How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,    In the icy air of night,     While the stars that oversprinkle      All the Heavens seem to twinkle       With a crystalline delight:        Keeping time, time, time,         In a sort of Runic rhyme          To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells           From the bells, bells, bells, bells,            Bells, bells, bells--             From the jingling and the tingling of the bells.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16832]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44991]]></link><description><![CDATA[New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is what you want to take down to San Antonio. This team has shown so much character all season. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32700]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is what you want to take down to San Antonio. This team has shown so much character all season. And we're not done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in good health we easily give good advice to the sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51754]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in good health we easily give good advice to the sick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25251]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13409]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66711]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're biggest expense is the money you don't make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21199]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're biggest expense is the money you don't make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your courtyard twists, do not pour the water abroad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5700]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your courtyard twists, do not pour the water abroad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57685]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the Old Shepherd A SHEPHERD, watching his Ass feeding in a meadow, was alarmed allof a sudden ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1504]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Old Shepherd A SHEPHERD, watching his Ass feeding in a meadow, was alarmed allof a sudden by the cries of the enemy. He appealed to the Ass tofly with him, lest they should both be captured, but the animallazily replied, Why should I, pray? Do you think it likely theconqueror will place on me two sets of panniers?' No, rejoinedthe Shepherd. Then, said the Ass, as long as I carry thepanniers, what matters it to me whom I serve?' In a change of government the poor change nothing beyond the name of their master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You pursue, I fly; you fly, I pursue; such is my humor. What you wish, Dondymus, I do not wish, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61785]]></link><description><![CDATA[You pursue, I fly; you fly, I pursue; such is my humor. What you wish, Dondymus, I do not wish, what you do not wish, I do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parent of golden dreams, Romance! Auspicious queen of childish joys,  Who lead'st along, in airy dance,   Thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parent of golden dreams, Romance! Auspicious queen of childish joys,  Who lead'st along, in airy dance,   Thy votive train of girls and boys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the Armes of England will not arme feare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49108]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the Armes of England will not arme feare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to have him back, but I am not optimistic. It could fall apart, but they are past ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32235]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to have him back, but I am not optimistic. It could fall apart, but they are past the money and now working on terms that are easier to resolve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15602]]></link><description><![CDATA[A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5776]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fishing pole is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool on the other ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16092]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fishing pole is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool on the other]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5954]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52422</guid></item></channel></rss>