<?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[A small leak will sink a great ship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59703]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small leak will sink a great ship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a ball is hit in the air, you almost expect it to be caught. [And on tough balls] we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31321]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a ball is hit in the air, you almost expect it to be caught. [And on tough balls] we're still expecting them to be caught [as well].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a controversial band, so big that everyone wants to hate us. We get a lot of bad press. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32555]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a controversial band, so big that everyone wants to hate us. We get a lot of bad press. I don't listen to it. We take it with a grain of salt and keep moving on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the quality of our inner lives I do not mean something characterized by ferocious intensity and strain. I mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8388]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the quality of our inner lives I do not mean something characterized by ferocious intensity and strain. I mean rather such a humble and genial devotedness as we find in the most loving of the saints. I mean the quality which makes contagious Christians, makes people catch the love of God from you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have been heavy rains in the area and as a result many rivers and streams have flooded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34825]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have been heavy rains in the area and as a result many rivers and streams have flooded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55660]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're hoping he's still alive. We're hoping for the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40944]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're hoping he's still alive. We're hoping for the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The introverted church is one which puts its own survival before its mission, its own identity above its task, its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The introverted church is one which puts its own survival before its mission, its own identity above its task, its internal concerns before its apostolate, its rituals before its ministry. Undue emphasis on the static structure of the Church has led to the disappearance of a significant lay ministry in denominational Protestantism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11190]]></link><description><![CDATA[We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had a clear idea about what I really wanted to see, based on our initial conversations, and they did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33323]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had a clear idea about what I really wanted to see, based on our initial conversations, and they did a great job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every honest miller has a golden thumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every honest miller has a golden thumb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye... -Corinthians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Withdraw yourself from that vile bondage; Come say, "I am free," "I am free." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Withdraw yourself from that vile bondage; Come say, "I am free," "I am free."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1068]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine and women bring misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine and women bring misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21240]]></link><description><![CDATA[And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20984]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it--but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47344]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Synchronicity is God sending usmessages anonymously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Synchronicity is God sending usmessages anonymously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has been very outspoken about her desire to be a young bride... so the idea of her learning what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31585]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has been very outspoken about her desire to be a young bride... so the idea of her learning what it's like to be married works either way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The union of lakes--the union of lands-- The union of States none can sever--  The union of hearts--the union ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The union of lakes--the union of lands-- The union of States none can sever--  The union of hearts--the union of hands--   And the flag of our Union for ever!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if his name be George, I 'll call him Peter; For new-made honour doth forget men's names. -King John. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55779]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if his name be George, I 'll call him Peter; For new-made honour doth forget men's names. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62268]]></link><description><![CDATA[This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was the one responsible for throwing away two points. The second half substitutions (and tactics) I made were wrong. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was the one responsible for throwing away two points. The second half substitutions (and tactics) I made were wrong. We should have played to conserve our 1-0 lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55069]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. -Herman Melville.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5945]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs;  Since life's best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs;  Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease,   And though but few can serve, yet all may please;    On, let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence,     A small unkindness is a great offence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has hay on his horns. [Lat., Foenum habet in cornu.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2543]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has hay on his horns. [Lat., Foenum habet in cornu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65246]]></link><description><![CDATA[My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43120]]></link><description><![CDATA[All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud of the girls fighting back and keeping with it. It was neat to see that they fought and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41726]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud of the girls fighting back and keeping with it. It was neat to see that they fought and came back. We could've folded up shop after that goal in the first minute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As natural gas and home heating-oil prices hit record highs, the federal government's failure to meet its obligation to revise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39779]]></link><description><![CDATA[As natural gas and home heating-oil prices hit record highs, the federal government's failure to meet its obligation to revise energy-efficiency standards for common appliances calls out for prompt action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41088]]></link><description><![CDATA[My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a complete stretch to get it to do that, which saved the mission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31984]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a complete stretch to get it to do that, which saved the mission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physician, heal thyself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physician, heal thyself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leader follows in front ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leader follows in front]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say be parted well and paid his score, And so, God be with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45574]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say be parted well and paid his score, And so, God be with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I?m just tired. That was rough. Those last 10 seconds were a lifetime, as usual against Michigan State. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I?m just tired. That was rough. Those last 10 seconds were a lifetime, as usual against Michigan State.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29682</guid></item></channel></rss>