<?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[Hospital rooms seemt to have vastly more ceiling than any rooms people live in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hospital rooms seemt to have vastly more ceiling than any rooms people live in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's life after 401(k). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39472]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's life after 401(k).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53401]]></link><description><![CDATA[He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I rise long before day and work till nightfall, when I take a walk and go to bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38836]]></link><description><![CDATA[I rise long before day and work till nightfall, when I take a walk and go to bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57688]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We brought some guys in to start getting ready during the early part of Spring Training in case we lost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38899]]></link><description><![CDATA[We brought some guys in to start getting ready during the early part of Spring Training in case we lost guys for the [World Baseball Classic]. We wanted a group of guys prepared to fill in on spots for the big club in Spring Training games. Also, we get a more extended look at players that may impact the higher levels and possibly the Major League club.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fall back upon a name? rest, rot in that? Not keep it noble, make it nobler? Fools! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fall back upon a name? rest, rot in that? Not keep it noble, make it nobler? Fools!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may be on land, yet not in a garden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50134]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may be on land, yet not in a garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51414]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have nothing to declare but my genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have nothing to declare but my genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf and the CraneA WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf and the CraneA WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large sum, to put her head into his mouth and draw out the bone. When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf. In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The act of contemplation then creates the thing created. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9922]]></link><description><![CDATA[The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People's reactions can be surprising but, if you have overwhelming news, I suppose the only thing you can do is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42538]]></link><description><![CDATA[People's reactions can be surprising but, if you have overwhelming news, I suppose the only thing you can do is just look, because you're stunned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Churches belong together in the Church. What that may mean for our ecclesiastical groupings we do not know. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6485]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Churches belong together in the Church. What that may mean for our ecclesiastical groupings we do not know. We have not discovered the kind or outward manifestation which God wills that we shall give to that inner unity. But we must seek it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You meet a thousand times in life with those who, in dealing with any religious question, make at once their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6389]]></link><description><![CDATA[You meet a thousand times in life with those who, in dealing with any religious question, make at once their appeal to reason, and insist on forthwith rejecting aught that lies beyond its sphere -- without, however, being able to render any clear account of the nature and proper limits of the knowledge thus derived, or of the relation in which such knowledge stands to the religious needs of men. I would invite you, therefore, to inquire seriously whether such persons are not really bowing down before an idol of the mind, which, while itself of very questionable worth, demands as much implicit faith from its worshipers as divine revelation itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You won't see a lot of helicopters or concrete trucks this year, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33928]]></link><description><![CDATA[You won't see a lot of helicopters or concrete trucks this year,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show,  Not learning more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26472]]></link><description><![CDATA[What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show,  Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach,   Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet    Builds in the weather on the outward wall,     Even in the force and road of casualty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes I know of James Clerk Maxwell, ... And I have used his equations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes I know of James Clerk Maxwell, ... And I have used his equations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25589]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . glory built On selfish principles is shame and guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17543]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . glory built On selfish principles is shame and guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3687]]></link><description><![CDATA[My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We take no note of time But from its loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51867]]></link><description><![CDATA[We take no note of time But from its loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48637]]></link><description><![CDATA[He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all goodthings toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all goodthings toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others.Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietlyalert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally andeffortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58902]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13567]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes ... and the choices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46477]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes ... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the afternoon of her best days. -King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the afternoon of her best days. -King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many talk of Robin Hood that never shot his bow, And many talk of Little John that never did him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many talk of Robin Hood that never shot his bow, And many talk of Little John that never did him know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25651]]></link><description><![CDATA[You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, And let my liver rather heat with wine  Than my heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27422]]></link><description><![CDATA[With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, And let my liver rather heat with wine  Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise;  Your little hands were never made   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45620]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise;  Your little hands were never made   To tear each other's eyes.   - Isaac Watts,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Following his brief inaugural address to the Congress, President George Washington and his party walked over to St. Paul's Church ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Following his brief inaugural address to the Congress, President George Washington and his party walked over to St. Paul's Church for divine services. His prayer that afternoon was: 'Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government; to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow-citizens of the United States at large.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash--  Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash--  Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill;   All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43596]]></link><description><![CDATA[All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have storm recovery teams ... leaving in the next day or so. The issue is places for them to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31544]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have storm recovery teams ... leaving in the next day or so. The issue is places for them to stay and road closures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And, taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a Heaven creature or into a hellish creature -- either into a creature that is in harmony with God, and with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow creatures and with itself. To be the one kind of creature is Heaven: that is, it is joy, and peace, and knowledge, and power. To be the other means madness, horror, idiocy, rage, impotence, and eternal loneliness. Each of us at each moment is progressing to the one state or the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66588]]></link><description><![CDATA[God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44363</guid></item></channel></rss>