<?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[We got our composure back. Last week, we missed a lot of tackles. This week, we got them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37437]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got our composure back. Last week, we missed a lot of tackles. This week, we got them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism: The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism: The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   I think I have never heard a sermon preached on the story of Mary and Martha that did not attempt, somehow, somewhere, to explain away its text. Mary's, of course, was the better part -- the Lord said so, and we must not precisely contradict Him. But we will be careful not to despise Martha. No doubt, He approved of her, too. We could not get on without her, and indeed, having paid lip-service to God's opinion, we must admit that we greatly prefer her, for Martha was doing a really feminine job, whereas Mary was just behaving like any other disciple; and that is a hard pill to swallow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They treat us just like their other friends. They're good to us. And we're good to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41678]]></link><description><![CDATA[They treat us just like their other friends. They're good to us. And we're good to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55747]]></link><description><![CDATA[My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treading softly like a thief, Lest the harsh shingle should grate underfoot,  And feeling all along the garden wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treading softly like a thief, Lest the harsh shingle should grate underfoot,  And feeling all along the garden wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just plain racism, ... What else can you call it? It's not like all 25 players are Latinos, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34252]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just plain racism, ... What else can you call it? It's not like all 25 players are Latinos, so you can't blame it all on the Latino players. It's just stupidity. It's definitely sad that there are still stupid people like that guy out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4644]]></link><description><![CDATA[If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that we don't have good guys. It's the inexperience just because we don't know what to expect. There's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32486]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that we don't have good guys. It's the inexperience just because we don't know what to expect. There's a whole lot of sophomores who have no idea what they're in store for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is perfect in the universe-even your desire to improve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is perfect in the universe-even your desire to improve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18390]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird that soars on highest wing, Builds on the ground her lowly nest;  And she that doth most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24098]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird that soars on highest wing, Builds on the ground her lowly nest;  And she that doth most sweetly sing,   Sings in the shade when all things rest:    In lark and nightingale we see     What honor hath humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19943]]></link><description><![CDATA[If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to me that money not be important to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21544]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to me that money not be important to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11189]]></link><description><![CDATA[For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These blessed candles of the night. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55620]]></link><description><![CDATA[These blessed candles of the night. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They shouldn't throw at me. I'm the father of five or six kids. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57605]]></link><description><![CDATA[They shouldn't throw at me. I'm the father of five or six kids.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some shelled out money for drugs and they need to be reimbursed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some shelled out money for drugs and they need to be reimbursed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From his silence a man's consent is inferred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50548]]></link><description><![CDATA[From his silence a man's consent is inferred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realize it's hard not to churn your problems and I'm not idealistically saying you shouldn't. Still, you can learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13734]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realize it's hard not to churn your problems and I'm not idealistically saying you shouldn't. Still, you can learn to manage your non-efficient thinking and emotions. Just learn to be as conscious of your *mental and emotional energy expenditures and returns* as you are conscious of your dollar expenditures and returns. Remember the mental and emotional budget sheet. If you *halfway* play with this concept, it can give you a new perspective on energy economy. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wrote a lot of prescriptions and he kept a lot for himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36919]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wrote a lot of prescriptions and he kept a lot for himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35802]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53022]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a wise child that knows his own father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5993]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a wise child that knows his own father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4603]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves -- blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was very, very challenging. There was never a doubt that it was important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34967]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was very, very challenging. There was never a doubt that it was important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have stuck their hands into a hornet's nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39413]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have stuck their hands into a hornet's nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who are very, very concerned and are far more knowledgeable in this area than the authors appear to be. This is not the last word ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â definitely not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doth appear you are a worthy judge; You know the law, your exposition  Hath been most sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23519]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doth appear you are a worthy judge; You know the law, your exposition  Hath been most sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot raise a man up by calling him down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21879]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are looking as fresh as paint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27650]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are looking as fresh as paint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11552]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14617]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are dreaded by many then beware of many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48607]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are dreaded by many then beware of many.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservatively speaking, my understanding of the law is that if Google went to scan in a book without the author's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservatively speaking, my understanding of the law is that if Google went to scan in a book without the author's permission, then that would be a violation of copyright law. I think it would be great to be able to search text electronically, but you have to get the copyright permission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their writings are thoughts stolen from us by anticipation. [Fr., Leurs ecrits sont des vois qu'ils nous ont faite d'avance.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their writings are thoughts stolen from us by anticipation. [Fr., Leurs ecrits sont des vois qu'ils nous ont faite d'avance.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None knowes the weight of anothers burthen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49662]]></link><description><![CDATA[None knowes the weight of anothers burthen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50142]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22504</guid></item></channel></rss>