<?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[And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green, and peaceful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23572]]></link><description><![CDATA[And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green, and peaceful, sunlit place but it's all jungle here, a wild and savage wilderness that's overrun with ruins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our special teams have been [bad] to say the least. Our penalty kill has not been going very well [nine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our special teams have been [bad] to say the least. Our penalty kill has not been going very well [nine power-play goals allowed in four losses] and we have not been getting that big power-play goal when we need it. When we were on that [10-1-1] streak the power play was going. We need to get back to that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only play two games a week, so if we have to add a third game it isn't too bad. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32478]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only play two games a week, so if we have to add a third game it isn't too bad. We just haven't been getting the practice time, but the guys are trying to stay sharp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43469]]></link><description><![CDATA[A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant theirwhole life in the hands of some other person. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22178]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant theirwhole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this methodof searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consistssolely in moving toward self-sufficiency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis Centennial  Holding [the Way of Affirmation], we see that every created thing is, in its degree, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8528]]></link><description><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis Centennial  Holding [the Way of Affirmation], we see that every created thing is, in its degree, an image of God, and the ordinate and faithful appreciation of that thing a clue, which, truly followed, will lead back to Him. Holding [the Way of Rejection], we see that every created thing, the highest devotion to moral duty, the purest conjugal love, the saint and the seraph, is no more than an image; that every one of them, followed for its own sake and isolated from its source, becomes an idol whose service is damnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10199]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The magic of a face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14855]]></link><description><![CDATA[The magic of a face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature becomes the living memory of a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patch grief with proverbs. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patch grief with proverbs. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that has a beginning comes to an end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crucial thing for genocide is that you have to show a special kind of intent to implement genocide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37247]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crucial thing for genocide is that you have to show a special kind of intent to implement genocide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These kids grow so much in their four years here, and there's certain things we'd like to think the program ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35023]]></link><description><![CDATA[These kids grow so much in their four years here, and there's certain things we'd like to think the program stands for. Tonight, you saw the efforts of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human; to forgive, divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16545]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human; to forgive, divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their familiescame and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, So. What did you think?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were attempting to put on Raimant from naked bodies won. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2734]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were attempting to put on Raimant from naked bodies won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20360]]></link><description><![CDATA[He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The knowledge of the causal power of thought is the basis of all their (Hebrew) prophecies, as it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The knowledge of the causal power of thought is the basis of all their (Hebrew) prophecies, as it is the basis of all real wisdom and power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20671]]></link><description><![CDATA[How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18036]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the kind of PR you want. We haven't caught many breaks in the last several years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36330]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the kind of PR you want. We haven't caught many breaks in the last several years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45300]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45522]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. -Rachel Carson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. -Golda Meir. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2609]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. -Golda Meir.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29111]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16067]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9455]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When our Lord began his ministry he announced a manifesto, far more comprehensive, thoroughgoing, and revolutionary than any socialism, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6490]]></link><description><![CDATA[When our Lord began his ministry he announced a manifesto, far more comprehensive, thoroughgoing, and revolutionary than any socialism, which spoke of the good news to the poor, release for prisoners, and recovery of sight to the blind. The Church must learn to stand solidly behind all efforts to bring fuller life to people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's not growing, it's going to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21633]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's not growing, it's going to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 Continuing a short series on authenticity: For the preacher's merit or demerit, It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 Continuing a short series on authenticity: For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, Which lies as safe in a golden ewer; But the main thing is, does it hold good measure? Heaven soon sets right all other matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20640]]></link><description><![CDATA[A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just try explaining the value of statistical summaries to the widow of the man who drowned crossing a stream with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just try explaining the value of statistical summaries to the widow of the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of four feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8750]]></link><description><![CDATA[The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one is the architect of his own fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one is the architect of his own fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every serious crisis is invariably wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every serious crisis is invariably wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The attitude is right so they are adapting very quickly and we are delighted with the way the cricket has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The attitude is right so they are adapting very quickly and we are delighted with the way the cricket has been going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50794]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up here in the north country (areas with high levels of snow), we'd like to see 10 percent more deer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up here in the north country (areas with high levels of snow), we'd like to see 10 percent more deer, in the middle snow fall zone we could have up to 50 percent more deer, and in southern areas where we have a lot of agriculture in the landscape, perhaps around 15 percent fewer deer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32198</guid></item></channel></rss>