<?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[There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two hairs, or two grains; the most universal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44949]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.   - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/932]]></link><description><![CDATA[You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is a passionate intuition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is a passionate intuition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are they reducing the number of 'Nutcrackers' because people are either canceling subscriptions or not buying single tickets to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are they reducing the number of 'Nutcrackers' because people are either canceling subscriptions or not buying single tickets to the 'Nutcracker?' Is this evidence of a stronger public reaction against their decision than they are willing to admit?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit, now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit, now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb    Lawless are they that make their wills ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb    Lawless are they that make their wills their law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power and attraction Jesus Christ exercises over men never comes from him alone, but from him as Son of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6446]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power and attraction Jesus Christ exercises over men never comes from him alone, but from him as Son of the Father. It comes from him in his Sonship in a double way, as man living to God and as God living with men. Belief in him and loyalty to his cause involve men in the double movement, from world to God and from God to world. Even when theologies fail to do justice to this fact, Christians living with Christ in their cultures are aware of it. For they are forever being challenged to abandon all things for the sake of God; and forever being sent back into the world to teach and practice all the things that have been commanded them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The recommendations in this year's report particularly make it clear that it is not just governments that are involved here. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33125]]></link><description><![CDATA[The recommendations in this year's report particularly make it clear that it is not just governments that are involved here. Civil society has a huge role to play, communities have a huge role to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only can water float a boat, it can sink it also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only can water float a boat, it can sink it also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17728]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism is easy, and art is difficult. [Fr., La critique est aisee, et l'art est difficile.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism is easy, and art is difficult. [Fr., La critique est aisee, et l'art est difficile.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51648]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judicial independence is the bulwark of our system. It gives life to the words of the Constitution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judicial independence is the bulwark of our system. It gives life to the words of the Constitution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By magic numbers and persuasive sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57290]]></link><description><![CDATA[By magic numbers and persuasive sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60075]]></link><description><![CDATA[FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was outstanding all around. She was spiking from the back row. She was consistent in all aspects of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42642]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was outstanding all around. She was spiking from the back row. She was consistent in all aspects of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27163]]></link><description><![CDATA[What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the world series.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6007]]></link><description><![CDATA[But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it--peace! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it--peace!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's about consciously creating the second half of our lives, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40829]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about consciously creating the second half of our lives,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50898]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to lose like this because we kind of felt like we let one slip away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37567]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to lose like this because we kind of felt like we let one slip away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one has no better method of enticement to offer, the cordial agreement seems to us to be the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57836]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one has no better method of enticement to offer, the cordial agreement seems to us to be the best compromise. [Fr., Si l'on n'a pas de meilleurs moyen de seduction a lui offrir, l'entente cordiale nous parait fort compromise.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13563]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I truly believe our league is the toughest league (in the state) as far as teams from top to bottom. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31961]]></link><description><![CDATA[I truly believe our league is the toughest league (in the state) as far as teams from top to bottom. On any given night, any given team can get a victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19918]]></link><description><![CDATA[At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13228]]></link><description><![CDATA[You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66642]]></link><description><![CDATA[As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was quite interesting but I didn't come for this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28926]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was quite interesting but I didn't come for this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...if we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47386]]></link><description><![CDATA[...if we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53467]]></link><description><![CDATA[People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion . . . "What religion?" . . . the Earl said, "Men of sense never tell it."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been together now for forty years, An' it don't seem a day too much;  There ain't a lady ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been together now for forty years, An' it don't seem a day too much;  There ain't a lady livin' in the land   As I'd swop for my dear old Dutch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39596]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66396]]></link><description><![CDATA[No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66396</guid></item></channel></rss>