<?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[It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18613]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At first, heard solemn o'er the verge of Heaven, The Tempest growls; but as it nearer comes,  And rolls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57910]]></link><description><![CDATA[At first, heard solemn o'er the verge of Heaven, The Tempest growls; but as it nearer comes,  And rolls its awful burden on the wind,   The Lightnings flash a larger curve, and more    The Noise astounds; till overhead a sheet     Of livid flame discloses wide, then shuts,      And opens wider; shuts and opens still       Expansive, wrapping ether in a blaze.        Follows the loosen'd aggravated Roar,         Enlarging, deepening, mingling, peal on peal,          Crush'd, horrible, convulsing Heaven and Earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's hallowed ground? Has earth a clod Its Maker mean'd not should be trod  By man, the image of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18216]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's hallowed ground? Has earth a clod Its Maker mean'd not should be trod  By man, the image of his God,   Erect and free,    Unscourged by Superstition's rod.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot strike out in your first major-league at-bat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41868]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot strike out in your first major-league at-bat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[has destroyed the whole base of life for people and other creatures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35608]]></link><description><![CDATA[has destroyed the whole base of life for people and other creatures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sterner moralist than pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46728]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too late is tomorrow's life; live for today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too late is tomorrow's life; live for today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us pardon those who have wronged us. For that which others scarcely accomplish -- I mean the blotting out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us pardon those who have wronged us. For that which others scarcely accomplish -- I mean the blotting out of their own sins by means of fasting and lamentations, and prayers, and sackcloth and ashes -- this it is possible for us easily to effect without sackcloth and ashes and fasting, if only we blot out anger from our heart, and with sincerity forgive those who have wronged us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1736]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a ring of iron is worn away by constant use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a ring of iron is worn away by constant use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A secret at home is like rocks under tide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54986]]></link><description><![CDATA[A secret at home is like rocks under tide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be truly selfish one needs a degree of self-esteem. The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52297]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be truly selfish one needs a degree of self-esteem. The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unattainable, envy takes the place of greed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ev'n so, with all submission, I . . . .  Send you each year a homely letter,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ev'n so, with all submission, I . . . .  Send you each year a homely letter,   Who may return me much a better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has been down on our running game since (star Marcus Green graduated). We went out to prove a point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has been down on our running game since (star Marcus Green graduated). We went out to prove a point tonight, and I think we did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sweeter gift from nature has fallen to the lot of man than his children? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48891]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sweeter gift from nature has fallen to the lot of man than his children?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts,"probably lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts,"probably lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1040]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A 15 to 20 basis point move in spreads shows investors were still waiting for something new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38802]]></link><description><![CDATA[A 15 to 20 basis point move in spreads shows investors were still waiting for something new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A business with an income at its heels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5026]]></link><description><![CDATA[A business with an income at its heels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53862]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we've begun to do is discuss the issue, the constitutional issues around that idea, again the privacy issue, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31694]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we've begun to do is discuss the issue, the constitutional issues around that idea, again the privacy issue, which may not be unconstitutional but may pertain to our unique sense of privacy in the United States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5293]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're off and running. People are holding our feet to the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34352]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're off and running. People are holding our feet to the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every burden is a blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every burden is a blessing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The morning that my baby came They found a baby swallow dead,  And saw a something hard to name ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The morning that my baby came They found a baby swallow dead,  And saw a something hard to name   Fly mothlike over baby's bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If not, it's going to be really hard finding someone to step into this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39972]]></link><description><![CDATA[If not, it's going to be really hard finding someone to step into this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[she explains, ''but I think they really need to go back to their core constituents. I'd like to focus on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41631]]></link><description><![CDATA[she explains, ''but I think they really need to go back to their core constituents. I'd like to focus on being the orchestra of the city of Baltimore and figure out how to give everyone in the community access to art music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18105]]></link><description><![CDATA[How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep... wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you're just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky his is to have you.... The one who turns to his friends and says, 'that's her.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going in and telling schools what to do is just going to make everybody mad and not get to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going in and telling schools what to do is just going to make everybody mad and not get to the goal,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41182]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the best birthday present -- to give something back to the musicians who have given this country so much, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33059]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the best birthday present -- to give something back to the musicians who have given this country so much,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18142]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run  From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;   That is the grasshopper's--he takes the lead    In summer luxury--he has never done     With his delights, for when tired out with fun,      He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22822]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["For if I wait," said she, "Till time for roses be,--  For the moss-rose and the musk-rose,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54429]]></link><description><![CDATA["For if I wait," said she, "Till time for roses be,--  For the moss-rose and the musk-rose,   Maiden-blush and royal-dusk rose,--    "What glory then for me     In such a company?--      Roses plenty, roses plenty       And one nightingale for twenty?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch; Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth; Between two blades, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch; Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth; Between two blades, which bears the better temper; Between two horses, which doth bear him best; Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye,— I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment; But in these nice sharp quillets of the law, Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw. -King Henry VI. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our serve is going to be one of our major strengths. But we're returning better, which is also the goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our serve is going to be one of our major strengths. But we're returning better, which is also the goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988 I greet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988 I greet Thy sepulchre, salute Thy grave,  That blest enclosure, where the angels gave  The first glad tidings of Thy early light,  And resurrection from the earth and night.  I see that morning in Thy convert's tears,  Fresh as the dew, which but this downing wears.  I smell her spices; and her ointment yields  As rich a scent as the now primrosed fields:  The Day-star smiles, and light, with Thee deceased,  Now shines in all the chambers of the East.  ... Henry Vaughan April 24, 2000 Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  The [Christian] "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64786]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we can have as a matter of course, is not valued; what is denied we eagerly covet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50806]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we can have as a matter of course, is not valued; what is denied we eagerly covet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You rub the sore When you should bring the plaster! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26724]]></link><description><![CDATA[You rub the sore When you should bring the plaster!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26724</guid></item></channel></rss>