<?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[Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48060]]></link><description><![CDATA[A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24694]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While Fell was reposing himself in the hay, A reptile concealed bit his leg as he lay;  But, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46868]]></link><description><![CDATA[While Fell was reposing himself in the hay, A reptile concealed bit his leg as he lay;  But, all venom himself, of the wound he made light,   And got well, while the scorpion died of the bite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[..one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65761]]></link><description><![CDATA[..one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because the temperature is at 32 or just a little above, it is heavy snow to push off the roadway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because the temperature is at 32 or just a little above, it is heavy snow to push off the roadway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24699]]></link><description><![CDATA[The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You love a nothing when you love an ingrate. [Lat., Nihil amas, cum ingratum amas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20895]]></link><description><![CDATA[You love a nothing when you love an ingrate. [Lat., Nihil amas, cum ingratum amas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 "In pastures green"? Not always; sometimes He, Who knoweth best, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 "In pastures green"? Not always; sometimes He, Who knoweth best, in kindness leadeth me In weary ways, where heavy shadows be. And "by still waters" ? No, not always so; Ofttimes the heavy tempests round me blow, And o'er my soul the waves and billows go. But when the storm beats loudest, and I cry Aloud for help, the Master standeth by, And whispers to my soul, "Lo, it is I." So, where He leads me, I can safely go, And in the blest hereafter I shall know Why, in His wisdom, He hath led me so.  ... Anonymous    July 24, 1998  Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471  If thou shalt remain faithful and zealous in labour, doubt not that God shall be faithful and bountiful in rewarding thee. It is thy duty to have a good hope that thou wilt attain the victory: but thou must not fall into security lest thou become slothful or lifted up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2616]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. -HW Longfellow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/272]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old houses mended, Cost little less than new, before they're ended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old houses mended, Cost little less than new, before they're ended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what seniors are for, to win a ballgame for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37179]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what seniors are for, to win a ballgame for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food there was none, Shelter there was none but love was there in plenty, Hence I was the richest man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Food there was none, Shelter there was none but love was there in plenty, Hence I was the richest man in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charm ache with air, and agony with words. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charm ache with air, and agony with words. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26542]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all so busy these days that it's hard for parents to spend time with their kids. This is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29147]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all so busy these days that it's hard for parents to spend time with their kids. This is a way for families to spend time together doing something creative. And when it's done, everybody will have created a memory they can take home with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the load commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61747]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the load commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16437]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kerry Ellison, your namesounds likeKyrie Eleison**Kyrie Eleison means God have mercy in Greek. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kerry Ellison, your namesounds likeKyrie Eleison**Kyrie Eleison means God have mercy in Greek.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go ahead, make my day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go ahead, make my day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Normally by this time of the day we have a clearer picture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Normally by this time of the day we have a clearer picture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may with advantage forget what we know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16486]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may with advantage forget what we know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology stocks were bought as some news, like that about Toshiba today, surprised investors who weren't expecting much from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology stocks were bought as some news, like that about Toshiba today, surprised investors who weren't expecting much from the industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you choose hope, anything's possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you choose hope, anything's possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  It is the recognition of this divine necessity -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  It is the recognition of this divine necessity -- not to forgive, but to forgive in a way which shows that God is irreconcilable to evil, and can never treat it as other or less than it is -- it is the recognition of this divine necessity, or the failure to recognise it, which ultimately divides interpreters of Christianity into evangelical and non-evangelical, those who are true to the New Testament and those who cannot digest it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His impact on Yale, Yale Hockey, and me personally has been profound. I enthusiastically embrace the challenge of building upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39694]]></link><description><![CDATA[His impact on Yale, Yale Hockey, and me personally has been profound. I enthusiastically embrace the challenge of building upon his legacy while taking the Yale Hockey program to the next level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who doth his owne businesse, foules not his hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who doth his owne businesse, foules not his hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And a million horrible bellowing echoes broke From the red-ribb'd hollow behind the wood,  And thunder'd up into Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13305]]></link><description><![CDATA[And a million horrible bellowing echoes broke From the red-ribb'd hollow behind the wood,  And thunder'd up into Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manufacturers printed a few more and the scarcity left the hobby. Very few cards printed in 1991 are valuable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36061]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manufacturers printed a few more and the scarcity left the hobby. Very few cards printed in 1991 are valuable today. They were mass-produced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The second best times tend to be more difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62826]]></link><description><![CDATA[The second best times tend to be more difficult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[" Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2450]]></link><description><![CDATA[" Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind no longer."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This chair was their first venture into furniture making. It blasted off. It became the hottest thing in children's design. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34387]]></link><description><![CDATA[This chair was their first venture into furniture making. It blasted off. It became the hottest thing in children's design.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of the Macmillan government, there was a change in the whole tone of politics, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39003]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of the Macmillan government, there was a change in the whole tone of politics,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54601]]></link><description><![CDATA[We humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entreched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an imaging system that's unique. It images physiology instead of anatomy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33203]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an imaging system that's unique. It images physiology instead of anatomy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every path hath a puddle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every path hath a puddle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was such a gentle, fine person. One thing about Zeal ? he didn't want to make people mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31858]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was such a gentle, fine person. One thing about Zeal ? he didn't want to make people mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was so proud of the heart we showed. Over the last three quarters, we fought our way back into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31952]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was so proud of the heart we showed. Over the last three quarters, we fought our way back into the game and had a big surge in the fourth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No injury can be complained of by a consenting party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50555]]></link><description><![CDATA[No injury can be complained of by a consenting party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the winners decide what were war crimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the winners decide what were war crimes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65265]]></link><description><![CDATA[At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61726</guid></item></channel></rss>