<?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[Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day  How the clicking of its wheel   Wears the hours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day  How the clicking of its wheel   Wears the hours away!    Languidly the Autumn wind     Stirs the forest leaves,      From the field the reapers sing       Binding up their sheaves:        And a proverb haunts my mind         As a spell is cast,          "The mill cannot grind           With the water that is past."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anytime you're competing on large animals, there's a chance someone's going to get hurt. They're competing on the ragged edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anytime you're competing on large animals, there's a chance someone's going to get hurt. They're competing on the ragged edge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frieth in his own grease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frieth in his own grease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/588]]></link><description><![CDATA[A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45594]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course the elephant wasn't satisfied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quick success was a bit strange to get used to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10342]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And her face so fair Stirr'd with her dream, as rose-leaves with the air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14851]]></link><description><![CDATA[And her face so fair Stirr'd with her dream, as rose-leaves with the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the defense which belongs to the Day of Judgment, would make such damaging admissions, would clear away so many artificial virtues, would tell such tragedies of weakness and failure, that a man would sooner be misunderstood and censured by the world than exposed to that awful and merciless eulogy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The election will be conducted in a calm manner and the Azerbaijani society will remain stable, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The election will be conducted in a calm manner and the Azerbaijani society will remain stable,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963   That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear [in the world today], because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This voluntary gesture will create a spiritual bond among Muslims and the Palestinian cause and have a great impact on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29785]]></link><description><![CDATA[This voluntary gesture will create a spiritual bond among Muslims and the Palestinian cause and have a great impact on the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915   A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915   A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave one with an intense social consciousness, if it does not fill one with a sense of overwhelming responsibility for the world. It has been said... truly that the Church exists for those outside of itself. The Church must never be in any sense a little huddle of pious people, shutting their doors against the world, lost in prayer and praise, connoisseurs of preaching and liturgy, busy mutually congratulating themselves on the excellence of their Christian experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45475]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are relatives you make for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43578]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64421]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone who has set out in the vehicle of a Bodhisattva should decide that `I must lead all the beings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone who has set out in the vehicle of a Bodhisattva should decide that `I must lead all the beings to nirvana, into that realm of nirvana which leaves nothing behind'. What is this realm of nirvana which leaves nothing behind ?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started focusing on strength and conditioning. I got serious about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41170]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started focusing on strength and conditioning. I got serious about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We changed (defenses) and when we get out of pressure we look terrible, but I thought we did a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38604]]></link><description><![CDATA[We changed (defenses) and when we get out of pressure we look terrible, but I thought we did a good job against a pretty good team in terms of scrambling. I was very disappointed in our intensity in the first half. I thought we played a real poor first half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was always kind of the nice guy in the good cop-bad cop thing. But it's not like he tells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30485]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was always kind of the nice guy in the good cop-bad cop thing. But it's not like he tells us to do something now and we're like, 'OK, whatever, J.J.' Everybody respects him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Officially, we say we were rained out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Officially, we say we were rained out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt a whole lot of stuff. I'm overwhelmed in this experience, ... I'm happy the coaching staff gave me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40540]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt a whole lot of stuff. I'm overwhelmed in this experience, ... I'm happy the coaching staff gave me the opportunity to go out there and help. I just want to be a part, and it feels good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It'd be great to go 3-0. We have to contain their quarterback. He's quick and likes to run the option. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36901]]></link><description><![CDATA[It'd be great to go 3-0. We have to contain their quarterback. He's quick and likes to run the option.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57463]]></link><description><![CDATA[If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The British tourist was askedwhat he thought of theGrand Canyon.. and wroteback'gorge-ous'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20123]]></link><description><![CDATA[The British tourist was askedwhat he thought of theGrand Canyon.. and wroteback'gorge-ous'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53357]]></link><description><![CDATA[An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said, 'Mommy, this important news. This needs to get out. We ran it by the vice president and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said, 'Mommy, this important news. This needs to get out. We ran it by the vice president and he was very mindful of his role as a guest. He said something along the lines of, 'You all do whatever you are comfortable with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says: 'No man should have so much.' The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: 'All men should have so much.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this:   "To rise above the little things." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/324]]></link><description><![CDATA[One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this:   "To rise above the little things."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a professional. At the circuit I am calm. At home I am very different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37499]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a professional. At the circuit I am calm. At home I am very different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66796]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45420]]></link><description><![CDATA[One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not number One; he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57708]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not number One; he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57708</guid></item></channel></rss>