<?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[I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44861]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When she would write a song, she would call me and say, 'Do you want to hear something? What do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31091]]></link><description><![CDATA[When she would write a song, she would call me and say, 'Do you want to hear something? What do you think?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idle life always produces varied inclinations. [Lat., Variam semper dant otia mentem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20341]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idle life always produces varied inclinations. [Lat., Variam semper dant otia mentem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   When once a man begins to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   When once a man begins to build a system, the very gifts and qualities which might serve in the investigation of truth, become the greatest hindrances to it. He must make the different parts of the scheme fit into each other; his dexterity is shown, not in detecting facts, but in cutting them square... I hope you will not forget that the Bible is the history of God's acts to men, not of men's thoughts about God. It begins from Him. He is acting and speaking in it throughout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we win the next two games, we should be in the playoffs. If we go 1-1 against Tracy before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34670]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we win the next two games, we should be in the playoffs. If we go 1-1 against Tracy before finishing the regular season at Lincoln, its going to be real close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was close. I'm going, 'Oh gosh,' but it was exciting for it to be our first game too. We're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42022]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was close. I'm going, 'Oh gosh,' but it was exciting for it to be our first game too. We're trying to have a winning season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44652]]></link><description><![CDATA[From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that we are is the result of what we have thought. -Buddha. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22814]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that we are is the result of what we have thought. -Buddha.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami;  Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O close my hand upon Beatitude! Not on her toys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4317]]></link><description><![CDATA[O close my hand upon Beatitude! Not on her toys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither; They had been fou for weeks thegither. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither; They had been fou for weeks thegither.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12781]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happy the queen will be here when the government may fall. It's a great civics lesson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happy the queen will be here when the government may fall. It's a great civics lesson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45933]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24887]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased ÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¹ being out of town and having these discussions (of retirement) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37445]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased ÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¹ being out of town and having these discussions (of retirement) going on ÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¹ to see all these good things that the company and my team did without me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1135]]></link><description><![CDATA[To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20802]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25579]]></link><description><![CDATA[That puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47102]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't give them extra outs. We're not going to score enough runs, where we can give a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32142]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't give them extra outs. We're not going to score enough runs, where we can give a lot of extra outs, meaning errors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One guy used up 572 hours in September, ... If you bring a bunch of 500-pound guys into an all-you-can-eat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31389]]></link><description><![CDATA[One guy used up 572 hours in September, ... If you bring a bunch of 500-pound guys into an all-you-can-eat buffet and they devour everything, there's a point at which the management has to come over and say, 'Enough's enough!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23712]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best. Life's most soothing things are sweet music and a child's goodnight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best. Life's most soothing things are sweet music and a child's goodnight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its proverbs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its proverbs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47959]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish. But they are witness to hum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20553]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been a tendency of late to interpret alienation from faith in intellectual rather than experiential terms. Academically oriented ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6765]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been a tendency of late to interpret alienation from faith in intellectual rather than experiential terms. Academically oriented Christians especially tend to think that the barriers to faith should be removed by repackaging the content of the message in a way more congenial to the modern outlook. But it is quite possible that we are dealing not so much with a failure of intellect as with an alienation from the experiential roots of Christianity itself so amply attested in the New Testament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54638]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58576]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We won't have a society if we destroy the environment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13312]]></link><description><![CDATA[We won't have a society if we destroy the environment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving but like morning light it scattered the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18616]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most under-employed, talent in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most under-employed, talent in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are oft to blame in this, 'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage  And pious action we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20233]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are oft to blame in this, 'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage  And pious action we do sugar o'er   The devil himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Make our earth an Eden like the heaven above. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Make our earth an Eden like the heaven above.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope they (teens) will be able to manage their money in a manner that is really successful for them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40807]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope they (teens) will be able to manage their money in a manner that is really successful for them and will provide for them for the rest of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have concluded it is possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33938]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have concluded it is possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12630]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would have been a waste to switch. But had we moved anywhere else, I wouldn't have gotten to stay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40312]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would have been a waste to switch. But had we moved anywhere else, I wouldn't have gotten to stay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27314</guid></item></channel></rss>