<?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[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  They only renounce the world as they ought, who live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  They only renounce the world as they ought, who live in the midst of it without worldly tempers, who comply with their share in the offices of human life without complying with the spirit that reigneth in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life,you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21399]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life,you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality oflife that's far below what you deserve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band  That knits me to thy rugged ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band  That knits me to thy rugged strand!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those are the things I can help them with. I'm not a golf pro by any means. I can help ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those are the things I can help them with. I'm not a golf pro by any means. I can help some of the beginners, but most of the girls are so advanced. They get their technical help elsewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the eagle, I live in high country, in rocky cathedrals that reach to the sky;I am the hawk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the eagle, I live in high country, in rocky cathedrals that reach to the sky;I am the hawk and there's blood on my feathers, but time is still turning they soon will be dry;All those who see me, and all who believe in me, share in the freedom I feel when I fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64334]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent. [Lat., Adhue neminem cognovi poetam, qui sibi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46854]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent. [Lat., Adhue neminem cognovi poetam, qui sibi non optimus videretur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5089]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66819]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can pull all the facility services in one place, so that we no longer have students running in so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41451]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can pull all the facility services in one place, so that we no longer have students running in so many directions to get their wellness needs. It is our opportunity to give students more services and big space in a more modern fashion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having well polished the whole bow, he added a golden tip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having well polished the whole bow, he added a golden tip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53007]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across the Charles river when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tornado came through here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33335]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tornado came through here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19502]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45120]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The driver said someone cut him off or forced him to go to the right. He got too close and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35573]]></link><description><![CDATA[The driver said someone cut him off or forced him to go to the right. He got too close and caught the corner of the equipment,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58061]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is the tuition you pay for success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is the tuition you pay for success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder how many of the people who profess to believe in the leveling ideas of collectivism and egalitarianism really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder how many of the people who profess to believe in the leveling ideas of collectivism and egalitarianism really just believe that they themselves are good for nothing. I mean, how many leftists are animated by a quite reasonable self-loathing? In their hearts they know that they are not going to become scholars or inventors or industrialists or even ordinary good kind people. So they need a way to achieve that smugness for which the left is so justifiably famous. They need a way to achieve self-esteem without merit. Well, there is politics. In an egalitarian world everything will be controlled by politics, and politics requires no merit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the good loser who finally loses out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25595]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the good loser who finally loses out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27233]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When anyone tells me I can't do anything. I'm just not listening any more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20666]]></link><description><![CDATA[When anyone tells me I can't do anything. I'm just not listening any more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15461]]></link><description><![CDATA[That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in front is carefully kept in view. [Lat., Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere, nemo!  Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going as if he trod upon eggs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going as if he trod upon eggs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that we all carry the divine within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that we all carry the divine within us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ivory Coast is a good team and has an advantage because it's just played the African Cup final. Although Spain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ivory Coast is a good team and has an advantage because it's just played the African Cup final. Although Spain hasn't played for a while, I hope the players can put on a good display.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hopes not for good, feares not evill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49360]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hopes not for good, feares not evill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you label me you negate me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you label me you negate me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of Srebrenica will forever haunt the history of the United Nations ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57800]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of Srebrenica will forever haunt the history of the United Nations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today at home and around the world. His love and faith is alive in millions of Americans who volunteer each day in soup kitchens or in schools, or who refused to ignore the suffering of millions they'd never met in far-away places when a tsunami brought unthinkable destruction. His vision and his passion is alive in churches and on campuses when millions stand up against the injustice of discrimination anywhere, or the indifference that leaves too many behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1975]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're playing okay but we haven't put 60 minutes together. We're inconsistent and we're not putting full periods together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38251]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're playing okay but we haven't put 60 minutes together. We're inconsistent and we're not putting full periods together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23935]]></link><description><![CDATA[For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart;  To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/433]]></link><description><![CDATA[To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart;  To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold,   Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold--    For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry.  But were we burd'ned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/702]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry.  But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain,   As much or more we should ourselves complain:    So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee,     With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me;      But if thou live to see like right bereft,       This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still cry, the kids still cry. It still affects us all no matter how longs it's been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42667]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still cry, the kids still cry. It still affects us all no matter how longs it's been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46587]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22011]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22011</guid></item></channel></rss>