<?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[The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5379]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38010]]></link><description><![CDATA[I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57461]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not a deceiver, that he should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8443]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not a deceiver, that he should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35887]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The interpretation of dreams is a great art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The interpretation of dreams is a great art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a kisse? Why this, as some approve: The sure sweet cement, glue, and lime of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23834]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a kisse? Why this, as some approve: The sure sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was very irrational and having visions and hallucinations, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36166]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was very irrational and having visions and hallucinations,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This report confirms everything we've ever said about why the Byrd Amendment should be overturned, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34656]]></link><description><![CDATA[This report confirms everything we've ever said about why the Byrd Amendment should be overturned,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never till then so many thunderbolts from cloudless skies. (Bolt from the blue.) [Lat., Non alias caelo ceciderunt plura sereno.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never till then so many thunderbolts from cloudless skies. (Bolt from the blue.) [Lat., Non alias caelo ceciderunt plura sereno.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's absolutely devastating, ... It's one  thing to see it on TV, and it's another to talk to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33593]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's absolutely devastating, ... It's one  thing to see it on TV, and it's another to talk to a mom and dad and children who have lost everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die. [It., Spesso e da forte,  Piu che ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die. [It., Spesso e da forte,  Piu che il morire, il vivere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little lett lets an ill workeman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49049]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little lett lets an ill workeman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away,  The post of honor is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away,  The post of honor is a private station.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother understands what a child does not say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27090]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother understands what a child does not say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are not perfect (except when they smile). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65744]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are not perfect (except when they smile).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone was friendly, helpful and I always enjoyed coming here. There always were good horses here, and I won a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone was friendly, helpful and I always enjoyed coming here. There always were good horses here, and I won a lot of money here. That's the name of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I still think China has a lot of problems that will hinder the growth and development of the chip ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32195]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I still think China has a lot of problems that will hinder the growth and development of the chip production industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the first quarter we were a little slow to get into our motion. Our job is to come off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31056]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the first quarter we were a little slow to get into our motion. Our job is to come off the bench and provide energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59077]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  Jesus Christ suffered and died to sanctify death and suffering; he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  Jesus Christ suffered and died to sanctify death and suffering; he has been all that was great, and all that was abject, in order to sanctify in himself all things except sin, and to be the model of every condition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,  And heard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,  And heard thy everlasting yarn confess   The Pains and Penalties of Idleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada's official languages program is arguably the most successful affirmative action program in history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Canada's official languages program is arguably the most successful affirmative action program in history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John has the ability, he is a slippery player, he is able to use good speed and he has a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38083]]></link><description><![CDATA[John has the ability, he is a slippery player, he is able to use good speed and he has a great change of direction. He has a knack of getting himself to the goal and is also a very good feeder so he is making others better. When John is at his best, there are not many players that are of his ability in the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who focused onthe shock of shardsas the phoenix birdburst from his shellnearly missed the sightof his wondrous maiden flightas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who focused onthe shock of shardsas the phoenix birdburst from his shellnearly missed the sightof his wondrous maiden flightas he soared up and awayand out of sight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11798]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11531]]></link><description><![CDATA[You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you? [Fr., Vous le croyez votre dupe: s'il feint de l'etre, qui est plus dupe, de lui ou de vous?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A late lark twitters from the quiet skies: And from the west,  Where the sun, his day's work ended, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44525]]></link><description><![CDATA[A late lark twitters from the quiet skies: And from the west,  Where the sun, his day's work ended,   Lingers as in content,    There falls on the old, gray city     An influence luminous and serene,      A shining peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51258]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration of Octavia Hill, Worker for the Poor, 1912  The law of nature is nothing but the law of God given to mankind for the conservation of his nature and the promotion of his perfective end: a law of which a man sees a reason and feels a necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64502]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playing snooker gives you firm hands and helps to build up character. It is the ideal recreation for dedicated nuns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Playing snooker gives you firm hands and helps to build up character. It is the ideal recreation for dedicated nuns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in souls a sympathy with sounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58517]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'll be with us when training camp opens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32640]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'll be with us when training camp opens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each story I've written starts out as a vague idea that seems to be going nowhere, then suddenly materializes as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each story I've written starts out as a vague idea that seems to be going nowhere, then suddenly materializes as a completed concept. It almost seems like a discovery, as if the story was always there. The few elements I start out with are actually clues. If I figure out what they mean, I can discover the story that's waiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58348]]></link><description><![CDATA[I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2250]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64747]]></link><description><![CDATA[I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better the feet slip then the tongue. [Better the feet slip than the tongue.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better the feet slip then the tongue. [Better the feet slip than the tongue.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59480</guid></item></channel></rss>