<?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 future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination. -John Schaar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50891]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59467]]></link><description><![CDATA[You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  You rob, and spoile, and eat his people as bread, by Extortion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  You rob, and spoile, and eat his people as bread, by Extortion, and bribery, and deceitful waights and measures, and deluding oathes in buying and selling, and then come hither, and so make God your Receiver, and his house a den of Thieves. His house is Sanctum Sanctorum, The holiest of holies, and you make it onely Sanctuarium: It should be a place sanctified by your devotions, and you make it onely a Sanctuary to priviledge Maelfactors, a place that may redeeme you from the ill opinion of men, who must in charity be bound to thinke well of you, because they see you in here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am personally proud to fight for the cause of open government in the state of Texas, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am personally proud to fight for the cause of open government in the state of Texas,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066  If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066  If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally -- every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55333]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like I've experienced every part of my game throughout this first week and I've liked the levels I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29174]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like I've experienced every part of my game throughout this first week and I've liked the levels I've hit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16928]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make enemies, try to change something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66752]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make enemies, try to change something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All in the wild March-morning I heard the angels call; It was when the moon was setting, and the dark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26375]]></link><description><![CDATA[All in the wild March-morning I heard the angels call; It was when the moon was setting, and the dark was over all;  The trees began to whisper, and the wind began to roll,   And in the wild March-morning I heard them call my soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26322]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is at least 50 percent of the creative process ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is at least 50 percent of the creative process]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179   Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179   Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are good; but then, they are only good at times and occasions, in a certain degree, and must be used and governed with such caution as we eat and drink and refresh ourselves, or they will bring forth in us the fruits of intemperance. But the spirit of prayer is for all times and occasions; it is a lamp that is to be always burning, a light to be ever shining: everything calls for it; everything is to be done in it and governed by it, because it is and means and wills nothing else but the totality of the soul -- not doing this or that, but wholly ... given up to God to be where and what and how He pleases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you deal in camels, make the doors high ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11148]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you deal in camels, make the doors high]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if they're lucky enough and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if they're lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any human being-are able to go into a garden and turn over stone and see a worm and see a slug and see an ant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17610]]></link><description><![CDATA[In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53384]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection. - Letters to His Son, W. B. Yeats and Others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46054]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's partly because when we lost at Bonneville last week we didn't run our stuff. We were three passes and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39757]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's partly because when we lost at Bonneville last week we didn't run our stuff. We were three passes and a shot. We've got to get some movement to score.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That combination was something we wanted to hit last week (against West Craven). We tried two or three times but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40588]]></link><description><![CDATA[That combination was something we wanted to hit last week (against West Craven). We tried two or three times but could never make it work. But (North Lenoir) stayed in Cover 2 and just gave it to us. We decided before the game we were going to try it against them; we did it three times and hit it twice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits the all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits the all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every able man, there are always other able men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/84]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every able man, there are always other able men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/84</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52479]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Durability is part of what makes a great athlete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't adopt them for a day. We just adopted them. We had heard that so many smaller areas were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42008]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't adopt them for a day. We just adopted them. We had heard that so many smaller areas were not getting help because of the focus on New Orleans. We all know what it's like to be a little town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there;  And 'twill be found, upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there;  And 'twill be found, upon examination,   The latter has the largest congregation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46730]]></link><description><![CDATA[In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blaze razed four or five blocks that housed the male Indonesian inmates, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28261]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blaze razed four or five blocks that housed the male Indonesian inmates,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10689]]></link><description><![CDATA[All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is rich who owes nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18695]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is rich who owes nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54872</guid></item></channel></rss>