<?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[Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while And like a peacock sweep along his tail;  We'll pull his plumes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while And like a peacock sweep along his tail;  We'll pull his plumes and take away his train,   If Dauphin and the rest will be but ruled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24259]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secrets are made to be found out with time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secrets are made to be found out with time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17146]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[sends letters once a week to his closest family members and he can get letters regularly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29836]]></link><description><![CDATA[sends letters once a week to his closest family members and he can get letters regularly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew we had to keep fighting because we knew they are a tough team and would keep fighting to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30534]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew we had to keep fighting because we knew they are a tough team and would keep fighting to come back hard. We had to play the whole game out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is acceptance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is acceptance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18683]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7461]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service -- just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56920]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect yourself if you would have others respect you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The record shows very long lapses of time when there's no movement on the case at all. That is inexcusable. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The record shows very long lapses of time when there's no movement on the case at all. That is inexcusable. Somebody's responsible for that. This is nine years now of a man's life lost by no fault of his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22497]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44409]]></link><description><![CDATA[If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody agrees that we have to fix these levees. But declaring a state of emergency an hour before a political ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody agrees that we have to fix these levees. But declaring a state of emergency an hour before a political convention smacks much more of politics than it does of leadership. The governor has had many opportunities to fund and fix these levees before, and he hasn't done it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  The Son of God suffered unto the death, not that men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  The Son of God suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like His.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase "As pretty as an airport" appear ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23992]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase "As pretty as an airport" appear]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little while and I will be gone from among you, when I cannottell. From no where we came, into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15228]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little while and I will be gone from among you, when I cannottell. From no where we came, into nowhere we go. What is life? Itis a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo inthe winter time. It is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44863]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness: When on my day of life the night is falling,   And, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness: When on my day of life the night is falling,   And, in the winds from unsunned spaces blown, I hear far voices out of darkness calling   My feet to paths unknown, Thou who hast made my home of life so pleasant   Leave not its tenant when its walls decay; O Love Divine, O Helper ever-present,   Be Thou my strength and stay! Be near me when all else is from me drifting;   Earth, sky, home's pictures, days of shade and shine, And kindly faces to my own uplifting   The love that answers mine. I have but Thee, my Father! let Thy spirit   Be with me then to comfort and uphold; No gate of pearl, no branch of palm I merit,   Nor street of shining gold. Suffice it if -- my good and ill unreckoned,   And both forgiven through Thy abounding grace - I find myself by hands familiar beckoned   Unto my fitting place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let pride go afore, shame will follow after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We couldn't press like we wanted to, but our pressure defense in the half-court set was great. We took their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37586]]></link><description><![CDATA[We couldn't press like we wanted to, but our pressure defense in the half-court set was great. We took their big guy out of the game, and that really made the difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56670]]></link><description><![CDATA[A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that it's wise for media companies to be interested in electronic gaming. Gaming revenue should continue to grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32401]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that it's wise for media companies to be interested in electronic gaming. Gaming revenue should continue to grow at a faster rate than the overall market so I'd expect more consolidation online.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of prayer because they "cannot meditate" should examine, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of prayer because they "cannot meditate" should examine, not their capacity for meditation, but their capacity for suffering and love. For there is a hard and costly element, a deep seriousness, a crucial choice, in all genuine religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of girls who go out there and just bust their butts. It showed (against Centerburg) when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32106]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of girls who go out there and just bust their butts. It showed (against Centerburg) when some of our girls stepped up. They didn't want to lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song of gladness in the heart.  ... Bernard of Clairvaux May 8, 2000 Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  And what might this noble Lord do of more worship and joy to me than to show me (that am so simple) this marvelous homeliness [i.e., naturalness and simplicity]? Thus it fareth with our Lord Jesus and with us. For truly it is the most joy that may be that He that is highest and mightiest, noblest and worthiest, is lowest and meekest, homeliest and most courteous: and truly this marvelous joy shall be shewn us all when we see Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry. [Sp., Una muger no tiene.  Valor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26560]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel--she should marry. [Sp., Una muger no tiene.  Valor para el consejo, y la conviene Casarse.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17464]]></link><description><![CDATA[A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52489]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am going to seek the great Perhaps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11373]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am going to seek the great Perhaps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Westminster Abbey, or Victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Westminster Abbey, or Victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4350</guid></item></channel></rss>