<?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[Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does not possess his estate, but his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like madness is the glory of this life As this pomp shows to a little oil and root. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like madness is the glory of this life As this pomp shows to a little oil and root.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49278]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep. [Fr., Dieu mesure le froid a la brebis tondue.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51924]]></link><description><![CDATA[God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep. [Fr., Dieu mesure le froid a la brebis tondue.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chalice is ephemeral.Jesus' blood eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44082]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chalice is ephemeral.Jesus' blood eternal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes,  The burnished sunbeams brightening   From flower to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20047]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes,  The burnished sunbeams brightening   From flower to flower he flies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46778]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They know no country, own no lord, Their home the camp, their law the sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45806]]></link><description><![CDATA[They know no country, own no lord, Their home the camp, their law the sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53853]]></link><description><![CDATA[One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25932]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detriment ofthe Palestinianson the Diane Rehm Show. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45969]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detriment ofthe Palestinianson the Diane Rehm Show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John of the Cross, Mystic, Poet, Teacher, 1591   A Christian should always remember that the value ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John of the Cross, Mystic, Poet, Teacher, 1591   A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.   St. John of the Cross  December 15, 2000   Two thousand years of failure have not taught some reformers that you can't stop sin by declaring it illegal. Two thousand years have not taught them that you can't save a man's soul by force -- you can only lose your own in the attempt. Drunkenness and gambling and secularism and lechery -- various hopeful churchmen have earnestly tried to outlaw them all; and what is the result? A drunken nation, a gambling nation, a secularist nation, an adulterous nation. And, often, a ruined Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It certainly looks like [new claims] have peaked. You're looking at several weeks where they've come off the peak they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42248]]></link><description><![CDATA[It certainly looks like [new claims] have peaked. You're looking at several weeks where they've come off the peak they hit after Sept. 11.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17472]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump: you may be freeing him from being a camel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump: you may be freeing him from being a camel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19689]]></link><description><![CDATA[No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compassion is not a popular virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compassion is not a popular virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  To be right with God has often meant to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9798]]></link><description><![CDATA[So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth, [It., Se toso grazia risolva le schiume  Di vostra conscienza, si che chiaro   Per essa scenda della mente il fiume.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[cannot or should not be reproduced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41397]]></link><description><![CDATA[cannot or should not be reproduced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52709]]></link><description><![CDATA[The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country in any circumstances whatever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10191]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse  The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42735]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53497]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43204]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's almost like having a troubled child that ends up graduating from law school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31983]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's almost like having a troubled child that ends up graduating from law school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know. I didn't see it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28518]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know. I didn't see it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but as a source of inspiration. And it usually manages, one way or another, to turn up in his product.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We get blows and return them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50380]]></link><description><![CDATA[We get blows and return them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58806]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of good memories with that, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41461]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of good memories with that, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The course of true love never did run smooth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25715]]></link><description><![CDATA[The course of true love never did run smooth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a good start, ... Everything was, 'Yes, ma'am.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40824]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a good start, ... Everything was, 'Yes, ma'am.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He needs prayers. That's what it comes down to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29216]]></link><description><![CDATA[He needs prayers. That's what it comes down to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning;  Alas! the gratitude of men   Hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18166]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning;  Alas! the gratitude of men   Hath often left me mourning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13864]]></link><description><![CDATA[An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going in, I knew I wasn't one of the top ones, because I didn't even make the pre-season All-American team. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going in, I knew I wasn't one of the top ones, because I didn't even make the pre-season All-American team. That shows you what people thought of me right there, so I knew I had to go to work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4327]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4327</guid></item></channel></rss>