<?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[Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle   Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change; and when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle   Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change; and when we are right, make us easy to live with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46742]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to think there was light at the end of the tunnel, but for me today the light is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/591]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to think there was light at the end of the tunnel, but for me today the light is on a locomotive headed right for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   None can become fit for the future life, who hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   None can become fit for the future life, who hath not practiced himself for it now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not allowed to comment on lousy officiating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57614]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not allowed to comment on lousy officiating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up and down! Up and down! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown;  And amidst the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up and down! Up and down! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown;  And amidst the flashing and feathery foam   The Stormy Petrel finds a home,--    A home, if such a place may be,     For her who lives on the wide, wide sea,      On the craggy ice, in the frozen air,       And only seeketh her rocky lair        To warm her young and to teach them spring         At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No new troops were added, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34271]]></link><description><![CDATA[No new troops were added,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Transformation literally means going beyond your form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Transformation literally means going beyond your form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47161]]></link><description><![CDATA[A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20140]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open rebuke is better than secret love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Open rebuke is better than secret love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who will be fired ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8934]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired and those who will be fired]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47171]]></link><description><![CDATA[The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we must support a government agency that gives itself to the emotional and ideological manipulation of citizens is infamous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see no reason why Tiger Woods won't become a great player. Man, can he smoke some shots. A little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57524]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see no reason why Tiger Woods won't become a great player. Man, can he smoke some shots. A little refinement on Tiger's short game and there'll be nothing. He's already pretty darn imposing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Galloping Gourmet isn't a zombie, just really really English. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Galloping Gourmet isn't a zombie, just really really English.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like I'd always get close [to gaining 100 yards in a game] but fall short. It felt good to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39138]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like I'd always get close [to gaining 100 yards in a game] but fall short. It felt good to get that one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13780]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13447]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that caricature, at best the complexity of our lives and leave the real artistic chore of interpretation unfinished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole sport is odd, but within the sport it's even an odd kind of race because of the fact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33772]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole sport is odd, but within the sport it's even an odd kind of race because of the fact that it seems so difficult. Those who do it seem to love it and embrace it. Others kind of look askance on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy -- a Jill a rich widow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61561]]></link><description><![CDATA[All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy -- a Jill a rich widow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59346]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They converse as those who know that God hears. [Lat., Ita fabulantur ut qui sciant Dominum audire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10103]]></link><description><![CDATA[They converse as those who know that God hears. [Lat., Ita fabulantur ut qui sciant Dominum audire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end, we took the ugly wins and are glad to have survived, ... We still need to improve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29379]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end, we took the ugly wins and are glad to have survived, ... We still need to improve our serving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21874]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more he cast away the more he had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more he cast away the more he had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12708]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In years past, we've won one or two [district] games per year. We've known that we've had talent every year. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28210]]></link><description><![CDATA[In years past, we've won one or two [district] games per year. We've known that we've had talent every year. We've just never been able to put it together and play as a team. This year we've played as a team. Everybody's so excited about going to the playoffs. We just want to keep that hope alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a veteran volunteer fire fighter, as well as a filmmaker, I wanted to share my experience of what it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40997]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a veteran volunteer fire fighter, as well as a filmmaker, I wanted to share my experience of what it was really like at Ground Zero from the perspective of the rescue and recovery workers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61429]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64997]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words writ in waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words writ in waters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, ah, Cytherea! Adonis is dead. She wept tear after tear, with the blood which was shed,--  And both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, ah, Cytherea! Adonis is dead. She wept tear after tear, with the blood which was shed,--  And both turned into flowers for the earth's garden-close;   Her tears, to the wind-flower,--his blood, to the rose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40472]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance or death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12599]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance or death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56436]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50603</guid></item></channel></rss>