<?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[There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3030]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12991]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early on, I knew what I was getting into. But it's been very tough. It's hard to watch knowing I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early on, I knew what I was getting into. But it's been very tough. It's hard to watch knowing I can't be out there helping the guys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the first time, Americans will have under one roof the capacity for government to work together. To identify and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38749]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first time, Americans will have under one roof the capacity for government to work together. To identify and assess threats to our homeland, to match these threats to our vulnerabilities, and to ensure our safety and security,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44577]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whither art thou rushing to destruction? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whither art thou rushing to destruction?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not necessarily a slut, but I could be if I wanted to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29204]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not necessarily a slut, but I could be if I wanted to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688  Here in Pilgrim's Progress there is the ultimate human nostalgia for the City of God, which is the restless heart's true home. And even the cynical, the unbelieving and half-believing reader who goes with Christian to the end of the road must be a little shaken, may tremble to see something like a gate and also some of the glory of the place, and, glimpsing something of the company within the golden gates, may wish himself among them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our expectations are always high. They are learning how to win, and I feel like they'll do that in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our expectations are always high. They are learning how to win, and I feel like they'll do that in the second round, because they are playing with such confidence right now and that makes a difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61454]]></link><description><![CDATA[This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All furnished, all in arms; All plum'd like estridges that with the wind  Bated like eagles having lately bathed; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26618]]></link><description><![CDATA[All furnished, all in arms; All plum'd like estridges that with the wind  Bated like eagles having lately bathed;   Glittering in golden coats like images;    As full of spirit as the month of May     And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer;      Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48168]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good is the mora that makes all sure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good is the mora that makes all sure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My star, God's glowworm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17574]]></link><description><![CDATA[My star, God's glowworm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18361]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the greatest of all religions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the greatest of all religions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level. [Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire vult.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14018]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level. [Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire vult.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's not eligible for the bone marrow transplant until he finishes his chemo courses. [The doctors] have to wipe out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31236]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's not eligible for the bone marrow transplant until he finishes his chemo courses. [The doctors] have to wipe out the bad cells before they can introduce the good ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, now lettest now thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word.(2:29). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, now lettest now thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word.(2:29).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart Must hold both sisters, never seen apart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart Must hold both sisters, never seen apart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3584]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what a man thinks you do not have worry about what he will do. If you can make a man believe that he is inferior, you don’t have to compel him to seek an inferior status, he will do so without being told and if you can make a man believe that he is justly an outcast, you don’t have to order him to the back door, he will go to the back door on his own and if there is no back door, the very nature of the man will demand that you build one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58088]]></link><description><![CDATA[I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we want to say, recall, regret, or rebel against. No, what's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47570]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Collective judgement of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Collective judgement of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgement despite collective disapproval.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence of proof is not proof of absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence of proof is not proof of absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody could believe that somebody would steal pocket change and break into the library to do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody could believe that somebody would steal pocket change and break into the library to do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a great honor for our school. It shows the improvement we've made. We used to be one of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28806]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a great honor for our school. It shows the improvement we've made. We used to be one of the worst athletic programs around, but we've worked hard to get where we are today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY Jesus came! - and came for me.  Simple words! and yet expressing Depths of holy mystery,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6519]]></link><description><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY Jesus came! - and came for me.  Simple words! and yet expressing Depths of holy mystery,  Depths of wondrous love and blessing. Holy Spirit, make me see  All His coming means for me; Take the things of Christ, I pray,  Show them to my heart today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bread is the staff of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bread is the staff of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of minor holes around the city, but nothing that's a major problem for people driving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33189]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of minor holes around the city, but nothing that's a major problem for people driving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thus we rust Life's iron chain  Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8397]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thus we rust Life's iron chain  Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep,  And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind  And break the heart of stone. And every human heart that breaks,  In prison-cell or yard, Is as that broken box that gave  Its treasure to the Lord, And filled the unclean leper's house  With the scent of costliest nard. Ah! happy they whose hearts can break  And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan  And cleanse his soul from sin? How else but through a broken heart  May Lord Christ enter in?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not fashion, it's passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36259]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not fashion, it's passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep calleth upon deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep calleth upon deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing happens until something moves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing happens until something moves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has goneinto your mind. You change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21128]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has goneinto your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are bychanging what goes into your mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Noble houskeepers neede no dores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Noble houskeepers neede no dores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49657</guid></item></channel></rss>