<?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[Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we have grown, my attention has turned more to dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38704]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we have grown, my attention has turned more to dogs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3647]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not permitted that we should know everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50283]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not permitted that we should know everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59284]]></link><description><![CDATA[We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From compromise and things half done,     Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9297]]></link><description><![CDATA[From compromise and things half done,     Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won,     God, keep me still unsatisfied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies; And sure he will; for wisdom never lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies; And sure he will; for wisdom never lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're thrilled with the turnout. It's good to see the community rally around this festival. We planted the seeds several ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35124]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're thrilled with the turnout. It's good to see the community rally around this festival. We planted the seeds several years ago and have watched it grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46887]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45985]]></link><description><![CDATA[But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian clearly understands that Jesus does not reveal all that is signified by the word "God", but only as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian clearly understands that Jesus does not reveal all that is signified by the word "God", but only as much as could be revealed through a perfect human personality living in absolute obedience to God's will. The knowledge of God that men have by virtue of Jesus' revelation is quite enough for men to live by in this life, and to live gloriously and thankfully by, Christians maintain -- the knowledge that God the Creator, the Almighty and Eternal, the Lord of history, is man's Heavenly Father, and that love might well be, and indeed is, the ultimate meaning of human existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11860]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing peace is the measure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing peace is the measure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A learned man has always wealth in himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61439]]></link><description><![CDATA[A learned man has always wealth in himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the days that's in the week, I dearly love but one day,  And that's the day that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the days that's in the week, I dearly love but one day,  And that's the day that comes betwixt   A Saturday and Monday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46824]]></link><description><![CDATA[All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sickness is a belief, to be annihilated by the divine Mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sickness is a belief, to be annihilated by the divine Mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not sheer malice that pricks our ears to evil reports about our fellow men. For there are frequent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52331]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not sheer malice that pricks our ears to evil reports about our fellow men. For there are frequent moments when we feel lower than the lowest of mankind, and this opinion of ourselves isolates us. Hence the rumor that all flesh is base comes almost as a message of hope. It breaks down the wall that has kept us apart, and we feel one with humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate who can see better than an umpire standing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3769]]></link><description><![CDATA[A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate who can see better than an umpire standing five feet away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think our voice got heard loud and clear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think our voice got heard loud and clear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime  With tears and laughter for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55309]]></link><description><![CDATA[There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime  With tears and laughter for all time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friend, of my infinite dreams Little enough endures;  Little howe'er it seems,   It is yours, all yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friend, of my infinite dreams Little enough endures;  Little howe'er it seems,   It is yours, all yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really into those shows. But the more I learn in class, the more I'm interested in the real thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37561]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really into those shows. But the more I learn in class, the more I'm interested in the real thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10022]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63239]]></link><description><![CDATA[The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its very activity and gains new strength by its movements; small at first through fear, it soon raises itself aloft and sweeps onward along the earth. Yet its head reaches the clouds. . . . A huge and horrid monster covered with many feathers: and for every plume a sharp eye, for every pinion a biting tongue. Everywhere its voices sound, to everything its ears are open. [Lat., Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes: Fama malum quo non velocius ullum;  Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo;   Parva metu primo; mox sese attollit in auras,    Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubilia condit.     . . . .      Monstrum, horrendum ingens; cui quot sunt corpore plumae       Tot vigiles oculi subter, mirabile dictu,        Tot linquae, totidem ora sonant, tot subrigit aures.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is art? Nature concentrated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43768]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is art? Nature concentrated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!A farewell, and then forever!Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!A farewell, and then forever!Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,While the star of hope she leaves him?Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,Dark despair around benights me. - Ae Fond Kiss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In T-1, our goal was to repeat with the Corvette, and get the Viper and Andrew up there. In T-2 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38188]]></link><description><![CDATA[In T-1, our goal was to repeat with the Corvette, and get the Viper and Andrew up there. In T-2 with the Subaru, we wanted to win division and national championships.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41535]]></link><description><![CDATA[once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I have only just thought of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59789]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the world's enjoyments That ever valued were,  There's none of our employments   With fishing can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the world's enjoyments That ever valued were,  There's none of our employments   With fishing can compare.   - Thomas Durfee (or D'Urfey),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23466]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56475]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our neighborhood is so drenched in pain and blood. It's the business of the church to try to offer understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our neighborhood is so drenched in pain and blood. It's the business of the church to try to offer understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28748]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28748</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[Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel an autumnal Saturday, no matter how beautiful, is wasted if it doesn't find me sitting in on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57744]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel an autumnal Saturday, no matter how beautiful, is wasted if it doesn't find me sitting in on a football game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57744</guid></item></channel></rss>