<?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[To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61051]]></link><description><![CDATA[To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4787]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love may conquer all, but it needs time as its field general. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love may conquer all, but it needs time as its field general.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assassinations has never changed the history of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Assassinations has never changed the history of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'llbe halfway there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'llbe halfway there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62031]]></link><description><![CDATA[He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That it may please you leave these sad designs To him that hath most cause to be a mourner,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53831]]></link><description><![CDATA[That it may please you leave these sad designs To him that hath most cause to be a mourner,  And presently repair to Crosby House;   Where--after I have solemnly interred    At Chertsey monast'ry with noble king--     And wet his grave with my repentant tears--      I will with all expedient duty see you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His kindled duty kindled her mistrust, That two red fires in both faces blazed.  She thought he blushed as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4392]]></link><description><![CDATA[His kindled duty kindled her mistrust, That two red fires in both faces blazed.  She thought he blushed as knowing Tarquin's lust,   And, blushing with him, wistly on him gazed;    Her earnest eye did make him more amazed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58964]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode  (There they alike in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5699]]></link><description><![CDATA[No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode  (There they alike in trembling hope repose),   The bosom of his Father and his God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yon nightingale, whose strain so sweetly flows, Mourning her ravish'd young or much-loved mate,  A soothing charm o'er all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yon nightingale, whose strain so sweetly flows, Mourning her ravish'd young or much-loved mate,  A soothing charm o'er all the valleys throws   And skies, with notes well tuned to her and state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make a hole-in-one in a major, that was great, ... It's an honor for me to play in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38827]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make a hole-in-one in a major, that was great, ... It's an honor for me to play in a major with all these great players and be under par... and then make a hole-in-one to boot. That might put me in the history books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The march of intellect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The march of intellect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26604]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not endorsing a site. She would be remiss if she didn't listen to what the Jets have to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32448]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not endorsing a site. She would be remiss if she didn't listen to what the Jets have to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again,  Viewed his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13093]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again,  Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart,   And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a smale maketh a grate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a smale maketh a grate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54904]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very diverse. As well as a challenge, it's also an opportunity. I believe we all benefit from each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31258]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very diverse. As well as a challenge, it's also an opportunity. I believe we all benefit from each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61960]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a sure card. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5238]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a sure card.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When treading London's well-known ground If e'er I feel my spirits tire,  I haul my sail, look up around, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12982]]></link><description><![CDATA[When treading London's well-known ground If e'er I feel my spirits tire,  I haul my sail, look up around,   In search of Whitbread's best entire.   - Unattributed Author,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While tears that from repentance flow, In bright exhalement reach the skies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50683]]></link><description><![CDATA[While tears that from repentance flow, In bright exhalement reach the skies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great is truth, and strongest of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is truth, and strongest of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62485]]></link><description><![CDATA[At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7085]]></link><description><![CDATA[God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking His words and causing the power of them to persist across the years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yestreen, when to the trembling string The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha',  To thee my fancy took its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yestreen, when to the trembling string The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha',  To thee my fancy took its wing;   I sat, but neither heard nor saw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Several players who were present acknowledge, however, that they did hire private party dancers and that underage drinking occurred. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Several players who were present acknowledge, however, that they did hire private party dancers and that underage drinking occurred. The judgment of the team members to host and participate in this event is inconsistent with the values of Duke Athletics and Duke University and is unacceptable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10020]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Fatherland no danger thine, Firm stand thy sons to watch the Rhine!  [Ger., Lieb Vaterland magst ruhig sein, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear Fatherland no danger thine, Firm stand thy sons to watch the Rhine!  [Ger., Lieb Vaterland magst ruhig sein,   Fest steht und treu die Wacht am Rhein!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We made him a substantial offer. He was a Kiwi player we really wanted. I was a bit worried he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38422]]></link><description><![CDATA[We made him a substantial offer. He was a Kiwi player we really wanted. I was a bit worried he was over-valued because of the leagues he's played in. Now he's gone to one of the most unstable clubs in the A-League.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't play what's there, play what's not there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't play what's there, play what's not there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63020]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: From Thee all skill and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: From Thee all skill and science flow,  All pity, care and love,  All calm and courage, faith and hope;  O pour them from above. And part them, Lord, to each and all,  As each and all shall need, To rise like incense, each to Thee,  In noble thought and deed. And hasten, Lord, that perfect day  When pain and death shall cease, And Thy just rule shall fill the earth  With health and light and peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47558]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  That Jones shall worship the "god within him" turns out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  That Jones shall worship the "god within him" turns out ultimately to mean that Jones shall worship Jones. Let Jones worship the sun or moon -- anything rather than the Inner Light; let Jones worship cats or crocodiles, if he can find any in his street, but not the god within. Christianity came into the world firstly in order to assert with violence that a man had not only to look inwards, but to look outwards, to behold with astonishment and enthusiasm a divine company and a divine captain. The only fun of being a Christian was that a man was not left alone with the Inner Light, but definitely recognized an outer light, fair as the sun, clear as the moon, terrible as an army with banners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52769]]></link><description><![CDATA[A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doesn't matter at all. All that matters is we got the victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doesn't matter at all. All that matters is we got the victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They dance, they revel, and they sing, Till the rude turrets shake and ring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51110]]></link><description><![CDATA[They dance, they revel, and they sing, Till the rude turrets shake and ring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24909</guid></item></channel></rss>