<?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[We needed more shots to go in the basket in the first and second quarters. We had some good looks. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33964]]></link><description><![CDATA[We needed more shots to go in the basket in the first and second quarters. We had some good looks. We've been making them all year. The bottom line is when you get good looks against a good team, you have to knock them down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60057]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed. That can make life a garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Richard! O my king! The universe forsakes thee! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54499]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Richard! O my king! The universe forsakes thee!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50542]]></link><description><![CDATA[To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not good a sleping hound to wake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56628]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not good a sleping hound to wake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I came down the Highgate Hill, The Highgate Hill, the Highgate Hill,  As I came down the Highgate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25449]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I came down the Highgate Hill, The Highgate Hill, the Highgate Hill,  As I came down the Highgate Hill   I met the sun's bravado,    And saw below me, fold on fold,     Grey to pearl and pearl to gold,      This London like a land of old,       The land of Eldorado.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the people begin to reason, all is lost ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the people begin to reason, all is lost]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21254]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11270]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which of them shall I take? Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed,  If both remain alive. To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which of them shall I take? Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed,  If both remain alive. To take the widow   Exasperates, makes mad her sister Goneril;    And hardly shall I carry out my side,     Her husband being alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll have signs showing the way, and students also will be available to direct people to the choir room. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31238]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll have signs showing the way, and students also will be available to direct people to the choir room.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlightTo divide us forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32117]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlightTo divide us forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41619]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50264]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845   While many Americans are still firmly committed to the traditional, supernatural conceptions of a personal God, a Divine Savior, and the promise of eternal life, the trend is away from these convictions. The fact is that a demythologized modernism is overwhelming the traditional Christ-centered, mystical faith. For the modern skeptics are not the apostates, village atheists, or political revolutionaries of old. The leaders of today's challenge to traditional beliefs are principally theologians -- those in whose care the church entrusts its sacred teachings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53124]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and row brave by reflection. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10331]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and row brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26305]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26423]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one was happy when this happened. There were girls that played varsity last year that aren't getting that chance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32832]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one was happy when this happened. There were girls that played varsity last year that aren't getting that chance now. But the kids seem to be getting along pretty well and they're playing really good golf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to think, at this point, it was just a little trash fire that quickly got out of control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30549]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to think, at this point, it was just a little trash fire that quickly got out of control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind makes living contradictory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind makes living contradictory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy,  Kinsman to a grim and comfortless despair,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy,  Kinsman to a grim and comfortless despair,   And at her heels a huge infectious troop    Of pale distemperatures and foes to life?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings, but I say 'tis the bee's wax; for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never mind own man since.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess the thing to do is to be two strokes down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37620]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess the thing to do is to be two strokes down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. [Lat., Adulandi gens prudentissima laudat  Sermonem indocti, faciem deformis amici.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love without attachment is light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love without attachment is light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer. [Lat., Majores fertilissium is agro oculum domini ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer. [Lat., Majores fertilissium is agro oculum domini esse dixerunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I was in de land ob cotton, Ole times dar am not forgotten,  Look-a-way! Look-a-way! Look-a-way, Dixie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I was in de land ob cotton, Ole times dar am not forgotten,  Look-a-way! Look-a-way! Look-a-way, Dixie Land!   . . . .    Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray!     In Dixie Land I'll take my stand      To lib and die in Dixie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is now a broad consensus, that Israel will go ahead and build our borders to preserve Israel as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29092]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is now a broad consensus, that Israel will go ahead and build our borders to preserve Israel as a democratic Jewish state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hence ye profane; I hate ye all; Both the great vulgar, and the small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hence ye profane; I hate ye all; Both the great vulgar, and the small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63970]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your voice dries up if you don't use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your voice dries up if you don't use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got a lot of loose balls and tipped rebounds. Our big guys did a good job down low. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29737]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got a lot of loose balls and tipped rebounds. Our big guys did a good job down low. That ... proved to be the difference in the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2280]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19007]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Do not] put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59115]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Do not] put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody with any maturity knows that an experienced Christian is more eager to have God use him than he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody with any maturity knows that an experienced Christian is more eager to have God use him than he is to use God for his own ends; but this does not mean that God is absent from the processes of business and livelihood, nor unconcerned about them, nor unable to reveal Himself through them. When we begin to look upon work, business, money, as potential sacraments through which God can work, we shall make better use of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A strange, glazed expression came into his eyes and he staggered around the cabin looking for all the world like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62676]]></link><description><![CDATA[A strange, glazed expression came into his eyes and he staggered around the cabin looking for all the world like a zombie unwilling to take part in an experiment in advanced necromancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul. -Walt Whitman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul. -Walt Whitman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her mouth is a honey-blossom,  No doubt, as the poet sings; But within her lips, the petals,  Lurks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her mouth is a honey-blossom,  No doubt, as the poet sings; But within her lips, the petals,  Lurks a cruel bee that stings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wife is your life, you married her couse your white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61572]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wife is your life, you married her couse your white.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61572</guid></item></channel></rss>