<?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[Christmas Eve A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Thou honour'st his obedience, he thy law. Into thy secret life-will he doth see; Thou fold'st him round in live love perfectly--  One two, without beginning, without end; In love, life, strength, and truth, perfect without a flaw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lisa took the game on her back in the second half for us. She stepped up her game and said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lisa took the game on her back in the second half for us. She stepped up her game and said we weren't going to lose. On any given night any one of our players can step up. She played great defensively and knocked down a couple of shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of undignified ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of undignified pastime -- I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful. I agree that it's hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain deserves no consideration at all. It's no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63578]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situation in America is when it starts moving there, all the bands from England move over to America and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situation in America is when it starts moving there, all the bands from England move over to America and work from there, so that they're available all the time for everyone that wants them in person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4147]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4147</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[In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13857]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788   The cause of their decline was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788   The cause of their decline was not, as has been supposed, because there is no more need for [the charismatic gifts], "because all the world had become Christian". ... The real cause was: the love of many, of almost all Christians so called, was waxed cold; ... The real cause why the extraordinary gifts of the Holy Spirit were no longer to be found in the Christian Church [was that] the Christians were turned heathen again, and had only a dead form left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must every one be a man of his own fancy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51220]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must every one be a man of his own fancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58806]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  If you have failings, ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  If you have failings, ask God often whether it be His honour and pleasure to take them away from you; for without Him you can do nothing. If he takes them away, thank Him; but if He does not do that, you will bear it no more, however, as the defect of a sin, but as a great trial with which you are to gain merit and practice patience. You should be content, whether or not He accords you His gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The starting line of the New York City marathon is kind of a giant time bomb behind you about to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The starting line of the New York City marathon is kind of a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The honey-bee that wanders all day long The field, the woodland, and the garden o'er,  To gather in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The honey-bee that wanders all day long The field, the woodland, and the garden o'er,  To gather in his fragrant winter store,   Humming in calm content his winter song,    Seeks not alone the rose's glowing breast,     The lily's dainty cup, the violet's lips,      But from all rank and noxious weeds he sips       The single drop of sweetness closely pressed        Within the poison chalice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a tempest in a tumbler of water. [Fr., C'est une tempete dans un verre d'eau.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57900]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a tempest in a tumbler of water. [Fr., C'est une tempete dans un verre d'eau.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your owndoorstep is unclean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your owndoorstep is unclean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28579]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'menGang aft agley. - "To A Mouse". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'menGang aft agley. - "To A Mouse".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, reallybelieve, your mind will find the ways to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, reallybelieve, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution pavesthe way to solution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did the best he could. I actually have to thank him for that, because he did compete hurt. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39831]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did the best he could. I actually have to thank him for that, because he did compete hurt. He was never 100 percent for about three-quarters of the season. He had high expectations for himself and he does everything at 100 percent. He really wanted to be a state wrestling champion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 INSCRIPTION FOR A PULPIT "The hungry sheep look up, and are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 INSCRIPTION FOR A PULPIT "The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed." The hungry sheep, that crave the living Bread. Grow few, and lean, and feeble as can be, When fed not Gospel, but philosophy; Not Love's eternal story, no, not this, But apt allusion, keen analysis. Discourse well framed -- forgot as soon as heard -- Man's thin dilution of the living Word. O Preacher, leave the rhetorician's arts; Preach Christ, the Food of hungry human hearts; Hold fast to science, history, or creed, But preach the Answer to our human need, That in this place, at least, it may be said No hungry sheep looks up and is not fed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[after being married to Bill for more than 50 years, I don't really know where to start. I miss him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33032]]></link><description><![CDATA[after being married to Bill for more than 50 years, I don't really know where to start. I miss him all the time...I was not with him that night, because I felt like I was coming down with the flu.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here, thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take--and sometimes tea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here, thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take--and sometimes tea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have the ability to know where each other is gonna be. A lot of times, they'll make a pass, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37393]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have the ability to know where each other is gonna be. A lot of times, they'll make a pass, and someone else might not know where it's going. But they know where it's going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's say a young boy is going for a CAT scan. First, he gets to preview various animation themes. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's say a young boy is going for a CAT scan. First, he gets to preview various animation themes. He chooses his favorite and takes a holographic RFID badge with a Philips ICODE chip. When he goes into the examination room, he waves the badge at the scanning equipment, and the walls and ceiling come to life with animations, accompanied by music and other sounds. It keeps him relaxed and it's a great way to give him instructions. When it's time for him to hold his breath, he sees a cartoon character holding his own breath!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not closing the lower Manhattan location. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34557]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not closing the lower Manhattan location.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our kids really fought to get back in the game and gave themselves a chance to win. We had to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our kids really fought to get back in the game and gave themselves a chance to win. We had to play so hard to overcome a lot. We had to play perfectly in a lot of areas. We had to make fewer turnovers, we had to get more rebounds and we had to get to the free throw line more than we did. It was tough to overcome but we gave it a shot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42275]]></link><description><![CDATA[I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love me, I'll be anyobdy you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love me, I'll be anyobdy you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt is the father of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt is the father of invention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But thus: if powers divine Behold our human actions, as they do,  I doubt not then but innocence shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20964]]></link><description><![CDATA[But thus: if powers divine Behold our human actions, as they do,  I doubt not then but innocence shall make   False accusation blush and tyranny    Tremble at patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18249]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A degree is not an education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in American thinking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9749]]></link><description><![CDATA[A degree is not an education, and the confusion on this point is perhaps the gravest weakness in American thinking about education]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43516]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's still interesting times, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38789]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's still interesting times,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right human relations is the only true peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right human relations is the only true peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've lost a lot of close games that we could have won, but they slipped away. We play the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28581]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've lost a lot of close games that we could have won, but they slipped away. We play the same way every game. But this game, we had to keep playing hard because Virginia wasn't going to go away. We knew the only way to beat Virginia was to play hard for 40 minutes and that's what we did tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15431]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17628]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1114</guid></item></channel></rss>