<?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[Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fatigue makes cowards of us all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fatigue makes cowards of us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camera is no more an instrument of preservation; the image is... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camera is no more an instrument of preservation; the image is...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see my reputation is at stake; My fame is shrewdly gored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53892]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see my reputation is at stake; My fame is shrewdly gored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turn your scars into stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turn your scars into stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58423]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;Do thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;Do thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh,By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest. - Paradise Lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20650]]></link><description><![CDATA[The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If hospitals and doctors believe we are going to release all the information we get, they might be hesitant to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42354]]></link><description><![CDATA[If hospitals and doctors believe we are going to release all the information we get, they might be hesitant to provide the information and wouldn't report to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  If our faith is not relevant to our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  If our faith is not relevant to our daily life in the world and in the parish, then it is no use; and if we cannot be Christians in our work, in the neighborhood, in our political decisions, then we had better stop being Christians. A piety reserved for Sundays is no message for this age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is anact of choice and therefore sacred, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21975]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is anact of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance livedconsciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in thecreation of a better world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined by what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined by what he chooses to do with his life, not by what happens to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings. . -Buddha.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kiss till the cows come home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kiss till the cows come home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got nothing to prove anymore. If they want to fight, I'll fight and I'll get it done. I use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got nothing to prove anymore. If they want to fight, I'll fight and I'll get it done. I use my toughness now to make sure guys are held accountable on the other team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66002]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If 17 counties have to change vendors before June, that's going to be a huge challenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40078]]></link><description><![CDATA[If 17 counties have to change vendors before June, that's going to be a huge challenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  We must confess our sins in order to obtain pardon; but we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  We must confess our sins in order to obtain pardon; but we must see our sins in order to confess. How few of those who think that they have confessed and been pardoned have ever seen their sin!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23489]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How we apples swim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2950]]></link><description><![CDATA[How we apples swim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets;and the more  We feel of poesie do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets;and the more  We feel of poesie do we become   Like God in love and power,--under-makers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth O Lord our God,   Who has called us to serve You, In the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth O Lord our God,   Who has called us to serve You, In the midst of the world's affairs,   When we stumble, hold us; When we fall, lift us up;   When we are hard pressed with evil, deliver us; When we turn from what is good, turn us back;   And bring us at last to Your glory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44647]]></link><description><![CDATA[A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[rnAbsence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65335]]></link><description><![CDATA[rnAbsence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benefits become business events, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benefits become business events,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He made tons of big pitches. It is hard to believe that a guy making his first start would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34864]]></link><description><![CDATA[He made tons of big pitches. It is hard to believe that a guy making his first start would be so sharp. You do not find a guy throwing eight innings on his first start.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24383]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have been a couple times when it was a Monday morning quarterback-type thing. Things where I wish I had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33506]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have been a couple times when it was a Monday morning quarterback-type thing. Things where I wish I had rested a little more or could have been more aggressive in a meet. It's not anything major, just little things here and there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inward rest... gives an air of leisure to [Christ's] crowded life: above all, there is in this Man a secret ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inward rest... gives an air of leisure to [Christ's] crowded life: above all, there is in this Man a secret and a power of dealing with the waste-products of life, the waste of pain, disappointment, enmity, death -- turning to divine uses the abuses of man, transforming arid places of pain to fruitfulness, triumphing at last in death, and making a short life of thirty years or so, abruptly cut off, to be a "finished" life. We cannot admire the poise and beauty of this human life, and then ignore the things that made it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those are the things I can help them with. I'm not a golf pro by any means. I can help ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those are the things I can help them with. I'm not a golf pro by any means. I can help some of the beginners, but most of the girls are so advanced. They get their technical help elsewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50447]]></link><description><![CDATA[He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who will not economize will have to agonize. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13346]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who will not economize will have to agonize.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laurel crowned Horatius True, how true the saying,  Swift as wind flies over us   Time devouring, slaying. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laurel crowned Horatius True, how true the saying,  Swift as wind flies over us   Time devouring, slaying.    [Lat., Lauriger Horatius     Quam dixisti verum;      Fugit curo citius       Tempus edax rerum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air,  She tore the azure robe of night, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16131]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air,  She tore the azure robe of night,   And set the stars of glory there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51216]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is but a canvas to our imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20540]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is but a canvas to our imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication is the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, "it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. [Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. [Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25054</guid></item></channel></rss>