<?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[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941   We distrust the providence of God when, after we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941   We distrust the providence of God when, after we have used all our best endeavors and begged His blessing upon them, we torment ourselves about the wise issue and event of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22014]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Performance is your reality. Forget everything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never was anything so inconsistent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never was anything so inconsistent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was ever precise in promise-keeping. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55375]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was ever precise in promise-keeping. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18294</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[All of us are crazy in one way or another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21039]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us are crazy in one way or another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12185]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're between any sort of devil and the deep blue sea, the deep blue sea sometimes looks very inviting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is indescribable. I'm so happy for everyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42159]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is indescribable. I'm so happy for everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kristin and Molly beat a solid doubles team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kristin and Molly beat a solid doubles team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are not at your ideal body weight and are not active, over time, you have a risk of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42080]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are not at your ideal body weight and are not active, over time, you have a risk of diabetes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60183]]></link><description><![CDATA[In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965  Who is it that has helped you most? Has it not been those who believed in you? Perhaps there may be few such left. The light of expectation may have died out of the most friendly and hopeful eyes; and you yourself may have lost heart. Ah! but there is still One whose faith in you has never wavered. And how wonderful it is that that one should be Jesus Christ!... It was a wonderful dream God dreamed, Christ says, when He created you; it was a stately being that was in His mind when you were fashioned; and I can make you all He meant that you should be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They made a lot of spirited plays. We left our men at times in the first half and they made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35473]]></link><description><![CDATA[They made a lot of spirited plays. We left our men at times in the first half and they made shots and then they started earning them, but they deserve a lot of credit for their effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60062]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58143]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods. And if a man knows the law, people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey into oils and ochers all the enchantments of spring or autumn; or can liberate or intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses, 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept: the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64674]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.\r\n]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fox Who Had Lost His TailA fox caught in a trap escaped, but in so doing lost his tail. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fox Who Had Lost His TailA fox caught in a trap escaped, but in so doing lost his tail. Thereafter, feeling his life a burden from the shame and ridicule to which he was exposed, he schemed to convince all the other Foxes that being tailless was much more attractive, thus making up for his own deprivation. He assembled a good many Foxes and publicly advised them to cut off their tails, saying that they would not only look much better without them, but that they would get rid of the weight of the brush, which was a very great inconvenience. One of them interrupting him said, If you had not yourself lost your tail, my friend, you would not thus counsel us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pressed into service means pressed out of shape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What worries me ... (is) that they will penalize European growth through hasty increases in interest rates without any justification. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30091]]></link><description><![CDATA[What worries me ... (is) that they will penalize European growth through hasty increases in interest rates without any justification.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47467]]></link><description><![CDATA[The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60344]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies, To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies, To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16049]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In spite of our hard work and the launch of [Asheron's Call 2 expansion pack] Legions, AC2 has reached the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37706]]></link><description><![CDATA[In spite of our hard work and the launch of [Asheron's Call 2 expansion pack] Legions, AC2 has reached the point where it no longer makes sense to continue the service. We will be officially closing the Asheron's Call 2 service on 12/30/05. Until then, we plan to run live events, but we will not be adding any content or features.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688  Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, ... but delight to be alone and single with Omnipresency... Life is pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17084]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a general agreement in the system that Iran can make trouble for the West in Iraq and Palestine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41303]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a general agreement in the system that Iran can make trouble for the West in Iraq and Palestine and that by doing so it will force the Americans to take it seriously and give it a security role in the region.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50533]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are fooles one to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50042]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are fooles one to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were at such a fever pitch over getting to setting the referendum date and amount ... that I think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36740]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were at such a fever pitch over getting to setting the referendum date and amount ... that I think having gotten to that point everybody heaved a sigh of relief and the air went out of the tires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small heart hath small desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49077]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small heart hath small desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is looking after a few bushes and shrubs and has even placed a circle of white stones around a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29833]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is looking after a few bushes and shrubs and has even placed a circle of white stones around a small palm tree,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We get a second chance at beating the No. 1 team in the country, and we're not going to turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30015]]></link><description><![CDATA[We get a second chance at beating the No. 1 team in the country, and we're not going to turn this one down. We're being given a second chance to dig deep and get this one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30015</guid></item></channel></rss>