<?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[One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24219]]></link><description><![CDATA[One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She listened to him all night and he found her fascinating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64104]]></link><description><![CDATA[She listened to him all night and he found her fascinating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes-- Cats--I believe he did but feign to hate.  My hand will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5318]]></link><description><![CDATA[His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes-- Cats--I believe he did but feign to hate.  My hand will miss the insinuated nose,   Mine eyes the tail that wagged contempt at Fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, atfifteen your double, and after that, your friend or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, atfifteen your double, and after that, your friend or your foe depending onhis bringing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie that is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51686]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie that is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is looking like we will have a couple other minor systems move through this week, Tuesday and Saturday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32493]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is looking like we will have a couple other minor systems move through this week, Tuesday and Saturday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't long for the unripe grape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't long for the unripe grape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes deeds ill done! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58905]]></link><description><![CDATA[How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes deeds ill done!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a big long-legged black animal. As he got bigger that ankle blended in to his size and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40661]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a big long-legged black animal. As he got bigger that ankle blended in to his size and it wasn't all that noticeable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20290]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no body will go to hell for company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49954]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no body will go to hell for company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -William Ellery Channing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -William Ellery Channing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9862]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't play a lick of defense. We played with our heads down and there was poor coaching on our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30590]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't play a lick of defense. We played with our heads down and there was poor coaching on our part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46572]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had always told me that I wrote like a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29701]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had always told me that I wrote like a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think at that point we were aspiring to be a Led Zeppelin kind of a band where you could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37642]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think at that point we were aspiring to be a Led Zeppelin kind of a band where you could pick up your acoustic instruments or you could go out and rock or you could play a country song. I love all those bands we got mentioned with, but it never felt like we fit into that group very well. So the fact that they're still saying, 'The band that survived grunge' is kind of funny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light (God's eldest daughter!) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light (God's eldest daughter!)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the nature of researchyou don't know what in hell you're doing. -'Doc' Edgerton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9423]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the nature of researchyou don't know what in hell you're doing. -'Doc' Edgerton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen him use it well, and I think it's something I can definitely use, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen him use it well, and I think it's something I can definitely use,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer opens the understanding to the brightness of Divine Light, and the will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer opens the understanding to the brightness of Divine Light, and the will to the warmth of Heavenly Love -- nothing can so effectually purify the mind from its many ignorances, or the will from its perverse affections. It is as a healing water which causes the roots of our good desires to send forth fresh shoots, which washes away the soul's imperfections, and allays the thirst of passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384   [John] Wycliffe's doctrine of "dominion founded in grace" was a peculiar feature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384   [John] Wycliffe's doctrine of "dominion founded in grace" was a peculiar feature of his system. He taught that God, as the great feudal superior of the universe, allotted to all earthly authorities their rule in fief as subject to Himself. The priesthood was not an office of dominion, but of service, and its prerogatives ceased when service was not rendered. Dominion was not granted to one person as God's Vicar on earth, but the King was as much God's Vicar as the Pope; nay, every Christian held his rights immediately of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29395]]></link><description><![CDATA[All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny....']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Companies with strong earnings prospects may lead the market higher. Automakers and auto equipment makers are buying targets given increasing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Companies with strong earnings prospects may lead the market higher. Automakers and auto equipment makers are buying targets given increasing sales in overseas markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8859]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4662]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some cases, this will provide a solution for councils. The public forgets that we have a statutory obligation to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34772]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some cases, this will provide a solution for councils. The public forgets that we have a statutory obligation to deliver education for every child, and some kids just cannot thrive in a mainstream school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to drawexclusively from his own resources. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21390]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to drawexclusively from his own resources.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60744]]></link><description><![CDATA[All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54022]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did what was best for the horse, not what other people thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36313]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did what was best for the horse, not what other people thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe it's absolutely crucial for us to maintain a strong voice in the national government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe it's absolutely crucial for us to maintain a strong voice in the national government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You and I were long friends; you are now my enemy, and I am yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13852]]></link><description><![CDATA[You and I were long friends; you are now my enemy, and I am yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can one desire too much of a good thing? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can one desire too much of a good thing?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what seniors are for, to win a ballgame for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37179]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what seniors are for, to win a ballgame for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897  As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. "I come to seek God because I need Him," may be an adequate formula for prayer. "I come to adore His splendour, and fling myself and all that I have at His feet," is the only possible formula for worship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't run around, because that's when the seams are there and the holes are there. The tighter you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40024]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't run around, because that's when the seams are there and the holes are there. The tighter you can stay, the more you can make them move it around and maybe take a shot they don't want to take, the better you're doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why fear death when it is the only path to meet the Maker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why fear death when it is the only path to meet the Maker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no real wealth but the labor of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23959]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no real wealth but the labor of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23959</guid></item></channel></rss>