<?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[Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is twice a conqueror, who can restrain himself in the hour of triumph. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51605]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is twice a conqueror, who can restrain himself in the hour of triumph.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20049]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime,  And, departing, leave us behind  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime,  And, departing, leave us behind   Footprints on the sands of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead:  And in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead:  And in whatever state a man be thrown,   'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you care for someone it's not all about being with them. It's about being there for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62948]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you care for someone it's not all about being with them. It's about being there for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23776]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm pretty sure a lot of people look at Boise State winning this game, ... Everyone is looking at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35660]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm pretty sure a lot of people look at Boise State winning this game, ... Everyone is looking at the type of team they have and looking at the type of team they think we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the very, very widespread complaints about reconstruction process today is where is the money going. There is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37519]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the very, very widespread complaints about reconstruction process today is where is the money going. There is a sense out there that resources are not fairly allocated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas good advice, and meant, "My son, be good." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/778]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas good advice, and meant, "My son, be good."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60769]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did this after school because we don't want people to talk bad about us. We're here for our education ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38017]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did this after school because we don't want people to talk bad about us. We're here for our education and our future. If we're not going to school, what's the point of all this?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do it, dump it, or change it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do it, dump it, or change it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61707]]></link><description><![CDATA[And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms. . . . For summer being done, all things stand upon them with a weather-beaten face, and the whole country, full of woods and thickets, represented a wild and savage hue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot, nor I will not hold me still; My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59487]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot, nor I will not hold me still; My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who have attained things worth having in this world have workedwhile others have idled, have perservered while others gave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21729]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who have attained things worth having in this world have workedwhile others have idled, have perservered while others gave up in despair,and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial,industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later lifethe success often erroneously attributed to good luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They come to see and be seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50786]]></link><description><![CDATA[They come to see and be seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63268]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive,  Where, housed beside their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3913]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive,  Where, housed beside their might honey-comb,   They dream their polity shall long survive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tender handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains;  Grasp it like a man of mettle, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tender handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains;  Grasp it like a man of mettle,   And it soft as silk remains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(We) just had to come together as a team and focus to pick up the intensity, on defense especially. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41037]]></link><description><![CDATA[(We) just had to come together as a team and focus to pick up the intensity, on defense especially. You know, we created some turnovers. We changed the tempo of the game in the second half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9239]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all o its meaninglessness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all o its meaninglessness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds.The pessimist fears it is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds.The pessimist fears it is true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last infirmity of noble mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last infirmity of noble mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our starting pitchers did an excellent job and we played pretty good defense today, so it's a good way to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our starting pitchers did an excellent job and we played pretty good defense today, so it's a good way to start.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He loved the twilight that surrounds The border-land of old romance;  Where glitter hauberk, helm, and lance,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54355]]></link><description><![CDATA[He loved the twilight that surrounds The border-land of old romance;  Where glitter hauberk, helm, and lance,   And banner waves, and trumpet sounds,    And ladies ride with hawk on wrist,     And mighty warriors sweep along,      Magnified by the purple mist,       The dusk of centuries and of song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess that makes us pioneers in a way. But you know people have been doing this at other schools ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37000]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess that makes us pioneers in a way. But you know people have been doing this at other schools for 10 years now. I just think of it as I'm bringing something new to Notre Dame. Hopefully, George, Chris and I can be a successful story with early enrollment, and we can keep it going for others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't counteract whatever teams are doing. We were always worried at one point about what Detroit was doing, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33973]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't counteract whatever teams are doing. We were always worried at one point about what Detroit was doing, and we haven't played them in nine years [in the postseason]. So it's really irrelevant, I think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days  That are no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days  That are no more, and shall no more return.   Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed;    I stay a little longer, as one stays     To cover up the embers that still burn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The TV shows and magazines both confirm and propel the trend. With the economy improving, and people making more money, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42569]]></link><description><![CDATA[The TV shows and magazines both confirm and propel the trend. With the economy improving, and people making more money, it feels like they're beginning to spend more than they have in the past couple of years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bride is a woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4916]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bride is a woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Christ reveals Himself there is satisfaction in the slenderest portion, and without Christ there is emptiness in the greatest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6824]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Christ reveals Himself there is satisfaction in the slenderest portion, and without Christ there is emptiness in the greatest fulness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our XD80U is smaller and lighter than most laptops, making it perfect for the mobile presenter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our XD80U is smaller and lighter than most laptops, making it perfect for the mobile presenter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be cheerful, if you are wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be cheerful, if you are wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8659]]></link><description><![CDATA[People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An honest exceeding poor man. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55574]]></link><description><![CDATA[An honest exceeding poor man. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the England team don't want to experience another hellish week like the one that lies ahead of them now, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42554]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the England team don't want to experience another hellish week like the one that lies ahead of them now, with only pride at stake, they had better get used to the idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63253</guid></item></channel></rss>