<?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[No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63095]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7466]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for all to see; and the only unanswerable argument for Christianity is a Christian life. No man can disregard a religion and a faith and a power which is able to make bad men good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem... Problems are like landmarks of progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm signing up kids right now. Some of these kids think they can play without coming to practice. I'm not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39926]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm signing up kids right now. Some of these kids think they can play without coming to practice. I'm not going to take the liability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45597]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War should neither be feared nor provoked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50911]]></link><description><![CDATA[War should neither be feared nor provoked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Needle in a bottle of hay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Needle in a bottle of hay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you'll be right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you'll be right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doingordinary things extraordinarily well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doingordinary things extraordinarily well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes all the difference in the world, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41334]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes all the difference in the world,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[E'en a crow o' th' same nest; not altogether so great as the first in goodness, but greater a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10497]]></link><description><![CDATA[E'en a crow o' th' same nest; not altogether so great as the first in goodness, but greater a great deal in evil. He excels his brother for a coward, yet his brother is reputed one of the best that is. In a retreat he outruns any lackey; marry, in coming on he has the cramp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History repeats itself; historians repeat each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19342]]></link><description><![CDATA[History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is a game only saints playKabir. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is a game only saints playKabir.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity is the soul of lingerie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity is the soul of lingerie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In fact, by going to New York City we are going home because one out of every four city residents ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35216]]></link><description><![CDATA[In fact, by going to New York City we are going home because one out of every four city residents is a Latino.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was one of those who by fortune's boon Are born, as they say, with a silver spoon  In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50165]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was one of those who by fortune's boon Are born, as they say, with a silver spoon  In her mouth, not a wooden ladle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! my child, where is the Pen That can do justice to the Hen?  Like Royalty, she goes her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! my child, where is the Pen That can do justice to the Hen?  Like Royalty, she goes her way,   Laying foundations every day,    Though not for Public Buildings, yet     For Custard, Cake and Omelette.      Of if too old for such a use       They have their fling at some abuse,        As when to censure Plays Unfit         Upon the stage they make a Hit          Or at elections seal the Fate           Of an Obnoxious Candidate.            No wonder, Child, we prize the Hen,             Whose Egg is Mightier than the Pen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good & quickly seldome meete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good & quickly seldome meete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He thinkes not well, that thinkes not againe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49417]]></link><description><![CDATA[He thinkes not well, that thinkes not againe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . but while I breathe Heaven's air, and Heaven looks down on me,  And smiles at my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20734]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . but while I breathe Heaven's air, and Heaven looks down on me,  And smiles at my best meanings, I remain   Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle that we tread upon  In corporal sufferance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle that we tread upon  In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great   As when a giant dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18405]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12851]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I love loses half its pleasure if you are not there to share it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10938]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I love loses half its pleasure if you are not there to share it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou will scare be a man before thy mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou will scare be a man before thy mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54998]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linux is not user-friendly. It _is_ user-friendly. It is not ignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Linux is not user-friendly. It _is_ user-friendly. It is not ignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we did a decent job defensively, Toronto worried us because of their size. We had to create some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34194]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we did a decent job defensively, Toronto worried us because of their size. We had to create some pressure so they wouldn't have the opportunity to just pound the ball inside on us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53902]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   I am glad that you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   I am glad that you have been acquainted, from your youth, with the wrestlings of God, being cast from furnace to furnace; knowing, if you were not dear to God, and if your health did not require so much of him, he would not spend as much physic upon you. All the brethren and sisters of Christ must be conformed to his image in suffering, Rom. viii.17, and some do more fully resemble the copy than others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles, King & Martyr, 1649   Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles, King & Martyr, 1649   Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. Likewise, the indwelling Christ, though unseen, will be made evident to others from the love which he imparts to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falling in love is like jumping off a really tall building. Your brain tells you it is not a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falling in love is like jumping off a really tall building. Your brain tells you it is not a good idea, but your heart tells you, you can fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace. commerce, and honest friendship with all nations--entangling alliances with none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace. commerce, and honest friendship with all nations--entangling alliances with none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, come away; Why dost thou stay? Thy road is ready and thy paths made straight With longing expectations wait ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, come away; Why dost thou stay? Thy road is ready and thy paths made straight With longing expectations wait The consecration of thy beautious feet. Ride on triumphantly; behold! we lay Our lusts and proud wills in thy way. Hosannah! welcome to our hearts: Lord, here Thou hast a temple too, and full as dear  As that of Sion; and as full of sin -- Nothing but thieves and robbers dwell therein; Enter and chase them forth, and cleanse the floor,  Crucify them, that they may never more Profane that holy place Where thou hast chose to set thy face. And then if our still tongues shall be  Mute in the praises of thy deity, The stones out of the temple wall  Shall cry aloud and call Hosannah! and thy glorious footsteps greet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64848]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[who will shuffle when he's not going anywhere, scratch when he's not itching and grin when he's not tickled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33478]]></link><description><![CDATA[who will shuffle when he's not going anywhere, scratch when he's not itching and grin when he's not tickled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignore it. No answer is necessary, Your Excellency. The president does not know his place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignore it. No answer is necessary, Your Excellency. The president does not know his place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentecost  Every time we say, 'I believe in the Holy Spirit,' we mean that we believe that there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentecost  Every time we say, 'I believe in the Holy Spirit,' we mean that we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  Each of us individually has risen into moral life from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  Each of us individually has risen into moral life from a mode of being which was purely natural; in other words, each of us also has fallen -- fallen, presumably in ways determined by his natural constitution, yet certainly, as conscience assures us, in ways for which we are morally answerable, and to which, in the moral constitution of the world, consequences attach which we must recognise as our due. They are not only results of our action, but results which that action has merited; and there is no moral hope for us unless we accept them as such.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8385</guid></item></channel></rss>