<?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[The whole group didn't play real well, but I hung in there and made some good pars. I worked on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37622]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole group didn't play real well, but I hung in there and made some good pars. I worked on straightening out my swing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7489]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we will not bring to Christ what we have and what we are. If, just as we are, we would lay ourselves on the altar of service of Jesus Christ, there is no saying what Christ could do with us and through us. We may be sorry and embarrassed that we have not more to bring -- and rightly so; but that is not reason for failing or refusing to bring what we have and what we are. Little is always much in the hands of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like champagne. When you listen to it, you start to sway with the tune. It works as well today ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31583]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like champagne. When you listen to it, you start to sway with the tune. It works as well today as it ever did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it is not true it is very well invented. [It., Se non e vero, e molto ben trovato.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59812]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it is not true it is very well invented. [It., Se non e vero, e molto ben trovato.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last night I discovered a new form of oral contraceptive. I asked a girl to go to bed with me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last night I discovered a new form of oral contraceptive. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said no.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a big-time steal for Duquesne. He will have an opportunity to come in and change that program around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29636]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a big-time steal for Duquesne. He will have an opportunity to come in and change that program around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27589]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is often attended with danger. [Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is often attended with danger. [Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. -Paul Richter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10413]]></link><description><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. -Paul Richter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24079]]></link><description><![CDATA[A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throwing sand into the wheels of deeper international economic integration in order to reduce adjustment costs, as contemplated by some, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throwing sand into the wheels of deeper international economic integration in order to reduce adjustment costs, as contemplated by some, is not an attractive option.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if you can't keep your ego under control, it's going to cost you a lot of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28611]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if you can't keep your ego under control, it's going to cost you a lot of money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46312]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a Child ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62699]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a Child himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Off to her bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Off to her bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knute Rockne liked bad loser. He said good losers lose too often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knute Rockne liked bad loser. He said good losers lose too often.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do have maps in the lobby of the Des Moines Police Department that's open 24 hours a day, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30210]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do have maps in the lobby of the Des Moines Police Department that's open 24 hours a day, but they will see there's very limited space. And the space they have open, I'd be surprised if they (have) any luck finding a place to live,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the bottom line -- that no one gets hurt, no one gets injured, or hurts someone else while they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29126]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the bottom line -- that no one gets hurt, no one gets injured, or hurts someone else while they're on the road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenerynever changes. (Perhaps Cy Burnett). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenerynever changes. (Perhaps Cy Burnett).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice thing about the wine show is you have owners pouring their wines, and people can ask them questions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice thing about the wine show is you have owners pouring their wines, and people can ask them questions about the wine. We consider the event to be classy but casual, meaning you don't have to be a wine aficionado to enjoy this event.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light cameto me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21153]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light cameto me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he was talking, he was lying and if he wasn't lying, he was stealing. He was just a weird ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42543]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he was talking, he was lying and if he wasn't lying, he was stealing. He was just a weird and lonely guy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summer's dead,  And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summer's dead,  And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries   For what has been and is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are natural guerrillas. Scheming, we nestle into the enemy's bed, avoiding open warfare, watching the options, playing the odds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are natural guerrillas. Scheming, we nestle into the enemy's bed, avoiding open warfare, watching the options, playing the odds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54603]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hard beginning maketh a good ending. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3975]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hard beginning maketh a good ending.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26837]]></link><description><![CDATA[In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be ready to be surprised ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be ready to be surprised]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is jealous is not in love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66650]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is jealous is not in love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men; which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51122]]></link><description><![CDATA[With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   We must remember that our experience of union with God, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   We must remember that our experience of union with God, our feeling of His presence, is altogether accidental and secondary. It is only a side effect of His actual presence in our souls, and gives no sure indication of that presence in any case. For God Himself is above all apprehensions and ideas and sensations, however spiritual, that can ever be experienced by the spirit of man in this life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For out allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and there is no return from our death,  because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59307]]></link><description><![CDATA[For out allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and there is no return from our death,  because it is sealed up and no one turns back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true iswhat we believe. What we believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true iswhat we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What weperceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon whatwe think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceivedetermines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to betrue. what we take to be true is our reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was totally surprising to us and alarming to our colleagues, especially those interested in conservation, climate change and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36177]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was totally surprising to us and alarming to our colleagues, especially those interested in conservation, climate change and the ability of governments like Brazil to enforce environmental laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60670]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41551]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41551</guid></item></channel></rss>