<?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 world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19941]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27835]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27835</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[If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27619]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59042]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582 O God, grant that today  I may not disappoint any friend; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582 O God, grant that today  I may not disappoint any friend;  I may not grieve any loved one;  I may not fail anyone to whom I have a duty;  I may not shame myself. Grant that today  I may do my work with honesty and fidelity;  I may take my pleasure in happiness and purity. Grant that today  I may lead no one astray;  I may not make goodness and faith harder for anyone. Help me today  to be a help and example to all;  to bring strength and encouragement wherever I am: Through Jesus Christ my Lord, Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary   Faith is rest, not toil. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary   Faith is rest, not toil. It is the giving up all the former weary efforts to do or feel something good, in order to induce God to love and pardon; and the calm reception of the truth so long rejected, that God is not waiting for any such inducements, but loves and pardons of His own goodwill, and is showing that goodwill to any sinner who will come to Him on such a footing, casting away his own poor performances or goodnesses, and relying implicitly upon the free love of Him who so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist   Almighty God, who created humanity after your image and gave them living souls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist   Almighty God, who created humanity after your image and gave them living souls that they may seek you and rule your creation, teach us so to investigate the works of your hand that we may subdue the earth to our use, and strengthen our intelligence for your service. And grant that we may so receive your Word as to believe in him whom you sent to give us the science of salvation and the forgiveness of our sins. All this we ask in the name of the same Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65390]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if it please you, so; if not, why, so. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55331]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if it please you, so; if not, why, so. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steelin his heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21833]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steelin his heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, he's a limb that has but a disease: Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12496]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, he's a limb that has but a disease: Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[He has had only one close call, when he got his thumb stuck in the spokes of his mom's wheelchair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30217]]></link><description><![CDATA[[He has had only one close call, when he got his thumb stuck in the spokes of his mom's wheelchair and it caused an under-the-nail blood blister. The injury occurred in the post-Photoshop era, but even so, the resulting lag in work could have cost him trusted clients.] I thought Photoshop was the end of my career, ... I thought they'd be able to get any ol' pair of hands in there. But what most people don't realize is there's a brain that comes connected to these hands. You need to know the tricks of the trade. It's just like fashion modeling: You can get a pretty woman to put on an outfit, but once you send her down the runway, does she know what to do?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visions for those too tired to sleep, These seeds cast a film over eyes which weep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visions for those too tired to sleep, These seeds cast a film over eyes which weep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50361]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its the moment you think you can't that you realize you can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its the moment you think you can't that you realize you can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888 Vain is the chiming of forgotten bells  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888 Vain is the chiming of forgotten bells  That the wind sways above a ruined shrine.  Vainer his voice in whom no longer dwells  Hunger that craves immortal Bread and Wine. Light songs we breathe, that perish with our breath,  Out of our lips that have not kissed the rod.  They shall not live who have not tasted death.  They only sing who are struck dumb by God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so, his senses gradually wrapt In a half sleep, he dreams of better worlds,  And dreaming hears thee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12870]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so, his senses gradually wrapt In a half sleep, he dreams of better worlds,  And dreaming hears thee still, O singing lark;   That singest like an angel in the clouds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because swans mate for life, I don't think its that big a deal. First of all, if you're a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because swans mate for life, I don't think its that big a deal. First of all, if you're a swan, you're probably not going to find a swan that looks much better than the one you've got, so why not mate for life?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26068]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring  In the spring,   And wait upon her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring  In the spring,   And wait upon her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall never want rope enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51062]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall never want rope enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear it is too choleric a meat. How say you to a fat tripe finely broiled? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13273]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear it is too choleric a meat. How say you to a fat tripe finely broiled?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human mind ever longs for occupation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48879]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human mind ever longs for occupation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of ourcontrols. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of ourcontrols.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5707]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human, to forgive, divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16515]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human, to forgive, divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18571]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51955]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time we try to move a piece of furniture, it just falls apart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time we try to move a piece of furniture, it just falls apart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O villainy! Ho! let the door be lock'd. Treachery! seek it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60648]]></link><description><![CDATA[O villainy! Ho! let the door be lock'd. Treachery! seek it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19273]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wind favors him who has no destined port. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22679]]></link><description><![CDATA[No wind favors him who has no destined port.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with - for you are a caretaker for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5981]]></link><description><![CDATA[An aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with - for you are a caretaker for those moments in time. Doc Childre, A Parenting Manual: Heart Hope for the Family -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5981</guid></item></channel></rss>