<?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[Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on authenticity:   A mere form of religion does upon some accounts bring a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on authenticity:   A mere form of religion does upon some accounts bring a man under a heavier sentence than if he were openly profane and irreligious. He that makes a show of religion flatters God, but all the while he acts and designs against him; whereas the profane man deals plainly, and tho' he be a monstrous and unnatural rebel, yet he is a fair and open enemy. And the kisses of a false friend are more hateful than the wounds of an open enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal! -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55449]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal! -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is friendship set on fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is friendship set on fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our community needs an immediate resolution, ... Our community has lost confidence in Dr. Ladner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our community needs an immediate resolution, ... Our community has lost confidence in Dr. Ladner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56799]]></link><description><![CDATA[The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The probability is going up that there's going to be some kind of transaction involving Knight Ridder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The probability is going up that there's going to be some kind of transaction involving Knight Ridder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1689]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not ent]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughed at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50506]]></link><description><![CDATA[The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us remember that every person who is infected, whatever the reason, is a fellow human being with human rights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us remember that every person who is infected, whatever the reason, is a fellow human being with human rights and human needs,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will directs the tongue or the hand to act, and the evil word is spoken, or the evil deed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8185]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will directs the tongue or the hand to act, and the evil word is spoken, or the evil deed done. Every time we sin, it is the whole of us that sins, and not just a part. The body is only the instrument of the mind and the will. All that God made, including the body with all its desires and instincts, is good in itself. But it has to be kept under control and used in the right way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed while the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed while the curtains of the next are brushed by the shadows of the dance. A wedding party returns from the church and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During our lives we're faced with so many elements as well, we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12251]]></link><description><![CDATA[During our lives we're faced with so many elements as well, we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and have a little hope. The Tour isn't just a bike race, it tests you mentally, physically, and even morally. -Lance Armstrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18160]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way. [Lat., Conveniens homini est hominem servare voluptas.  Et melius nulla quaeritur arte favor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18128]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: You find the present tense and the past perfect ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: You find the present tense and the past perfect]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then I cast loose my buff coat, each halter let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then I cast loose my buff coat, each halter let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all,  Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear,   Called my Roland his pet name, my horse without peer;    Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise bad or good,     'Til at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55134]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a pretty flimflam. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48518]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a pretty flimflam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tale in everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57930]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tale in everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with-for you are a caretaker for those moments ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45513]]></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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The storm passed by my shop, and I had to escape from the shower of stones, tear gas and rubber ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The storm passed by my shop, and I had to escape from the shower of stones, tear gas and rubber bullets to save my life,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14779]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coach Bruce Weber told me in a meeting that all I have to do is play pretty well. The rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coach Bruce Weber told me in a meeting that all I have to do is play pretty well. The rest of the guys are doing well now. It takes a lot of pressure off Dee and especially myself. Luther and Deron and all the assists and rebounds and all the points that were lost, somebody has to make them up. In reality, you can't do all that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14848]]></link><description><![CDATA[A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We noticed that. But we've got to take care of this game (George Mason) first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42258]]></link><description><![CDATA[We noticed that. But we've got to take care of this game (George Mason) first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27246]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grat talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grat talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sing a song of sixpence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sing a song of sixpence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10010]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inifinite is in the finite of every instant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inifinite is in the finite of every instant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What means this heaviness that hangs upon me? This lethargy that creeps through all my senses?  Nature, oppress'd and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56607]]></link><description><![CDATA[What means this heaviness that hangs upon me? This lethargy that creeps through all my senses?  Nature, oppress'd and harrass'd out with care,   Sinks down to rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do villainy, do, since you protest to do't, Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery:  The sun's a thief, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do villainy, do, since you protest to do't, Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery:  The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction   Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief,    And her pale fire she snatches from the sun;     The sea's a thief, whose liquid surges resolves      The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief,       That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n        From gen'ral excrement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John of the Cross, Mystic, Poet, Teacher, 1591   A Christian should always remember that the value ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John of the Cross, Mystic, Poet, Teacher, 1591   A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.   St. John of the Cross  December 15, 2000   Two thousand years of failure have not taught some reformers that you can't stop sin by declaring it illegal. Two thousand years have not taught them that you can't save a man's soul by force -- you can only lose your own in the attempt. Drunkenness and gambling and secularism and lechery -- various hopeful churchmen have earnestly tried to outlaw them all; and what is the result? A drunken nation, a gambling nation, a secularist nation, an adulterous nation. And, often, a ruined Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12192</guid></item></channel></rss>