<?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[Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware  Necessity doth front the universe   With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45711]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware  Necessity doth front the universe   With an invincible gesture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43785]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am proud to be a Democrat. Unfortunately, some of my political opponents are attempting to mislead the residents of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am proud to be a Democrat. Unfortunately, some of my political opponents are attempting to mislead the residents of the 19th District about who I am and the values that I hold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth maketh many friends. [Proverbs 19:4].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole;  But what were that intrinsic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole;  But what were that intrinsic virtue worth,   Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge,    Fresh from St. Andrew's College,     Should nail the conscious needle to the north?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been chasing the Bulldogs all year long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30880]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been chasing the Bulldogs all year long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, then the world 's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, then the world 's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Positive anything is better than negative nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Positive anything is better than negative nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt like we had it then. The momentum was definitely in our favor. They were timid at the point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29063]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt like we had it then. The momentum was definitely in our favor. They were timid at the point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  God, though present everywhere, has His special residence, as being a pure Spirit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  God, though present everywhere, has His special residence, as being a pure Spirit, in our minds -- "In Him we live, and move, and have our being". He is somewhere in the recesses of our soul, in the springs of our existence, a light in that mysterious region of our nature where the wishes, feelings, thoughts, and emotions take their earliest rise. The mind is a sanctuary, in the center of which the Lord sits enthroned, the lamp of consciousness burning before Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66002]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids got a little tired, and they haven't been in pressure situations before. That's our jobs as coaches to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37679]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids got a little tired, and they haven't been in pressure situations before. That's our jobs as coaches to get them ready to play in those pressure situations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9753]]></link><description><![CDATA[If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace,  That I shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18766]]></link><description><![CDATA[So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace,  That I shall think it a most plenteous crop   To glean the broken ears after the man    That the main harvest reaps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a long lesson in humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a long lesson in humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,  Which, as they kiss, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11844]]></link><description><![CDATA[These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,  Which, as they kiss, consume.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52819]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Master Kingston, this I will say--had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55212]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Master Kingston, this I will say--had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a long time in the hot seat (race lead), and I did kind of hope to hold on. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40268]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a long time in the hot seat (race lead), and I did kind of hope to hold on. But I'm just happy to be up here with Joane and Karin. I look up to both of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54432]]></link><description><![CDATA[All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No question is ever settled Until it is settled right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54254]]></link><description><![CDATA[No question is ever settled Until it is settled right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21172]]></link><description><![CDATA[My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46288]]></link><description><![CDATA[If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a job's worth doing, it's too hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18730]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a job's worth doing, it's too hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53138]]></link><description><![CDATA[An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8816]]></link><description><![CDATA[We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in the contemplation of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in the contemplation of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they can stay where they are and can have air and water, (then) stay where they are. We're just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40484]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they can stay where they are and can have air and water, (then) stay where they are. We're just at the point where we cannot meet the needs of our citizens right now, particularly water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2579]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bought an unction of a mountebank, So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,  Where it draws ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26715]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bought an unction of a mountebank, So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,  Where it draws blood so cataplasm so rare,   Collected from all simples that have virtue    Under the moon, can save the thing from death     That is but scratched withal. I'll touch my point      With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly,       It may be death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends;  White are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends;  White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud   Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud:    Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears;     And instant death on every wave appears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect yourself if you would have others respect you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52055</guid></item></channel></rss>