<?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[Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come, I come! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountain with light and song:  Ye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57794]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come, I come! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountain with light and song:  Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth,   By the winds which tell of the violet's birth,    By the primrose-stars in the shadowy grass,     By the green leaves, opening as I pass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59153]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because we have a big guest, do we stop going to prayers? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because we have a big guest, do we stop going to prayers?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280   Where, then, does happiness lie? In forgetfulness, not indulgence, of the self. In escape from sensual appetites, not in their satisfaction We live in a dark, self-enclosed prison, which is all we see or know if our glance is fixed ever downward. To lift it upward, becoming aware of the wide, luminous universe outside -- this alone is happiness. At its highest level, such happiness is the ecstasy that mystics have inadequately described At more humdrum levels, it is human love; the delights and beauties of our dear earth, its colors and shapes and sounds; the enchantment of understanding and laughing, and all other exercise of such faculties as we possess; the marvel of the meaning of everything, fitfully glimpsed, inadequately expounded, but ever present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28154]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.  Rough winds do shake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.  Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,   And summer's lease hath all too short a date.    Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,     And often is his gold complexion dimmed;      And every fair from fair sometime declines,       By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed:        But thy eternal summer shall not fade         Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,          Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest in his shade           When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.            So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,             So ling lives this, and this gives life to thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think what makes this a good team is that the chemistry is great. Everybody shares the ball. Nobody cares ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34525]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think what makes this a good team is that the chemistry is great. Everybody shares the ball. Nobody cares how many shots they take. We make the extra pass. We don't have big egos on the team. That's the great thing. Everybody does their best to win the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All three of them are competitive kids and they have always been successful players. Brendan wasn't a surprise, I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32483]]></link><description><![CDATA[All three of them are competitive kids and they have always been successful players. Brendan wasn't a surprise, I have seen what he could do for the past couple of years. Sometimes sophomores come up to varsity and have trouble adjusting right away but he has really been a good player for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64808]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2229]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2673]]></link><description><![CDATA[For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future. [Lat., Parvula (nam exemplo est) magni formica laboris  Ore trahit, quodcunque potest, atque addit acervo   Quem struit; hand ignara ac non incauta futuri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a man does by the agency of another is his own act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50558]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a man does by the agency of another is his own act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blushed like the waves of hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blushed like the waves of hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274   In addition to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274   In addition to the general situations in which men find themselves today, there are those things in personal life which have always tested faith: the inexplicable tragedies and injustices; the suffering of innocent people, especially of children; the seeming uselessness of prayer, and so forth. It is surely life itself that makes against belief in most cases. It is the contradiction in real life between any image of God as good -- whether God is "above", "beneath", or "within" -- that makes men atheists. Yet how few books and how few sermons touch on this basic problem! Our theological libraries are crammed with books devoted to every aspect of textual and higher criticism of the Bible; but of genuine theological thinking about the things which drive religion from men's hearts, there is appallingly little to be found. The archaeology of Christian origins seems largely to have replaced genuine theology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought our defense down the stretch was key. That was a very good team we faced. We couldn't stop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35026]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought our defense down the stretch was key. That was a very good team we faced. We couldn't stop them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce oneunit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce oneunit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results witheach unit of effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/803]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true gentleman is subtly poised between an inner tact and an outer defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing. It's unbelievable. I'm speechless. I'm so happy right now. We came together as a team, and we did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing. It's unbelievable. I'm speechless. I'm so happy right now. We came together as a team, and we did it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can do it for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can do it for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of superterrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25524]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24290]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Due to technical difficulties the light at the end of the tunnel will be off until further notice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Due to technical difficulties the light at the end of the tunnel will be off until further notice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider "not spiritual work" I can best help others, and I inwardly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7899]]></link><description><![CDATA[If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider "not spiritual work" I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the spiritual for which I crave, when in truth it is the interest and exciting, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach  Delinquency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23640]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach  Delinquency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can come in and get 20 points, at any given time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can come in and get 20 points, at any given time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others have done it before me. I can, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others have done it before me. I can, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47873]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foutre for the world and worldlings base! I speak of Africa and golden joys. -King Henry IV. Part II. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55942]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foutre for the world and worldlings base! I speak of Africa and golden joys. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's result is overdue. Mayor Giuliani should have never started this destructive fight with the First Amendment and should surely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's result is overdue. Mayor Giuliani should have never started this destructive fight with the First Amendment and should surely have agreed to stop it long ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23674]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20362]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lacked a bit of freshness to clock a better time. But overall, it's satisfactory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31810]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lacked a bit of freshness to clock a better time. But overall, it's satisfactory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28575</guid></item></channel></rss>