<?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[We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42039]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody wanted to fight on prom night. We didn't want to risk it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody wanted to fight on prom night. We didn't want to risk it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When life life does not find a singer to sing her heat, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25012]]></link><description><![CDATA[When life life does not find a singer to sing her heat, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But as a district, we?re not too small and we?re not too big to try this, we?re just about right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38681]]></link><description><![CDATA[But as a district, we?re not too small and we?re not too big to try this, we?re just about right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adventure is not outside a man; it is within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adventure is not outside a man; it is within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors  To study fashions to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors  To study fashions to adorn my body:   Since I am crept in favor with myself,    I will maintain it with some little cost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are brave, others are just too stupid to be afraid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are brave, others are just too stupid to be afraid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is notone's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is notone's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet onhis ideas, to take a calculated risk-and to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52797]]></link><description><![CDATA[True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is nought good a sleeping hound wake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12656]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is nought good a sleeping hound wake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got the impression the terms were coming together for them, but I don't know for sure. I think they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got the impression the terms were coming together for them, but I don't know for sure. I think they are angling for an afternoon news conference. Whether it happens or not remains to be seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62284]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge has three degrees-opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge has three degrees-opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition. -PLOTINUS.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22995</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[Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43076]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to dream before your dreams can come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63647]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to dream before your dreams can come true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been raising money to pay off the marquee and we've been raising money to pay off the buildings. Right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29940]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been raising money to pay off the marquee and we've been raising money to pay off the buildings. Right now, we've sent letters out to people asking for $1,000 donations to pay off the buildings. While trying to pay off the building, we've also been raising money to renovate the marquee. ... I'm hoping people will respond to the letters that we sent and at least send some money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature made the fields and man the cities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature made the fields and man the cities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small heart hath small desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49077]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small heart hath small desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in a different ball game now. We're going to be shedding a lot of the low-education manufacturing jobs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38866]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in a different ball game now. We're going to be shedding a lot of the low-education manufacturing jobs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those graceful groves that shade the plain, Where Tiber rolls majestic to the main,  And flattens, as he runs, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those graceful groves that shade the plain, Where Tiber rolls majestic to the main,  And flattens, as he runs, the fair campagne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martha Stewart stuffed and roasted canaries and found theycould no longer sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martha Stewart stuffed and roasted canaries and found theycould no longer sing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19778]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love of country is like love of woman--he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love of country is like love of woman--he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This sunlight shames November where he grieves In dead red leaves, and will not let him shun  The day, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3570]]></link><description><![CDATA[This sunlight shames November where he grieves In dead red leaves, and will not let him shun  The day, though bough with bough be overrun.   But with a blessing every glade receives    High salutation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame,  And never going aright, being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23267]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame,  And never going aright, being a watch,   But being watched that it may still go right!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20371]]></link><description><![CDATA[He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58218]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the queen -- I worked for her for seven years -- enjoys her work. But even if she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31383]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the queen -- I worked for her for seven years -- enjoys her work. But even if she didn't enjoy it, she would gauze it as her duty to do what she vowed to do,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9500]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55227]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to do what we always do. We'll play smart on defense. They're a very athletic team, but everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41983]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to do what we always do. We'll play smart on defense. They're a very athletic team, but everyone knows Division 3 North runs through Lynn Tech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Gateway to Soldiers began with a delivery of about 153 bulletproof vests to Camp Shelby, Miss., for the 153rd CAV ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29969]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Gateway to Soldiers began with a delivery of about 153 bulletproof vests to Camp Shelby, Miss., for the 153rd CAV unit out of Ocala. Several people donated the vests to the program, and Adams helped in delivering them to Camp Shelby. Adams said Gateway to Soldiers helps provide support to soldiers and their families, especially those involved in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.] We want to change somebody, ... We want to build a relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck! A man who's not afraid to say his say,  Though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4859]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck! A man who's not afraid to say his say,  Though a whole town's against him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19206]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a double-standard. And quite often if you're from Africa, if you're from a developing country, you'll be executed. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33677]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a double-standard. And quite often if you're from Africa, if you're from a developing country, you'll be executed. There aren't that many people protesting or making a big fuss. But our State Department and the media -- if you're a Westerner -- will make a big fuss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a choice. Your circumstance can affect it, but you're still the one who decides your happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a choice. Your circumstance can affect it, but you're still the one who decides your happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  Prayer and love are learned in the hour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart has turned to stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7721</guid></item></channel></rss>