<?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[In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35802]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped us step out of a recession; it gave a certain amount of speed to the economy. But that was the first step.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65735]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a goal of ours all season to get back to that state championship. We've all been so focused ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40060]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a goal of ours all season to get back to that state championship. We've all been so focused on that goal, and we're working as hard as we can to get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11074]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark, hark! I hear The strain of strutting chanticleer  Cry cock-a-diddle-dowe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark, hark! I hear The strain of strutting chanticleer  Cry cock-a-diddle-dowe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  God usually answers our prayers so much more according ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  God usually answers our prayers so much more according to the measure of His own magnificence, than of our asking, that we do not recognize His benefits to be those for which we sought Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23131]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mistake is simply another way of doing things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1279]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mistake is simply another way of doing things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the light wings of Zephyr, oppress'd with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the light wings of Zephyr, oppress'd with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young Timothy Learnt sin to fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young Timothy Learnt sin to fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you look at the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection now, it doesn't tell the story of what was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34433]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you look at the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection now, it doesn't tell the story of what was happening during the '30s and '40s. While Myron prefers the representational, I think you can see he likes artists who pushed realism as close to abstraction as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most precious things in speech are pauses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most precious things in speech are pauses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55318]]></link><description><![CDATA[What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has he not settled? What mystery has he not signified his knowledge of? What office, or function, or district of man's work, has he not remembered? What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43484]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And after the earthquake was a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60908]]></link><description><![CDATA[And after the earthquake was a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9862]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever approaches Me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets Me with sins equivalent to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever approaches Me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets Me with sins equivalent to the whole world, I will greet him with forgiveness equal to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The massive gates of circumstance Are turned upon the smallest hinge,  And thus some seeming pettiest chance   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8699]]></link><description><![CDATA[The massive gates of circumstance Are turned upon the smallest hinge,  And thus some seeming pettiest chance   Oft gives our life its after-tinge.    The trifles of our daily lives,     The common things, scarce worth recall,      Whereof no visible trace survives,       These are the mainsprings after all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe to the house where there is no chiding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe to the house where there is no chiding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and shewould come in and sink my boats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and shewould come in and sink my boats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/306]]></link><description><![CDATA[By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It'd be great to go 3-0. We have to contain their quarterback. He's quick and likes to run the option. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36901]]></link><description><![CDATA[It'd be great to go 3-0. We have to contain their quarterback. He's quick and likes to run the option.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we are leaving them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60553]]></link><description><![CDATA[When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we are leaving them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687   It seems clear that those people who personally are completely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687   It seems clear that those people who personally are completely convinced of justification by grace alone, and who heartily grant to people of another color the right to the same justification (as long as they remain in their own churches, schools, ghettos, handyman occupations), give an ugly expression to the Augustinian and Reformation understanding of justification. By their emphasis upon the primacy of individual justification, they deny the immediate social character and impact of the justification of the Jews and Gentiles, and they obstruct or delay the changes in common life which belong to the "new creation".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5337]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction, are no different. They have nearly destroyed us in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. They torment the lives of millions in fractured nations around the world. These obsessions cripple both those who are hated and, of course, those who hate, robbing both of what they might become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private credit is wealth; public honor is security; the feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Private credit is wealth; public honor is security; the feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had not planned on having any vote, other than just to study (the contract), ... It's not a public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30875]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had not planned on having any vote, other than just to study (the contract), ... It's not a public hearing, but it is a study session. We will take comments. And then if it seems suitable to the property owners involved -- who we're most concerned about -- we will have a vote on Sept. 26 (the next council meeting) on this issue to start the ball rolling for a new bridge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think Brad and I have fed off each other our whole careers, and to see him win like that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30255]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think Brad and I have fed off each other our whole careers, and to see him win like that just inspires me even more, ... If you can't get inspired by what he did, then you don't have a pulse because that was awesome the way he won that tournament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence awakens confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence awakens confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught:  Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught:  Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13132]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The work under our labour grows Luxurious by restraint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62136]]></link><description><![CDATA[The work under our labour grows Luxurious by restraint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diversity, that is my motto. [Fr., Diversite, c'est ma devise.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diversity, that is my motto. [Fr., Diversite, c'est ma devise.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25388]]></link><description><![CDATA[A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's unusual. We don't just miss and miss free throws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39379]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's unusual. We don't just miss and miss free throws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24771]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.   - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. - The Labyrinth of Solitude, 1950.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53147</guid></item></channel></rss>