<?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[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099   Once I knew what it was to rest upon the rock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099   Once I knew what it was to rest upon the rock of God's promises, and it was indeed a precious resting place, but now I rest in His grace. He is teaching me that the bosom of His love is a far sweeter resting-place than even the rock of His promises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26843]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more the eggs, the worse the hatch, The more the fish, the worse the catch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50168]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more the eggs, the worse the hatch, The more the fish, the worse the catch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal Spring, with smiling Verdue here Warms the mild Air, and crowns the youthful year.  . . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternal Spring, with smiling Verdue here Warms the mild Air, and crowns the youthful year.  . . . .   The Rose still blushes, and the vi'lets blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[News, news, news, my gossiping friends, I have wonderful news to tell,  A lady by me her compliments sends; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44461]]></link><description><![CDATA[News, news, news, my gossiping friends, I have wonderful news to tell,  A lady by me her compliments sends;   And this is the news from Hell!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st  But keep that count'nance still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44468]]></link><description><![CDATA[If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st  But keep that count'nance still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at,  And lose by over-running. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51355]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at,  And lose by over-running.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2799]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18098]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty's a fool And loses that it works for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty's a fool And loses that it works for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8559]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45120]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 Commemoration of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, tractarian, 1882  If the heart is devoted to the mirage of the world, to the creature instead of the Creator, the disciple is lost... However urgently Jesus may call us, His call fails to find access to our hearts. Our hearts are closed, for they have already been given to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those are some pretty big hits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those are some pretty big hits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always the more beautiful answer who asks the more beautiful question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always the more beautiful answer who asks the more beautiful question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if we don't win another game, we beat Superman tonight. When they bring him in, everybody knows the game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if we don't win another game, we beat Superman tonight. When they bring him in, everybody knows the game is over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[--They write here one Cornelius--Son Hath made the Hollanders an invisible eel  To swim the haven at Dunkirk, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44002]]></link><description><![CDATA[--They write here one Cornelius--Son Hath made the Hollanders an invisible eel  To swim the haven at Dunkirk, and sink all   The shipping there.    --But how is't done?     --I'll show you, sir.      It is automa, runs under water       With a snug nose, and has a nimble tail        Made like an auger, with which tail she wriggles         Betwixt the costs of a ship and sinks it straight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24781]]></link><description><![CDATA[The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan,  Earth stood hard as iron,   Water like a stone; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61725]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan,  Earth stood hard as iron,   Water like a stone;    Snow had fallen, snow on snow,     Snow on snow,      In the bleak midwinter,       Long ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Austrian army awfully arrayed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57124]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Austrian army awfully arrayed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43871]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really believe that the humanities has that power. Here in Washington, D.C., where there are so many humanities resources ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39231]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really believe that the humanities has that power. Here in Washington, D.C., where there are so many humanities resources and so many people with great ideas . . . this humanities council should be in the business of supporting and encouraging those ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23883]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never trust the teller. Trust the tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never trust the teller. Trust the tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will take the bird, must not skare it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49413]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will take the bird, must not skare it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assassination has never changed the history of the world ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Assassination has never changed the history of the world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything that happens is a jolt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything that happens is a jolt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stranger in town is like a white dog, he gets noticed immedeatly ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57932]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stranger in town is like a white dog, he gets noticed immedeatly]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposedlimitations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21804]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposedlimitations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has never been so bad, that it couldn't be worse... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43241]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has never been so bad, that it couldn't be worse...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/761]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: "Take two aspirin" and "Keep away from children".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that we are up there with all of the top four ranked teams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30490]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that we are up there with all of the top four ranked teams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that cannot obey, cannot command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12397]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that cannot obey, cannot command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41018]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11075]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63224]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16221]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to come prepared. Particularly during night digs, we also ask people to keep a close eye on young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32515]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to come prepared. Particularly during night digs, we also ask people to keep a close eye on young children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end must justify the means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end must justify the means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13787</guid></item></channel></rss>