<?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[A late lark twitters from the quiet skies: And from the west,  Where the sun, his day's work ended, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44525]]></link><description><![CDATA[A late lark twitters from the quiet skies: And from the west,  Where the sun, his day's work ended,   Lingers as in content,    There falls on the old, gray city     An influence luminous and serene,      A shining peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's my country, and there are good players on that team. They have good hitters and I have to figure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34792]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's my country, and there are good players on that team. They have good hitters and I have to figure out how I pitch to them. I can't miss at all versus those guys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is base to filch a purse, daring to embezzle a million, but it is great beyond measure to steal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18498]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is base to filch a purse, daring to embezzle a million, but it is great beyond measure to steal a crown. The sin lessens as the guilt increases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse,  And, chanting her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse,  And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was indeed the glass Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55926]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was indeed the glass Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He clasps the crag with hooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands,  Ring'd with the azure world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13105]]></link><description><![CDATA[He clasps the crag with hooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands,  Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.   The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls:    He watches from his mountain walls,     And like a thunderbolt he falls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is generally more good news, a lower unemployment rate, additional seasonally adjusted job growth, continued growth and improvement in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29639]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is generally more good news, a lower unemployment rate, additional seasonally adjusted job growth, continued growth and improvement in the Oregon economy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not always measured in smiles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not always measured in smiles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43410]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side ;of the face can smile while the other is pinched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His tact, too, temper'd him from grave to gay, And taught him when to be reserved or free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48743]]></link><description><![CDATA[His tact, too, temper'd him from grave to gay, And taught him when to be reserved or free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one thing over which you have absolute control is your own thoughts. It is this that puts you in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one thing over which you have absolute control is your own thoughts. It is this that puts you in a position to control your own destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the pen is mightier than the sword then how can actions speak louder than words? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/551]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the pen is mightier than the sword then how can actions speak louder than words?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65010]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will cheat at play, will cheat you any way ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5817]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will cheat at play, will cheat you any way]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you should go skatingOn the thin ice of modern lifeDragging behind you the silent reproachOf a million tear-stained eyesDon't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15475]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you should go skatingOn the thin ice of modern lifeDragging behind you the silent reproachOf a million tear-stained eyesDon't be surprised when a crack in the iceAppears under your feet.You slip out of your depth and out of your mindWith your fear flowing out behind youAs you claw the thin ice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46254]]></link><description><![CDATA[A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed. [Fr., La plus perdue de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed. [Fr., La plus perdue de toutes les journees est celle ou l'on n'a pas rit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Devotion is neither more nor less than a prompt, fervent, loving service to God. And the difference between an ordinarily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Devotion is neither more nor less than a prompt, fervent, loving service to God. And the difference between an ordinarily good man and one that is devout lies herein, that the first observes God's commands without any special fervour or promptitude; whereas the latter not only keeps them, but does it willingly, earnestly, and resolutely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil spelled backward is live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil spelled backward is live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, lost a world, and bade a hero fly? The timid tear in Cleopatra's eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48781]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, lost a world, and bade a hero fly? The timid tear in Cleopatra's eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53760]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62310]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs.  And he clothes them with thunders and beauty,   He clothes them with music and fire,    Seeing not, as he bows by their altars,     That he worships his own desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words ending in Ique do mocke the Physician (as Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49939]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words ending in Ique do mocke the Physician (as Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strong are her sons, though rocky are her shores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strong are her sons, though rocky are her shores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The immortal swan that did her life deplore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The immortal swan that did her life deplore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In terms of sheer size, it makes a fabulous presentation. You can get the beautiful large pieces of meat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40449]]></link><description><![CDATA[In terms of sheer size, it makes a fabulous presentation. You can get the beautiful large pieces of meat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All married women are not wives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61567]]></link><description><![CDATA[All married women are not wives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17420]]></link><description><![CDATA[MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  Of course, it all depends upon what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  Of course, it all depends upon what we are praying for. If we are whimpering, and sniveling, and begging to be spared the discipline of life that is sent to knock some smatterings of manhood into us, the answer to that prayer may never come at all. Thank God! Though, indeed, it is not easy to say that, with honesty. Still, it may never come at all, thank God. But if you have attained as far as Epictetus--pagan though you would call him--whose daily prayer was this: "O God, give me what Thou desirest for me, for I know that what Thou choosest for me is far better than I could choose"; if you are not bleating to get off, but asking to be given grace and strength to see this through with honour, "the very day" you pray that prayer, the answer always comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought it was the most exciting thing I had ever heard in my lifetime. I was blown away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38720]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought it was the most exciting thing I had ever heard in my lifetime. I was blown away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feetyou do not hear the screams or smell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45953]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feetyou do not hear the screams or smell the blood or seethose without limbs or eyes. It was not til I readHersey's Hiroshima that I realized what bomber pilots do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58918]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is when two people know everything about eachother and are still friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is when two people know everything about eachother and are still friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is also to be found in a day's work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brandywine's a good team. They have a real good player in [5-foot-9 sophomore] Michelle Baker and it'll be a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brandywine's a good team. They have a real good player in [5-foot-9 sophomore] Michelle Baker and it'll be a good test to see how we respond, and see if we can beat them for a third time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39354]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It certainly looks like [new claims] have peaked. You're looking at several weeks where they've come off the peak they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42248]]></link><description><![CDATA[It certainly looks like [new claims] have peaked. You're looking at several weeks where they've come off the peak they hit after Sept. 11.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings:  Live so, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings:  Live so, my Love, that when death shall come,   Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65957</guid></item></channel></rss>