<?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[I thought the biggest thing of the game tonight for our guys, and I give them a lot of credit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34470]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought the biggest thing of the game tonight for our guys, and I give them a lot of credit, was after [Virginia] got the two runs off Andrew. Knowing how tough Doolittle is - he one of the toughest pitchers in this league - to bounce right back out there and get two runs, that to me was a big point in this game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers. . . are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers. . . are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63916]]></link><description><![CDATA[In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50423]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two men to make one brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66119]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two men to make one brother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year it moved late, so people sat in base camp all May just waiting for an opportunity to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year it moved late, so people sat in base camp all May just waiting for an opportunity to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  We must never speak to simple, excitable people about "the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  We must never speak to simple, excitable people about "the Day" without emphasizing again and again the utter impossibility of prediction. We must try to show them that that impossibility is an essential part of the doctrine. If you do not believe our Lord's words, why do you believe in His return at all? And if you do believe them, must you not put away from you, utterly and forever, any hope of dating that return?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What gained we, little moth? Thy ashes, Thy one brief parting pang may show:  And withering thoughts for soul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43232]]></link><description><![CDATA[What gained we, little moth? Thy ashes, Thy one brief parting pang may show:  And withering thoughts for soul that dashes,   From deep to deep, are but a death more slow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66071]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  Now the great thing is this: we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  Now the great thing is this: we are consecrated and dedicated to God in order that we may thereafter think, speak, meditate, and do, nothing except to his glory. For a sacred thing may not be applied to profane uses without marked injury to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28161]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is all about timing... the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable... attainable. Have the patience, wait ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is all about timing... the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable... attainable. Have the patience, wait it out It's all about timing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on sin:  Evil is the soul's choice of the not-God. The corollary is that damnation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on sin:  Evil is the soul's choice of the not-God. The corollary is that damnation or hell, is the permanent choice of the not-God. God does not (in the monstrous old-fashioned phrase) "send" anybody to hell; hell is that state of the soul in which its choice becomes obdurate and fixed; the punishment (so to call it) of that soul is to remain eternally in that State which it has chosen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What then remains, but that we still should cry Not to be born, or being born to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11170]]></link><description><![CDATA[What then remains, but that we still should cry Not to be born, or being born to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not antiquity, nor author, That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59817]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not antiquity, nor author, That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1931]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Win or lose, we go shopping after the election. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't expect any major surprises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41951]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't expect any major surprises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48945]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justice is gone, there's always force.
And when force is gone, there's always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63093]]></link><description><![CDATA[When love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justice is gone, there's always force.
And when force is gone, there's always Mom.
Hi, Mom!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very costly for Americans to continue to fatten up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35448]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very costly for Americans to continue to fatten up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . in all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17239]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . in all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history and possibly the unhappiest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see my reputation is at stake; My fame is shrewdly gored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53892]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see my reputation is at stake; My fame is shrewdly gored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing in the chequer'd shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dancing in the chequer'd shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue. [Lat., Ignavissimus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue. [Lat., Ignavissimus quisque, et ut res docuit, in periculo non ausurus, nimis verbis et lingua feroces.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You change your life by changing your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5502]]></link><description><![CDATA[You change your life by changing your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23274]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't affected by inflation -- I had nothing to inflate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20838]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't affected by inflation -- I had nothing to inflate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not failure, but low aim, is crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not failure, but low aim, is crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill;  There's music in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43444]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill;  There's music in all things, if men had ears:   Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will never escape the will of the mob; about the best anyone has ever figured out how to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42853]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will never escape the will of the mob; about the best anyone has ever figured out how to do is herd them into voting booths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cynicism is intellectual treason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cynicism is intellectual treason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20034]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that what matters most is not narrow appeals masquerading as values, but the shared values that show the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2382]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that what matters most is not narrow appeals masquerading as values, but the shared values that show the true face of America; not narrow values that divide us, but the shared values that unite us: family, faith, hard work, opportunity and responsibility for all, so that every child, every adult, every parent, every worker in America has an equal shot at living up to their God-given potential. That is the American dream and the American value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forbeare not sowing because of birds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forbeare not sowing because of birds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agreement in likes and dislikes--this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agreement in likes and dislikes--this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28143]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they were made or just happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46331]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46331</guid></item></channel></rss>