<?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[To write beautifully, is to inscribe thoughts on paper in a flowing, imaginative way. With aspirations to intrigue and inform; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62396]]></link><description><![CDATA[To write beautifully, is to inscribe thoughts on paper in a flowing, imaginative way. With aspirations to intrigue and inform; its truly an art on paper, filled with emotion and thought in a smooth aesthetically brilliant way...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soon as the potion works, their human count'nance, Th' express resemblance of the gods, is chang'd  Into some bruitish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soon as the potion works, their human count'nance, Th' express resemblance of the gods, is chang'd  Into some bruitish form of wolf or bear,   Or ounce or tiger, hog, or bearded goat,    All other parts remaining as they were;     And they, so perfect in their misery,      Not once perceive their foul disfigurement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22925</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[It is far easier to begin a task than to finish it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50878]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is far easier to begin a task than to finish it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17203]]></link><description><![CDATA[If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22289]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53007]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across the Charles river when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16671]]></link><description><![CDATA[England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.   - Mrs. Lydia Maria Child,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15851]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship demands the ability to do without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship demands the ability to do without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45167]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, it looks like we'll have to fingerprint everyone who may come into contact with children at schools. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, it looks like we'll have to fingerprint everyone who may come into contact with children at schools. It's pretty expansive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43898]]></link><description><![CDATA[A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He always seemed to try to impress you by show. He didn't seem to have a lot of depth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42542]]></link><description><![CDATA[He always seemed to try to impress you by show. He didn't seem to have a lot of depth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all looking at Disney's numbers and particularly what they said about weakness in the current quarter and it's got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37307]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all looking at Disney's numbers and particularly what they said about weakness in the current quarter and it's got the investment community spooked about a decline in demand overall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from far off, but upon our perceptions being made finer so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear that which is about us always. -Willa Cather.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If ladies be but young and fair, They have the gift to know it; and in his brain, Which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55651]]></link><description><![CDATA[If ladies be but young and fair, They have the gift to know it; and in his brain, Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd With observation, the which he vents In mangled forms. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirsin your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirsin your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness thatdrapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightfulconditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true tothem, your world will at last be built.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are entirely satisfied that Stephen's parachute was deliberately tampered with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32060]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are entirely satisfied that Stephen's parachute was deliberately tampered with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played solid in the first half and shot the ball well. We were active on the glass and got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38886]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played solid in the first half and shot the ball well. We were active on the glass and got a few stick backs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We bank on getting those big runs. When we get rolling like that, it takes the wind out of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33044]]></link><description><![CDATA[We bank on getting those big runs. When we get rolling like that, it takes the wind out of the other team's sails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've won this race three times, so I enjoy being out front. But this is the first time I'll be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39676]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've won this race three times, so I enjoy being out front. But this is the first time I'll be first out of the gate, though.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19872]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. [Lat., Semper et infirmi est animi exiguique voluptas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. [Lat., Semper et infirmi est animi exiguique voluptas Ultio.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Authority is never without hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Authority is never without hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Jesus used the term abba (which means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Jesus used the term abba (which means father or "daddy" in his Aramaic mother tongue), as an address in his prayers to God. There are no other examples of this usage in contemporary Judaism, but Jesus always addressed God in this way. The others perhaps regarded it as child's talk, a form of expression too disrespectful to be so used. But for Jesus, abba expressed the filial intimacy he felt toward his Father. As the divine Son of the Father, Jesus enjoyed a unique relationship with him, and his mission in the world consisted in opening up the blessings of sonship to those who believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest weapon that one can have is a simple...smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65700]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest weapon that one can have is a simple...smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44191]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abu Bakr has been advocating intolerance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abu Bakr has been advocating intolerance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30583]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No answer is a clear answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18444]]></link><description><![CDATA[No answer is a clear answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33884]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man isn't poor if he can still laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24201]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62729]]></link><description><![CDATA[New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34331]]></link><description><![CDATA[It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holidays - Have no pity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holidays - Have no pity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54444]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedest the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far lessthan the long-range risks and costs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21145]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far lessthan the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Midnight, and yet no eye Through all the Imperial City closed in sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Midnight, and yet no eye Through all the Imperial City closed in sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard;  It is the hour when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14250]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard;  It is the hour when lovers' vows   Seem sweet in every whispered word;    And gentle winds, and waters near,     Make music to the lonely ear.      Each flower the dews have lightly wet,       And in the sky the stars are met,        And on the wave is deeper blue,         And on the leaf a browner hue,          And in the heaven that clear obscure,           So softly dark, and darkly pure.            Which follows the decline of day,             As twilight melts beneath the moon away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You come to Michigan to play teams like Notre Dame. The game means that much more to me because it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37400]]></link><description><![CDATA[You come to Michigan to play teams like Notre Dame. The game means that much more to me because it's my last year and I only have one more chance to play this team. It's one of the greatest rivalries in college football between two schools that have the most tradition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58725]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18750]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite. It is death which is m]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60392]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not fault!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56125]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All in the Downs are fleet was moor'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44020]]></link><description><![CDATA[All in the Downs are fleet was moor'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44020</guid></item></channel></rss>