<?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 man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word, With no pore piety than other people--  A daw's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50153]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word, With no pore piety than other people--  A daw's not reckoned a religious bird   Because it keeps a-cawing from a steeple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 ft/sec, is a cow that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 ft/sec, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed. -Edna O'Brien. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27170]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed. -Edna O'Brien.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been fun and a lot of hard work, but I've been glad with the outcome. I always said our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39038]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been fun and a lot of hard work, but I've been glad with the outcome. I always said our senior year we'd be good. We're trying to do more than make the playoffs. That was our expectations at the beginning of the season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55122]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [Lat., Vulgus ex veritate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52459]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [Lat., Vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa aestimat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy! Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy;  Dreams cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy! Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy;  Dreams cannot picture a world so fair--   Sorrow and death may not enter there;    Time doth not breathe on its fadeless bloom,     For beyond the clouds, and beyond the tomb,      It is there, it is there, my child!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make the most of the hemp seed and sow it everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make the most of the hemp seed and sow it everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31160]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are different kinds of love, but they all have the same aim: possession ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47774]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are different kinds of love, but they all have the same aim: possession]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays. [Fr., Je veux que le dimanche chaque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays. [Fr., Je veux que le dimanche chaque paysan ait sa poule au pot.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53609]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When religion is in the hands of the mere natural man, he is always the worse for it; it adds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7338]]></link><description><![CDATA[When religion is in the hands of the mere natural man, he is always the worse for it; it adds a bad heat to his own dark fire and helps to inflame his four elements of selfishness, envy, pride, and wrath. And hence it is that worse passions, or a worse degree of them are to be found in persons of great religious zeal than in others that made no pretenses to it. History also furnishes us with instances of persons of great piety and devotion who have fallen into great delusions and deceived both themselves and others. The occasion of their fall was this: ... They considered their whole nature as the subject of religion and divine graces; and therefore their religion was according to the workings of their whole nature, and the old man was as busy and as much delighted in it as the new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We?re still trying to find ourselves on the mound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32720]]></link><description><![CDATA[We?re still trying to find ourselves on the mound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22315]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60732]]></link><description><![CDATA[So our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The writer is the engineer of the human soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The writer is the engineer of the human soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, powerful bacillus, With wonder how you fill us,  Every day!   While medical detectives,    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, powerful bacillus, With wonder how you fill us,  Every day!   While medical detectives,    With powerful objectives,     Watch your play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary Concluding a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary Concluding a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us. It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think halfway through the first we played a lot better. Then we took some penalties in the second and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think halfway through the first we played a lot better. Then we took some penalties in the second and you can't do that against these guys, obviously. Then in the third, I think down 4-0 going into the third it's just a matter of pride and playing hard. I think the guys responded really well but. ... too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rose-red city half as old as Time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8762]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rose-red city half as old as Time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have been working hard since last year we did not make the playoffs and we did not do as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30533]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have been working hard since last year we did not make the playoffs and we did not do as well as we wanted. We didn't reach our goal. This year our goal was to improve our record from last year to where we are now. To do that took teamwork.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I doubt anyone will ever see -- anywhere -- a memorial to a pessimist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46437]]></link><description><![CDATA[I doubt anyone will ever see -- anywhere -- a memorial to a pessimist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest condition takes rise in the lowest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23388]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could you do that? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29452]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could you do that?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best things in life aren't things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best things in life aren't things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Council is in the midst of significant restructuring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41578]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Council is in the midst of significant restructuring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44596]]></link><description><![CDATA[War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The opposition Press] which is in the hands of malecontents who have failed in their career. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23325]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The opposition Press] which is in the hands of malecontents who have failed in their career.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the victors belong the spoils. (The spoils to the victors.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60580]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the victors belong the spoils. (The spoils to the victors.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To receive gifts is to lose freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17456]]></link><description><![CDATA[To receive gifts is to lose freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8879]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much of what they do there is discharge planning, trying to get patients back out in the community. Patients do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much of what they do there is discharge planning, trying to get patients back out in the community. Patients do leave the facility and go out on discharge sorts of activities. That's when many of those have occurred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier. Many ideas- probably most- will have to be discarded somewhere in the process of producing authenticated knowledge. Authentication is as important as the raw information itself, and the manner and speed of the authentication process can be crucial...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17039]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great part of the pleasure of travel lies in the fulfillment of early wishes to escape the family and especially the father]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't care. I've been saying that the whole time. We're blessed to be playing in this tournament regardless. I'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't care. I've been saying that the whole time. We're blessed to be playing in this tournament regardless. I'd love to [get a chance to] play [Villanova], because I think we can show our toughness. I look forward to the challenge. We worked hard to get here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41878</guid></item></channel></rss>