<?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 wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart;  To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/433]]></link><description><![CDATA[To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart;  To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold,   Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold--    For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  Too late came I to love thee, O thou Beauty so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  Too late came I to love thee, O thou Beauty so ancient and so fresh, yea too late came I to love thee. And behold, thou wert within me, and I out of myself, where I made search for thee: I ugly rushed headlong upon those beautiful things thou hast made. Thou indeed wert with me; but I was not with thee: these beauties kept me far enough from thee: even those, which unless they were in thee, should not be at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13694]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the prophecies of the Old Testament are not rightly interpreted of Jesus our Christ, then there is no prediction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7576]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the prophecies of the Old Testament are not rightly interpreted of Jesus our Christ, then there is no prediction whatever contained in it of that stupendous event, the rise and establishment of Christianity, in comparison with which all the preceding Jewish history is as nothing. With the exception of the book of Daniel, which the Jews themselves never classed among the prophecies, and an obscure text of Jeremiah, there is not a passage in all the Old Testament which favours the notion of a temporal Messiah. What moral object was there, for which such a Messiah should come? What could he have been but a sort of virtuous Napoleon?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61432]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old cat will not learn how to dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11007]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old cat will not learn how to dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conventionality is not morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conventionality is not morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a convicted felon as the president. ... And no organization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3777]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a convicted felon as the president. ... And no organization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were a little disappointed they lost (to Socorro), but they also knew they didn't want to lose to Belen. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34401]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were a little disappointed they lost (to Socorro), but they also knew they didn't want to lose to Belen. It's not easy to lose to your rival. The first half we played extremely well. The second half we started getting tired, but we were still dominating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatience, gloom, self-occupation, unloving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7783]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatience, gloom, self-occupation, unloving prejudices, reckless tongue, feverish desires, with all the damage they have caused to Christ's Body, be set aside, because -- because, in spite of all, he longs for God and Eternal Life: then he must set aside and forgive all that the impatience, selfishness, bitter and foolish speech, and sudden yieldings to base impulse by others have caused him to endure. Hardness is the one impossible thing. Harshness to others in those who ask and need the mercy of God sets up a conflict at the very heart of personality and shuts the door upon grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A miniature like this would have been a love token. The braid of hair has a great deal of intimacy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39330]]></link><description><![CDATA[A miniature like this would have been a love token. The braid of hair has a great deal of intimacy and personal significance for whomever would have owned this miniature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942   Love... makes the whole difference between an execution and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942   Love... makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2615]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am moved by the light. [Lat., A lumine motus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58318]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am moved by the light. [Lat., A lumine motus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learne weeping, and thou shalt laugh gayning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learne weeping, and thou shalt laugh gayning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything for a quiet life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything for a quiet life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57063]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1395]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly to waste labour about trifles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly to waste labour about trifles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54633]]></link><description><![CDATA[No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth. With friends there is not such a word as debt:  Where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth. With friends there is not such a word as debt:  Where amity is ty'd with band of truth,   All benefits are there in common set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1624]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without free speech no search for truth is possible… no discovery of truth is useful… Better a thousandfold abuse of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without free speech no search for truth is possible… no discovery of truth is useful… Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4063]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a cottage I live, and the cot of content, Where a few little rooms for ambition too low,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9941]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a cottage I live, and the cot of content, Where a few little rooms for ambition too low,  Are furnish'd as plain as a patriarch's tent,   With all for convenience, but nothing for show:    Like Robinson Crusoe's, both peaceful and pleasant,     By industry stor'd, like the hive of a bee;      And the peer who looks down with contempt on a peasant.       Can ne'er be look'd up to with envy by me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like the next Harry Potter book. You'll have to wait for it and be grateful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like the next Harry Potter book. You'll have to wait for it and be grateful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15858]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to get as much experience as possible. A lot of teams have played 15 or 16 games already. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33412]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to get as much experience as possible. A lot of teams have played 15 or 16 games already. We've played four. We're still moving people around and trying to find the right mix.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I've stopped wearing huge trousers I can't wear boxer shorts. I wear thongs. When I first wore them I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I've stopped wearing huge trousers I can't wear boxer shorts. I wear thongs. When I first wore them I felt rude, I kept seeing my bare bum - then I liked it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till glowworms light owl-watchmen's flight Through our green metropolis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till glowworms light owl-watchmen's flight Through our green metropolis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5491]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If rates keep going higher, that will pose some problems to sizeable chunks of the stock market, particularly financials and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31067]]></link><description><![CDATA[If rates keep going higher, that will pose some problems to sizeable chunks of the stock market, particularly financials and other areas that are interest-rate sensitive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repetitionis the mother of skill. (might be someone else who wrote it). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repetitionis the mother of skill. (might be someone else who wrote it).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We consider this normal revenge against Israeli aggression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28319]]></link><description><![CDATA[We consider this normal revenge against Israeli aggression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're trying to do is take a good product and invest in that product, and that product becomes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35019]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're trying to do is take a good product and invest in that product, and that product becomes a company and that company hires people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rarely do they appear great before their valets. [Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur valets-de-chambre.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rarely do they appear great before their valets. [Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur valets-de-chambre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All styles are good except the tiresome kind. [Fr., Tous les genres sont bons, hors le genre ennuyeux.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58103]]></link><description><![CDATA[All styles are good except the tiresome kind. [Fr., Tous les genres sont bons, hors le genre ennuyeux.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Africa, we're talking about a nation battling through immense poverty and he can't quite get it together to sing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32344]]></link><description><![CDATA[With Africa, we're talking about a nation battling through immense poverty and he can't quite get it together to sing a song. On that day he just seemed like an odd image]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32344</guid></item></channel></rss>