<?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[But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48085]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statistics are people with the tears wiped from their eyes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statistics are people with the tears wiped from their eyes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All mankind loves a lover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25657]]></link><description><![CDATA[All mankind loves a lover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fatigue is the best pillow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fatigue is the best pillow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60544]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would they want Jeff Bagwell now making $17 million, or opt for access to $15 million? I can understand that. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would they want Jeff Bagwell now making $17 million, or opt for access to $15 million? I can understand that. But he's under contract. Sometimes you have to live with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hot from the hands promiscuously applied, Round the slight waist, or down the glowing side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hot from the hands promiscuously applied, Round the slight waist, or down the glowing side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28393]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no better exercise for your heart, Than reaching down and helping to lift someone up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60948]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no better exercise for your heart, Than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man...should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man...should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all know there is blood in meat(USDA hearings in Senate Ag committee). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/200]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all know there is blood in meat(USDA hearings in Senate Ag committee).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An angry man, when he returns to reason, will be again angry with himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51585]]></link><description><![CDATA[An angry man, when he returns to reason, will be again angry with himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor ofthinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21258]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor ofthinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A eulogist of past times. [Lat., Laudator temporis acti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48011]]></link><description><![CDATA[A eulogist of past times. [Lat., Laudator temporis acti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity deprives us of our judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity deprives us of our judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horseis worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22107]]></link><description><![CDATA[A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horseis worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effortthat separates the winner from the one in second place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every play was like watching a highlight film. He had a great game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every play was like watching a highlight film. He had a great game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The atmosphere Breathes rest and comfort and the many chambers  Seem full of welcomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The atmosphere Breathes rest and comfort and the many chambers  Seem full of welcomes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness.   ... Blaise Pascal July 29, 2000 Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53069]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17275]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once when I was in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger. He said he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once when I was in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger. He said he was about to die and wanted to tell someone about the treasure. I said, "Okay, as long as it's not a long story. Some of us have a plane to catch, you know." He stared telling hes story, about the treasure and his life and all, and I thought: "This story isn't too long." But then, he kept going, and I started thinking, "Uh-oh, this story is getting long." But then the story was over, and I said to myself: "You know, that story wasn't too long after all." I forget what the story was about, but there was a good movie on the plane. It was a little long, though.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a lot of elephants are running around with donkey jacketsin the Democratic Party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11559]]></link><description><![CDATA[a lot of elephants are running around with donkey jacketsin the Democratic Party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold it true,what'er befall;I feel it, when I sorrow most;'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25354]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold it true,what'er befall;I feel it, when I sorrow most;'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all. - In Memoriam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was flying. I was pulling away from Frank like he was standing still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was flying. I was pulling away from Frank like he was standing still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876  It is not for nothing that the central rite of Christ's religion is not a fast but a feast, as if to say that the one indispensable requirement for obtaining a portion in Him is an appetite, some hunger -- is to be without what we must have and He can give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23282]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[diamonds shine more brightly foiled by black velvet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/723]]></link><description><![CDATA[diamonds shine more brightly foiled by black velvet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't know life, how can we know death? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64231]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't know life, how can we know death?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know a warning that I judge more necessary to be given to those who are called this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7412]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know a warning that I judge more necessary to be given to those who are called this day, than to charge them not to trade too much with their natural gifts, and abilities, and learning. These are talents in their kind; but it is the Spirit that must manage all that learning they have, or it will prejudice them, and you also. I have known some good men who have been so addicted to their study, that they have thought the last day of the week sufficient to prepare for their ministry, though they employ all the rest of the week in other studies. But you business is to trade with your spiritual abilities... A man may preach a very good sermon, who is otherwise himself; but he will never make a good minister of Jesus Christ, whose mind and heart [are] not always in the work. Spiritual gifts will require continual ruminating on the things of the Gospel in our minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50386]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50386</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[The fattest hog in Epicurus' sty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fattest hog in Epicurus' sty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who teacheth often learns himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who teacheth often learns himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18136]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52908]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the team has potential. Our pitching looks pretty good and defense looks pretty good, which is the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35536]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the team has potential. Our pitching looks pretty good and defense looks pretty good, which is the way we usually win games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Security Council has taken up urgent human rights and political problems in more than 20 countries this year. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30398]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Security Council has taken up urgent human rights and political problems in more than 20 countries this year. If China moves to block this effort they should explain to Aung San Suu Kyi and average Burmese people why their concerns are less important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why fools are endowed by nature with voices so much louder than sensible people possess is a mystery. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why fools are endowed by nature with voices so much louder than sensible people possess is a mystery. It is a fact emphasized throughout history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1301</guid></item></channel></rss>