<?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[What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness,  Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3832]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness,  Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ascension  Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788  The grand reason why the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ascension  Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788  The grand reason why the miraclous gifts were so soon withdrawn was not only that faith and holiness were well-nigh lost, but that dry, formal, orthodox men began then to ridicule whatever gifts they had not themselves and to cry them all [down] as evil madness or imposture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You miss 100% of the shots you never take. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54287]]></link><description><![CDATA[You miss 100% of the shots you never take.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee is a foole that thinks not that another thinks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee is a foole that thinks not that another thinks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45192]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He stepped in hole as a baby. I ran cold water on it out of the well, but it never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40660]]></link><description><![CDATA[He stepped in hole as a baby. I ran cold water on it out of the well, but it never did go down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let still the woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let still the woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart: For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The criterion for our intercessory prayer is not our earnestness, nor our faithfulness, nor even our faith in God, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8461]]></link><description><![CDATA[The criterion for our intercessory prayer is not our earnestness, nor our faithfulness, nor even our faith in God, but simply God Himself. He has taken the initiative from the beginning, and has built our prayers into the structure of the universe. He then asks us to present these requests to Him that He may show His gracious hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He seems to be doing OK. He needs to work on things and develop more consistency. We want him to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38901]]></link><description><![CDATA[He seems to be doing OK. He needs to work on things and develop more consistency. We want him to throw a two-seam fastball more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote,  A careless shoe-string, in whose tye   I see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2738]]></link><description><![CDATA[A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote,  A careless shoe-string, in whose tye   I see a wilde civility,--    Doe more bewitch me than when art     Is too precise in every part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever she wants to do, we'll always agree with her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever she wants to do, we'll always agree with her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is to hope, though hope were lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19759]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is to hope, though hope were lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51649]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52100]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts. - "Prisoners of their Hairdos".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't seem to play well in the opening game of doubleheaders. Our destiny is in our hands. If we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30578]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't seem to play well in the opening game of doubleheaders. Our destiny is in our hands. If we win, we still have a chance to win the district championship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And still be doing, never done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62081]]></link><description><![CDATA[And still be doing, never done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28579]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that the ground motions in 1906 were significantly larger than those in 1989ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âit's that the area experiencing intense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30385]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that the ground motions in 1906 were significantly larger than those in 1989ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âit's that the area experiencing intense shaking was much, much greater. We don't know if the next rupture will look like 1906 earthquake, but we know that many of the same areas hit hard in 1906, like San Francisco, Santa Rosa, and the Santa Cruz mountains will be hit hard again in the next large earthquake on the San Andreas Fault .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Danger it selfe the best remedy for danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Danger it selfe the best remedy for danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Results for the quarter remained strong despite extraordinary challenges we faced with Hurricane Katrina. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Results for the quarter remained strong despite extraordinary challenges we faced with Hurricane Katrina.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What will the world be quite overturned when you die? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28016]]></link><description><![CDATA[What will the world be quite overturned when you die?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45129]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14184]]></link><description><![CDATA[An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38553]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy... but I'd rather be in Roots than Good Times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loe here the precious dust is layd; Whose purely-temper'd clay was made  So fine that it the guest betray'd. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loe here the precious dust is layd; Whose purely-temper'd clay was made  So fine that it the guest betray'd.   Else the soule grew so fast within,    It broke the outward shall of sinne     And so was hatch'd a cherubin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How often in the summer-tide, His graver business set aside,  His stripling Will, the thoughtful-eyed   As to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62003]]></link><description><![CDATA[How often in the summer-tide, His graver business set aside,  His stripling Will, the thoughtful-eyed   As to the pipe of Pan,    Stepped blithesomely with lover's pride     Across the fields to Anne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral, loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral, loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything you do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is perfect in the universe-even your desire to improve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is perfect in the universe-even your desire to improve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind, But leave,--oh! leave the light of Hope behind! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind, But leave,--oh! leave the light of Hope behind!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closest distance between two people is a goodlaugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22729]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closest distance between two people is a goodlaugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543   True it is that every man willingly followeth his own bent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543   True it is that every man willingly followeth his own bent, and is the more inclined to those who agree with him. But if Christ is amongst us, then it is necessary that we sometimes yield up our own opinion for the sake of peace. Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear the opinion of others. Though thine own opinion be good, yet if for the love of God thou foregoest it, and followest that of another, thou shalt the more profit thereby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live well. It is the greatest revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live well. It is the greatest revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3233]]></link><description><![CDATA[I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11313]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yee have many strings to your bowe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yee have many strings to your bowe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12382]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America there are two classes of travel -- first class, and with children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59584]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America there are two classes of travel -- first class, and with children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is very loving and a great companion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32552]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is very loving and a great companion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Condemn the fault, but not the actor of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Condemn the fault, but not the actor of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51392</guid></item></channel></rss>