<?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[Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The morning was as dark and cold as city snow could make it--a dingy whirl at the window; a smoky ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The morning was as dark and cold as city snow could make it--a dingy whirl at the window; a smoky gust through the fire-place; a shadow black as a bear's cave under the table. Nothing in all the cavernous room, loomed really warm or familiar except a glass of stale water, and a vapid, half-eaten grape-fruit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot pray in the name of Jesus to have my own will; the name of Jesus is not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8220]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot pray in the name of Jesus to have my own will; the name of Jesus is not a signature of no importance, but the decisive factor. The fact that the name of Jesus comes at the beginning does not make it a prayer in the name of Jesus; but this means to pray in such a manner that I dare name Jesus in it, that is to say, dare to think of Him, think His holy will together with whatever I am praying for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you truly love someone you don't judge them by their past, you accept it and leave it there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62958]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you truly love someone you don't judge them by their past, you accept it and leave it there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3671]]></link><description><![CDATA[People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65336]]></link><description><![CDATA[True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are lacking for so much and then they got robbed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28855]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are lacking for so much and then they got robbed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sing the Poppy! The frail snowy weed! The flower of Mercy! that within its heart  Doth keep "a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47681]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sing the Poppy! The frail snowy weed! The flower of Mercy! that within its heart  Doth keep "a drop serene" for human need,   A drowsy balm for every bitter smart.    For happy hours the Rose will idly blow--     The Poppy hath a charm for pain and woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees.  Three centuries he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44715]]></link><description><![CDATA[The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees.  Three centuries he grows, and three he stays   Supreme in state; and in three more decays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17998]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos - they're rebellious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos - they're rebellious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two rules to follow: 1) Don't sweat the small stuff. 2) It's all smallstuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two rules to follow: 1) Don't sweat the small stuff. 2) It's all smallstuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We exported commodities to Somalia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42601]]></link><description><![CDATA[We exported commodities to Somalia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18683]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paul and Cody are the only players from the Midwest going to Ohio State next year, so that's pretty great. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paul and Cody are the only players from the Midwest going to Ohio State next year, so that's pretty great. Robby Dodd will be going to a great Division III program, but other than that we're a young group.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said ''Box about: twill come to my father anon.'']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you say it's okay to screen for gender, there's nothing that you can say that it's not okay to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you say it's okay to screen for gender, there's nothing that you can say that it's not okay to screen for whether it's eye color, hair color, trivial issues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35581</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 make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46196]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37986]]></link><description><![CDATA[All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either this or upon this. (Either bring this back or be brought back upon it.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either this or upon this. (Either bring this back or be brought back upon it.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life together under the Word will remain sound and healthy only where it does not form itself into a movement, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life together under the Word will remain sound and healthy only where it does not form itself into a movement, an order, a society... but rather where it understands itself as being a part of the one, holy, catholic, Christian Church, where it shares actively and passively in the sufferings and struggles of the whole Church. Every principle of selection, every separation connected with it that is not necessitated quite objectively by common work, local conditions, or family connections is of the greatest danger to a Christian community. When the way of intellectual or spiritual selection is taken, the human element always insinuates itself and robs the fellowship of its spiritual power and its effectiveness for the Church, and drives it into sectarianism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm afraid we have become a nation of plodders, who feel that all problems can be found in books and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44219]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm afraid we have become a nation of plodders, who feel that all problems can be found in books and that the answers are on a certain page.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thick skin is a gift from God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21220]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thick skin is a gift from God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valuations remain a little stretched, and we could see some further weakness into the early part of the year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valuations remain a little stretched, and we could see some further weakness into the early part of the year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we are postponing, life speeds by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65578]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we are postponing, life speeds by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50006]]></link><description><![CDATA[To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43519]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19678]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know how important this is to the individual and we're trying to work with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38943]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know how important this is to the individual and we're trying to work with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At high speeds, there's no chatter; they just charge through everything. Every one of the designs we have, no one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30026]]></link><description><![CDATA[At high speeds, there's no chatter; they just charge through everything. Every one of the designs we have, no one has ever done it before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, And Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, And Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there everymorning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22331]]></link><description><![CDATA[People wait for opportunity to come along...yet it is there everymorning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonder is the basis of worship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonder is the basis of worship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just plain racism, ... What else can you call it? It's not like all 25 players are Latinos, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34252]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just plain racism, ... What else can you call it? It's not like all 25 players are Latinos, so you can't blame it all on the Latino players. It's just stupidity. It's definitely sad that there are still stupid people like that guy out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34252</guid></item></channel></rss>