<?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[Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3797]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do want your big guns for the play-offs. We'll just have to knuckle down and work as a unit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32588]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do want your big guns for the play-offs. We'll just have to knuckle down and work as a unit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the ancient philosopher and priest of esoteric cults, steeped in the tradition of Classical Greek, the grammatical forms in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6303]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the ancient philosopher and priest of esoteric cults, steeped in the tradition of Classical Greek, the grammatical forms in the Lord's Prayer would seem almost rude. One does not find the optative forms of polite petition so characteristic of elaborate requests made to earthly and heavenly potentates. Rather than employing such august forms, the Christians made their requests to God in what seem to be blunt imperatives. This does not mean that Christians lacked respect for their heavenly father, but it does mean that they were consistent with a new understanding of Him. In the tens of thousands of papyri fragments which have been rescued from the rubbish heaps of the ancient Greek world, one finds the imperative forms used constantly between members of a family. When the Christians addressed God as "Father," it was perfectly natural therefore for them to talk to Him as intimately as they would to their own father. Unfortunately, the history of our own English language has almost reversed this process. Originally, men used "thou" and "thee" in prayer because it was the appropriate familiar form of address; but now these words have become relegated to prayer alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58013]]></link><description><![CDATA[A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I made my decision to come back when the doctors said I could do anything as long as I don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40800]]></link><description><![CDATA[I made my decision to come back when the doctors said I could do anything as long as I don't hit my head. I like track a lot. I knew I wanted to keep going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 My God, I love Thee -- not because I hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 My God, I love Thee -- not because I hope for heaven thereby, Nor yet because who love Thee not must die eternally. Thou, O my Jesus, Thou didst me upon the Cross embrace; For me didst nails and spear endure, and manifold disgrace. Why, then why, O blessed Jesus Christ, should I not love Thee well? Not for the hope of winning heaven, or of escaping hell--  Not with the hope of gaining aught, nor seeking a reward, But as Thyself hast loved me, O ever-loving Lord! E'en then I love Thee and will love, and in Thy praise will sing Solely because Thou art my God and my eternal King.   ... Anonymous Latin Hymn (Edward Caswall, translator)  January 29, 2001   No man desires anything so eagerly as God desires to bring men to the knowledge of Himself. God is always ready, but we are very unready. God is near us, but we are far from Him. God is within, and we are without. God is friendly -- we are estranged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad;  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad;  But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness,   Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He told us the game wasn't over. He told us (the Bulldogs) weren't going to quit. We got lackadaisical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30605]]></link><description><![CDATA[He told us the game wasn't over. He told us (the Bulldogs) weren't going to quit. We got lackadaisical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66568]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10696]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow,  Is carried away in a gust of wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43470]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, 'No.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Return of the Bunny Suicides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Return of the Bunny Suicides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never will desert Mr. Micawber. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never will desert Mr. Micawber.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The faults of his adored escape the notice of the blind admirer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50341]]></link><description><![CDATA[The faults of his adored escape the notice of the blind admirer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57852]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52995]]></link><description><![CDATA[To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us are crazy in one way or another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21039]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us are crazy in one way or another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroes themselves had fallen behind! --Whene'er he went before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroes themselves had fallen behind! --Whene'er he went before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty catch themselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty catch themselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen  Collect; with elbows idly press'd   On ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen  Collect; with elbows idly press'd   On hob, reclines the corner's guest,    Reading the news to mark again     The bankrupt lists or price of grain.      Puffing the while his red-tipt pipe       He dreams o'er troubles nearly ripe,        Yet, winter's leisure to regale,         Hopes better times, and sips his ale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our experience is that Wal-Mart is a company that cares about the community it serves and is willing to put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our experience is that Wal-Mart is a company that cares about the community it serves and is willing to put itself on the line with major issues, not the least of which is bringing missing children home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5966]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2674]]></link><description><![CDATA[While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most players on the team only have one or two years experience. Soccer and field hockey strategy as far as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most players on the team only have one or two years experience. Soccer and field hockey strategy as far as field positioning is very similar. The only difference is that you're hitting the ball with a stick instead of your foot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour? [Lat., Quid datur a divis felici optatius ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18641]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour? [Lat., Quid datur a divis felici optatius hora?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gas was pouring out of the truck like a roof drain in a storm, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gas was pouring out of the truck like a roof drain in a storm,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54284]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communication is not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communication is not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the cooling hour, just when the rounded Red sun sinks down behind the azure hill,  Which then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58326]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the cooling hour, just when the rounded Red sun sinks down behind the azure hill,  Which then seems as if the whole earth is bounded,   Circling all nature, hush'd, and dim, and still,    With the far mountain-crescent half surrounded     On one side, and the deep sea calm and chill      Upon the other, and the rosy sky       With one star sparkling through it like an eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving is dead, restoring very sicke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is such a secret place, the land of tears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64350]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is such a secret place, the land of tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They work rain or shine. It is just the greatest help to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41989]]></link><description><![CDATA[They work rain or shine. It is just the greatest help to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise. [Fr., Le silence est l'esprit des ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise. [Fr., Le silence est l'esprit des sots, et l'une des vertus du sage.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how tohandle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how tohandle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59128]]></link><description><![CDATA[No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7030]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25284]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25284</guid></item></channel></rss>