<?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[No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12262]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was clear by then that he was with Rebecca and that they were a proper couple. I so wanted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40511]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was clear by then that he was with Rebecca and that they were a proper couple. I so wanted to turn my back on him but he always managed to win me over. I know now that I am weak-willed and that I should have moved on with my life but what can I say? He had such a strong hold over me, it was hard for me to deny him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49837]]></link><description><![CDATA[The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750  You, too, are called to be an open letter, as Paul puts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750  You, too, are called to be an open letter, as Paul puts it, written by Christ's own hand, showing those round about you what things Christ can do. We are to go into the world and so to live our ordinary lives that, all unconsciously to us, those among whom we move will look at us again, and will begin to say, You know I used to doubt if there was much in Christianity save talk. But I have revised my opinion. There's So-and-so (that's you, you understand), that is a man in whom the thing is obviously working out. He used to be so touchy, so opinionative, so mean and shabby in his views, so dully ordinary. Yet now, undoubtedly, the man has won to self-control and a large generous mind, and -- yea, I know it's a queer thing to say -- but he has won to something more, something that somehow (though he never speaks about those things) makes you remember Jesus Christ!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25835]]></link><description><![CDATA[No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw one at $3.09, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw one at $3.09,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris  Si scelus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris  Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind tohimself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind tohimself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10276]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16385]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would call this a unique opportunity for people who want to use the property for 60 or 90 days ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30954]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would call this a unique opportunity for people who want to use the property for 60 or 90 days a year. We're finding all kinds of people who want a vacation home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44341]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that filches from me my good name Robs me of that, which not enriches him,  And makes me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51448]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that filches from me my good name Robs me of that, which not enriches him,  And makes me poor indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year, Clear Channel Radio announced plans to launch Spanish-language formats in markets where there was a need for more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year, Clear Channel Radio announced plans to launch Spanish-language formats in markets where there was a need for more Hispanic-targeted programming. The success of KLOL/Mega epitomizes the very essence of what we hoped to accomplish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253  Thou knowest how far Thou hast already changed me, who first healed me of the lust of vindicating myself, that so Thou mightest forgive all the rest of my iniquities, and heal all my infirmities, and redeem my life from corruption, and crown me with mercy and pity, and satisfy my desire with good things; who didst curb my pride with Thy fear, and tame my neck to Thy yoke. And now I bear it and it is light unto me, because so hast Thou promised, and hast made it; and verily it was so, and I knew it not, when I feared to take it.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine    October 10, 1999  Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644  Wilberforce, Lord Shaftesbury, and many other evangelicals, have been leaders in social reform, but it was not their religion. Their efforts succeeded because they put first things first, and believed firmly in the Word of God, in the conversion of the individual, in prayer, and in using spiritual means for spiritual work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people-not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth. Robert Kennedy The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is life distilled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is life distilled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Julian would learn something) even if he had one foot in the grave. [Lat., Etsi alterum pedem in sepulchro haberem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18219]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Julian would learn something) even if he had one foot in the grave. [Lat., Etsi alterum pedem in sepulchro haberem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48706]]></link><description><![CDATA[No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels arethe gift of fortune, while character comes from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21649]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels arethe gift of fortune, while character comes from within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the contact, ... After I run them over the first time, they start going for the legs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the contact, ... After I run them over the first time, they start going for the legs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60600]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63975]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of girls who go out there and just bust their butts. It showed (against Centerburg) when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32106]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of girls who go out there and just bust their butts. It showed (against Centerburg) when some of our girls stepped up. They didn't want to lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56513]]></link><description><![CDATA[How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trodden path is the safest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1118]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trodden path is the safest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10864]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just want to tell stories and this is the story I've wanted to tell for the past six years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32730]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just want to tell stories and this is the story I've wanted to tell for the past six years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52359]]></link><description><![CDATA[The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And more than echoes talk along the walls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13298]]></link><description><![CDATA[And more than echoes talk along the walls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55007]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66891]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See where she comes, apparelled like the spring, Graces her subjects, and her thoughts the king  Of every virtue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2759]]></link><description><![CDATA[See where she comes, apparelled like the spring, Graces her subjects, and her thoughts the king  Of every virtue gives renown to men!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17678]]></link><description><![CDATA[But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:  That no flesh should glory in his presence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christ]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18123]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41502]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's just something to mislead the jury. And I don't think there's a problem anyway, because very few ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's just something to mislead the jury. And I don't think there's a problem anyway, because very few juries ever acquit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know it's silly to say it, but I love 29th Street and I love Jack Ruby. Moonstruck I liked, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32622]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know it's silly to say it, but I love 29th Street and I love Jack Ruby. Moonstruck I liked, but my character was troublesome to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32622</guid></item></channel></rss>