<?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[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  When our lives are focused on God, awe and wonder lead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  When our lives are focused on God, awe and wonder lead us to worship God, filling our inner being with a fullness we would never have thought possible. Awe prepares the way in us for the power of God to transform us and this transformation of our inner attitudes can only take place when awe leads us in turn to wonder, admiration, reverence, surrender, and obedience toward God.  ... James Houston, The Transforming Power of Prayer July 23, 2000 Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   Christ came, not so much to preach the Gospel, as that there might be a Gospel to preach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life,  The very Life of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life,  The very Life of Life.   In its brief course lie all the Varieties    And Realities of your Existence;     The Bliss of Growth,      The Glory of Action,       The Splendor of Beauty;        For Yesterday is but a Dream,         And Tomorrow is only a Vision;          But Today well lived           Makes every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,            And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.             Look well therefore to this Day!              Such is the Salutation of Dawn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow,  In books and love the mind one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow,  In books and love the mind one end pursues,   And only change the expiring flames renews.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever; a happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trifles go to make perfection, And perfection is no trifle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty won't allow him to lift up his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty won't allow him to lift up his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62479]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36820]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine and a half months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We then use the empty containers that we off load and fill them back up with cotton from the United ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37134]]></link><description><![CDATA[We then use the empty containers that we off load and fill them back up with cotton from the United States and send it to China.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have now come to the point when the clarity has to be sought from Yugoslavia, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41942]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have now come to the point when the clarity has to be sought from Yugoslavia,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defer no time; delays have dangerous ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defer no time; delays have dangerous ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All leaders strive to turn their followers into children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47596]]></link><description><![CDATA[All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute shall? -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute shall? -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17226]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling toimprove themselves; they therefore remain bound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling toimprove themselves; they therefore remain bound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest gift is a portion of thyself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not like 'but yet, it does allay The good precedence: fie upon 'but yet,'  'But yet' is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12759]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not like 'but yet, it does allay The good precedence: fie upon 'but yet,'  'But yet' is as a jailer to bring forth   Some monstrous malefactor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing, and wishing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing, and wishing you had?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7153]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine    April 4, 1998  The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity; but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least of all deserve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a good feeling that you've been part of the gentle and considerate repopulation of these rural areas, as well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36660]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a good feeling that you've been part of the gentle and considerate repopulation of these rural areas, as well as creating the employment opportunities for the local kids to leave school and get a proper job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58770]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While this amount may seem large, it pales in comparison to the estimated $100 billion spent each year on bottled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34505]]></link><description><![CDATA[While this amount may seem large, it pales in comparison to the estimated $100 billion spent each year on bottled water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Before the officers were sworn to their new ranks, several residents spoke publicly at the meeting about the promotions.] I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31149]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Before the officers were sworn to their new ranks, several residents spoke publicly at the meeting about the promotions.] I stand here to say thank you, ... You earned your due. I'm very, very proud of my Police Department in Neptune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9723]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me it was just exciting to see fake news catching on like that. We don't… you know, it's interesting. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44448]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me it was just exciting to see fake news catching on like that. We don't… you know, it's interesting. I think we don't make things up. We just distill it to, hopefully, its most humorous nugget. And in that sense it seems faked and skewed just because we don't have to be subjective or pretend to be objective. We can just put it out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are those who have burned schools and killed doctors, nurses and many other innocent Afghans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40049]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are those who have burned schools and killed doctors, nurses and many other innocent Afghans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had her for two more years. Well, almost two years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42001]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had her for two more years. Well, almost two years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55380]]></link><description><![CDATA[No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688  Here in Pilgrim's Progress there is the ultimate human nostalgia for the City of God, which is the restless heart's true home. And even the cynical, the unbelieving and half-believing reader who goes with Christian to the end of the road must be a little shaken, may tremble to see something like a gate and also some of the glory of the place, and, glimpsing something of the company within the golden gates, may wish himself among them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the best possible time for big companies to go after online opportunities, ... This is also the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41416]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the best possible time for big companies to go after online opportunities, ... This is also the best possible time to start a company, if you're willing to build for the long-term.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is a violent school-mistress. [Fr., C'est une violente maistresse d'eschole que la necessite.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is a violent school-mistress. [Fr., C'est une violente maistresse d'eschole que la necessite.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Down comes rain drop, bubble follows; On the house-top one by one  Flock the synagogue of swallows,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Down comes rain drop, bubble follows; On the house-top one by one  Flock the synagogue of swallows,   Met to vote that autumn's gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every thing is of use to a houskeeper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every thing is of use to a houskeeper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look at Liv Tyler and think "It's not fair," because I can't find a flaw on her. And on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16207]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look at Liv Tyler and think "It's not fair," because I can't find a flaw on her. And on top of that she seems nice, so it's really not fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Momentum definitely shifted to our side. I felt I needed to step up. Third quarter, I played awful. I thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Momentum definitely shifted to our side. I felt I needed to step up. Third quarter, I played awful. I thought it was really important for me to step up and make a big save.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a hard loss, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30617]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a hard loss,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25504]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25504</guid></item></channel></rss>