<?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 we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that 'walks in us.' There are all sorts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20907]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that 'walks in us.' There are all sorts of dead ideas and lifeless old beliefs. They have no tangibility, but they haunt us all the same and we can not get rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. Ghosts must be all over the country. as thick as the sands of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave,  And spread ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave,  And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed   The lofty vault, to gather and roll back    The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood,     Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down      And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks       And supplication.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, andearning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21844]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, andearning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you sow, so shall you also reap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48828]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you sow, so shall you also reap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This should not have been reported as an in kind contribution, and it's unfortunate that these members put the party ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30948]]></link><description><![CDATA[This should not have been reported as an in kind contribution, and it's unfortunate that these members put the party in this situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenacity is a certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenacity is a certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you haven't got a singing face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56466]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you haven't got a singing face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a bullpen day for some of these guys so we wanted to try get in some work for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32153]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a bullpen day for some of these guys so we wanted to try get in some work for them. We're hoping we can be ready for when league starts again next week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no condition wherein a man does not depend on many others, wherein he is not more obliged to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8307]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no condition wherein a man does not depend on many others, wherein he is not more obliged to follow their fancies than his own. All the commerce of life is a perpetual constraint to the laws of good breeding, and the necessity of humoring others; and besides, our own passions are the worst tyrants: if you obey them but by halves, a perpetual strife and contest exists within; and if you entirely give up yourself to them, it is horrid to think to what extremities they will lead. May God preserve us from that fatal slavery, which the mad presumption of man calls liberty! Liberty is to be found only in Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hang my ears like an ass whose spirits droop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hang my ears like an ass whose spirits droop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything will past, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything will past, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36860]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was an unwarranted and vicious attack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35856]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was an unwarranted and vicious attack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15576]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is The law of life, man is not  Man as yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is The law of life, man is not  Man as yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They felt like losing the school was losing the community really. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29024]]></link><description><![CDATA[They felt like losing the school was losing the community really.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow;  Sweet voices mysteriously wailing   Pierce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58451]]></link><description><![CDATA[And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow;  Sweet voices mysteriously wailing   Pierce through me as onward they go.    They sail along, and a ringing     Sweet melody rises on high;      And when the swans begin singing,       They presently must die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44967]]></link><description><![CDATA[With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let none say, I will not drinke water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let none say, I will not drinke water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26934]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One way to recall the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquility, is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7944]]></link><description><![CDATA[One way to recall the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquility, is not to let it wander too far at other times. You should keep it strictly in the Presence of God; and , being accustomed to think of Him often, you will find it easy to keep your mind calm in the time of prayer, or at least to recall it from its wonderings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one should be left behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34205]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one should be left behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay,  And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57286]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay,  And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Very well," cried I, "that's a good girl; I find you are perfectly qualified for making converts, and so go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10131]]></link><description><![CDATA["Very well," cried I, "that's a good girl; I find you are perfectly qualified for making converts, and so go help your mother to make the gooseberry bye."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12230]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One hand washeth another, and both the face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49693]]></link><description><![CDATA[One hand washeth another, and both the face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise and don't drink too much. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13010]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the barbarians as well is the People's Republic of China with a gulag all of its own - far, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the barbarians as well is the People's Republic of China with a gulag all of its own - far, far more sophisticated than the Russians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any country that can produce that many scientists and engineers has a natural potential of being a significant software producer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any country that can produce that many scientists and engineers has a natural potential of being a significant software producer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ant and the Dove AN ANT went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, andbeing carried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ant and the Dove AN ANT went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, andbeing carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point ofdrowning. A Dove sitting on a tree overhanging the water pluckeda leaf and let it fall into the stream close to her. The Antclimbed onto it and floated in safety to the bank. Shortlyafterwards a birdcatcher came and stood under the tree, and laidhis lime-twigs for the Dove, which sat in the branches. The Ant,perceiving his design, stung him in the foot. In pain thebirdcatcher threw down the twigs, and the noise made the Dovetake wing.One good turn deserves another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27040]]></link><description><![CDATA[I go for two kinds of men. The kind with muscles, and the kind without.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say nothing of its holiness or authority, the Bible contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53621]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say nothing of its holiness or authority, the Bible contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57762]]></link><description><![CDATA[I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64845]]></link><description><![CDATA[You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not something you do when a child dies, ... We need to be talking about this all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28640]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not something you do when a child dies, ... We need to be talking about this all the time. .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49766]]></link><description><![CDATA[States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62597]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentecost  Every time we say, 'I believe in the Holy Spirit,' we mean that we believe that there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentecost  Every time we say, 'I believe in the Holy Spirit,' we mean that we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9125]]></link><description><![CDATA[An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9125</guid></item></channel></rss>