<?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[Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! Then, Jack, her lips! O, Jack, lips smiling at their own discretion! and, if not smiling, more sweetly pouting -- more lovely in sullenness! Then, Jack, her neck! O, Jack, Jack!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dante didn't work out, and then we found Ryan. He worked at a comic, record and toy store in Fremont. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dante didn't work out, and then we found Ryan. He worked at a comic, record and toy store in Fremont.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can say nothing but what hath been said . . . Our poets steal from Homer . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46633]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can say nothing but what hath been said . . . Our poets steal from Homer . . . . Our storydressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, there are two paths you can go byBut in the long runThere's still time to change the road you're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, there are two paths you can go byBut in the long runThere's still time to change the road you're on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52660]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What babe new born is this that in a manger cries? Near on her lowly bed his happy mother lies. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8632]]></link><description><![CDATA[What babe new born is this that in a manger cries? Near on her lowly bed his happy mother lies.  Oh, see the air is shaken with white and heavenly wings--   This is the Lord of all the earth, this is the King of Kings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a looking glass. It gives back to everyman a true reflection of his own thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a looking glass. It gives back to everyman a true reflection of his own thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains  The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9139]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains  The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3760]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness, and a tight hand strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13335]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world abhors closeness, and all but admires extravagance; yet a slack hand shows weakness, and a tight hand strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never raise your hand to your children ð it leaves your midsection unprotected ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never raise your hand to your children ð it leaves your midsection unprotected]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is slow suicide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is slow suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52755]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3715]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4060]]></link><description><![CDATA[One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mothers tell your children 'Be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder and love is never wrong.' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mothers tell your children 'Be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder and love is never wrong.' Remember how they taught you; how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down: The legacy stops here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The common curse of mankind,—folly and ignorance. -Troilus and Cressida. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The common curse of mankind,—folly and ignorance. -Troilus and Cressida. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24218]]></link><description><![CDATA[A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[C is for cookie, it's good enough for me; oh cookie cookie cookie starts with C. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10160]]></link><description><![CDATA[C is for cookie, it's good enough for me; oh cookie cookie cookie starts with C.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61351]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the right, books; to the left, a tea-cup. In front of me, the fireplace; behind me, the post. There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10005]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the right, books; to the left, a tea-cup. In front of me, the fireplace; behind me, the post. There is no greater happiness than this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians awake, salute the happy morn Whereon the Saviour of the world was born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians awake, salute the happy morn Whereon the Saviour of the world was born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday is a cancelled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; Today is the only cash you have, so spend it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday is a cancelled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely. -Kim Lyons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16714]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24760]]></link><description><![CDATA[A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother worked hard for a long time and now I work hard to make sure that she doesn't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38884]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother worked hard for a long time and now I work hard to make sure that she doesn't have to work, ... It gives me something to push for and it keeps me humble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fat kitchen, a lean will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23885]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fat kitchen, a lean will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52025]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day  How the clicking of its wheel   Wears the hours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day  How the clicking of its wheel   Wears the hours away!    Languidly the Autumn wind     Stirs the forest leaves,      From the field the reapers sing       Binding up their sheaves:        And a proverb haunts my mind         As a spell is cast,          "The mill cannot grind           With the water that is past."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does he honestly believe that his constituents would prefer to see him lounging about in the Big Brother House rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does he honestly believe that his constituents would prefer to see him lounging about in the Big Brother House rather than debating issues as serious as equality?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uncertainty lies always in the intellectual region, never in the practical. What Paul cares about is plain enough to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uncertainty lies always in the intellectual region, never in the practical. What Paul cares about is plain enough to the true heart, however far from plain to the man whose desire to understand goes ahead of his obedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A penny saved is two pence clear, A pin a day's a groat a year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13334]]></link><description><![CDATA[A penny saved is two pence clear, A pin a day's a groat a year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  We come to Jesus Christ: and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  We come to Jesus Christ: and He does for us what He promised; and the thing works out. To our amazement, it works out. And then we settle down. We have had our own first-hand and irrefutable experience. But, instead of opening the windows to the glory of the sunshine so evidently there, instead of being incited to a hugeness of faith by what Christ has already done for us, we can't believe that there can be anything more, or that even He can work, for us, anything better. That first foretaste satisfies us. And so we camp for life out on the confines of the Kingdom, and never press on to inherit what is there and meant for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire.  I cried, "Behold! the barren beach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire.  I cried, "Behold! the barren beach of hell   At ebb of tide."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How disappointment tracks the steps of hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12374]]></link><description><![CDATA[How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good of men, so long will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53161]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good of men, so long will there be a vocation for the rebel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It's like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It's like a conspiracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew this game would have a playoff feel with Central Catholic being undefeated and all the section championships they've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32154]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew this game would have a playoff feel with Central Catholic being undefeated and all the section championships they've won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4655</guid></item></channel></rss>