<?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[The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's why we play the game. Anything is possible, anything can happen, and we proved that again tonight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56729]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's why we play the game. Anything is possible, anything can happen, and we proved that again tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hath thy heart within thee burned, At evening's calm and holy hour? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hath thy heart within thee burned, At evening's calm and holy hour?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kill nothing but time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kill nothing but time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the dream of a soul awake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the dream of a soul awake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be an agnostic--be something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be an agnostic--be something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. -Vaclav Havel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9771]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd do anything to go back to those days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29330]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd do anything to go back to those days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54209]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll seek a four-leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll seek a four-leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4065]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate writing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28610]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate writing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oldtimers weekends and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oldtimers weekends and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they've been betrayed, to those for whom love still heals, even though they've been hurt before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object!  For this the foolish overcareful fathers   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17784]]></link><description><![CDATA[How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object!  For this the foolish overcareful fathers   Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care.    Their bones with industry.     For this they have engrossed and piled up      The cankered heaps of strange-achieved gold;       For this they have been thoughtful to invest        Their sons with arts and martial exercises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43795]]></link><description><![CDATA[See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are enormously long lags from a change in exchange rates to impact on production and employment. ...The dollar has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37047]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are enormously long lags from a change in exchange rates to impact on production and employment. ...The dollar has already weakened and frankly this kind of move isn't going to matter very much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18491]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a hospital founded on purpose to receive all sick and maimed persons that, when they can live no longer to the lusts of the flesh and the sinful pleasures of this world, can but put up a cold and formal petition to be admitted there. No, no, as sure as God is true, they shall never see the Kingdom of God who, instead of seeking it in the first place, make it their last refuge and retreat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old dog Tray's ever faithful; Grief can not drive him away;  He is gentle, he is kind--   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old dog Tray's ever faithful; Grief can not drive him away;  He is gentle, he is kind--   I shall never, never find    A better friend than old dog Tray!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was very relevant to the students. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32674]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was very relevant to the students.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule goes that all prisoners can get remission as long as they have displayed good behavior, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36229]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule goes that all prisoners can get remission as long as they have displayed good behavior,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53716]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2289]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject. (recounting what he told a player who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject. (recounting what he told a player who received four F's and one D)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sidney Crosby is going to play where Sidney Crosby and his agent decide he's going to play. Any player who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sidney Crosby is going to play where Sidney Crosby and his agent decide he's going to play. Any player who has reached the age of 18 by Sept. 15 is eligible to play in our league if he is appropriately under contract.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish, Faustinus, a bath of boiling water to be reduced in temperature,--a bath, such as scarcely Julianus could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14068]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish, Faustinus, a bath of boiling water to be reduced in temperature,--a bath, such as scarcely Julianus could enter,--ask the rhetorician Sabinaeus to bathe himself in it. He would freeze the warm baths of Nero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true University of these days is a Collection of Books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So so is good, very good, very excellent good; and yet it is not; it is but so so. -As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55687]]></link><description><![CDATA[So so is good, very good, very excellent good; and yet it is not; it is but so so. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round.  Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round.  Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high--   Fill all the Glasses there; for why    Should every Creature Drink but I?     Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55]]></link><description><![CDATA[The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How use doth breed a habit in a man! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51539]]></link><description><![CDATA[How use doth breed a habit in a man!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the black night and driving rain A ship is struggling, all in vain,  To live upon the stormy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the black night and driving rain A ship is struggling, all in vain,  To live upon the stormy main;--   Miserere Domine!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19035]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is the closest distance between two people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is the closest distance between two people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ask for lively epigrams, and propose lifeless subjects. What can I do, Caecilianus? You expect Hyblaen or Hymethian honey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14075]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ask for lively epigrams, and propose lifeless subjects. What can I do, Caecilianus? You expect Hyblaen or Hymethian honey to be produced, and yet offer the Attic bee nothing but Corsican thyme?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at you. You made a hole-in-one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at you. You made a hole-in-one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61120]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To whom much is given, much is required. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21090]]></link><description><![CDATA[To whom much is given, much is required.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the Lord judge the criminals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the Lord judge the criminals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No jealousy their dawn of love o'ercast, Nor blasted were their wedded days with strife;  Each season looked delightful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26543]]></link><description><![CDATA[No jealousy their dawn of love o'ercast, Nor blasted were their wedded days with strife;  Each season looked delightful as it past,   To the fond husband and the faithful wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This kid can do both well. We really saved us a pick by taking him because he can do both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38346]]></link><description><![CDATA[This kid can do both well. We really saved us a pick by taking him because he can do both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60730]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52125]]></link><description><![CDATA[In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admonish your friends in private; praise them in public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admonish your friends in private; praise them in public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51581</guid></item></channel></rss>