<?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[If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46894]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in holiday humor and like enough to consent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in holiday humor and like enough to consent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19574</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[We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have-for their usefulness. -Thomas Merton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to have a lion at the head of an army od sheep, than a sheep at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24486]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to have a lion at the head of an army od sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46107]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The restlessness that comes upon girls upon summer evenings results in lasting trouble unless it is speedily controlled. The right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17471]]></link><description><![CDATA[The restlessness that comes upon girls upon summer evenings results in lasting trouble unless it is speedily controlled. The right kind of man does not look for a wife on the streets, and the right kind of girl waits till the man comes to her home for her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In time the rod Becomes more mocked than feared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51388]]></link><description><![CDATA[In time the rod Becomes more mocked than feared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reviewers are forever telling authors they can't understand them. The author might often reply: Is that my fault? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reviewers are forever telling authors they can't understand them. The author might often reply: Is that my fault?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wake Forest is honored to once again host the NCAA Championships. I believe our staff at Wake Forest puts on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wake Forest is honored to once again host the NCAA Championships. I believe our staff at Wake Forest puts on a first class presentation that all four teams will enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19696]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by a common hatred of it's neighbours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2507]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by a common hatred of it's neighbours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will never be in want; if according to the fashions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51161]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will never be in want; if according to the fashions of the world you will never be rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things are impossible to diligence and skill ... Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things are impossible to diligence and skill ... Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2191]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew we'd have to bring our 'A' game. But I never expected our best score in the state tournament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40303]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew we'd have to bring our 'A' game. But I never expected our best score in the state tournament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I'll be happy when...." is the way many people think they are living their lives. Yet, happiness is not something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38443]]></link><description><![CDATA["I'll be happy when...." is the way many people think they are living their lives. Yet, happiness is not something that happens to you. Happiness is inside you now. You are motivated from within. You only have to allow happiness to surface.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies;  I see the branches downward bent,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61649]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies;  I see the branches downward bent,   Like keys of some great instrument.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is great enough that is his own master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53309]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is great enough that is his own master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters to what lies within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63226]]></link><description><![CDATA[What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters to what lies within us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith will move mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith will move mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are we going to build a house without doors and windows, or are we going to put doors and windows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are we going to build a house without doors and windows, or are we going to put doors and windows in the dang thing so it can be used?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64581]]></link><description><![CDATA[There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some big private funds want to buy at low prices and are pushing down the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some big private funds want to buy at low prices and are pushing down the market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mellifluous Shakespeare, whose enchanting Quill Commandeth Mirth or Passion, was but Will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mellifluous Shakespeare, whose enchanting Quill Commandeth Mirth or Passion, was but Will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those guys put you in a situation to win every game. That's why they are in the top four. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those guys put you in a situation to win every game. That's why they are in the top four.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is low in the index, and probably it makes sense to collapse the dual-listed structure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33799]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is low in the index, and probably it makes sense to collapse the dual-listed structure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He carries a stone in one hand, and offers bread with the other. [Lat., Altera manu fert lapidem, altera panem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50903]]></link><description><![CDATA[He carries a stone in one hand, and offers bread with the other. [Lat., Altera manu fert lapidem, altera panem ostentat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part,  I ask not proud Philosophy   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part,  I ask not proud Philosophy   To teach me what thou art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59344]]></link><description><![CDATA[This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strength of women is the pretense of weakness, and the weakness of men is the pretense of strength ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strength of women is the pretense of weakness, and the weakness of men is the pretense of strength]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . then black despair The shadow of a starless night, was thrown  Over the world in which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12021]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . then black despair The shadow of a starless night, was thrown  Over the world in which I moved alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54770]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54654]]></link><description><![CDATA[That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have nothing against him. I just don't think a candidate should run unopposed especially for a position as important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33142]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have nothing against him. I just don't think a candidate should run unopposed especially for a position as important as this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary  Continuing a short series on prayer:  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary  Continuing a short series on prayer:  The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8289</guid></item></channel></rss>