<?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[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[He assembled a management team who, under his skilled leadership, guided American through the early days of deregulation and built ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35680]]></link><description><![CDATA[He assembled a management team who, under his skilled leadership, guided American through the early days of deregulation and built it into one of the world's preeminent airlines,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine--everybody drinks water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4612]]></link><description><![CDATA[My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine--everybody drinks water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing permanent except change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27956]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing permanent except change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, the draft is ready, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, the draft is ready,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is,is a clue to the universe. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22115]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is,is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it I do believe, and take it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is love? A barbie doll.. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36419]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is love? A barbie doll..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace originates with the flow of things — its heart is like the movement of the wind and waves. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace originates with the flow of things — its heart is like the movement of the wind and waves. The Way is like the veins that circulate blood through our bodies, following the natural flow of the life force. If you are separated in the slightest from that divine essence, you are far off the path.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somebody took something that belonged to us, that we had taken care of. That's the frustrating part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somebody took something that belonged to us, that we had taken care of. That's the frustrating part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17207]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stars, Which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields  Of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stars, Which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields  Of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone needs to be asking the questions. How many lives do we have to lose? How many trucks are going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone needs to be asking the questions. How many lives do we have to lose? How many trucks are going over these overheads over the highways, and what can we do?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the entourage of morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to be a veterinarian when I grow up, because I really, really like helping animals and being with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31148]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to be a veterinarian when I grow up, because I really, really like helping animals and being with animals, ... I've just liked that for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19307]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another May new buds and flowers shall bring: Ah! why has happiness no second Spring? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another May new buds and flowers shall bring: Ah! why has happiness no second Spring?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690   I find more marks of authenticity in the Bible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690   I find more marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get that many athletes in one place was unreal. It was nice to be a part of it. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33379]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get that many athletes in one place was unreal. It was nice to be a part of it. We plan to come back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27949]]></link><description><![CDATA[For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was just sad. It's real unfortunate. Now I'm at the stage where I'm mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31842]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was just sad. It's real unfortunate. Now I'm at the stage where I'm mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prolifers support warwaging candidateswhose bomber planes become partial birth abortionists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prolifers support warwaging candidateswhose bomber planes become partial birth abortionists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger may be foolish and obsurd, and one may be irritated when in the wrong; but a man never feels ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger may be foolish and obsurd, and one may be irritated when in the wrong; but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is at bottom right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kind reader! take your choice to cry or laugh; Here Harod lies--but where's his Epitaph?  If such you seek, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kind reader! take your choice to cry or laugh; Here Harod lies--but where's his Epitaph?  If such you seek, try Westminister, and view   Ten thousand, just as fit for him as you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this time we do not have any specific suspicion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35203]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this time we do not have any specific suspicion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's simply neighbor helping out neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31482]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's simply neighbor helping out neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61899]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played a pretty good game. The refs called two penalties at the end and it helped us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42302]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played a pretty good game. The refs called two penalties at the end and it helped us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65564]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35191]]></link><description><![CDATA[A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often a seeing a friend in pain outweighs our own pain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often a seeing a friend in pain outweighs our own pain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   It is well to have specifically holy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   It is well to have specifically holy places, and things, and days, for, without these focal points or reminders, the belief that all is holy and "big with God" will soon dwindle into a mere sentiment. But if these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of "religion".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43583]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can call spirits from the vasty deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2789]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can call spirits from the vasty deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole;  But what were that intrinsic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole;  But what were that intrinsic virtue worth,   Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge,    Fresh from St. Andrew's College,     Should nail the conscious needle to the north?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22187]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61186]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of "taking chances" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44035</guid></item></channel></rss>