<?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[Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, running is a lifestyle and an art. I'm more interested in the magic of it than the mechanics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65546]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, running is a lifestyle and an art. I'm more interested in the magic of it than the mechanics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to keep learning as I go, here. The last week has really made me stronger and I've learned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28813]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to keep learning as I go, here. The last week has really made me stronger and I've learned from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  Love is careful of little things, of circumstances and measures, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  Love is careful of little things, of circumstances and measures, and of little accidents; not allowing to itself any infirmity which it strives not to master, aiming at what it cannot yet reach, desiring to be of an angelic purity, and of a perfect innocence, and a seraphical fervor, and fears every image of offense; is as much afflicted at an idle word as some at an act of adultery, and will not allow to itself so much anger as will disturb a child, nor endure the impurity of a dream. And this is the curiosity and niceness of divine love: this is the fear of God, and is the daughter and production of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7374</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[They say to be a leader, not a follower. I say that a follower of Jesus is the most notable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53773]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say to be a leader, not a follower. I say that a follower of Jesus is the most notable position one could hold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou unrelenting past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou unrelenting past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9629]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27896]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9831]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The multitude of books is making us ignorant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The multitude of books is making us ignorant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11995</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[This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold linguist and the armipotent soldier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25132]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold linguist and the armipotent soldier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can fool all of the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4969]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can fool all of the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55135]]></link><description><![CDATA[When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it had missed the point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we try to do with our offense is get open using cuts and back-door screens and really spread the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38714]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we try to do with our offense is get open using cuts and back-door screens and really spread the floor and we were able to do that tonight. But one thing we didn't do was take advantage of our height. We will need to do a better job of that against Perryville.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have any hard statistics yet on all the damage done by Hurricane Katrina. Apparently the damage was minimal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35309]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have any hard statistics yet on all the damage done by Hurricane Katrina. Apparently the damage was minimal in the major cotton-producing areas of Mississippi and Louisiana.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11789]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we just royally confused some winter campers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29168]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we just royally confused some winter campers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55846]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63277]]></link><description><![CDATA[All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken: say goodbye now to the Sun, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken: say goodbye now to the Sun, the days of love and leaves are done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, we are weary pilgrims; to this wilderness we bring A Church without a bishop, a State without a King. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, we are weary pilgrims; to this wilderness we bring A Church without a bishop, a State without a King.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defence, not defiance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defence, not defiance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe witha person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe witha person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouringall right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that afaithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keepingand, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/763]]></link><description><![CDATA[To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.   - Daniel Webster, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.   - Daniel Webster,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. - Essays and Soliloquies, 1924.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Base is the slave that pays. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Base is the slave that pays. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65004]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29755]]></link><description><![CDATA[The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52059]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When eating an elephant take one bite at a time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32257]]></link><description><![CDATA[When eating an elephant take one bite at a time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor lies in honest toil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor lies in honest toil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some nation states prohibit the police from collecting information on their own citizens. But they don't prohibit their own intelligence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some nation states prohibit the police from collecting information on their own citizens. But they don't prohibit their own intelligence organizations from collecting information on their own citizens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47964]]></link><description><![CDATA[We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That just shows how rodeo is going for a guy to win that much in one year. That's phenomenal for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42168]]></link><description><![CDATA[That just shows how rodeo is going for a guy to win that much in one year. That's phenomenal for rodeo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been on a smooth downward trend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29643]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been on a smooth downward trend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a piece of the universe made alive ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a piece of the universe made alive]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43220]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52687]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52687</guid></item></channel></rss>