<?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[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890  Why do we talk and gossip so continually, seeing that we so rarely resume our silence without some hurt done to our conscience? ... Devout conversation on spiritual things helpeth not a little to spiritual progress, most of all where those of kindred mind and spirit find their ground of fellowship in God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's exciting; it's indicative that my hard work is translating into good performances, especially in the weight where I don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33502]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's exciting; it's indicative that my hard work is translating into good performances, especially in the weight where I don't throw with great technique and rely more on athleticism and strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We showed a lot of mental toughness. This says a lot about the possibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32796]]></link><description><![CDATA[We showed a lot of mental toughness. This says a lot about the possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given,  Thy stars have lit the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given,  Thy stars have lit the welkin dome;   And all thy hues were born in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,  Can be retentive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,  Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;   But life, being weary of these worldly bars,    Never lacks power to dismiss itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to be very hard and -- if that would do any good -- might be a just matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8136]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to be very hard and -- if that would do any good -- might be a just matter of complaint, that we are fallen into so profane and skeptical an age, which takes a pleasure and a pride in unraveling almost all the received principles both of religion and reason, so that we are put many times to prove those things which can hardly be made plainer than they are of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46109]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44957]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the good of a home if you are never in it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19626]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the good of a home if you are never in it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not is our stars,  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not is our stars,  But in ourselves, that we are underlings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are respectable only as they respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are respectable only as they respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29918]]></link><description><![CDATA[They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?" do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21741]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?" do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that makes himself a sheep, shall be eat by the wolfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that makes himself a sheep, shall be eat by the wolfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I could remember the names of all these particles I'd be a botanist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54822]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I could remember the names of all these particles I'd be a botanist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The war is history, the Iran-Iraq borders should turn into borders of peace and friendship, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41295]]></link><description><![CDATA[The war is history, the Iran-Iraq borders should turn into borders of peace and friendship,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41295</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[Somewhere, in desolate, wind-swept space, In twilight land, in no man's land,  Two hurrying shapes met face to face ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere, in desolate, wind-swept space, In twilight land, in no man's land,  Two hurrying shapes met face to face   And bade each other stand.    "And who are you?" cried one, a-gape,     Shuddering in the glimmering light.      "I know not," said the second shape,       "I only died last night."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread;  Frowns in the storm with angry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread;  Frowns in the storm with angry brow,   But in the sunshine strikes the blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who loves me loves my dog. [Lat., Qui m'aime il aime mon chien.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who loves me loves my dog. [Lat., Qui m'aime il aime mon chien.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the daily problems of life but attempts to arrive at an understanding of more complicated and drawn-out processes. The dialectic and formal logic bear a relationship similar to that between higher and lower mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's meant to be will always find a way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66176]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's meant to be will always find a way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The severity has been high in some cases, and we need to take some action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40425]]></link><description><![CDATA[The severity has been high in some cases, and we need to take some action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When rosy plumelets tuft the larch, And rarely pipes the mounted thrush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59257]]></link><description><![CDATA[When rosy plumelets tuft the larch, And rarely pipes the mounted thrush.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The footsteps are terrifying, all coming towards you and none going back again. [Lat., Vestigia terrent  Omnia te adversum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The footsteps are terrifying, all coming towards you and none going back again. [Lat., Vestigia terrent  Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrorsum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to have wings then hornes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49561]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to have wings then hornes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  Thanksgiving is the language of heaven, and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  Thanksgiving is the language of heaven, and we had better start to learn it if we are not to be mere dumb aliens there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes younger girls are a little easier to teach, because the older girls have developed bad habits that are harder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes younger girls are a little easier to teach, because the older girls have developed bad habits that are harder to break. But we've made a lot of progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I've become numb to that over the last 15 years, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37641]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I've become numb to that over the last 15 years,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.  You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're looking at is a comprehensive plan for the border, not so much a Band-Aid approach. We want a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37277]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're looking at is a comprehensive plan for the border, not so much a Band-Aid approach. We want a mix of technology, resources and a temporary-worker program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5952]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62805]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50452]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47870]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is great by deeds, not by birth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65203]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is great by deeds, not by birth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65203</guid></item></channel></rss>