<?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[A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45274]]></link><description><![CDATA[A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From wonder into wonder existence opens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61954]]></link><description><![CDATA[From wonder into wonder existence opens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told her we just needed a ball into the outfield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40953]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told her we just needed a ball into the outfield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57012]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set the above their betters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A week ago, you could sense the soul of New Orleans from the people who were still around. There's no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30537]]></link><description><![CDATA[A week ago, you could sense the soul of New Orleans from the people who were still around. There's no people. It's like trying to interview someone's guitar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the gift that keeps on giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33751]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the gift that keeps on giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. -The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55558]]></link><description><![CDATA[My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever man decides that he is competent to do as he pleases he is soon enjoying Hell on earth, partly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever man decides that he is competent to do as he pleases he is soon enjoying Hell on earth, partly because much of what he pleases, except he know he must obey God, is low-down disgusting and partly because, even when he pleases to do something decent, he is mostly too weak-willed and too addle-pated to bring the same to good effect. Man must be redeemed by a power outside himself. I do not regard the over-determined "optimists" as silly; they seem to me only the victims of a wishful thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We condemn the act of violence and we are really concerned with what happened yesterday and we hope that it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33550]]></link><description><![CDATA[We condemn the act of violence and we are really concerned with what happened yesterday and we hope that it won't disturb the agenda for next week's meeting of foreign ministers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee, Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,  Our faith triumphant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee, Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,  Our faith triumphant o'er our fears,   Are all with thee,--are all with thee!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59237]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Michelle wanted was to see for herself if she could do it or not. And when it became evident ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29874]]></link><description><![CDATA[All Michelle wanted was to see for herself if she could do it or not. And when it became evident that was too much to ask, Michelle was the first to say she had too much respect for the Olympics and for this country to go out there when she knew she couldn't. Here, it's a different sport and a little different situation. But I think you could plug in the same kind of comments with Jeff -- if it comes to that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse is the pain of sin ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse is the pain of sin]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong. [Lat., Maxima illecebra est peccandi impunitatis spes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong. [Lat., Maxima illecebra est peccandi impunitatis spes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give a sucker an even break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give a sucker an even break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition is a guide and not a jailer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition is a guide and not a jailer]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever you are - be all there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever you are - be all there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942  Few have defined what free will is, although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942  Few have defined what free will is, although it repeatedly occurs in the writings of all. Origen seems to have put forward a definition generally agreed upon among ecclesiastical writers when he said that it is a faculty of the reason to distinguish between good and evil, a faculty of the will to choose one or the other. Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lyric sound of laughter Fills all the April hills  The joy-song of the crocus,   The mirth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lyric sound of laughter Fills all the April hills  The joy-song of the crocus,   The mirth of daffodils.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come backto the pleasant fact that there are only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come backto the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4517]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,  When he call'd the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,  When he call'd the flowers, so blue and golden,   Stars that on earth's firmament do shine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody knew that I could type pretty well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wrestled very well. We continued to show improvement. Zach Lopez has been using his practice time wisely and looked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38926]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wrestled very well. We continued to show improvement. Zach Lopez has been using his practice time wisely and looked much-improved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5539]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart is feminine, nor can forget-- To all, except one image, madly blind;  So shakes the needle, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20853]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart is feminine, nor can forget-- To all, except one image, madly blind;  So shakes the needle, and so stands the pole,   As vibrates my fond heart to my fix'd soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64830]]></link><description><![CDATA[I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[we cannot give in to terror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41264]]></link><description><![CDATA[we cannot give in to terror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a huge play for me because I really owe a lot to the team by accepting me coming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29724]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a huge play for me because I really owe a lot to the team by accepting me coming straight from junior college and just looking at me as a leader.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41500]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48627]]></link><description><![CDATA[For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All God's revelations are sealed to us until they are opened to us by obedience. You will never get them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8433]]></link><description><![CDATA[All God's revelations are sealed to us until they are opened to us by obedience. You will never get them open by philosophy or thinking. Immediately you obey, a flash of light comes. Let God's truth work in you by soaking in it, not by worrying into it. Obey God in the thing He is at present showing you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. We read tomes on the work of the Holy Spirit when... five minutes of drastic obedience would make things clear as a sunbeam. We say, "I suppose I shall understand these things some day." You can understand them now: it is not study that does it, but obedience. The tiniest fragment of obedience, and heaven opens up and the profoundest truths of God are yours straight away. God will never reveal more truth about Himself till you obey what you know already. Beware of being wise and prudent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote a letter to my dad, I was going to write 'I really enjoyed being here', but I accidentally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24635]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrote a letter to my dad, I was going to write 'I really enjoyed being here', but I accidentally wrote 'rarely' instead of 'really'. But I wanted to use it, I didn't want to cross it out, so I wrote 'I rarely drive steamboats, Dad. There's a lot of sh*t you don't know about me. Quit trying to act like I'm a steamboat operator.' I know this letter took a harsh turn right away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2698]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've noticed the shows have been getting a lot better, even since a week ago when the album was released. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31273]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've noticed the shows have been getting a lot better, even since a week ago when the album was released. There's been a slow build, but we're playing for a lot more people, and the kids seem to know the new songs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62759]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
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 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62763]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.
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