<?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[And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13218]]></link><description><![CDATA[And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With good and gentle-humored hearts I choose to chat where'er I come  Whate'er the subject be that starts.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10085]]></link><description><![CDATA[With good and gentle-humored hearts I choose to chat where'er I come  Whate'er the subject be that starts.   But if I get among the glum    I hold my tongue to tell the truth     And keep my breath to cool my broth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/360]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we don't need to know for achievement, we need to know for our pleasure. Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my hut this spring, there is nothing -- there is everything! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26634]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my hut this spring, there is nothing -- there is everything!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blushed before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4375]]></link><description><![CDATA[We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blushed before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10247]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44185]]></link><description><![CDATA[To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13409]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor Peggy hawks nosegays from street to street Till--think of that who find life so sweet!--  She hates the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor Peggy hawks nosegays from street to street Till--think of that who find life so sweet!--  She hates the smell of roses!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are sisters. We will always be sisters.Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56479]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are sisters. We will always be sisters.Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to think about whether you love someone or not then the answer is no. When you love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10114]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to think about whether you love someone or not then the answer is no. When you love someone you just know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61865]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead:  And in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead:  And in whatever state a man be thrown,   'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call for the robin-red-breast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,  And with leaves and flowers do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call for the robin-red-breast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover,  And with leaves and flowers do cover   The friendless bodies of unburied men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60091]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57764]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know how he could have played much better. He has proven why he is an All-American. He is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42690]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know how he could have played much better. He has proven why he is an All-American. He is certainly the best second team All-ACC player that I've seen. He has played super all year giving us a stabilizing, veteran presence in the middle of a young defensive line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The annual Congress is also an opportunity to renew the friendship that we, ACI members worldwide, have built through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39075]]></link><description><![CDATA[The annual Congress is also an opportunity to renew the friendship that we, ACI members worldwide, have built through the years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But now, after that ye have known God, or rather or known of God, how turn ye again to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5631]]></link><description><![CDATA[But now, after that ye have known God, or rather or known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52470]]></link><description><![CDATA[No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64393]]></link><description><![CDATA[And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mahomet was taking his afternoon nap in his Paradise. An houri had rolled a cloud under his head, and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mahomet was taking his afternoon nap in his Paradise. An houri had rolled a cloud under his head, and he was snoring serenely near the fountain of Salsabil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25872]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans of all faiths should be concerned whenever a house of worship is threatened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans of all faiths should be concerned whenever a house of worship is threatened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary to all sense." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23068]]></link><description><![CDATA["Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary to all sense."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shock. Disbelief. This is a loss to the entire Jewish community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shock. Disbelief. This is a loss to the entire Jewish community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7941]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66729]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For African American ideals, "The Promised Land" is not a land to be "reclaimed" after hundreds, or even thousands, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39192]]></link><description><![CDATA[For African American ideals, "The Promised Land" is not a land to be "reclaimed" after hundreds, or even thousands, of years, citing God as the real estate agent. The Promised Land doesn't echo the injustices of the past by, in part, replicating them upon others. The Promised Land is the creation of a just society with an appreciation for the diversity of all humanity and equality for all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45693]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without promotion something terrible happens... Nothing! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without promotion something terrible happens... Nothing!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28035]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win,  By fearing to attempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win,  By fearing to attempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's tough [Tiger Woods]. I wish I was that tough when I was his age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57449]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's tough [Tiger Woods]. I wish I was that tough when I was his age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay till the lame messenger come, if you will know the truth of the thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay till the lame messenger come, if you will know the truth of the thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20947]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France is an absolute monarchy, tempered by ballads. [Fr., La France est une monarchie absolue, temperee par des chansons.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16613]]></link><description><![CDATA[France is an absolute monarchy, tempered by ballads. [Fr., La France est une monarchie absolue, temperee par des chansons.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One by onein many countriesthey break throughthe ice of fear..cups of crocuses.. stand up in caucuses.. East to Westfrom Africa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60625]]></link><description><![CDATA[One by onein many countriesthey break throughthe ice of fear..cups of crocuses.. stand up in caucuses.. East to Westfrom Africa to the Caucususand statetheir eternalallegianceto the Creator Sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46322]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening. [Lat., Quivis beatus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening. [Lat., Quivis beatus, versa rota fortunae, ante vesperum potest esse miserrimus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do. [Lat., Quoniam id fieri quod ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61792]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do. [Lat., Quoniam id fieri quod vis non potest  Id velis quod possis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being angered is the greatest defeat to a human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being angered is the greatest defeat to a human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2603</guid></item></channel></rss>