<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53176]]></link><description><![CDATA[RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's been an interesting time. We've had our ups and downs. I think we've grown a lot, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36430]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's been an interesting time. We've had our ups and downs. I think we've grown a lot, and we have made money. It's also fun getting together with women you don't see every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15372]]></link><description><![CDATA[No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. [Lat., Nulla vis humana vel virtus meruisse unquam potuit, ut, quod praescripsit fatalis ordo, non fiat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is it written in the Constitution that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is it written in the Constitution that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly or wickedness of government may engage it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5323]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5491]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Sin is not only manifested in certain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and feelings. Lust and hate are sins as well as adultery and murder. And, in the traditional Christian view, despair and chronic boredom -- unaccompanied by any vicious act -- are serious sins. They are expressions of man's separation from God, as the ultimate good, meaning, and end of human existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Big Blackfoot River above the mouth of Belmont Creek the banks are fringed by large Ponderosa pines. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43023]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the Big Blackfoot River above the mouth of Belmont Creek the banks are fringed by large Ponderosa pines. In the slanting sun of late afternoon the shadows of great branches reached across the river, and the trees took the river in their arms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42626]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinderor control the firm resolve of a determined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21971]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinderor control the firm resolve of a determined soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate is such a luxurious emotion, it can only be spent on one we love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate is such a luxurious emotion, it can only be spent on one we love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14274]]></link><description><![CDATA[All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's a jailhouse snitch who stole my client's stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29212]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's a jailhouse snitch who stole my client's stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;  So perish all, whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;  So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow   For others' good, or melt at others' woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46374]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising:  There are forty feeding like one! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising:  There are forty feeding like one!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62681]]></link><description><![CDATA[...The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action is the real measure of intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action is the real measure of intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51937]]></link><description><![CDATA[God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21251]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When day is done, and clouds are low, And flowers are honey-dew,  And Hesper's lamp begins to glow  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14251]]></link><description><![CDATA[When day is done, and clouds are low, And flowers are honey-dew,  And Hesper's lamp begins to glow   Along the western blue;    And homeward wing the turtle-doves,     Then comes the hour the poet loves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he. He followed Christ, yet for dead Pan he sighed,  As if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6126]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he. He followed Christ, yet for dead Pan he sighed,  As if Theocritus in Sicily   Had come upon the Figure crucified,    And lost his gods in deep, Christ-given rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47344]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams....pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1478]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams....pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build bigger and better dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50335]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say Jessica was working on a math problem ... I would always try to illustrate the solution by drawing things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say Jessica was working on a math problem ... I would always try to illustrate the solution by drawing things out. And she just started to copy what I was doing. Of course, as she got better at it, I would show her the 3-d aspect of shading or how to render perspective ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â and she could just do it. She would just pick it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16719]]></link><description><![CDATA[We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold,  And far across the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51729]]></link><description><![CDATA[And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold,  And far across the hills they went,   In that new world that is the old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wages of sin are sables. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56415]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wages of sin are sables.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13724]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50914]]></link><description><![CDATA[We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12962]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of our guys can make those scrappy plays. We've come to expect the defensive effort because those guys just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35475]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of our guys can make those scrappy plays. We've come to expect the defensive effort because those guys just scrap. If you just watch the game you can gloss over Trey's hustling plays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have consideration for wounded feelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have consideration for wounded feelings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public business: "we do much for posterity; I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public business: "we do much for posterity; I would fain see them do something for us."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a huge step forward, and it's going to make it easier for all city employees because they are going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33679]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a huge step forward, and it's going to make it easier for all city employees because they are going to know what is expected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19968]]></link><description><![CDATA[My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19968</guid></item></channel></rss>