<?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[A tough lesson to learn in life is that not everyone wishes you well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24570]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tough lesson to learn in life is that not everyone wishes you well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11745]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really exciting. I smile a lot, I win a lot, and I'm really sexy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66449]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really exciting. I smile a lot, I win a lot, and I'm really sexy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a country, I am not a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a country, I am not a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50522]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61987]]></link><description><![CDATA[O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can deny that the New Testament has variety as well as unity. It is the variety which gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8043]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can deny that the New Testament has variety as well as unity. It is the variety which gives interest to the unity. What is it in which these people, differing as widely as they do, are vitally and fundamentally at one, so that through all their differences they form a brotherhood and are conscious of an indissolubale spiritual bond? There can be no doubt that that which unites them is a common relation to Christ -- a common faith in Him, involving religious convictions about Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20802]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66071]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a crown Covers bald foreheads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a crown Covers bald foreheads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony, Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither--  They had been fou for weeks thegither! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16762]]></link><description><![CDATA[His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony, Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither--  They had been fou for weeks thegither!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see, the jewel best enamelled Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still  That others touch, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see, the jewel best enamelled Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still  That others touch, and often touching will   Wear gold; and no man that hath a name,    By falsehood and corruption doth it shame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless'd; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 7th Congressional District will be one of the most competitive in the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39628]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 7th Congressional District will be one of the most competitive in the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace, like charity, begins at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace, like charity, begins at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24212]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(A lack of) patience was an issue, and it's been something we've fought all season. I hope this game was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38854]]></link><description><![CDATA[(A lack of) patience was an issue, and it's been something we've fought all season. I hope this game was a wake-up call, but it's a crappy way to get it. The kids have been resilient all season. Hopefully, we'll get another shot at them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death,  The younger disease, that must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12494]]></link><description><![CDATA[As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death,  The younger disease, that must subdue at length,   Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tight little bundle of wailing and flannel, Perplex'd with the newly found fardel of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3641]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tight little bundle of wailing and flannel, Perplex'd with the newly found fardel of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He sees only night, and hears only silence. [Fr., Il ne voit que la nuit, n'entend que le silence.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56284]]></link><description><![CDATA[He sees only night, and hears only silence. [Fr., Il ne voit que la nuit, n'entend que le silence.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like quick sand, if u fall in it then there is no way out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like quick sand, if u fall in it then there is no way out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption,--pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism. If you come near them and see what conceits they entertain--they are abstractionists, and spend their days and nights in dreaming some dream; in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of proportion in its presentment, of justness in its application, and of all energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We compound our suffering by victimizing each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27713]]></link><description><![CDATA[We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though "the commandments of God be not grievous", yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion. Small at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion. Small at first and in fear, she soon rises to heaven, Walks upon land and hides her head in the clouds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  Therefore Adam could have stood if he wished, seeing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  Therefore Adam could have stood if he wished, seeing that he fell solely by his own will. But it was because his will was capable of being bent to one side or the other, and was not given the constancy to persevere, that he fell so easily. Yet his choice of good and evil was free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19542]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have been working hard since last year we did not make the playoffs and we did not do as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30533]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have been working hard since last year we did not make the playoffs and we did not do as well as we wanted. We didn't reach our goal. This year our goal was to improve our record from last year to where we are now. To do that took teamwork.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...cops and reporters are much alike. Both are absolutely dedicated to doing the job at hand, regardless of obstacles. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44823]]></link><description><![CDATA[...cops and reporters are much alike. Both are absolutely dedicated to doing the job at hand, regardless of obstacles. And both, deep down, really believe the rules don't apply to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person -- they have a plan, an ideology, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2067]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person -- they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15864]]></link><description><![CDATA[A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's no failure. He's not dead yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44241]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's no failure. He's not dead yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66063]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Across town another university, Southern University-Shreveport, made shelter preparations in the event that the newly opened shelter CenturyTel Center in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33242]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Across town another university, Southern University-Shreveport, made shelter preparations in the event that the newly opened shelter CenturyTel Center in Bossier City became full.] We will house the overflow from CenturyTel, ... Right now they're at 55 to 60 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64373]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64373</guid></item></channel></rss>