<?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[In the thickets and the meadows Piped the bluebird, the Owaissa.  On the summit of the lodges   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4366]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the thickets and the meadows Piped the bluebird, the Owaissa.  On the summit of the lodges   Sang the robin, the Opechee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is purpose in pain, Otherwise it were devilish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45366]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is purpose in pain, Otherwise it were devilish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday   We usually think of Jesus in the upper room as calmly and patiently preparing his disciples ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday   We usually think of Jesus in the upper room as calmly and patiently preparing his disciples for their coming crisis; only in the garden are we shown his deep anguish over what lies ahead for himself. But if this verse ("'They hated me without a cause." Ps. 69:4) occurred to Jesus as describing his enemies, surely he was also identifying with the rest of [Psalm 69] with its vivid description of overwhelming troubles and importune cries to God for deliverance. What in the upper room was still under the surface was openly expressed in the garden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory; a matter of staying power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory; a matter of staying power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12120]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul  Under the ribs of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul  Under the ribs of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little boats should keep near shore ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little boats should keep near shore]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23886]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything, that's just how I understand things. It's arranged along informal lines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O beautiful rainbow;--all woven of light! There's not in thy tissue one shadow of night;  Heaven surely is open ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52947]]></link><description><![CDATA[O beautiful rainbow;--all woven of light! There's not in thy tissue one shadow of night;  Heaven surely is open when thou dost appear.   And, bending thee above, the angels draw near,    And sing,--"The rainbow! the rainbow!     The smile of God is here."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just goes to show you that anything that looks out of the ordinary is going to strike fear in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31014]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just goes to show you that anything that looks out of the ordinary is going to strike fear in people now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold their nose to the grindstone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold their nose to the grindstone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it -- can't help trying to interest her nearest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it -- can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know what he has to prove, ... He's an everyday player, and they need to play him at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34255]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know what he has to prove, ... He's an everyday player, and they need to play him at one position. Confidence is very important for him, and I think that would give him confidence. I don't know why they're waiting to make him an everyday guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The total alteration in underlying circumstances has not been squarely faced, As a result, we are guided, in part, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The total alteration in underlying circumstances has not been squarely faced, As a result, we are guided, in part, by ideas that are relevant to another world. ... We do many things that are unnecessary, some that are unwise, and a few that are insane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is a cruelty To load a falling man. -King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56059]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is a cruelty To load a falling man. -King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,  Hath put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2992]]></link><description><![CDATA[From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,  Hath put a spirit of youth in everything,   That heavy Saturn laughed and leapt with him;    Yet nor the lays of birds, not the sweet smell     Of different flowers in odor and in hue,      Could make me any summer's story tell,       Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:        Nor did I wonder at the lily's white,         Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;          They were but sweet, but figures of delight,           Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.            Yet seemed it winter still, and you away,             As with your shadow I with these did play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet the answer Echo makes To music at night,  When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13297]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet the answer Echo makes To music at night,  When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes,   And far away, o'er lawns and lakes,    Goes answering light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were horrified. They were asking what it was, and we were saying, 'Sadly it's probably ill,' and you're trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28956]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were horrified. They were asking what it was, and we were saying, 'Sadly it's probably ill,' and you're trying to make it as light as you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22646]]></link><description><![CDATA[People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child is father of the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child is father of the man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my mind's eye, Horatio. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20531]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my mind's eye, Horatio.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not surprised by the intensity, I didn't have to play it up to my girls at all. They knew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34501]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not surprised by the intensity, I didn't have to play it up to my girls at all. They knew how important this game was. I knew if both teams played at the top of their games, it could go either way. But the conditions do dictate the game a little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our opportunities to do good are our talents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our opportunities to do good are our talents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people age 25 to 30 don't have the capital or cash to afford fertility treatments, but that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32920]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people age 25 to 30 don't have the capital or cash to afford fertility treatments, but that's the age when they have a much greater chance of success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[women should be treated just like men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38232]]></link><description><![CDATA[women should be treated just like men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41918]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[B.C. Health Minister George Abbott praised the initiative.] The province commends the Lois Fish Palliative Society for creating a source ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35511]]></link><description><![CDATA[[B.C. Health Minister George Abbott praised the initiative.] The province commends the Lois Fish Palliative Society for creating a source of comprehensive information on palliative resources in B.C., ... By January 2006, we are hopeful this resource will link directly with B.C. NurseLine and further enhance the ability of the nurses to provide greater assistance to British Columbians with end-of-life care, service providers and organizations in their communities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274   Outward as well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274   Outward as well as inward morality helps to form the idea of a true Christian freedom. We are right to lay stress on inwardness, but in this world there is no inwardness without an outward expression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24973]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These results, like the 14-day study before it, are unprecedented, and offer strong support for a three-month course of therapy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41856]]></link><description><![CDATA[These results, like the 14-day study before it, are unprecedented, and offer strong support for a three-month course of therapy as optimal duration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just go on . . . and faith will soon return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray, what flowers are these? The pansy this,  O, that's for lover's thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45438]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray, what flowers are these? The pansy this,  O, that's for lover's thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42774]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They appeal to people who want something that's going to last and survive the elements and at the same time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42573]]></link><description><![CDATA[They appeal to people who want something that's going to last and survive the elements and at the same time make a strong fashion statement when paired with jeans or a skirt. They're not for the shy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43652]]></link><description><![CDATA[My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew there was going to be some serious hitting going on, but I tell you what. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37469]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew there was going to be some serious hitting going on, but I tell you what.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of your life is the quality of your communication. (withyourself as well as with others). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of your life is the quality of your communication. (withyourself as well as with others).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love another person is to see the face of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2166]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love another person is to see the face of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall be winnowed with so rough a wind That even our corn shall seem as light as chaff  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12080]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall be winnowed with so rough a wind That even our corn shall seem as light as chaff  And good from bad find no partition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires. Man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires. Man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19996</guid></item></channel></rss>