<?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[Don't go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too familiar And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't go changing, to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too familiar And I don't see you anymore I wouldn't leave you in times of trouble We never could have come this far I took the good times, I'll take the bad times I'll take you just the way you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25524]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were expecting to end up there anyway because the other side would have appealed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41996]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were expecting to end up there anyway because the other side would have appealed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those two stood up and said they didn't want to do that again, and the rest of the kids are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those two stood up and said they didn't want to do that again, and the rest of the kids are saying they train with them, why can't they go to state, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few great men could pass personal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few great men could pass personal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because actually deserve them? So now I take comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the Universe]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others had contacted her, but these were the two others she seriously considered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others had contacted her, but these were the two others she seriously considered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. [Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. [Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sundaies observe: think when the bells do chime, 'Tis angel's musick; therefore come not late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sundaies observe: think when the bells do chime, 'Tis angel's musick; therefore come not late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/946]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is good gifts. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is good gifts. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is forever poised between a cliché and an indiscretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20759]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is forever poised between a cliché and an indiscretion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50779]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou that so stoutly hast resisted me, Give me thy gold, if thou hast any gold;  For I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou that so stoutly hast resisted me, Give me thy gold, if thou hast any gold;  For I have bought it with an hundred blows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48706]]></link><description><![CDATA[No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57001]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can hate. It costs to love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can hate. It costs to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Due to technical difficulties the light at the end of the tunnel will be off until further notice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Due to technical difficulties the light at the end of the tunnel will be off until further notice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If o'er the dial glides a shade, redeem The time for lo! it passes like a dream;  But if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58305]]></link><description><![CDATA[If o'er the dial glides a shade, redeem The time for lo! it passes like a dream;  But if 'tis all a blank, then mark the loss   Of hours unblest by shadows from the cross.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world.Someone to love, something to do, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21722]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world.Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If what Holtzman decides to do is run against Republicans, it could hurt other Republicans. If you say the Republican ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39621]]></link><description><![CDATA[If what Holtzman decides to do is run against Republicans, it could hurt other Republicans. If you say the Republican Congress has wrecked the country, that could trickle down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45945]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work our differences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59693]]></link><description><![CDATA[As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.   - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53928]]></link><description><![CDATA[The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me; 'tis falsely said  That even there was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2795]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me; 'tis falsely said  That even there was intercourse   Between the living and the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like I am back at 100 percent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40354]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like I am back at 100 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107  Beginning a series on the church:  The laity... living in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107  Beginning a series on the church:  The laity... living in the world as an integral part of it, is the primary body through which the reality of the phrase "the Church is service" has to be manifested in all spheres of secular life: the Church has to show in her own life and attitude towards others the evidences of the redemptive order which is in Christ an operative fact: Christ the Lord is also Christ the servant: the Church which is the lord of all life is also the servant of all life, and the lordship is shown only through the service. The world wants to see redemption: it is not interested in being talked to about it. A church which is not outward looking... has ceased to be a church as the Body of Christ and has instead become a club for the benefit of its members.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those that know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those that know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young.  As angels are, ripening through endless years, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young.  As angels are, ripening through endless years,   On one he leans: some call her Memory,    And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet,     With deep mysterious accords: the other,      Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams       A light divine and searching on the earth,        Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields,         Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew,          Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp           Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked            But for Tradition; we walk evermore             To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are beaten to earth?/ Well, well, what's that?/ Come up with a smilingface,/ It's nothing against you to fall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21646]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are beaten to earth?/ Well, well, what's that?/ Come up with a smilingface,/ It's nothing against you to fall down flat/ But to lie there-that'sa disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On every full moon, rituals such as the one described above take placeon hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61846]]></link><description><![CDATA[On every full moon, rituals such as the one described above take placeon hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers,teachers, nurses, computer programmers, artists,lawyers, poets, plumbers,and auto mechanics - women and men from many backgrounds cometogether to celebrate the mysteries of the Triple Goddess of the Danceof Life. The religion they practise is called Witchcraft.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age, like distance lends a double charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age, like distance lends a double charm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12339]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42839]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59120]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20082]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like 'Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!' and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, 'That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice.' Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone who can sing you the song of your heart when you've forgotten it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17001]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who can sing you the song of your heart when you've forgotten it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51578]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. -Doug Larson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. -Doug Larson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning andlo! Your purse is magnificently filled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning andlo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufacturedtissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of yourpossessions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21930</guid></item></channel></rss>