<?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[They're not making mistakes, and they're living on the corners. You don't make a living hitting borderline pitches that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35261]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're not making mistakes, and they're living on the corners. You don't make a living hitting borderline pitches that are off the plate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60961</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[Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gray eye is a sly eye, And roguish is a brown one;  Turn full upon me thy eye,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14816]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gray eye is a sly eye, And roguish is a brown one;  Turn full upon me thy eye,--   Ah, how its wavelets drown one!    A blue eye is a true eye;     Mysterious is a dark one,      Which flashes like a spark-sun!       A black eye is the best one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14816</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[I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15440]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253  Thou knowest how far Thou hast already changed me, who first healed me of the lust of vindicating myself, that so Thou mightest forgive all the rest of my iniquities, and heal all my infirmities, and redeem my life from corruption, and crown me with mercy and pity, and satisfy my desire with good things; who didst curb my pride with Thy fear, and tame my neck to Thy yoke. And now I bear it and it is light unto me, because so hast Thou promised, and hast made it; and verily it was so, and I knew it not, when I feared to take it.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine    October 10, 1999  Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644  Wilberforce, Lord Shaftesbury, and many other evangelicals, have been leaders in social reform, but it was not their religion. Their efforts succeeded because they put first things first, and believed firmly in the Word of God, in the conversion of the individual, in prayer, and in using spiritual means for spiritual work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19208]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O monstrous! but one halfpennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22929]]></link><description><![CDATA[O monstrous! but one halfpennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebble to vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61009]]></link><description><![CDATA[The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebble to vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, when the wit began to wheeze, And wine had warm'd the politician,  Cur'd yesterday of my disease,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26711]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, when the wit began to wheeze, And wine had warm'd the politician,  Cur'd yesterday of my disease,   I died last night of my physician.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/748]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13531]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52886]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have identified 30 service personnel 29 men and one woman who could use our services. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36428]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have identified 30 service personnel 29 men and one woman who could use our services.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  Here is the truly Christian life, here is faith really working by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  Here is the truly Christian life, here is faith really working by love: when a man applies himself with joy and love to the works of that freest servitude, in which he serves others voluntarily and for naught; himself abundantly satisfied in the fulness and richness of his own faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are cancer victims and survivors who are close to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39933]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are cancer victims and survivors who are close to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's interesting because it's unusual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35919]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's interesting because it's unusual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  They only renounce the world as they ought, who live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  They only renounce the world as they ought, who live in the midst of it without worldly tempers, who comply with their share in the offices of human life without complying with the spirit that reigneth in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've that within for which there are no plasters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've that within for which there are no plasters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like I could fly, I am so happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like I could fly, I am so happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death hath so many doors to let out life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death hath so many doors to let out life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43851]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1757]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/901]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true "gift" in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52234]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river,  Like the bubble on the fountain,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river,  Like the bubble on the fountain,   Thou are gone, and for ever!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think our motivation is that we're operating on good faith. Our incentive is that we want to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think our motivation is that we're operating on good faith. Our incentive is that we want to be a part of the community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It ain't over till it's over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13776]]></link><description><![CDATA[It ain't over till it's over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mood in Comerica Park, downtown Detroit and around the region during All-Star Week was electrifying, and our residents were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40405]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mood in Comerica Park, downtown Detroit and around the region during All-Star Week was electrifying, and our residents were welcoming, happy and proud of metro Detroit as their hometown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19382]]></link><description><![CDATA[[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seal went into the restaurant and was askedby the waiter if he would like a Canadian Clubon the rocks. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seal went into the restaurant and was askedby the waiter if he would like a Canadian Clubon the rocks. He repliedno thank you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a lot different than my freshman year. I just had to play quarterback. This year I have to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38777]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a lot different than my freshman year. I just had to play quarterback. This year I have to know the defensive and offensive plays, all the special teams; there's not room for error. I have to know a lot. It's kind of fun getting to play a lot of positions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46816]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64491]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Philip & James, Apostles  Here is opened to us the true reason of the whole process of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Philip & James, Apostles  Here is opened to us the true reason of the whole process of our Saviour's incarnation, passion, death, resurrection, and ascension into Heaven. It was because fallen man was to go through all these stages as necessary parts of his return to God; and therefore, if man was to go out of his fallen state there must be a son of this fallen man, who, as a head and fountain of the whole race, could do all this -- could go back through all these gates and so make it possible for all the individuals of human nature, as being born of Him, to inherit His conquering nature and follow Him through all these passages to eternal life. And thus we see, in the strongest and clearest light, both why and how the holy Jesus is become our great Redeemer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon,  And please myself with, while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45568]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon,  And please myself with, while my heart's breaking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26205]]></link><description><![CDATA[That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the whole world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53647]]></link><description><![CDATA[When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53647</guid></item></channel></rss>