<?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[When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush  Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2977]]></link><description><![CDATA[When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush  Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up,   Opened in airs of June her multiple    OF golden chalices to humming birds     And silken-wing'd insects of the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning lead to truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44790]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning lead to truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9798]]></link><description><![CDATA[So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth, [It., Se toso grazia risolva le schiume  Di vostra conscienza, si che chiaro   Per essa scenda della mente il fiume.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is achieved without toil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is achieved without toil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No profit to honour, no honour to Religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49655]]></link><description><![CDATA[No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2040]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2025]]></link><description><![CDATA[In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is encouraging to see a kid come up and do what he doing. He's got five home runs. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35269]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is encouraging to see a kid come up and do what he doing. He's got five home runs. That's more than the starting eight combined. You watch him in batting practice, and you know he is a special kind of hitter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/91]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/91</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think "Hail to the Chief" has a nice ring to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48149]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think "Hail to the Chief" has a nice ring to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gap in health between white and black Americans has been estimated to cause 84,000 excess deaths in a year ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33212]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gap in health between white and black Americans has been estimated to cause 84,000 excess deaths in a year ... a virtual Katrina every week,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money does not change men, it only unmasks them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hmm, I do want to perform in Turin a little bit, but not being able to do so doesn't upset ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hmm, I do want to perform in Turin a little bit, but not being able to do so doesn't upset me all that much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43955]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A greedy person and a pauper are practically one and the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18295]]></link><description><![CDATA[A greedy person and a pauper are practically one and the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52765]]></link><description><![CDATA[... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do you know now that you did not know before and how can you find out if it is true?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Endurance is patience concentrated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Endurance is patience concentrated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will swim without cork (without help). [Lat., Nabis sine cortice.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19163]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will swim without cork (without help). [Lat., Nabis sine cortice.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906   The problem of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906   The problem of how an unholy concourse of sinful men and women can be in truth the body of Christ is the same as the problem of how a sinful man can at the same time be accepted as a child of God... Our present situation arises precisely from the fact that this fundamental insight, which the Reformers applied to the position of the Christian man, was not followed through in its application to the nature of the Christian church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The education of the will is the object of our existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The education of the will is the object of our existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Michelle wanted was to see for herself if she could do it or not. And when it became evident ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29874]]></link><description><![CDATA[All Michelle wanted was to see for herself if she could do it or not. And when it became evident that was too much to ask, Michelle was the first to say she had too much respect for the Olympics and for this country to go out there when she knew she couldn't. Here, it's a different sport and a little different situation. But I think you could plug in the same kind of comments with Jeff -- if it comes to that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the transmission of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the transmission of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63783]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christ]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good composer does not imitate; he steals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good composer does not imitate; he steals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14237]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some love one, some love two. I love one, and that is you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some love one, some love two. I love one, and that is you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men at some times are masters of their fates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men at some times are masters of their fates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24857]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24857</guid></item></channel></rss>