<?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[One through nine in our lineup can hit. They all put the ball in play and get on base, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37473]]></link><description><![CDATA[One through nine in our lineup can hit. They all put the ball in play and get on base, but Betsy is everything a coach could ask for in a hitter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man listens to the voice of the tempter within him, he is inclined to do as others do, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7817]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man listens to the voice of the tempter within him, he is inclined to do as others do, not to resist when temptation seems great. But when he looks into the laws of God, and hears the words of Christ, his natural sense of right and wrong is restored to him, and he becomes elevated, purified, and sanctified.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is . . . sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18453]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is . . . sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20871]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another. [Lat., Si possem sanior essem.  Sed trahit invitam nova vis; aliudque Cupido,   Mens aliud.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fellow mixes blood with his colors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45430]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fellow mixes blood with his colors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. [Fr., Quand on n'a pas ce que ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47756]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. [Fr., Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime,  Il faut aimer ce que l'on a.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The western tide crept up along the sand, And o'er and o'er the sand,  And round and round the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59265]]></link><description><![CDATA[The western tide crept up along the sand, And o'er and o'er the sand,  And round and round the sand,   As far as eye could see    The rolling mist came down and hid the land:     And never home came she.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York has all that intense hatred and pain-just torture-where everything is 10 times as hard as it needs to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30132]]></link><description><![CDATA[New York has all that intense hatred and pain-just torture-where everything is 10 times as hard as it needs to be, and everything is terribly important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary  God is none other than the Saviour of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary  God is none other than the Saviour of our wretchedness. So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities... Those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified him, but have glorified themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That guy has been a rock all year and I don't have to think twice about his game. He's given ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40029]]></link><description><![CDATA[That guy has been a rock all year and I don't have to think twice about his game. He's given us a chance to win all year. Things happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26045]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11383]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away?  The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky   Thou still canst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away?  The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky   Thou still canst find the color of thy wing,    The hue of May.     Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why,      Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring?       Whither away?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53178]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races: the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4754]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races: the men who borrow, and the men who lend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He told the people the truth - not the whole truth, but it was the first time in Russian history ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41251]]></link><description><![CDATA[He told the people the truth - not the whole truth, but it was the first time in Russian history that a leader has told the people the bitter truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That loss forced us to concentrate on the satellites. And from my perspective, the satellites are where the action is. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31982]]></link><description><![CDATA[That loss forced us to concentrate on the satellites. And from my perspective, the satellites are where the action is. That's where the big surprises came.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are respectable only as they respect ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are respectable only as they respect]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is meat and drink to me. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55686]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is meat and drink to me. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man,  And wooes him to be wise? nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man,  And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain;   This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,    And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will never have anything you don't respect, including lot's of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63219]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will never have anything you don't respect, including lot's of money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61022]]></link><description><![CDATA[All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George Washington, with his right art upraised, sits his iron horse at the lower corner of Union Square. . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44438]]></link><description><![CDATA[George Washington, with his right art upraised, sits his iron horse at the lower corner of Union Square. . . . Should the General raise his left hand as he has raised his right, it would point to a quarter of the city that forms a haven for the oppressed and suppressed of foreign lands. In the cause of national or personal freedom they have found refuge here, and the patriot who made it for them sits his steed, overlooking their district, while he listens through his left ear to vaudeville that caricatures the posterity of the proteges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was surprised by the atmosphere in the stadium in Chicago. The fans were loud. Yankee Stadium can be loud. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30699]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was surprised by the atmosphere in the stadium in Chicago. The fans were loud. Yankee Stadium can be loud. Those people gave them a run for their money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very pleased. It was really nice to come home with a trophy with this rebuilding group of girls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37507]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very pleased. It was really nice to come home with a trophy with this rebuilding group of girls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4588]]></link><description><![CDATA[My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think lots of people will be out there today. This is a stage in a movement that is growing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35685]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think lots of people will be out there today. This is a stage in a movement that is growing and that no politician can ignore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the dancing has begun now, And the dancers whirl round gaily  In the waltz's giddy mazes,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11035]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the dancing has begun now, And the dancers whirl round gaily  In the waltz's giddy mazes,   And the ground beneath them trembles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66638]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main storm dynamics are here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main storm dynamics are here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inch in a miss is as good as an ell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48796]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an important event because it's part of the ongoing initiative to clean up Marshalltown and present a better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39817]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an important event because it's part of the ongoing initiative to clean up Marshalltown and present a better image and appearance. Our community betterment task force has done a great job over the last eight months of starting these initiatives and really making a difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Life means] giving as much of yourself as you have to give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39467]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Life means] giving as much of yourself as you have to give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63141]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15018]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The archdiocese also is disappointed that this has taken so long. Obviously, this isn't anything we have any desire to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32461]]></link><description><![CDATA[The archdiocese also is disappointed that this has taken so long. Obviously, this isn't anything we have any desire to prolong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/368]]></link><description><![CDATA[If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness is the parent of all psychology ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is the parent of all psychology]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13040</guid></item></channel></rss>