<?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[Somewhere, in desolate, wind-swept space, In twilight land, in no man's land,  Two hurrying shapes met face to face ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere, in desolate, wind-swept space, In twilight land, in no man's land,  Two hurrying shapes met face to face   And bade each other stand.    "And who are you?" cried one, a-gape,     Shuddering in the glimmering light.      "I know not," said the second shape,       "I only died last night."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the Lord judge the criminals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the Lord judge the criminals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate this "crime doesn't pay" stuff. Crime in the United States is perhaps one of the biggest businesses in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10642]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate this "crime doesn't pay" stuff. Crime in the United States is perhaps one of the biggest businesses in the world today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could I have been anyone other than me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2294]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could I have been anyone other than me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voyager upon life's sea:-- To yourself be true,  And whate'er you lot may be,   Paddle your own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Voyager upon life's sea:-- To yourself be true,  And whate'er you lot may be,   Paddle your own canoe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love night more than day--she is so lovely; But I love night the most because she brings  My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44512]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love night more than day--she is so lovely; But I love night the most because she brings  My love to me in dreams which scarcely lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Grand Clubhouse is already under construction. The moment our first residents move in, which should be early summer, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35119]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Grand Clubhouse is already under construction. The moment our first residents move in, which should be early summer, we want them to enjoy the lifestyle and have a gathering place to meet new friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The names above him [Andrew Strauss] on the list date back generations to the days of cricketing folklore: Herbert Sutcliffe, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The names above him [Andrew Strauss] on the list date back generations to the days of cricketing folklore: Herbert Sutcliffe, Len Hutton and Wally Hammond.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy is honors foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy is honors foe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing. It's unbelievable. I'm speechless. I'm so happy right now. We came together as a team, and we did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing. It's unbelievable. I'm speechless. I'm so happy right now. We came together as a team, and we did it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. [Luke 12:15] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/229]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. [Luke 12:15]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been on this team for four years and this is the first time we have beaten Fallbrook. Guys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39073]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been on this team for four years and this is the first time we have beaten Fallbrook. Guys from past years who used to be on this team kept telling me that we wouldn't be able to do it, so it's nice to show them that it could be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the dead bury their dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the dead bury their dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what has worked with what sounded good. In area after area- crime, education, housing, race relations- the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The frivolous work of polished idleness.   - Sir James Mackintosh, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The frivolous work of polished idleness.   - Sir James Mackintosh,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, my sere fancy "falls into the yellow Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion;  And the sad truth, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, my sere fancy "falls into the yellow Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion;  And the sad truth, which hovers o'er my desk,   Turns what was once romantic to burlesque.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some things that are not the way they should be, and even the indicators that are 'best-ever' status ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34097]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some things that are not the way they should be, and even the indicators that are 'best-ever' status have room for improvement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16720]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O rose, who dares to name thee? No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet,  But pale, and hard, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54426]]></link><description><![CDATA[O rose, who dares to name thee? No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet,  But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat,--   Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is what gets lost in translation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is what gets lost in translation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All is but a jest, all dust, all not worth two peason: For why in man's matters is neither rime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53108]]></link><description><![CDATA[All is but a jest, all dust, all not worth two peason: For why in man's matters is neither rime nor reason.  [Lat., Omnia sunt risus, sunt pulvis, et omnia nil sunt:   Res hominum cunctae, nam ratione lies.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of kings is unsearchable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48666]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of kings is unsearchable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't have a DJ every day, but they sure enjoyed it. At the raffle desk, we had people sign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33230]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't have a DJ every day, but they sure enjoyed it. At the raffle desk, we had people sign up for the rewards card. Those are potential repeat customers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary   As out of Jesus' affliction came a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary   As out of Jesus' affliction came a new sense of God's love and a new basis for love between men, so out of our affliction we may grasp the splendor of God's love and how to love one another. Thus the consummation of the two commandments was on Golgotha; and the Cross is, at once, their image and their fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53722]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a crown Covers bald foreheads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a crown Covers bald foreheads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius,magic, and power in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius,magic, and power in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7180]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as a means of redeeming your time, and fitting your spirit for prayer, you would find mighty advantages from it. This method, though it seem such a small circumstance of life, would in all probability be a means of great piety. It would keep it constantly in your head, that softness and idleness were to be avoided, that self-denial was a part of Christianity... It would teach you to exercise power over yourself, and make you able by degrees to renounce other pleasures and tempers that war against the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Offensively, his shooting has really opened up a lot for his game. He does it all. He's tough. He can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Offensively, his shooting has really opened up a lot for his game. He does it all. He's tough. He can slash to the basket. Now, he's scoring off the dribble a little bit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is just a portrayal of crimes and misfortunes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19484]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is just a portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a major step in making riding the bus easier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41708]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a major step in making riding the bus easier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25501]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. - Lacon, 1825.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is never too late to be what you might have been. •George Eliot  It takes time to build ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59316]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is never too late to be what you might have been. •George Eliot  It takes time to build a castle. •Irish Proverb  A minute now is better than a minute later. •Anonymous  Time is of the essence, but what is the essence of time? •Karan Varsheni  Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. •Anonymous  I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer. •Dan Quisenberry  Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like an orange. •Unknown  If you're not five minutes early, you're ten minutes late. •Anonymous  To be on time is to be late. To be early is to be on time. •Tim Gunter   The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. •Leo Kennedy  Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end? •Stoppard  Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. •Berlioz  One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. •Anonymous  You may delay, but time will not. •Benjamin Franklin  With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. •Chinese proverb  Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. •Cheers  You can never plan the future by the past. •Edmund Burke  Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. •Roger Babson  The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. •Paul Valery  Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. •M Scott Peck  Time is the fire in which we burn. •Gene Roddenberry  You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. •Charles Buxton  Time ripens all things. No man's born wise. •Cervantes  Imagine a donut, fired from a cannon at the speed of light while rotating. Time is like that, except without the cannon and the donut. •Dilbert  Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. •Will Rogers  You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. •James Thurber  Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. •Thomas Mann  Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. •W N Taylor  Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is theonly cash you have-so spend it wisely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is theonly cash you have-so spend it wisely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Let the Gospels speak. Of what I have learnt from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Let the Gospels speak. Of what I have learnt from these documents in the course of my long task, I will say nothing now. Only this, that they bear the seal of the Son of Man and God, they are the Magna Charta of the human spirit. Were we to devote to their comprehension a little of the selfless enthusiasm that is now expended on the riddle of our physical surroundings, we would cease to say that Christianity is coming to an end -- we might even feel that it had only just begun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46276</guid></item></channel></rss>