<?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[Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[luck is what happens , when the preparation meets the opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/397]]></link><description><![CDATA[luck is what happens , when the preparation meets the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  I had one brother almost of my own age, whom I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  I had one brother almost of my own age, whom I loved best... We used to read the lives of the Saints together. And when I read of the martyrdoms which they suffered for the love of God, I used to think that they had bought their entry into God's presence very cheaply. Then I fervently longed to die like them, not out of any conscious love for Him, but in order to attain, as quickly as they had, those joys which, as I read, are laid up in Heaven. I used to discuss with my brother ways and means of becoming martyrs, and we agreed to go together to the land of the Moors, begging our way for the love of God, so that we might be beheaded there. I believe that our Lord had given us courage enough even at that tender age, if only we could have seen a way. But our parents seemed to us a very great hindrance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more projects looming. Certainly the activity is there, and our customers are healthier than they have been. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35832]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more projects looming. Certainly the activity is there, and our customers are healthier than they have been. The wood composite business continues to do well for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am unaware of love, I live drably. If I become intoxicated with love, I live in dreamland. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25917]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am unaware of love, I live drably. If I become intoxicated with love, I live in dreamland. If I recognize love, and shake his hand then comfort, dreams, and sometimes intoxication become mine to drench in and give away as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25917</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[First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28390]]></link><description><![CDATA[First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not reform a world by ignoring it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14608]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not reform a world by ignoring it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32311]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you must flie, flie well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49523]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you must flie, flie well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the doubles of those whose way Was festal with fruits and flowers;  Body and brain we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58129]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the doubles of those whose way Was festal with fruits and flowers;  Body and brain we were sound as they,   But the prizes were not ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There cannot be two kinds of medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41458]]></link><description><![CDATA[There cannot be two kinds of medicine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We talk on principle, but we act on interest ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22952]]></link><description><![CDATA[We talk on principle, but we act on interest]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American labor, which is the capital of our workingmen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23928]]></link><description><![CDATA[American labor, which is the capital of our workingmen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain  Shrunk in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52929]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain  Shrunk in the wind,--and the lightning now   Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52338]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28576]]></link><description><![CDATA[When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22150]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. - Benchley -- or Else!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call;  For what is worth, in anything, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62323]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call;  For what is worth, in anything,   But so much money as 't will bring?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More matter for a May morning. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55766]]></link><description><![CDATA[More matter for a May morning. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High in his chariot glow'd the lamp of day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58287]]></link><description><![CDATA[High in his chariot glow'd the lamp of day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frank is definitely not a keeping-the-seat-warm kind of figure. I've known Frank fairly well for six years. I wouldn't use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frank is definitely not a keeping-the-seat-warm kind of figure. I've known Frank fairly well for six years. I wouldn't use the term 'rising star,' but in the world of the Vatican he is very highly thought of ... he's someone who could be an archbishop someday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, that you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45649]]></link><description><![CDATA[He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words of the world want to make sentences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4707]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words of the world want to make sentences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18419]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, the Shamrock, the green, immortal Shamrock! Chosen leaf  OF Bard and Chief,   Old Erin's native Shamrock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56152]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, the Shamrock, the green, immortal Shamrock! Chosen leaf  OF Bard and Chief,   Old Erin's native Shamrock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them there and they don't get out and interact with actual flesh-and-blood humans -- you know the answer before I say it -- that's not good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as you know men are like children, you know everything! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66802]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy eats nothing but its own heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy eats nothing but its own heart]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a matter of finding the right chair. Will it have its own presence? Will it stand on its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34388]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a matter of finding the right chair. Will it have its own presence? Will it stand on its own? Condition is important, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He might have failed against Sri Lanka but we still believe that he has the potential to serve the country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34854]]></link><description><![CDATA[He might have failed against Sri Lanka but we still believe that he has the potential to serve the country in the longer-version game. We are trying to find a solid combination -- that's why we went for the same team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The outlines of an Asian employment crisis are already taking shape. Strong economic growth alone will not solve the [region's] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The outlines of an Asian employment crisis are already taking shape. Strong economic growth alone will not solve the [region's] problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel that other churches must accept, as the pre-conditions of fellowship, such changes as will bring them into conformity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7295]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel that other churches must accept, as the pre-conditions of fellowship, such changes as will bring them into conformity with ourselves in matters which we regard as essential, and that a failure to insist on this will involve compromise in regard to what is essential to the Church's being. But for precisely the same reason, we cannot admit a demand from others for any changes in ourselves which would seem to imply a denial that we already possess the esse of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46334]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We noticed that. But we've got to take care of this game (George Mason) first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42258]]></link><description><![CDATA[We noticed that. But we've got to take care of this game (George Mason) first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome. [Lat., Crux est si metuas quod vincere nequeas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15494]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome. [Lat., Crux est si metuas quod vincere nequeas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know what he has to prove, ... He's an everyday player, and they need to play him at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34255]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know what he has to prove, ... He's an everyday player, and they need to play him at one position. Confidence is very important for him, and I think that would give him confidence. I don't know why they're waiting to make him an everyday guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34255</guid></item></channel></rss>