<?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[Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again  The welcome morning with its rays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45871]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again  The welcome morning with its rays of peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44430]]></link><description><![CDATA[It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4957]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one single thought of serene faith, will be such as have honoured many hundreds of thousands of Buddhas, such as have planted their roots]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have ravished me away by a Power I cannot resist; and yet I could resist till I saw you; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53096]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have ravished me away by a Power I cannot resist; and yet I could resist till I saw you; and even since I have seen you I endeavored often "to reason against the reasons of my Love."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the sun sets, shadows, that showed at noon But small, appear most long and terrible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58295]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the sun sets, shadows, that showed at noon But small, appear most long and terrible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54753]]></link><description><![CDATA[How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I got up to the Peacock--where I found everybody drinking hot punch in self-preservation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13003]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I got up to the Peacock--where I found everybody drinking hot punch in self-preservation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft and faire goes farre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft and faire goes farre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And through the hall there walked to and fro A jolly yeoman, marshall of the same,  Whose name was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2910]]></link><description><![CDATA[And through the hall there walked to and fro A jolly yeoman, marshall of the same,  Whose name was Appetite; he did bestow   Both guestes and meate, whenever in they came,    And knew them how to order without blame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The angel answer'd, "Nay, said soul; go higher! To be deceived in your true heart's desire  Was bitterer than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The angel answer'd, "Nay, said soul; go higher! To be deceived in your true heart's desire  Was bitterer than a thousand years of fire!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57834]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64473]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64502]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57074]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting histhumb on the scales. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting histhumb on the scales.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't find people of integrity who operate in that zone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35955]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't find people of integrity who operate in that zone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavour Fellowship, 1951  To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavour Fellowship, 1951  To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such instances men seize, and call them providences. It is well that they can; but it would be gloriously better if they could believe that the whole matter is one grand providence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like a micro cog in a macrocosm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22179]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like a micro cog in a macrocosm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good enough never is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good enough never is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very painful. I'm trying to keep a smile and not think about it, but give (Socorro) credit. They played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34400]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very painful. I'm trying to keep a smile and not think about it, but give (Socorro) credit. They played hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55333]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is a search for a final and irrefutable demonstration that our absolute truth is indeed the one and only truth. The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something… Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24233]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the rough, a symbol is a sign that stands for something… Before a noise, etc., may become a symbol, something must exist for the symbol to symbolize.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41592]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is the thief of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is the thief of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the concept of the sea is very important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28764]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the concept of the sea is very important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59228]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45239]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions: How he sware unto the Lord, and vowed unto the mighty God of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions: How he sware unto the Lord, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;  Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;   I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,    Until I find a place for the Lord, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57893]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half this game is ninety percent mental. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half this game is ninety percent mental.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, And mine that I was proud on--mine so much  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18479]]></link><description><![CDATA[But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, And mine that I was proud on--mine so much  That I myself was to myself not mine,   Valuing of her--why she, O, she is fall'n    Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea     Hath drops too few to wash her clean again,      And salt too little which may season give       To her foul tainted flesh!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18479</guid></item></channel></rss>