<?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[Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Lamentations 3:27 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62578]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Lamentations 3:27]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They all seem to be doing OK. Seventh-graders are seventh-graders and don't know to put their pants on right, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30353]]></link><description><![CDATA[They all seem to be doing OK. Seventh-graders are seventh-graders and don't know to put their pants on right, but we're taking care of that. It's a challenge for all of us to travel to Bowie only so far as we can't just walk out the back door and start working.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The team never quit, and three team members played an exceptional game, all over the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The team never quit, and three team members played an exceptional game, all over the field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20779]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15735]]></link><description><![CDATA[The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. There is no convincing economic reason why these trends toward a better life should not continue indefinitely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14806]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature's first great title--mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature's first great title--mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For out allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and there is no return from our death,  because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59307]]></link><description><![CDATA[For out allotted time is the passing of a shadow, and there is no return from our death,  because it is sealed up and no one turns back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22144]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60735]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pint can't hold a quart -- if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22593]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pint can't hold a quart -- if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is honor among thieves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59070]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is honor among thieves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can whistle with my fingers, especially if I have a whistle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64791]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can whistle with my fingers, especially if I have a whistle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face,  The heart whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face,  The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,   And, oh! the eye was in itself a Soul!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The damning tho't stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, That she, whom all my life I'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23151]]></link><description><![CDATA[The damning tho't stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, That she, whom all my life I'd loved, should be another's wife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were very disappointed (by the loss). We've lost some wrestlers to attrition and injury, but we just didn't wrestle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38925]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were very disappointed (by the loss). We've lost some wrestlers to attrition and injury, but we just didn't wrestle particularly well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon Seek roses in December--ice in June,  Hope, constancy in wind, or corn in chaff;   Believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10729]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon Seek roses in December--ice in June,  Hope, constancy in wind, or corn in chaff;   Believe a woman or an epitaph,    Or any other thing that's false, before     You trust in critics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Careless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell 'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms:  Where light-heel'd ghosts and visionary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Careless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell 'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms:  Where light-heel'd ghosts and visionary shades,   Beneath the wan, cold Moon (as Fame reports)    Embodied, thick, perform their mystic rounds     No other merriment, dull tree! is thine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  Owing to the pressure of an ever-increasing number of subjects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  Owing to the pressure of an ever-increasing number of subjects introduced into the curriculum of a school, it is only too possible for men to be held to be educated and intelligent without ever having seriously tested their intelligence upon, say, the Book of Job, or upon the Epistle of Paul to the Romans. No doubt there are very good excuses for this lack of discipline. Many forward-thinking men will tell you that the Bible is not worth serious attention, that it is simple, trivial, and out-of-date; and so, even though you may hear the Bible read, read it yourselves, or even study it, the tension of your energy may be relaxed -- subtly relaxed. But is quite certain that a widespread relaxation of the tension of Biblical interpretation has disastrous effects. For there is no corruption that threatens a country so surely as the corruption or sentimentalizing of its religion; and there is no corruption of the Christian religion so swift as that which sets in when the Church loses its strict Biblical discipline.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13795]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65218]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65264]]></link><description><![CDATA[As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was the first thing I said when I got back in the locker room, I can't wait until Monday. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37598]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was the first thing I said when I got back in the locker room, I can't wait until Monday. It's a big game, national TV.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890  Be careful to be found a wise and faithful servant, and communicate the heavenly to your fellow servants without envy or idleness. Do not take up the vain excuse of your rawness of inexperience which you may imagine or assume. For sterile modesty is never pleasing, not that humility laudable which passes the bounds of reason. Attend to your work; drive out bashfulness by a sense of duty, and act as a master. But I am not sufficient for these things, you say. As if your offering were not accepted from what you have, and not from what you have not. Be prepared to answer for the single talent committed to your charge, and take no thought for the test. For he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. Give all, as assuredly you shall pay to the uttermost farthing; but of a truth out of what you have, not what you have not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28735]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far off I hear the crowing of the cocks, And through the opening door that time unlocks  Feel the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far off I hear the crowing of the cocks, And through the opening door that time unlocks  Feel the fresh breathing of To-morrow creep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11185]]></link><description><![CDATA[From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not at all surprised that the rebels are not accepting the peace deal. Why should they? It's never going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not at all surprised that the rebels are not accepting the peace deal. Why should they? It's never going to be implemented. The government is just going to undermine it every way they can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birthday of Washington. We are met to celebrate this day. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61249]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birthday of Washington. We are met to celebrate this day. Washington is the mightiest name on earth--long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name an eulogy is expected. It can not be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44087]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always the people that know you the least, that judge you the most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63346]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always the people that know you the least, that judge you the most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34412]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43218]]></link><description><![CDATA[All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dead Bee maketh no Hony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49009]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dead Bee maketh no Hony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always been Tom's philosophy and to this day that if we are going to do it -- we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always been Tom's philosophy and to this day that if we are going to do it -- we are going to do it right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came off two tough games and just came out flat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35496]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came off two tough games and just came out flat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10062]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're keeping a very close eye on it, but at this point, nothing seems to point to the need for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40389]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're keeping a very close eye on it, but at this point, nothing seems to point to the need for a state response.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40389</guid></item></channel></rss>