<?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[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639  Faith keeps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639  Faith keeps the soul at a holy distance from these infinite depths of divine wisdom, where it profits more by reverence and holy fear than any can do by their utmost attempt to draw nigh to that inaccessible light wherein these glories of the divine nature do dwell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His conversation does not show the minute hand; but he strikes the hour very correctly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10098]]></link><description><![CDATA[His conversation does not show the minute hand; but he strikes the hour very correctly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57693]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War with vices, but peace with individuals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50409]]></link><description><![CDATA[War with vices, but peace with individuals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those people who tell me that I'm going to hell while while they are going to heaven somehow make me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those people who tell me that I'm going to hell while while they are going to heaven somehow make me very glad that we're going to separate destinations]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing I have the most problem with is consistency. We saw it already. The equipment isn't consistent from brand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing I have the most problem with is consistency. We saw it already. The equipment isn't consistent from brand to brand and from goaltender to goaltender. I would like to see that changed. Some pads were wider than others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seem'd as if each thought and look And motion were that minute chain'd  Fast to the spot such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55142]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seem'd as if each thought and look And motion were that minute chain'd  Fast to the spot such root she took,   And--like a sunflower by a brook,    With face upturn'd--so still remain'd!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring, bring the madding Bay, the drunken wine; The creeping, dirty, courtly Ivy join. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring, bring the madding Bay, the drunken wine; The creeping, dirty, courtly Ivy join.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15612]]></link><description><![CDATA[A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65113]]></link><description><![CDATA[It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11421]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is related to all nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26238]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is related to all nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65525]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58216]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12342]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12934]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's headed up here. The hungry will be living on the same street as the captains of industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33383]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's headed up here. The hungry will be living on the same street as the captains of industry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has always been a good shooter. After he got about halfway through his junior varsity year, we saw he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33962]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has always been a good shooter. After he got about halfway through his junior varsity year, we saw he could be a good player because he could shoot the ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23476]]></link><description><![CDATA[We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firm and erect the Caledonian stood; Sound was his mutton, and his claret good;  "Let him drink port!" the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Firm and erect the Caledonian stood; Sound was his mutton, and his claret good;  "Let him drink port!" the English statesman cried:   He drank the poison, and his spirit died.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned from each of them, Jim, Joe and Steve about the positive things it takes to run a football ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37463]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned from each of them, Jim, Joe and Steve about the positive things it takes to run a football program. They taught me it takes not only hard work in recruiting, but building mental toughness. Football is mental as well as physical. It starts with each person believing they can get the job done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47620]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither accorded him a superior status to sustain his confidence nor made it easy for him to acquire an unquestioned sense of social usefulness. For he derives his sense of usefulness mainly from directing, instructing, and planning- from minding other people's business- and is bound to feel superfluous and neglected where people believe themselves competent to manage individual and communal affairs, and are impatient of supervision and regulation. A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual's sense of worth as an automated economy is to the workingman's sense of worth. Any social order that can function with a minimum of leadership will be anathema to the intellectual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want peace, work for justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23603]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want peace, work for justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3304]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58892]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66218]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monotheism is a gift from the gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Monotheism is a gift from the gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23020]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be, or not to be--that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer  The slings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12760]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be, or not to be--that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer  The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune   Or to take arms against a sea of troubles    And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep--     No more--and by a sleep to say we end      The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks       That flesh is heir to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1363]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12381]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've done lots of research, and we've found sources for everything but the 70-foot poles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32726]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've done lots of research, and we've found sources for everything but the 70-foot poles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus There is a stream, whose gentle flow Supplies the city of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus There is a stream, whose gentle flow Supplies the city of our God; Life, love, and joy still gliding through, And watering our divine abode: That sacred stream, thine holy word, That all our raging fear controls; Sweet peace thy promises afford, And give new strength to fainting souls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who throw kisses are mighty, hopelessly lazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23850]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who throw kisses are mighty, hopelessly lazy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those guys stepped up. I feel fortunate to have them as teammates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those guys stepped up. I feel fortunate to have them as teammates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every fool will be meddling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every fool will be meddling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  He is the true Gospel-bearer that carries it in his hands, in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  He is the true Gospel-bearer that carries it in his hands, in his mouth, and in his heart... A man does not carry it in his heart that does not love it with all his soul; and nobody loves it as he ought, that does not conform to it in his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends, An incarnation of fat dividends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends, An incarnation of fat dividends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast,  Serene, and resolute, and still,   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast,  Serene, and resolute, and still,   And calm, and self-possessed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29505</guid></item></channel></rss>