<?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[I think there are perhaps four playwrights of the 20th century that we could not have done without: Chekhov, Pirandello, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there are perhaps four playwrights of the 20th century that we could not have done without: Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht and Beckett. If you've got those four, you've got the century covered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears:  Pause where we may upon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears:  Pause where we may upon the desert road,   Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In doing we learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24578]]></link><description><![CDATA[In doing we learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As by the way of innuendo Lucus is made a non lucendo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59678]]></link><description><![CDATA[As by the way of innuendo Lucus is made a non lucendo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was motivation for us to win the region title on their home floor. It would have been nice to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38280]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was motivation for us to win the region title on their home floor. It would have been nice to have won it at home, but to win it there was special, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jamie started the idea when she was in high school. She seemed to befriend the exchange students. She had an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jamie started the idea when she was in high school. She seemed to befriend the exchange students. She had an Easter egg coloring and an egg hunt. It was so much fun to see the teenagers having such a good time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64904]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55556]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have another language is to possess a second soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24023]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have another language is to possess a second soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past,  That I may give for every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62158]]></link><description><![CDATA[In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past,  That I may give for every day   Some good account at last.   - Isaac Watts,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved? [Lat., Quis desiderio sit pudor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18332]]></link><description><![CDATA[What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved? [Lat., Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus  Tam cari capitis?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many people who think that Sunday is a sponge to wipe out all the sins of the week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7898]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many people who think that Sunday is a sponge to wipe out all the sins of the week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15888]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trees of liferandomly growbut the graves of Arlingtonare set in rows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trees of liferandomly growbut the graves of Arlingtonare set in rows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11985]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379   Love is careful of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379   Love is careful of little things, of circumstances and measures, and of little accidents; not allowing to itself any infirmity which it strives not to master, aiming at what it cannot yet reach, desiring to be of an angelic purity, and of a perfect innocence, and a seraphical fervor, and fears every image of offense; is as much afflicted at an idle word as some at an act of adultery, and will not allow to itself so much anger as will disturb a child, nor endure the impurity of a dream. And this is the curiosity and niceness of divine love: this is the fear of God, and is the daughter and production of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  When Christ was in the world, He was despised by men; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  When Christ was in the world, He was despised by men; in the hour of need He was forsaken by acquaintances and left by friends to the depths of scorn. He was willing to suffer and to be despised; do you dare to complain of anything? He had enemies and defamers; do you want everyone to be your friend, your benefactor? How can your patience be rewarded if no adversity tests it? How can you be a friend of Christ if you are not willing to suffer any hardship? Suffer with Christ and for Christ if you wish to reign with Him.  Had you but once entered into perfect communion with Jesus or tasted a little of His ardent love, you would care nothing at all for your own comfort or discomfort but would rejoice in the reproach you suffer; for love of Him makes a man despise himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What he has is of no more use to the miser than that which he has not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51644]]></link><description><![CDATA[What he has is of no more use to the miser than that which he has not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43745]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so never ending, But always descending. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61306]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so never ending, But always descending.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9524]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is like snow... You never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is like snow... You never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9860]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different... we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19284]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46077]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just been incredible. The changes in him have just been amazing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39750]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just been incredible. The changes in him have just been amazing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge cannot replace friendship, I’d rather be an idiot than lose you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge cannot replace friendship, I’d rather be an idiot than lose you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is an action, not a position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is an action, not a position.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50133]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The airlines are part of the overall surveillance network. We have a history of working with CDC to identify passengers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39581]]></link><description><![CDATA[The airlines are part of the overall surveillance network. We have a history of working with CDC to identify passengers who might be ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957  Above all, desire to please Christ; dread ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957  Above all, desire to please Christ; dread his disapproval above everything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10158]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy ... is a system of self-determination. It's the right to make the wrong choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy ... is a system of self-determination. It's the right to make the wrong choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They work rain or shine. It is just the greatest help to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41989]]></link><description><![CDATA[They work rain or shine. It is just the greatest help to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48060]]></link><description><![CDATA[A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In that second game, we went in too overconfident. They went on a run and beat us by four points. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41982]]></link><description><![CDATA[In that second game, we went in too overconfident. They went on a run and beat us by four points.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair,  That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair,  That, like thy petals, trembles in possession,   And scatters on the air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6014]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish you every kind of prosperity, with a little more taste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48487]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish you every kind of prosperity, with a little more taste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good preacher should have these qualities and virtues: first, to teach systematically; second, he should have a ready wit; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8325]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good preacher should have these qualities and virtues: first, to teach systematically; second, he should have a ready wit; third, he should be eloquent; fourth, he should have a good voice; fifth, a good memory; sixth, he should know when to make an end; seventh, he should be sure of his doctrine; eighth, he should venture and engage body and blood, wealth and honor, in the world; ninth, he should suffer himself to be mocked and jeered of everyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the greatest of all religions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the greatest of all religions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learned what lines you could and could not cross ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35316]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learned what lines you could and could not cross]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35316</guid></item></channel></rss>