<?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[Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is my sword, goodness my armor, and humor my shield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is my sword, goodness my armor, and humor my shield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Bush had an opportunity to capture or kill bin Laden, he took his focus off of him, outsourced the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1681]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Bush had an opportunity to capture or kill bin Laden, he took his focus off of him, outsourced the job to Afghan warlords and bin Laden escaped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to have a strong battery. Our pitching gives us the luxury of a lot of good innings defensively. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30171]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to have a strong battery. Our pitching gives us the luxury of a lot of good innings defensively.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passions are likened best to floods and streams, The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passions are likened best to floods and streams, The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who live are those who fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who live are those who fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child of trial, to mortality And all its changeful influences given;  On the green earth decreed to move ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59689]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child of trial, to mortality And all its changeful influences given;  On the green earth decreed to move and die,   And yet by such a fate prepared for heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tried to spot serve tonight. Maggie (Cooper) played really well, and we passed better as a team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40978]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tried to spot serve tonight. Maggie (Cooper) played really well, and we passed better as a team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  To take up the cross of Christ is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite honestly, I haven't had time to think about it. I've been too busy preparing for a football game. I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite honestly, I haven't had time to think about it. I've been too busy preparing for a football game. I've got enough to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's getting better every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40723]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's getting better every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is a violent school-mistress. [Fr., C'est une violente maistresse d'eschole que la necessite.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is a violent school-mistress. [Fr., C'est une violente maistresse d'eschole que la necessite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Priest, Scientist, Visionary, 1955  The pure, mere love of God is that alone from which sinners are justly to expect that no sin will pass unpunished, but that His love will visit them with every calamity and distress that can help to break and purify the bestial heart of man and awaken in him true repentance and conversion to God. It is love alone in the holy Deity that will allow no peace to the wicked, nor ever cease its judgments till every sinner is forced to confess that it is good for him that he has been in trouble, and thankfully own that not the wrath but the love of God has plucked out that right eye, cut off that right band, which he ought to have done but would not do for himself and his own salvation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A moment of silence is not inherently religious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64114]]></link><description><![CDATA[A moment of silence is not inherently religious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.'  Flatter and praise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.'  Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces;   Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces.    That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man,     If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46105]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To please great men is not the last degree of praise. [Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48012]]></link><description><![CDATA[To please great men is not the last degree of praise. [Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226   Where there is fear of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226   Where there is fear of God to keep the house, the enemy can find no way to enter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman has a much better chance than a man of acquittal on a murder charge. If she happens to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43385]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman has a much better chance than a man of acquittal on a murder charge. If she happens to be a blonde her chances rise about 45 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals that go into (shelters) everywhere, if they have anything wrong with them, if they're not social, they're immediately put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals that go into (shelters) everywhere, if they have anything wrong with them, if they're not social, they're immediately put down. Very few of them are kept, and the ones that are kept are the ones they think would be adoptable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till the rose's lips grow pale With her sighs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till the rose's lips grow pale With her sighs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. - The Importance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. - The Importance of Living, 1937.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4806]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for- because unless we stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for- because unless we stand for something we shall fall for anything]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep;  Her march is o'er the mountain wave,   Her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep;  Her march is o'er the mountain wave,   Her home is on the deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confused:  Where order in variety we see,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confused:  Where order in variety we see,   And where tho' all things differ, all agree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15963]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Son of God did not come from above to add an external form of worship to the several ways ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6978]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Son of God did not come from above to add an external form of worship to the several ways of life that are in the world, and so to leave people to live as they did before, in such tempers and enjoyments as the fashion and the spirit of the world approve; but as He came down from Heaven altogether Divine and heavenly in His own nature, so it was to call mankind to a Divine and heavenly life; to the highest change of their own nature and temper; to be born again of the Holy Spirit; to walk in the wisdom and light and love of God, and to be like Him to the utmost of their power, to renounce all the most plausible ways of the world, whether of greatness, business, or pleasure; to a mortification of their most agreeable passions; and to live in such wisdom, purity, and holiness as might fit them to be glorious in the enjoyment of God to all eternity. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58769]]></link><description><![CDATA[If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees ofgrace at any given moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21973]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees ofgrace at any given moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our defense stepped up in the third quarter, and Missy hitting those two shots were just huge. It gave us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our defense stepped up in the third quarter, and Missy hitting those two shots were just huge. It gave us some breathing room and we were able to make some adjustments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gentle Spring!--in sunshine clad, Well dost thou thy power display!  For Winter maketh the light heart said,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gentle Spring!--in sunshine clad, Well dost thou thy power display!  For Winter maketh the light heart said,   And thou,--makest the sad heart gay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known,  Happy field or mossy cavern,   Choicer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known,  Happy field or mossy cavern,   Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11227]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a tendency over the past election campaigns of shrinking turnout and we are concerned about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34784]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a tendency over the past election campaigns of shrinking turnout and we are concerned about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone that helped did a wonderful job, and it resulted in an outstanding tournament, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone that helped did a wonderful job, and it resulted in an outstanding tournament,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29376</guid></item></channel></rss>