<?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[The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;  . . . .   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;  . . . .   The little waves, with their soft, white hands,    Efface the footprints in the sands,     And the tide rises, the tide falls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19329]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13319]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20973]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[what power had I before I learned to yield? Shatter me Great Wind! I shall possess the field!from the poem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58380]]></link><description><![CDATA[what power had I before I learned to yield? Shatter me Great Wind! I shall possess the field!from the poem To A Milkweed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27730]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. - From a College Window.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To touch the quick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55144]]></link><description><![CDATA[To touch the quick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A compliment is verbal sunshine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9259]]></link><description><![CDATA[A compliment is verbal sunshine]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must do the thing you think you cannot do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12727]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must do the thing you think you cannot do]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51578]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11981]]></link><description><![CDATA[What man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to make something a real challenge that took time and effort, so we said, 'Let's swim 100 miles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33780]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to make something a real challenge that took time and effort, so we said, 'Let's swim 100 miles in a weekend,']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the bleakest times, there are gifts to be discovered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the bleakest times, there are gifts to be discovered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're using the Internet today, you're using open source software; you're using Linux. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40465]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're using the Internet today, you're using open source software; you're using Linux.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've practiced loving long enough, Let's come at last to hate.  [Ger., Wir haben lang genug geliebt,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18851]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've practiced loving long enough, Let's come at last to hate.  [Ger., Wir haben lang genug geliebt,   Und wollen endlich hassen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a bullpen day for some of these guys so we wanted to try get in some work for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32153]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a bullpen day for some of these guys so we wanted to try get in some work for them. We're hoping we can be ready for when league starts again next week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These comments are not being made by accident. This is something he has deliberated and thought out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41304]]></link><description><![CDATA[These comments are not being made by accident. This is something he has deliberated and thought out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce:  It's fitter being sane than mad.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9144]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce:  It's fitter being sane than mad.   My own hope is, a sun will pierce    The thickest cloud earth ever stretched;     That, after Last, returns the First,      Though a wide compass round be fetched;       That what began best, can't end worst,        Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum,  And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on,   While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Light that Failed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25058]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Light that Failed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great paines quickly find ease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great paines quickly find ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Me and Jai are pretty good friends. We'll be living with each other in a condo, making the best of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Me and Jai are pretty good friends. We'll be living with each other in a condo, making the best of it and getting ourselves ready for the season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44885]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt he deserved the opportunity to start a game. He hasn't started one all year. We were going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32141]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt he deserved the opportunity to start a game. He hasn't started one all year. We were going to use a lot of guys anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64562]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1173]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be very expensive. We still have a lot of fundraising to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39288]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be very expensive. We still have a lot of fundraising to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31493]]></link><description><![CDATA[When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friday was not a question of what went wrong. Drexel has a very good team, and I thought we wrestled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friday was not a question of what went wrong. Drexel has a very good team, and I thought we wrestled pretty well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John of the Cross, Mystic, Poet, Teacher, 1591   A Christian should always remember that the value ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John of the Cross, Mystic, Poet, Teacher, 1591   A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.   St. John of the Cross  December 15, 2000   Two thousand years of failure have not taught some reformers that you can't stop sin by declaring it illegal. Two thousand years have not taught them that you can't save a man's soul by force -- you can only lose your own in the attempt. Drunkenness and gambling and secularism and lechery -- various hopeful churchmen have earnestly tried to outlaw them all; and what is the result? A drunken nation, a gambling nation, a secularist nation, an adulterous nation. And, often, a ruined Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The testimony of the New Testament cannot be lightly disregarded, nor can the claims of Christ be airily dismissed. Many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The testimony of the New Testament cannot be lightly disregarded, nor can the claims of Christ be airily dismissed. Many otherwise intelligent people have never read with adult attention either the four Gospels or the Letters of the New Testament. When they so do, to my certain knowledge they not infrequently become converted. Indeed, I know of no adult who has seriously studied the New Testament and rejected the stories of Christ as mythical or the evidence of changed lives in the Letters as mere fabrication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are;  And while the ship right onward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are;  And while the ship right onward leaps,   Uplift it from the exhaustless deeps.    Parch not your life with dry despair;     The stream of hope flow everywhere--      So under every sky and star,       Just drop your bucket where you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They shared the chores of living as some couples do--she did most of the work and he appreciated it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19911]]></link><description><![CDATA[They shared the chores of living as some couples do--she did most of the work and he appreciated it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was like a battleground, helicopters, fire engines, my car door was crushed like an accordion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29431]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was like a battleground, helicopters, fire engines, my car door was crushed like an accordion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44295]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To lead the people, walk behind them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24468]]></link><description><![CDATA[To lead the people, walk behind them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   Frightful this is in a sense, but it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   Frightful this is in a sense, but it is true, and every one who has merely some little knowledge of the human heart can verify it: there is nothing to which a man holds so desperately as to his sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8090</guid></item></channel></rss>