<?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[Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, good mother, good looking, good tempered, well groomed and unaggressive]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The joy of meeting not unmixed with pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The joy of meeting not unmixed with pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44644]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23108]]></link><description><![CDATA[As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2151]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18820]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edwards commented as he signed an extension to his contract. We have good young players in the program and strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Edwards commented as he signed an extension to his contract. We have good young players in the program and strong schedules in the coming years. The future looks bright for BYU football. I also want to get a number of projects off the ground before I retire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth,  And constancy lives in realms above; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth,  And constancy lives in realms above;   And life is thorny, and youth is vain;    And to be wrothe with one we love     Doth work like madness in the brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the silence between the notes that makes the music; it is the space between the bars that holds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44674]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the silence between the notes that makes the music; it is the space between the bars that holds the tiger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43196]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We become innocent when we are unfortunate. [Fr., On devient innocent quand on est malheureux.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20954]]></link><description><![CDATA[We become innocent when we are unfortunate. [Fr., On devient innocent quand on est malheureux.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51514]]></link><description><![CDATA[When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand;  When the sun sets, who doth not look for night?   Untimely storms makes men expect a dearth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and feeling will appear on a print. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46573]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you judge people, you have no time to love them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2160]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you judge people, you have no time to love them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We understood Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood  Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2817]]></link><description><![CDATA[We understood Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood  Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought   That one might almost say her body thought.   - Dr. John Donne,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43484]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3806]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life, she will choose to save ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57681]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5775]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23973]]></link><description><![CDATA[One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gospels cannot explain the Resurrection; it is the Resurrection which alone explains the Gospels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6711]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Gospels cannot explain the Resurrection; it is the Resurrection which alone explains the Gospels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1795]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3061]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15820]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18036]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't even thinking about a flush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35644]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't even thinking about a flush.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/707]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jury thought he was guilty based on the evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31446]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jury thought he was guilty based on the evidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46720]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49415]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seed waits for its garden or ground where it will be sown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17186]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seed waits for its garden or ground where it will be sown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63765]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got everything I need except a man. And I'm not one of those women who thinks a man is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25463]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got everything I need except a man. And I'm not one of those women who thinks a man is the answer to everything, but I'm tired of being alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now we're not going to cut anything back, because the schedules are already set. Sports participation is an important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now we're not going to cut anything back, because the schedules are already set. Sports participation is an important part of the whole educational concept, and if you don't have extracurricular things to do, some kids just don't make it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see these guys on TV all the time and you always wonder if I could play in the majors. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31503]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see these guys on TV all the time and you always wonder if I could play in the majors. You get a chance to do it and are actually doing it. You see they are just like you, that they put their pants on one leg at a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61075]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not sure life was meant to be lived in a managed way...if so, no wonder we have difficulties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not sure life was meant to be lived in a managed way...if so, no wonder we have difficulties with things like time management.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The governor needs to stay on message, and that is getting people out of New Orleans, provide stability for them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The governor needs to stay on message, and that is getting people out of New Orleans, provide stability for them and rebuild. The governor must look like the leader at all times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the days of His earthly ministry, only those could speak to him who came where He was: if He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7588]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the days of His earthly ministry, only those could speak to him who came where He was: if He was in Galilee, men could not find Him in Jerusalem; if He was in Jerusalem, men could not find Him in Galilee. His Ascension means that He is perfectly united with God; we are with Him wherever we are present to God; and that is everywhere and always. Because He is "in Heaven" He is everywhere on earth: because He is ascended, He is here now. Our devotion is not to hold us by the empty tomb; it must lift up our hearts to heaven so that we too "in heart and mind thither ascend and with Him continually dwell": it must also send us forth into the world to do His will; and these are not two things, but one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreading that climax of all earthly ills, The inflammation of his weekly bills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreading that climax of all earthly ills, The inflammation of his weekly bills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The European Union door is shut and the Iranians have thrown away the key. This was a symbolic slap in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The European Union door is shut and the Iranians have thrown away the key. This was a symbolic slap in the face for the Europeans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human voice is the organ of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human voice is the organ of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60938</guid></item></channel></rss>