<?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[Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664  Continuing a short series on prayer:   All outward power that we exercise in the things about us is but a shadow in comparison of that inward power that resides in our will, imagination, and desires; these communicate with eternity and kindle a life which always reaches either Heaven or hell... Here lies the ground of the great efficacy of prayer, which when it is the prayer of the heart, the prayer of faith, has a kindling and creating power, and forms and transforms the soul into everything that the desire reaches after: it has the key to the Kingdom of Heaven and unlocks all its treasures; it opens, extends and moves that in us which has its being and motion in and with the divine nature. and so it brings us into real union and Communion with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only part to meet again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45564]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only part to meet again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing is not always believing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing is not always believing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49072]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should wait patiently until tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28841]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should wait patiently until tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We really did. We did what we had to do to win and move on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38282]]></link><description><![CDATA[We really did. We did what we had to do to win and move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46612]]></link><description><![CDATA[However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64715]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I commend you in taking this step to move the company forward, ... I recognize these new contracts involve enormous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I commend you in taking this step to move the company forward, ... I recognize these new contracts involve enormous sacrifices by our employees. We have our work cut out for us; we are not out of the woods yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould,  The more the marble wastes   The more the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould,  The more the marble wastes   The more the statue grows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching is useless unless you can learn from your students. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching is useless unless you can learn from your students.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got blamed for penalty after penalty after penalty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36133]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got blamed for penalty after penalty after penalty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keepe good men company, and you shall be of the number. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keepe good men company, and you shall be of the number.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14910]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15627]]></link><description><![CDATA[So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good reason and the real reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24340]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good reason and the real reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9306]]></link><description><![CDATA[People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to be as positive as he could about it, he said to me, 'I have to tell you, Kate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to be as positive as he could about it, he said to me, 'I have to tell you, Kate ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ it was a Harrods bag'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14806]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24037]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and pharisee and parable, tresspass and Babylon and covenant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He just wasn't hitting the holes like he wanted to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37438]]></link><description><![CDATA[He just wasn't hitting the holes like he wanted to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60607]]></link><description><![CDATA[As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13965]]></link><description><![CDATA[None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who asks with timidity invites a refusal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51153]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree,  And spreads her sheets o' daisies white   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree,  And spreads her sheets o' daisies white   Out o'er the grassy lea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55808]]></link><description><![CDATA[In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure. [Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure. [Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're very athletic, and they run the floor. They have tough-minded guys and they never give up. Even when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34523]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're very athletic, and they run the floor. They have tough-minded guys and they never give up. Even when you have a lead, they always find a way to come back. It's an ACC game and it's going to be a close game I'm sure. We're just going to have to be consistent throughout the game; we can't have long periods where we don't score.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8110]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting -- it has been found demanding, and not tried.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theory: A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theory: A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every castle of the air Sleeps in the fine black grains, and there  Are seeds for every romance, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every castle of the air Sleeps in the fine black grains, and there  Are seeds for every romance, or light   Whiff of a dream for a summer night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pen is mightier than the sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46018]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pen is mightier than the sword.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ugliness is a point of view: an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ugliness is a point of view: an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59996</guid></item></channel></rss>