<?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[There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5807]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43963]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24893]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53238]]></link><description><![CDATA[All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard about the walk event last year when my sister called to tell me that she could no longer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34417]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard about the walk event last year when my sister called to tell me that she could no longer participate. My sister works very hard dealing with the effects of her MS. She is selfless and committed to finding a cure. Each year, instead of accepting a gift for her birthday and Christmas, she asks that we donate to the National MS Society. She is the strongest person I know, and that's why I had to get involved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character, the counsels, and example of our Washington . . . they will guide us through the doubts and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character, the counsels, and example of our Washington . . . they will guide us through the doubts and difficulties that beset us; they will guide our children and our children's children in the paths of prosperity and peace, while America shall hold her place in the family of nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56954]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. [Fr., Il y a du merite sans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27388]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. [Fr., Il y a du merite sans elevation mais il n'y a point d'elevation sans quelque merite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63405]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27353]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39355]]></link><description><![CDATA[So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   We are not only to renounce evil, but to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to provide these students with skills before they reach high school or are in a situation where they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40806]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to provide these students with skills before they reach high school or are in a situation where they have to make financial decisions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deepest rivers flow with the least sound. [Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51067]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deepest rivers flow with the least sound. [Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784  A student may easily exhaust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784  A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes. I think I'm going to stay. Everything is nice here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes. I think I'm going to stay. Everything is nice here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have improved a lot. I think it's strength, age, experience, and attitude. Plus, I'm really, really fit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33496]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have improved a lot. I think it's strength, age, experience, and attitude. Plus, I'm really, really fit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58165</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[Chris looked pretty good, I thought, in two playoff games. If he's over his injury -- and I think he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chris looked pretty good, I thought, in two playoff games. If he's over his injury -- and I think he is -- he could move into the spot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The red wine first must rise In their fair cheeks, my lord; then we shall have 'em  Talk us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The red wine first must rise In their fair cheeks, my lord; then we shall have 'em  Talk us to silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15986]]></link><description><![CDATA[People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a looking glass. It gives back to everyman a true reflection of his own thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a looking glass. It gives back to everyman a true reflection of his own thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shouldn't punish others for your own choices ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55079]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shouldn't punish others for your own choices]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble. -Dennis Fakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered. [Ger., Wer sich nicht nach der ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51971]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered. [Ger., Wer sich nicht nach der Decke streckt,  Dem bleiben die Fusse unbedeckt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24867]]></link><description><![CDATA[St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The information-warfare strategy will be detailed in a defense plan called] OPLAN 3600 ... unprecedented cooperation with commercial enterprises and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34312]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The information-warfare strategy will be detailed in a defense plan called] OPLAN 3600 ... unprecedented cooperation with commercial enterprises and other organizations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65120]]></link><description><![CDATA[It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58125]]></link><description><![CDATA[I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59090]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42075]]></link><description><![CDATA[People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder; God will take care of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26398]]></link><description><![CDATA[What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder; God will take care of that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50013]]></link><description><![CDATA[To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6425]]></link><description><![CDATA[A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.  ... Evelyn Underhill November 30, 1996 Andrew the Apostle  With his continual doctrine [Bishop Hooper] adjoined due and discreet correction, not so much severe to any as to them which for abundance of riches and wealthy state thought they might do what they listed. And doubtless he spared no kind of people, but was indifferent to all men, as well rich as poor, to the great shame of no small number of men nowadays. Whereas many we see so addicted to the pleasing of great and rich men, that in the meantime they have no regard to the meaner sort of poor people, whom Christ hath bought as dearly as the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59637]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Us seniors didn't want it to be our last game. I think we wanted it more than them at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Us seniors didn't want it to be our last game. I think we wanted it more than them at the end. It was a great game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having nothing, nothing can he lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having nothing, nothing can he lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25550</guid></item></channel></rss>