<?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[Simplicity is the nature of great souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is the nature of great souls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For he is but a bastard to the time That doth not smack of observation. -King John. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55780]]></link><description><![CDATA[For he is but a bastard to the time That doth not smack of observation. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fasts are done; the Aves said; The moon has filled her horn  And in the solemn night I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fasts are done; the Aves said; The moon has filled her horn  And in the solemn night I watch   Before the Easter morn.    So pure, so still the starry heaven,     So hushed the brooding air,      I could hear the sweep of an angel's wings       If one should earthward fare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave no question in anyone's mind as to where you stand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave no question in anyone's mind as to where you stand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vaughan has scored just 84 runs from six innings in the series ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vaughan has scored just 84 runs from six innings in the series]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's tough [Tiger Woods]. I wish I was that tough when I was his age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57449]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's tough [Tiger Woods]. I wish I was that tough when I was his age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Connellsville made the big shots and you have to give them credit. When they got us by the throat, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Connellsville made the big shots and you have to give them credit. When they got us by the throat, they choked us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226  The great wonder is the living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226  The great wonder is the living fountain of love and joy which Christ poured into and through this 'poor little man'. [Francis] always knew where the real miracle lay. It was not in things that happened to his body, though they were wonderful enough. It was not to be found in the fact that birds and beasts, even the wolf of Gubbio, felt the spell of his spirit. It was the radiance of light and love breaking across the darkness and hate of the world and his time. He loved lepers. He loved robbers and changed their lives. He loved beggars in their rags. He loved rich men, too, and members of the Church, who needed him as much as the robbers did. He brought Christianity out of forms and creeds and services into the open air, in action and into the movements of life. He changed the entire line of march of religion in the Western World. Brother Masseo, half jesting, asked him once why the whole world was running after him, not very comely, not very wise, not of noble birth. "Why after thee?" "God chose me," Francis answered, "because He could find no one more worthless, and He wished by me to confound the nobility and grandeur, the strength and beauty and learning of the world." But the real answer is that here at last in this wonderful man was an organ of that Spirit which was in Christ, and a marvelous transmitter of it to the world. The divine agape went out into men's lives through him. Here was a childlike lover of men, ready, if need be, to be crucified for love, but also ready in humble everyday tasks to reveal this love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/736]]></link><description><![CDATA[The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, we do it to showcase our products to celebrities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, we do it to showcase our products to celebrities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eye sees what it brings the power to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eye sees what it brings the power to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Song of the brave, how thrills thy tone As when the Organ's music rolls;  No gold rewards, but song ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Song of the brave, how thrills thy tone As when the Organ's music rolls;  No gold rewards, but song alone,   The deeds of great and noble souls.    [Ger., Hoch klingt das Lied vom braven Mann,     Wie Orgelton und Glockenklang;      Wer hohes Muths sich ruhmen kann       Den lohnt nicht Gold, den lohnt Gesang.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool's bolt is soon shot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51366]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool's bolt is soon shot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said to the Nightingale: "Hail, all hail!  Pierce with thy trill the dark,   Like a glittering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said to the Nightingale: "Hail, all hail!  Pierce with thy trill the dark,   Like a glittering music-spark,    When the earth grows pale and dumb."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25324]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write? - Nobel Lecture 2000.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62459]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity is the body and soul of wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity is the body and soul of wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55143]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878  Someone gave me a bit of brick and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878  Someone gave me a bit of brick and a little slab of marble from Rome. It was wonderful to touch one of them and think, Perhaps the Apostle Paul or one of the martyrs touched this as they passed. But how much more wonderful is it to think that we have, for our own use, the very same sword our Lord used when the Devil attacked Him. [Brooke Foss] Westcott says "the Word of God" in Ephesians 6:17 means "a definite utterance of God". We know these "definite utterances" -- we have the same Book that He had, and we can do as He did. So let us learn the "definite utterances" that they may be ready in our minds; ready for use at the moment of need -- our sword which never grows dull and rusty, but is always keen and bright. So once more I say, let us not expect defeat but victory. Let us take fast hold and keep fast hold of our sword, and we shall win in any assault of the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5750]]></link><description><![CDATA[With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let music sound while he doth make his choice; Then if he lose he makes a swanlike end,  Fading ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let music sound while he doth make his choice; Then if he lose he makes a swanlike end,  Fading in music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13163]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not in mine eyes alone in Paradise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not in mine eyes alone in Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  It was no exceptional thing for Jesus to withdraw Himself "into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  It was no exceptional thing for Jesus to withdraw Himself "into the wilderness to pray." He was never for one moment of any day out of touch with God. He was speaking and listening to the Father all day long; and yet He, who was in such constant touch with God, felt the need, as well as the joy, of more prolonged and more quiet communion with Him... Most of the reasons that drive us to pray for strength and forgiveness could never have driven Him; and yet He needed prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45533]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success:Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21873]]></link><description><![CDATA[The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success:Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every vice has its excuse ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every vice has its excuse ready.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken:  The word by seers or sibyls told, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken:  The word by seers or sibyls told,   In groves of oak or fanes of gold,    Still floats upon the morning wind,     Still whispers to the willing mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   A really patient man neither complains nor seeks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   A really patient man neither complains nor seeks to be pitied; he will speak simply and truly of his trouble, without exaggerating its weight or bemoaning himself. If others pity him, he will accept their compassion patiently, unless they pity him for some ill he is not enduring, in which case he will say so with meekness, and abide in patience and truthfulness, combating his grief and not complaining of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, that's a fluke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, that's a fluke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much will always wanting be To him who much desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To go out 20 times and be able to come out on the good side all 20 of those times ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35467]]></link><description><![CDATA[To go out 20 times and be able to come out on the good side all 20 of those times is really a testament to the kids. These four seniors have been together playing for a long time, and I was really hoping to let them share in a 20-0 season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the virtue of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the virtue of fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life...When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other...and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom. ...Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet facinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way. -Brenda Ueland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38553]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy... but I'd rather be in Roots than Good Times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, who could have ever foretold that that little retrousse nose would change the laws of an empire. [Fr., Ah, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, who could have ever foretold that that little retrousse nose would change the laws of an empire. [Fr., Ah, qui jamais autoir pu dire  Que ce petit nez retrousse   Changerait les lois d'un empire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65123]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57382</guid></item></channel></rss>