<?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[By my penny of observation. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55483]]></link><description><![CDATA[By my penny of observation. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes thou shalt be forsaken of God, sometimes thou shalt be troubled by thy neighbors; and what is more, oftentimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes thou shalt be forsaken of God, sometimes thou shalt be troubled by thy neighbors; and what is more, oftentimes thou shalt be wearisome even to thyself. Neither canst thou be delivered or eased by any remedy or comfort; but so long as it pleaseth God, thou oughtest to bear it. For God will have thee learn to suffer tribulation without comfort, and that thou subject thyself wholly to Him, and by tribulation become more humble. No man hath so cordial a feeling of the Passion of Christ, as he that hath suffered the like himself. The Cross therefore is always ready, and everywhere waits for thee. Thou canst not escape it, whithersoever thou runnest; for wheresoever thou goest, thou carriest thyself with thee, and shalt ever find thyself. Both above and below, without and within, which way so ever thou dost turn thee, everywhere thou shalt find the Cross; and everywhere of necessity thou must hold fast patience, if thou wilt have inward peace, and enjoy an everlasting crown.  ...Thomas à Kempis, Of the Imitation of Christ June 8, 1996 Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  The charm of the words of great men, those grand sayings which are recognized as true as soon as heard, is this, that you recognize them as wisdom which has passed across your own mind. You feel that they are your own thoughts come back to you, else you would not at once admit them. "All of that has floated across me before, only I could not say it, and did not feel confident enough to assert it: or had not conviction enough to put it into words." Yes, God spoke to you what He did to them: only, they believed it, said it, trusted the Word within them; and you did not. Be sure that often when you say, "It is only my own poor thought, and I am alone," the real correcting thought is this: "Alone, but the Father is with me, and therefore I can live that lonely conviction.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When John finishes his current suspension, if he is serious about becoming a referee, it might give him a greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35959]]></link><description><![CDATA[When John finishes his current suspension, if he is serious about becoming a referee, it might give him a greater appreciation of the difficulties that go with the job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; But riches fineless is as poor as winter  To him that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; But riches fineless is as poor as winter  To him that ever fears he shall be poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15435]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capacity for joy Admits temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capacity for joy Admits temptation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's why we brought LaMont Jordan here, to run the ball. When they were focusing on the run, they weren't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32170]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's why we brought LaMont Jordan here, to run the ball. When they were focusing on the run, they weren't focusing on me and I could get open. That's how it's supposed to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not disappointed with bronze today because the big difference is between gold and silver, not silver and bronze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35214]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not disappointed with bronze today because the big difference is between gold and silver, not silver and bronze.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have no enemies it is a sign fortune has forgot you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50996]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have no enemies it is a sign fortune has forgot you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43921]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus Christ is end of all, and the centre to which all tends. Whoever knows Him knows the reason of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus Christ is end of all, and the centre to which all tends. Whoever knows Him knows the reason of everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret wound still lives within the breast. [Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51847]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret wound still lives within the breast. [Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No language is rude that can boast polite writers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24075]]></link><description><![CDATA[No language is rude that can boast polite writers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5459]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can tell you categorically that is not happening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33289]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can tell you categorically that is not happening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11080]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...it is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56944]]></link><description><![CDATA[...it is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He played the rest of the game, and I have gotta tell you, we were watching him like a hawk. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31719]]></link><description><![CDATA[He played the rest of the game, and I have gotta tell you, we were watching him like a hawk. He did outstanding for a young guy that was a little nervous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although one of his long-standing fantasies was to open a house of prostitution, the fantasy role he chose for himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although one of his long-standing fantasies was to open a house of prostitution, the fantasy role he chose for himself was that of cashier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get when you don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The language of truth is simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The language of truth is simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't accept the maxim 'there's no gain without pain', physical or emotional. I believe it is possible to develop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48337]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't accept the maxim 'there's no gain without pain', physical or emotional. I believe it is possible to develop and grow with joy rather than grief. However, when the pain comes my way, I try to get the most growth out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2196]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great unwashed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great unwashed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your life is what your thoughts make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your life is what your thoughts make it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10015]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgivernourselves. For the things we didn't do. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62901]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgivernourselves. For the things we didn't do. The things we should have done. I think forgiving yourself is more important than forgiving anyone else and it's often the hardest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53377]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids really look up to Bob. He treats every kid equally. This is the hardest working team I've ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids really look up to Bob. He treats every kid equally. This is the hardest working team I've ever coached and it's thanks to him. He's such a huge part of the team. If I coach another 30 years, Bob will be one of the two or three kids I remember most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23274]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27736]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942   The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942   The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them. Their own desire for the revelation of the glory of Jesus in the salvation of men went out towards those whom they met, and was immediately answered by the recognition of the need of those whom they met for Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taxes are the sinews of the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taxes are the sinews of the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentimentality is unearned emotion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentimentality is unearned emotion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58790]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety percent of our stuff is there. We were planning to sell this house as quick as we can and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of our stuff is there. We were planning to sell this house as quick as we can and move there, and now we understand, the best reports we're getting that our house there is underwater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair Greece! and relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more; though fallen great! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair Greece! and relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more; though fallen great!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought it was going to happen, we've been dreaming it for 32 years, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38514]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought it was going to happen, we've been dreaming it for 32 years,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murther in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17800]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murther in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell:.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3687]]></link><description><![CDATA[My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He clasps the crag with hooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands,  Ring'd with the azure world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13105]]></link><description><![CDATA[He clasps the crag with hooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands,  Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.   The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls:    He watches from his mountain walls,     And like a thunderbolt he falls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3711]]></link><description><![CDATA[...When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3711</guid></item></channel></rss>