<?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[Historically, a La Nina that forms in spring has a tendency for most of Illinois to be dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historically, a La Nina that forms in spring has a tendency for most of Illinois to be dry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me someone who has been picked by the Democratic Party, and then all of us can put our dollars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me someone who has been picked by the Democratic Party, and then all of us can put our dollars into that one race,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17164]]></link><description><![CDATA[The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leap out of the frying pan into the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1860]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to imagine that many people come to our small city every year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38139]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to imagine that many people come to our small city every year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FIRE HAS LEFT THE HEARTH Fire has left the hearth Nautilus climbed from shell Perfume flowed from bottle Prisoner gone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18359]]></link><description><![CDATA[FIRE HAS LEFT THE HEARTH Fire has left the hearth Nautilus climbed from shell Perfume flowed from bottle Prisoner gone from cell Butterfly flutterbied cocoon nor hand restrained by glove Jesus away from manger Cage left by Spirit Dove. Sparklings soared away from wand. Chick's egg become the bird. Omkar sung from out the throat Violin's notes now heard. Buddhist temple pine cone tabernacle'd godlet seed Shattered that it might manifest thousand forests of fir tree Eternal snow of mountain top now nurses meadow flowers. Shining never held by sun relentless melts ice towers. Love has left its spring the heart Is now a liquid pond Host stolen from the chalice consumed in mouth of God Starlight abandoned star a billion years ago Left that tonight you might have its sight and know Know Love is forever no drop of God ever dies Lover not bound by form of love God's bodies are not God's souls (to his wife and children on the death of Robert S) (Baba Hari Das: is the author of love is more powerful than lover for love is not bound by form).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  There is more hid in Christ than we shall ever learn, here or there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  There is more hid in Christ than we shall ever learn, here or there either; but they that begin first to inquire will soonest be gladdened with revelation; and with them He will be best pleased, for the slowness of His disciples troubled Him of old. To say that we must wait for the other world, to know the mind of Him who came to this world to give Himself to us, seems to me the foolishness of a worldly and lazy spirit. The Son of God is the teacher of men, giving to them of His Spirit -- that Spirit which manifests the deep things of God, being to a man the mind of Christ. The great heresy of the Church of the present day is unbelief in this Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gets through too late who goes too fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18789]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gets through too late who goes too fast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5535]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause — you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from far off, but upon our perceptions being made finer so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear that which is about us always. -Willa Cather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those griefs burn most which gall in secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worthy books Are not companions--they are solitudes:  We lose ourselves in them and all our cares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worthy books Are not companions--they are solitudes:  We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the younger generation, we've been raised to think that everything is OK and if you look down on anyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30027]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the younger generation, we've been raised to think that everything is OK and if you look down on anyone else, you judge anyone else, then you're a racist or you're a religious zealot, or you're not open-minded. So I think that people my age have been forced to be too accepting and too open-minded, whereas older people are sometimes narrow- minded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws die, Books never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws die, Books never.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are like stars...you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are like stars...you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look to the end of a long life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look to the end of a long life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15846]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's difficult to appreciate the value of others when your own self assessment is over valued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63220]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's difficult to appreciate the value of others when your own self assessment is over valued.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tennis is an individual sport. Because of that, you have to find your own answers in a match. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tennis is an individual sport. Because of that, you have to find your own answers in a match.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fashion of liking Racine will pass away like that of coffee. [Fr., La mode d'aimer Racine passera comme la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25261]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fashion of liking Racine will pass away like that of coffee. [Fr., La mode d'aimer Racine passera comme la mode du cafe.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833 Rejoice in God, O ye tongues; give the glory to the Lord, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833 Rejoice in God, O ye tongues; give the glory to the Lord, and the Lamb. Nations, and languages, and every creature, in which is the breath of Life. Let man and beast appear before him, and magnify his name together. Let Noah and his company approach the throne of Grace, and do homage to the Ark of their Salvation. Let Abraham present a Ram, and worship the God of his Redemption. Let Jacob with his speckled Drove adore the good Shepherd of Israel. ... Let Daniel come forth with a Lion, and praise God with all his might, through faith in Christ Jesus. ... Let David bless with the bear --  The beginning of victory to the Lord --  to the Lord the perfection of excellence --  Hallelujah from the heart of God, and from the hand of the artist inimitable, and from the echo of the heavenly harp in sweetness magnifical and mighty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54973]]></link><description><![CDATA[For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England! -King Henry V. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55969]]></link><description><![CDATA[An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England! -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 8.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends. -Theocritus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends. -Theocritus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55864]]></link><description><![CDATA[No more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is the immortality of speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is the immortality of speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm in charge of the EOC ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31559]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm in charge of the EOC]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis much to draw them thence,  So sweet is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9925]]></link><description><![CDATA[When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis much to draw them thence,  So sweet is zealous contemplation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my easement sing,  Though it should prove a farewell lay   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my easement sing,  Though it should prove a farewell lay   And this our parting spring.    . . . .     Then, little Bird, this boon confer,      Come, and my requiem sing,       Nor fail to be the harbinger        Of everlasting spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by getting a great library. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24768]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by getting a great library.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no way we're going to get him on that bus ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â not even on a helicopter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34867]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no way we're going to get him on that bus ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â not even on a helicopter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
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