<?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[Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that is in a Taverne thinkes he is in a vine-garden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that is in a Taverne thinkes he is in a vine-garden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/81]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/81</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40816]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physicians are beginning to understand that the only way they'll get in trouble is if they don't do what the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physicians are beginning to understand that the only way they'll get in trouble is if they don't do what the patient wanted -- that's why this case is important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I invented the cordless extension cord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23016]]></link><description><![CDATA[I invented the cordless extension cord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have come to the end of a generation. Dan Wilson is the last connection to a team that saved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31912]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have come to the end of a generation. Dan Wilson is the last connection to a team that saved baseball in Seattle. He will always be a member of Mariners family and we hope to come up with a place for him in the organization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look wise; say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look wise; say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth has not such an urgent air. [Fr., La verite n'a point cet air impetueux.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth has not such an urgent air. [Fr., La verite n'a point cet air impetueux.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60030]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have a political bone in my body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37951]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have a political bone in my body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She really looked strong out there. She lost it a little bit at the end, but she came back. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39444]]></link><description><![CDATA[She really looked strong out there. She lost it a little bit at the end, but she came back. That's what I like about her, she'll always come back strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour, Found thee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour, Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in; A sure and safe one, though thy master missed it. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17344]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  Too late came I to love thee, O thou Beauty so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  Too late came I to love thee, O thou Beauty so ancient and so fresh, yea too late came I to love thee. And behold, thou wert within me, and I out of myself, where I made search for thee: I ugly rushed headlong upon those beautiful things thou hast made. Thou indeed wert with me; but I was not with thee: these beauties kept me far enough from thee: even those, which unless they were in thee, should not be at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a firm believer in the power of negative advertising. And they've been in the enviable position of doing nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a firm believer in the power of negative advertising. And they've been in the enviable position of doing nothing but negative advertising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24682]]></link><description><![CDATA[My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a decision whose time has come. Bimonthly bills have gotten high, especially in the winter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32817]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a decision whose time has come. Bimonthly bills have gotten high, especially in the winter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're only young once, but you can be immature forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1784]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read my little fable: He that runs may read.  Most can raise the flowers now,   For all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read my little fable: He that runs may read.  Most can raise the flowers now,   For all have got the seed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success demands singleness of purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success demands singleness of purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One German makes a philosopher, two a public meeting, three a war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19374]]></link><description><![CDATA[One German makes a philosopher, two a public meeting, three a war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortunately for Darius, he hasn't been able to go home and see the devastation, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortunately for Darius, he hasn't been able to go home and see the devastation,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower. [It., D'ogni pianta palesa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12489]]></link><description><![CDATA[The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower. [It., D'ogni pianta palesa l'aspetto  Il difetto, che il tronco nasconde   Per le fronde, dal frutto, o dal fior.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or "playing God." This is consistent with the fundamentalist vision of an unconstrained God and a highly constrained man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo;  And now my tongue's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo;  And now my tongue's use is to me no more   Than an unstringed viol or a harp,    Or like a cunning instrument cased up     Or, being open, put into his hands      That knows no touch to tune the harmony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday, I didn't let it get to me, ... I've shot enough bad rounds and I know everyone is going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I didn't let it get to me, ... I've shot enough bad rounds and I know everyone is going to make bogeys in tough conditions. When you want to throw in the towel, you've got to remember that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It means a lot to me to have the honor to sing at the School Board meeting. I take it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40480]]></link><description><![CDATA[It means a lot to me to have the honor to sing at the School Board meeting. I take it pretty seriously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've raced on all seven continents at least twice. I've probably run thousands of races. But the single race that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66514]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've raced on all seven continents at least twice. I've probably run thousands of races. But the single race that I'm most proud is a 10K. Yes, a 10K. I ran it with my daughter on her 10th birthday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11689]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to tell me," I said. "I'm off the team, aren't I?" "Well," said Coach, "you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times." It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling someone the truth is a loving act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling someone the truth is a loving act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. And as soon as you see a finer morality, the grosser becomes relatively immoral.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every animal loves itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every animal loves itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62938]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44863]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They played well. You've got to give props where it's due. That ball was just bouncing their way, really it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36371]]></link><description><![CDATA[They played well. You've got to give props where it's due. That ball was just bouncing their way, really it was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from. [Lat., Nil igitur ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44672]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from. [Lat., Nil igitur fieri de nilo posse putandum es  Semine quando opus est rebus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then on! then on! where duty leads, My course be onward still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then on! then on! where duty leads, My course be onward still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56414]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253   Holy Orders is a vocation from God; it is not a profession which we enter expecting an advance, or some sort of recognition as a right after so many years of work. But it is rather the giving up of self into the hands of God, without stint and without reserve, and letting Him set the work. It is the recognition of the fact that God has many kinds of work to be done, and that the best paid are not always the most honourable. To enter or exercise the ministry with a view to preferment is like marrying for money and not for love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6409</guid></item></channel></rss>