<?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[Gone--flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun  From the day!   Gone, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gone--flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun  From the day!   Gone, and a cloud in my heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been working on getting Jessica more speed to the bar, and today everything came together for her. It was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34002]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been working on getting Jessica more speed to the bar, and today everything came together for her. It was truly a unique thing to see, and I'm so proud of her. It was like watching a real-life high jumper, not a student or a person just trying to score points.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles -- events for which there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22560]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles -- events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's why photography is real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42427]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's why photography is real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5622]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us,  That it ill behoves any of us   To find fault with the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21719]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like, that man's playing his heart out, and we have to do the same thing. Younger guys see that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35237]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like, that man's playing his heart out, and we have to do the same thing. Younger guys see that and understand how they have to play the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very rats Instinctively had quit it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very rats Instinctively had quit it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once - come as you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16790]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is a game of inches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is a game of inches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could live a week on one good compliment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17211]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could live a week on one good compliment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Yes," I answered you last night; "No," this morning, sir, I say:  Colors seen by candle-light   Will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61997]]></link><description><![CDATA["Yes," I answered you last night; "No," this morning, sir, I say:  Colors seen by candle-light   Will not look the same by day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chances of drawing hard-bucking bulls is much greater today than it was 10 to 15 years ago. Exponentially, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33788]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chances of drawing hard-bucking bulls is much greater today than it was 10 to 15 years ago. Exponentially, it increases the risk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich Physician, honor'd Lawyers ride, Whilst the poor Scholar foots it by their side.  [Lat., Dat Galenus opes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich Physician, honor'd Lawyers ride, Whilst the poor Scholar foots it by their side.  [Lat., Dat Galenus opes, dat Justinianus honores,   Sed genus species cogitur ire pedes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said, 'Mommy, this important news. This needs to get out. We ran it by the vice president and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said, 'Mommy, this important news. This needs to get out. We ran it by the vice president and he was very mindful of his role as a guest. He said something along the lines of, 'You all do whatever you are comfortable with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than the arrival ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than the arrival of twenty asses laden with drugs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now the only thing that will beat us is ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now the only thing that will beat us is ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme, Have not we sworn it, many a time,  That we no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme, Have not we sworn it, many a time,  That we no more our verse would scrawl,   For Shakespeare he had said it all!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20648]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beside Jesus, the whole lot of us are so contemptible... But God is like Jesus, and like Jesus, He will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beside Jesus, the whole lot of us are so contemptible... But God is like Jesus, and like Jesus, He will not give up until we, too, are like Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46303]]></link><description><![CDATA[No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from our eyes th' Enchanting Objects set, Advantage by the friendly Distance get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from our eyes th' Enchanting Objects set, Advantage by the friendly Distance get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is the tyrant of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is the tyrant of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on sin:  Sin is nothing else than that the creature willeth otherwise than God willeth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on sin:  Sin is nothing else than that the creature willeth otherwise than God willeth, and contrary to Him.  ... Theologia Germanica  March 10, 1998  Continuing a short series on sin:  I inquired what iniquity was, and found it to be no substance, but the perversion of the will, turned aside from Thee, O God, the Supreme, towards these lower things.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine  March 11, 1998  Continuing a short series on sin:  In case our sins have been public and scandalous, both reason and the practice of the Christian Church do require that when men have publicly offended they should give public satisfaction and open testimony of their repentance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very afraid. We closed the offices for months. The mullahs went back to their homes. We didn't know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28258]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very afraid. We closed the offices for months. The mullahs went back to their homes. We didn't know whether we would find another leader for the council.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63774]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love - that's not so bad either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love - that's not so bad either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's done cannot be undone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51385]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's done cannot be undone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  It is my opinion that art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564  It is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord... In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God... Today the individual has become the highest form and the greatest bane of artistic creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7383]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as a means of redeeming your time and of fitting your spirit for prayer, you would find mighty advantages from it. This method, though it seem such a small circumstance of life, would in all probability be a means [toward] great piety. It would keep it constantly in your head that softness and idleness were to be avoided and that self-denial was a part of Christianity... It would teach you to exercise power over yourself, and make you able by degrees to renounce other pleasures and tempers that war against the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's why many fail-because they don't get started-they don't go. Theydon't overcome inertia. They don't begin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22113]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's why many fail-because they don't get started-they don't go. Theydon't overcome inertia. They don't begin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that people rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that people rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the people involved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24623</guid></item></channel></rss>