<?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[The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing half so pleasant as coming home again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19604]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61484]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, he's a wonderful son-in-law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, he's a wonderful son-in-law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs with drinking." [Fr., "L'appetit vient en mangeant," disoit Angeston, "mais la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2901]]></link><description><![CDATA["Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs with drinking." [Fr., "L'appetit vient en mangeant," disoit Angeston, "mais la soif e'en va en beuvant."]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5681]]></link><description><![CDATA[True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   Frightful this is in a sense, but it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   Frightful this is in a sense, but it is true, and every one who has merely some little knowledge of the human heart can verify it: there is nothing to which a man holds so desperately as to his sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9507]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What silly people wits are! [Lat., Que les gens d'esprit sont betes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61807]]></link><description><![CDATA[What silly people wits are! [Lat., Que les gens d'esprit sont betes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But tomorrow is going to be different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36699]]></link><description><![CDATA[But tomorrow is going to be different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  When our lives are focused on God, awe and wonder lead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  When our lives are focused on God, awe and wonder lead us to worship God, filling our inner being with a fullness we would never have thought possible. Awe prepares the way in us for the power of God to transform us and this transformation of our inner attitudes can only take place when awe leads us in turn to wonder, admiration, reverence, surrender, and obedience toward God.  ... James Houston, The Transforming Power of Prayer July 23, 2000 Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   Christ came, not so much to preach the Gospel, as that there might be a Gospel to preach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16936]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth comes but once in a lifetime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth comes but once in a lifetime]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's always room for improvement, you know-it's the biggest room in the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20678]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's always room for improvement, you know-it's the biggest room in the house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48238]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity. -King Henry IV. Part II. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55938]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58393]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The actual cells that we transplanted, the human cells, are the ones that are making myelin. We're extremely excited about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28554]]></link><description><![CDATA[The actual cells that we transplanted, the human cells, are the ones that are making myelin. We're extremely excited about these cells.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's one thing to have these services down the road; it's quite another when you're already providing these products. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37611]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's one thing to have these services down the road; it's quite another when you're already providing these products.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63546]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards can never be moral. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards can never be moral.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got four really good games left and then the playoffs. We're going to have to bring our 'A' game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42101]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got four really good games left and then the playoffs. We're going to have to bring our 'A' game the rest of the way out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To change one's life: 1. Starte immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions. -William James. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5563]]></link><description><![CDATA[To change one's life: 1. Starte immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions. -William James.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12056]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The investigation continues. ... There has been no final ruling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The investigation continues. ... There has been no final ruling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome! all Wonders in one sight!   Eternity shut in a span. Summer in winter, day in night,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome! all Wonders in one sight!   Eternity shut in a span. Summer in winter, day in night,   Heaven in earth, and God in man. Great little one! whose all-embracing birth   Lifts earth to heaven, stoops heav'n to earth!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43922]]></link><description><![CDATA[For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43958]]></link><description><![CDATA[How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!Man is constantly building the "Image."It is an Edifice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!Man is constantly building the "Image."It is an Edifice for the entombment of bones!Best to "Realize" the temporal nature of thingsand simply "Do and Die!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on,—how then? Can honour set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on,—how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour; what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'T is insensible, then? yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I 'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon. And so ends my catechism. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old mayor climbed the belfry tower, The ringers ran by two, by three;  "Pull, if ye never pulled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old mayor climbed the belfry tower, The ringers ran by two, by three;  "Pull, if ye never pulled before;   Good ringers, pull your best," quoth he.    "Play uppe, play uppe, O Boston bells!     Ply all your changes, all your swells,      Play uppe The Brides of Enderby."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won't suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when the person looks back-she will hear her heart]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost every position he took in his life I was highly supportive of. He was a hero in many respects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost every position he took in his life I was highly supportive of. He was a hero in many respects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growth will continue. To what degree, we don't know until it's here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growth will continue. To what degree, we don't know until it's here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/688]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29925]]></link><description><![CDATA[I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29925</guid></item></channel></rss>