<?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[Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes,  Cushioned on a dreamy pillow,   Thou art now wise. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes,  Cushioned on a dreamy pillow,   Thou art now wise.    Wake the power within thee slumbering,     Trim the plot that's in thy keeping,      Thou wilt bless the task when reaping       Sweet labour's prize.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, with the amount of ice time I was getting, the situation with our team, it wasn't a shocker. I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, with the amount of ice time I was getting, the situation with our team, it wasn't a shocker. I've been around long enough to realize the situation I was in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high.  Oh, yo' daddy's rich, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high.  Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma' is good-lookin',   So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still fighting for home-field advantage in the first round of against Dallas. Even if we could catch first place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31579]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still fighting for home-field advantage in the first round of against Dallas. Even if we could catch first place we've still got to wrap up second, so it doesn't make much of a difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children need models rather than critics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children need models rather than critics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happie is hee that chastens himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happie is hee that chastens himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just so you know, there's a space that only you can fill. Just so you know, I loved you then, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just so you know, there's a space that only you can fill. Just so you know, I loved you then, I guess I always will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True and genuine worship is when man, through his spirit attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7554]]></link><description><![CDATA[True and genuine worship is when man, through his spirit attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship is not to come to a certain place; it is not to go through a certain ritual or liturgy; it is not even to bring certain gifts. True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1452]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don't like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51990]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don't like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western waves. But thou, thyself, movest alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the civil magistrates be Christians or members of the church, able to prophesy in the church of Christ, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6976]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the civil magistrates be Christians or members of the church, able to prophesy in the church of Christ, ... they are bound by the command of Christ to suffer opposition to their doctrine with meekness and gentleness, and to be so far from striving to subdue their opposites with the civil sword, that they are bound with patience and meekness to wait if God peradventure will please to grant repentance unto their opposites...   The sword may make a whole nation of hypocrites. But to recover a soul from Satan by repentance, and to bring them from anti-Christian doctrine or worship to the Christian doctrine and worship, in the least true internal or external submission, is only worked by the all-powerful God through the sword of the Spirit in the hand of His spiritual officers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1351</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.
]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pension never inriched young man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pension never inriched young man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truly brave, When they behold the brave oppressed with odds,  Are touched with a desire to shield and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4844]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truly brave, When they behold the brave oppressed with odds,  Are touched with a desire to shield and save:--   A mixture of wild beasts and demi-gods    Are they--now furious as the sweeping wave,     Now moved with pity; even as sometimes nods      The rugged tree unto the summer wind,       Compassion breathes along the savage mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person you'd want to have dinner with. [On the subject ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person you'd want to have dinner with. [On the subject of Mr. Bean].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead. [Lat., Urit enim ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18261]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead. [Lat., Urit enim fulgore suo qui praegravat artes  Intra se positas; extinctus amabitur idem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw him speak here before, I could look into the audience and see people who look like him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33887]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw him speak here before, I could look into the audience and see people who look like him laughing at things I didn't know the references to. There is an intimacy between Chicago writers and the population of this city that I find really wonderful. It's warm and it's welcoming. It's a little like going to a Baptist church. They know when to say 'Amen'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light is the symbol of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light is the symbol of truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fed ought to like it [the producer price report], and personally I'm breathing a huge sigh of relief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fed ought to like it [the producer price report], and personally I'm breathing a huge sigh of relief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never deprive someone of hope - it may be all they have. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never deprive someone of hope - it may be all they have. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nancy and I had a couple dreams when we opened three years ago. To get (renowned blues artist) Tommy Castro ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nancy and I had a couple dreams when we opened three years ago. To get (renowned blues artist) Tommy Castro and David Allan Coe to perform. Tommy and his band played here last spring and now David.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You want to understand what the person across the table from you does for a living and how they do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35352]]></link><description><![CDATA[You want to understand what the person across the table from you does for a living and how they do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you judge, investigate; if you reign, command. [Lat., Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23513]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you judge, investigate; if you reign, command. [Lat., Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no defeat except for those who give up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11793]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no defeat except for those who give up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise,  And some the architect: his hand was known  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise,  And some the architect: his hand was known   In heaven by many a tower'd structure high,    Where scepter'd angels held their residence,     And sat as princes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12235]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few, a few, too few for drums and yells,May creep back, silent, to still village wellsUp half-known roads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62243]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few, a few, too few for drums and yells,May creep back, silent, to still village wellsUp half-known roads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cruelest lies are often told in silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26152]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cruelest lies are often told in silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trick is to stop thinking it as 'your' money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27984]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trick is to stop thinking it as 'your' money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Starter) Ike (Martinez) was getting tired. He was losing velocity on his stuff. So right now we only have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30573]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Starter) Ike (Martinez) was getting tired. He was losing velocity on his stuff. So right now we only have the two pitchers due to all the injuries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away,  The post of honor is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away,  The post of honor is a private station.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hottest red carpet looks are going to be swept off the face. Or a little slung bun or sexy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41422]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hottest red carpet looks are going to be swept off the face. Or a little slung bun or sexy pony tail. But definitely dressed up with some hot jewels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inaction, contrary for its reputation as being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inaction, contrary for its reputation as being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59693]]></link><description><![CDATA[As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.   - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10525]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had bad luck with our kids--they've all grown up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had bad luck with our kids--they've all grown up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned something from every fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned something from every fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm hoping to get track-side for that one. It's equivalent to being next to your favorite baseball payer or Barry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41781]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm hoping to get track-side for that one. It's equivalent to being next to your favorite baseball payer or Barry Bonds, in the presence of legends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41781</guid></item></channel></rss>