<?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[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frederick Buechner,'Whistling in the Dark' When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time. Even if he should decide to abandon it forever ten minutes later, the memory will nag him to the grave. He has seen the creation of the world. It has his mark on it. He has its mark on him. Both marks are, for better or for worse, indelible. All sons, like all daughters, are prodigals if they're smart. Assuming the Old Man doesn't run out on them first, they will run out on him if they are to survive, and if he's smart he won't put up too much of a fuss. A wise father sees all this coming, and maybe that's why he keeps his distance from the start. He must survive too. Whether they ever find their way home again, none can say for sure, but it's the risk he must take if they're ever to find their way at all. In the meantime, the world tends to have a soft spot in its heart for lost children. Lost fathers have to fend for themselves. Even as the father lays down the law, he knows that someday his children will break it as they need to break it if ever they're to find something better than law to replace it. Until and unless that happens, there's no telling the scrapes they will get into trying to lose him and find themselves. Terrible blnders will be made-dissapointments and failures, hurts and losses of every kind. And they'll keep making them even after they've found themselves too, of course, because growing up is a process that goes on and on. And every hard knock they ever get, knocks the father even harder still, if that's possible, and if and when they finally come through more or less in one piece at the end, there's maybe no rejoicing greater than his in all creation. -Fatherhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18623]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25380]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes. - Don Quixote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34997]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like we have to go out and earn respect, and the only way to do that is go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37341]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like we have to go out and earn respect, and the only way to do that is go out and play hard for four quarters and win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51159]]></link><description><![CDATA[He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sad because Australian tennis fans have come to love Kim and I think we will continue to, just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38482]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sad because Australian tennis fans have come to love Kim and I think we will continue to, just as we do with Lleyton.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have lost all concept of time since this thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30726]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have lost all concept of time since this thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think, in general, most people go to the pump and they see what the price is. They don't really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, in general, most people go to the pump and they see what the price is. They don't really understand how much the weather really effects our energy consumption and our energy supply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13689]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Vain JackdawJupiter determined, it is said, to create a sovereign over the birds, and made proclamation that on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1561]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Vain JackdawJupiter determined, it is said, to create a sovereign over the birds, and made proclamation that on a certain day they should all present themselves before him, when he would himself choose the most beautiful among them to be king. The Jackdaw, knowing his own ugliness, searched through the woods and fields, and collected the feathers which had fallen from the wings of his companions, and stuck them in all parts of his body, hoping thereby to make himself the most beautiful of all. When the appointed day arrived, and the birds had assembled before Jupiter, the Jackdaw also made his appearance in his many feathered finery. But when Jupiter proposed to make him king because of the beauty of his plumage, the birds indignantly protested, and each plucked from him his own feathers, leaving the Jackdaw nothing but a Jackdaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no reply to the ignorant like keeping silence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20380]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no reply to the ignorant like keeping silence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To learn what is good, a thousand days are not sufficient; to learn what is evil, an hour is too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63010]]></link><description><![CDATA[To learn what is good, a thousand days are not sufficient; to learn what is evil, an hour is too long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me aninstrument which only truth can speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21147]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me aninstrument which only truth can speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never felt that anything really mattered by the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27603]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never felt that anything really mattered by the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40472]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't wish to imply that there aren't good things about you or that you're not an extraordinary person but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25940]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't wish to imply that there aren't good things about you or that you're not an extraordinary person but I'd rather let other people enjoy the surprise]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/594]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the American flag, and keep step to the music of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25999]]></link><description><![CDATA[We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the American flag, and keep step to the music of the Union.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was surprised because the team had been doing well in matches and training. I even knew that the Poles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31034]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was surprised because the team had been doing well in matches and training. I even knew that the Poles were scared of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The communities' response to our newsletter has been phenomenal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The communities' response to our newsletter has been phenomenal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has been a great year for me and the team. I have a super group of girls here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37470]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has been a great year for me and the team. I have a super group of girls here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41719]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty when we're only talking about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dilution looks to be about 11 percent, which is a touch less than the benefit from the synergies, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dilution looks to be about 11 percent, which is a touch less than the benefit from the synergies,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our myriad-minded Shakespeare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our myriad-minded Shakespeare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing, and wishing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing, and wishing you had?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got through that and, of course, now I think we are in a position of strength and to move ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33226]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got through that and, of course, now I think we are in a position of strength and to move forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11520]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows  To beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54927]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows  To beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're very athletic, and they run the floor. They have tough-minded guys and they never give up. Even when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34523]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're very athletic, and they run the floor. They have tough-minded guys and they never give up. Even when you have a lead, they always find a way to come back. It's an ACC game and it's going to be a close game I'm sure. We're just going to have to be consistent throughout the game; we can't have long periods where we don't score.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34523</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[Whether it's a hate crime, that's not the main issue. Somebody shot him to kill him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether it's a hate crime, that's not the main issue. Somebody shot him to kill him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the theory that decides what can be observed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59101]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the theory that decides what can be observed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[we cannot give in to terror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41264]]></link><description><![CDATA[we cannot give in to terror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we areheaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21377]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we areheaded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admonish your friends in private; praise them in public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admonish your friends in private; praise them in public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51581</guid></item></channel></rss>