<?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 true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25395]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The girls have worked hard and earned the right to play at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The girls have worked hard and earned the right to play at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never got to the bottom of streaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38998]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never got to the bottom of streaking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How now, foolish rheum! -King John. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55794]]></link><description><![CDATA[How now, foolish rheum! -King John. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53696]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have seven suburban New York stores that people can go to if they can't get to the Manhattan location. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41667]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have seven suburban New York stores that people can go to if they can't get to the Manhattan location.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never make a defense or apology before you are accused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is very uncommon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is very uncommon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31487]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only cowards insult dying majesty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only cowards insult dying majesty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/88]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/88</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house, and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labors and unites]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24809]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20937]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, call back yesterday, bid time return! -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55821]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, call back yesterday, bid time return! -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such words fall to often on our cold and careless ears with the triteness of long familiarity; but to Octavia ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such words fall to often on our cold and careless ears with the triteness of long familiarity; but to Octavia . . . they seemed to be written in sunbeams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's someone who experiences a certain amount of bafflement about his talents. How did it happen? How did he become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37097]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's someone who experiences a certain amount of bafflement about his talents. How did it happen? How did he become who he is?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The testing went quite well with the new rules that add this extra weight. It makes the car a bit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42292]]></link><description><![CDATA[The testing went quite well with the new rules that add this extra weight. It makes the car a bit more difficult and challenging for us. Because it was just testing, I'm curious to see how the car is and things are during the race with everyone out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/69]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/69</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are cruel, but Man is kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are cruel, but Man is kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sin is the result of collaboration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sin is the result of collaboration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  He enters by the door who enters by Christ, who imitates the suffering of Christ, who is acquainted with the humility of Christ so as to feel and know that, if God became man for us, men should not think themselves God, but men. He who, being man, wishes to appear God, does not imitate Him who, being God, became man. Thou art not bid to think less of thyself than thou art, but to know what thou art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pain and hurt which i feel, go as deep as it is real; to be around and yet unseen, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45401]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pain and hurt which i feel, go as deep as it is real; to be around and yet unseen, takes the water out of the steam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing begins, and nothing ends,  That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing begins, and nothing ends,  That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain  And perish in our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In both fees and commissions, they're in good shape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36838]]></link><description><![CDATA[In both fees and commissions, they're in good shape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death,  The younger disease, that must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12494]]></link><description><![CDATA[As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death,  The younger disease, that must subdue at length,   Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. . . . Decency is very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11574]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. . . . Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never said this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28844]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never said this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is the ship carrying living memories to the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19372]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History -- its what those bitter old men write. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19404]]></link><description><![CDATA[History -- its what those bitter old men write.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet meat must have sour sauce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet meat must have sour sauce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30!.30 (inside school hours) during which they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30!.30 (inside school hours) during which they will do more than the 9-5ers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future will be better tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47072]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future will be better tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day,  They kindly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day,  They kindly leave us, though not quite alone,   But in good company--the gout or stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are worshipping false gods—such as football, baseball, gold, tennis, or money or technology or automobiles or houses or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57743]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are worshipping false gods—such as football, baseball, gold, tennis, or money or technology or automobiles or houses or gold or silver—and you can tell what a man worships by what he does on Sunday—repent and start worshipping the true and living God, the maker of heaven and earth and all things that in them are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian religion finds expression thus, in the love of those who love Christ, more comprehensibly and accessibly than in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian religion finds expression thus, in the love of those who love Christ, more comprehensibly and accessibly than in metaphysical or ethical statements. It is an experience rather than a conclusion, a way of life rather than an ideology; [it is] grasped through the imagination rather than understood through the mind, belonging to the realm of spiritual rather than intellectual perception; reaching quite beyond the dimension of words and ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to be judicious. It's not fantasy football. This is about people making sound judgements. That's what we're trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34689]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to be judicious. It's not fantasy football. This is about people making sound judgements. That's what we're trying to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55070]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks. -Richard Bach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536   Now go to, reader, and according to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536   Now go to, reader, and according to the order of Paul's writing [in Romans], even so do thou. First behold thyself diligently in the law of God, and see there thy just damnation. Secondarily, turn thine eyes to Christ, and see there the exceeding mercy of thy most kind and loving Father. Thirdly, remember that Christ made not this atonement that thou shouldest anger God again; neither cleansed he thee, that thou shouldest return (as a swine) unto thine old puddle again: but that thou shouldest be a new creature and live a new life after the will of God and not of the flesh. And be diligent lest through thine own negligence and unthankfulness thou lose this favor and mercy again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FORTY DAYS is a social, spiritual and learning experiment in which people experience the intensity of monastic life. The purpose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32900]]></link><description><![CDATA[FORTY DAYS is a social, spiritual and learning experiment in which people experience the intensity of monastic life. The purpose is not religious conversion per se, but it is to expose people to the reality of unplugging from modern life completely and creating the opportunity to explore their beliefs in a contemplative environment. The tone of the series will be thoughtful and respectful to the brothers and sisters who have made their monastery home to our production team and the participants in the series.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a little frustrating because we like a fast, up-tempo pace to the game. We like to fast break, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30607]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a little frustrating because we like a fast, up-tempo pace to the game. We like to fast break, and they kind of slowed that down for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that its workers are not just sitting around downloading Internet porn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47730</guid></item></channel></rss>