<?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[You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15037]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47974]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was funny, ... I started laughing immediately. It's always been fun coming to BU and playing here. So, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42591]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was funny, ... I started laughing immediately. It's always been fun coming to BU and playing here. So, to do it now and have those fans behind me one more time, it was pretty fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's significantly faster than the first mile, the coach should have raised eyebrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41795]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's significantly faster than the first mile, the coach should have raised eyebrows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great is truth, and strongest of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is truth, and strongest of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My confidence (defensively) definitely grew as the season went on, and the last month and a half, two months did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35270]]></link><description><![CDATA[My confidence (defensively) definitely grew as the season went on, and the last month and a half, two months did wonders for my confidence. Being out there every day after the All-Star break was important, especially when I knew I had to prove everybody wrong, which I've been having to do since college.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All have been accounted for ... No gun battle took place, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34274]]></link><description><![CDATA[All have been accounted for ... No gun battle took place,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ignore the small things -- the kite flies because of its tail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ignore the small things -- the kite flies because of its tail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The need is now and now is the time to meet future needs ... My greatest anxiety is getting everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33096]]></link><description><![CDATA[The need is now and now is the time to meet future needs ... My greatest anxiety is getting everything ready at home so I can go tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57163]]></link><description><![CDATA[But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess,  And roam along, the world's tired denizen,   With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration of Octavia Hill, Worker for the Poor, 1912   Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment: for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labour is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3680]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feares are divided in the midst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feares are divided in the midst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48139]]></link><description><![CDATA[President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit got off to an awkward start when the president pulled out his baseball cards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is going to steamroll. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40708]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is going to steamroll.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man of science is a poor philosopher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man of science is a poor philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Make deeds ill done! -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55801]]></link><description><![CDATA[How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Make deeds ill done! -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our special teams tonight were the difference. Five-on-five, I think we were the better team. It's a tough loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our special teams tonight were the difference. Five-on-five, I think we were the better team. It's a tough loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would say there are very few fixed-rate cards left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32294]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would say there are very few fixed-rate cards left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19695]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He serves me most who serves his country best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45786]]></link><description><![CDATA[He serves me most who serves his country best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It still doesn't account for the way we played interior defense and the way we played interior offense. I'm disappointed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28596]]></link><description><![CDATA[It still doesn't account for the way we played interior defense and the way we played interior offense. I'm disappointed with our effort tonight. We didn't play with much poise. I expected more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou desirest to be safe, turn at once in thy emptiness to God. If thou hast been inconsistent, how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7254]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou desirest to be safe, turn at once in thy emptiness to God. If thou hast been inconsistent, how canst thou better become consistent again than in God only? How canst thou better escape death than by the true, real Life -- which is God Himself?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21254]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Priest, Scientist, Visionary, 1955  The pure, mere love of God is that alone from which sinners are justly to expect that no sin will pass unpunished, but that His love will visit them with every calamity and distress that can help to break and purify the bestial heart of man and awaken in him true repentance and conversion to God. It is love alone in the holy Deity that will allow no peace to the wicked, nor ever cease its judgments till every sinner is forced to confess that it is good for him that he has been in trouble, and thankfully own that not the wrath but the love of God has plucked out that right eye, cut off that right band, which he ought to have done but would not do for himself and his own salvation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14300]]></link><description><![CDATA[States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The FDA believes that a physician who prescribes, dispenses, and/or administers HGH for an unauthorized use violates federal law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The FDA believes that a physician who prescribes, dispenses, and/or administers HGH for an unauthorized use violates federal law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since sorrow never comes too late And happiness too swiftly flies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since sorrow never comes too late And happiness too swiftly flies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful;  Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful;  Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart,   That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious    To have mistrusted her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44853]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win,  By fearing to attempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win,  By fearing to attempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13011]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world of extremes, we can only love too little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25650]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world of extremes, we can only love too little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a great beautifier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a great beautifier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5189</guid></item></channel></rss>