<?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[And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace,  The problem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9156]]></link><description><![CDATA[And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace,  The problem still for us and all of human race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   Who seeks for heaven alone to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul  May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;  While he who walks in love may wander far,  Yet God will bring him where the blessed are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's in a lot better shape than when we found it. The person coming in is going to have players ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32364]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's in a lot better shape than when we found it. The person coming in is going to have players in every class. We lacked that veteran maturity and you saw that raise its head in close games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the crest of a peacock so is mathematics at the head of all knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21469]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to itand helps it. Love works, and hope works, and all other graces -- self-denial, readiness to the cross -- they all work and help faith. Yet when we come to die, faith is left alone. Now, try what faith will do. Not to be surprised with any thing is the substance of human wisdom; not to be surprised with death is a great part of the substance of our spiritual wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water heats up much more slowly than land surfaces, so in the summer the water is acting to cool the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water heats up much more slowly than land surfaces, so in the summer the water is acting to cool the surrounding land surface. In the winter, the opposite happens. In winter the water remains warmer than the surrounding land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know. - Reflections on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27734]]></link><description><![CDATA[To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know. - Reflections on Life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fall down seven times, stand up eight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fall down seven times, stand up eight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65585]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no shortage of stories that describe just horrendous upbringings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36945]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no shortage of stories that describe just horrendous upbringings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would that I were low laid in my grave: I am not worth this coil that 's made for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would that I were low laid in my grave: I am not worth this coil that 's made for me. -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He just wasn't hitting the holes like he wanted to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37438]]></link><description><![CDATA[He just wasn't hitting the holes like he wanted to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11291]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belief is best when uncomplicated by reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Belief is best when uncomplicated by reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4705]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is part of our responsibility to assist in the non-aviation domain. The whole purpose is that people will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32915]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is part of our responsibility to assist in the non-aviation domain. The whole purpose is that people will not know when we're going to be there or if we are going to be there. It's a preventative approach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37199]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy the fridge!' `Make Jell-O!', all that horrible nutrition that came up because of instant pudding, Jell-O, fish sticks, TV dinners, all of that that I had before dismissed as the death of our culture -- I realized that housewives wanted these things, because they wanted time back, ... A washing machine gave them time to do something else. It gave them time to read a book. ... A woman didn't want to cook all day. These things that were sold to Americans were actually a gift, in a very strange way. I really enjoyed having to blow that notion out of my head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genteel in personage, Conduct, and equipage;  Noble by heritage,   Generous and free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genteel in personage, Conduct, and equipage;  Noble by heritage,   Generous and free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66705]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We went from the worst feeling in the world to probably the most rewarding season I've ever been a part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31876]]></link><description><![CDATA[We went from the worst feeling in the world to probably the most rewarding season I've ever been a part of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12468]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through the years, should now operate here to give me a fair and open trial?....consider myself neither morally nor legally obliged to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I am not represented. That the will of the people is the basis of the authority of government, is a principle universally acknowledged as sacred throughout the civilized world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46742]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We took 24 shots in the second half and scored 13 points. It was kind of a snowball effect. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39960]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took 24 shots in the second half and scored 13 points. It was kind of a snowball effect. I can't fault the kids for that, but we sometimes let that carry over while we were on defense and you can't take a mental break in basketball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no one subsists by himself alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11922]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no one subsists by himself alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given the friendly relations between Russia and Iran, I hope we will settle the crisis that has emerged recently together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given the friendly relations between Russia and Iran, I hope we will settle the crisis that has emerged recently together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average man's idea of a good sermon is one that goes over his head - and hits one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average man's idea of a good sermon is one that goes over his head - and hits one of his neighbors]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55157]]></link><description><![CDATA[If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52144]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4167]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date;  Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date;  Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate,   Full on thy bloom,    Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight     Shall be thy doom!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29085]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24292]]></link><description><![CDATA[An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A justice with grave justices shall sit; He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23499]]></link><description><![CDATA[A justice with grave justices shall sit; He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God sendeth cold after clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51918]]></link><description><![CDATA[God sendeth cold after clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They couldn't adapt to our demands in catering to Hispanics and trying to be much more bilingual, ... The show ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35222]]></link><description><![CDATA[They couldn't adapt to our demands in catering to Hispanics and trying to be much more bilingual, ... The show will be in Spanish, so that makes a huge difference. I'm pretty sure the audience will define and determine very much the way we put the music to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought it was an earthquake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36375]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought it was an earthquake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well has the name of Pontifex been given Unto the Church's head, as the chief builder  And architect of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well has the name of Pontifex been given Unto the Church's head, as the chief builder  And architect of the invisible bridge   That leads from earth to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8679</guid></item></channel></rss>