<?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[April, April, Laugh thy girlish laughter,  Then, the moment after,   Weep thy girlish tears! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2997]]></link><description><![CDATA[April, April, Laugh thy girlish laughter,  Then, the moment after,   Weep thy girlish tears!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18938</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[History will be kind to me for I intend to write it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19303]]></link><description><![CDATA[History will be kind to me for I intend to write it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The joy late coming late departs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The joy late coming late departs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Especially when one of 'em (Jackson) is a guard coach and the other one (Levingston) a big-man coach. That helps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Especially when one of 'em (Jackson) is a guard coach and the other one (Levingston) a big-man coach. That helps us out tremendously at both ends of the floor. They can provide us with that playoff, that championship, atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Major social movements. . . eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Major social movements. . . eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890  One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to duty, is worth all the mere good thoughts, warm feelings, passionate prayers, in which idle people indulge themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4138]]></link><description><![CDATA[A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. [Lat., Beneficium non in eo quot fit aut datur consistit sed in ipso dantis aut facientis animo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Niagara! wonder of this western world, And half the world beside! hail, beauteous queen  Of cataracts!" An angel who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44500]]></link><description><![CDATA["Niagara! wonder of this western world, And half the world beside! hail, beauteous queen  Of cataracts!" An angel who had been   O'er heaven and earth, spoke thus, his bright wings furled,    And knelt to Nature first, on the wild cliff unseen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No tree has branches so foolish as to fight amongthemselves.Ojibway Tribe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45963]]></link><description><![CDATA[No tree has branches so foolish as to fight amongthemselves.Ojibway Tribe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take it that every Christian delivers himself up wholly to God in his baptism, when he renounces all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take it that every Christian delivers himself up wholly to God in his baptism, when he renounces all the pomps and vanities of Satan, and enlists himself as a soldier to fight under Christ's banner all his life after. And Saint Paul, speaking of those that die with Christ, that they may live no longer to themselves, but to Him that died for them, does not mean this of monks only, but of Christians universally.  ... The Colloquies of Erasmus July 13, 1999  Do right, and God's recompense to you will be the power of doing more right. Give, and God's reward to you will be the spirit of giving more: a blessed spirit, for it is the Spirit of God Himself, whose Life is the blessedness of giving. Love, and God will pay you with the capacity of more love; for love is Heaven: love is God within you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature.   - Ralph Waldo Emerson, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature.   - Ralph Waldo Emerson,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light griefs are communicative, great ones stupefy. [Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light griefs are communicative, great ones stupefy. [Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weren't the last drop in the well, As I gasp'd upon the brink,  Ere my fainting spirit fell,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weren't the last drop in the well, As I gasp'd upon the brink,  Ere my fainting spirit fell,   'Tis to thee that I would drink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58104]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anchorman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anchorman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If music be the food of love, play on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51522]]></link><description><![CDATA[If music be the food of love, play on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65859]]></link><description><![CDATA[I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prime Minister Blair has long felt -- he certainly felt after September 11 -- that there was no moral or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Blair has long felt -- he certainly felt after September 11 -- that there was no moral or strategic advantage to be gained by artificial distance from the U.S.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32536</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[A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9726]]></link><description><![CDATA[A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They always talk who never think, and who have the least to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25546]]></link><description><![CDATA[They always talk who never think, and who have the least to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we realize one Dream, sometimes a deeper Dream reveals itself. Atother times a parallel Dream appears. The one that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21468]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we realize one Dream, sometimes a deeper Dream reveals itself. Atother times a parallel Dream appears. The one that scares the hell out ofyou is probably it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/794]]></link><description><![CDATA[We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Porn sells, and that has been the case in the real world and on the Internet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Porn sells, and that has been the case in the real world and on the Internet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For example, there was the day he gave me the job of figuring out how many jelly beans it would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23209]]></link><description><![CDATA[For example, there was the day he gave me the job of figuring out how many jelly beans it would take to fill up Soldier Field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until the county has a hospital, industry is not going to come here. Industries want to be able to provide ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until the county has a hospital, industry is not going to come here. Industries want to be able to provide medical care for their workers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each song, you're telling a story and acting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each song, you're telling a story and acting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65439]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10266]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I asked him what the prognosis was. And he said that without medication, my life expectancy was about two years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29195]]></link><description><![CDATA[I asked him what the prognosis was. And he said that without medication, my life expectancy was about two years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life there are meetings which seem Like a fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26813]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life there are meetings which seem Like a fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who sees action in inaction and inaction in action hasunderstanding among men and discipline in all action he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22767]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who sees action in inaction and inaction in action hasunderstanding among men and discipline in all action he performs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24278]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9959]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts already past,  A fifth shall close the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first Acts already past,  A fifth shall close the Drama with the day;   Time's noblest offspring is the last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The side played sensationally. Wherever that leaves us in the table, we can be happy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The side played sensationally. Wherever that leaves us in the table, we can be happy,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prince Edward all in gold, as he great Jove had been, The Mountfords all in plumes, like estridges were seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prince Edward all in gold, as he great Jove had been, The Mountfords all in plumes, like estridges were seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You play the spaniel, And think with wagging of your tongue to win me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59488]]></link><description><![CDATA[You play the spaniel, And think with wagging of your tongue to win me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In times of stress and strain, people will vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60975]]></link><description><![CDATA[In times of stress and strain, people will vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60975</guid></item></channel></rss>