<?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[Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14844]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52486]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   We are not only to renounce evil, but to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have informed Sam I am taking up the option on the second year of his contract. There is still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41905]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have informed Sam I am taking up the option on the second year of his contract. There is still a big room for improvement, but he has pace, he has confidence and he will definitely be an asset to the club.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/482]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May your days be many and your troubles be few. May all God's blessings descend upon you. May peace be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4305]]></link><description><![CDATA[May your days be many and your troubles be few. May all God's blessings descend upon you. May peace be within you may your heart be strong. May you find what you're seeking wherever you roam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61348]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17189]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Fatherland no danger thine, Firm stand thy sons to watch the Rhine!  [Ger., Lieb Vaterland magst ruhig sein, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear Fatherland no danger thine, Firm stand thy sons to watch the Rhine!  [Ger., Lieb Vaterland magst ruhig sein,   Fest steht und treu die Wacht am Rhein!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actually punching is a mistake; a heavy hitter will cut you with one shot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actually punching is a mistake; a heavy hitter will cut you with one shot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a very popular company locally. We have our critics, but everyone in the community has benefited from how well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28404]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a very popular company locally. We have our critics, but everyone in the community has benefited from how well we run these ski resorts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10002]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect  God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore   Only among ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect  God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore   Only among the crowd and under roofs    That our frail hands have raised?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay  It useth an enforced ceremony.   There are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay  It useth an enforced ceremony.   There are no tricks in plain and simple faith;    But hollow men, like horses hot at hand,     Make gallant show and promise of their mettle;      But when they should endure the bloody spur,       They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades        Sink in the trial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Andes, giant of the western star, With meteor standard to the winds unfurl'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where Andes, giant of the western star, With meteor standard to the winds unfurl'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was no fire. We started out a little down in the beginning. We were lucky to still be winning, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34198]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was no fire. We started out a little down in the beginning. We were lucky to still be winning, I thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a disease no one talks about, ... But it changes your life. I never got to play football; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31521]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a disease no one talks about, ... But it changes your life. I never got to play football; I had to quit baseball because I was too sick; and when I got to college, I missed a quarter of my sophomore year and had to live with a feeding tube for a while.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27013]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7790]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25874]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can do no great things; only small things with great love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2178]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can do no great things; only small things with great love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death ends a life, not a relationship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death ends a life, not a relationship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work at it night and day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work at it night and day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought they'd give it to Sharon. I was shocked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought they'd give it to Sharon. I was shocked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most under-employed, talent in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most under-employed, talent in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite all of the known benefits of exercise, there are also well-documented associations between acute episodes of exertion and sudden ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite all of the known benefits of exercise, there are also well-documented associations between acute episodes of exertion and sudden cardiac death. Although relatively rare, these deaths commonly occur in an unexpected fashion among those who appear quite healthy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57392]]></link><description><![CDATA[It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wildest colts only make the best horses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19839]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wildest colts only make the best horses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way of sinners is made plain with stones, but at the end thereof is the pit of hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19122]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way of sinners is made plain with stones, but at the end thereof is the pit of hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53338]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43822]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Yes," I answered you last night; "No," this morning, sir, I say:  Colors seen by candle-light   Will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61997]]></link><description><![CDATA["Yes," I answered you last night; "No," this morning, sir, I say:  Colors seen by candle-light   Will not look the same by day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This power of being outwardly genial and inwardly austere, which is the real Christian temper, depends entirely upon the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7856]]></link><description><![CDATA[This power of being outwardly genial and inwardly austere, which is the real Christian temper, depends entirely upon the time set apart for personal religion. It is always achieved if courageously and faithfully sought; and there are no heights of love and holiness to which it cannot lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She that with poetry is won, Is but a desk to write upon;  And what men say of her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62006]]></link><description><![CDATA[She that with poetry is won, Is but a desk to write upon;  And what men say of her they mean   No more than on the thing they lean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56413]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64118]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45657]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22728]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59467]]></link><description><![CDATA[You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59467</guid></item></channel></rss>