<?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[Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fashion of liking Racine will pass away like that of coffee. [Fr., La mode d'aimer Racine passera comme la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25261]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fashion of liking Racine will pass away like that of coffee. [Fr., La mode d'aimer Racine passera comme la mode du cafe.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   Some there are who presume so far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves capable of measuring the whole nature of things by their intellect, in that they esteem all things true which they see, and false which they see not. Accordingly, in order that man's mind might be freed from this presumption, and seek the truth humbly, it was necessary that certain things far surpassing his intellect should be proposed to man by God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1650]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've just got to think that your legs aren't tired and there's still a lot of game left to play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38916]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've just got to think that your legs aren't tired and there's still a lot of game left to play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47396]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clown waits for the river to run itself dry. [Crossing Cheapside.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clown waits for the river to run itself dry. [Crossing Cheapside.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were out in the middle of Nebraska, without the sixth-largest shopping center in the country at your doorstep, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36385]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were out in the middle of Nebraska, without the sixth-largest shopping center in the country at your doorstep, you would be an incredibly attractive retail market to any tenant in the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the spring comes slowly up this way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57781]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the spring comes slowly up this way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is also to be found in a day's work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd  And watched with zealous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd  And watched with zealous care;   No glorious halo crowns their efforts grand--    Contempt is Failure's share!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink- drop soileth the pure white page. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15428]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink- drop soileth the pure white page.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15428</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><item><title><![CDATA[They know no country, own no lord, Their home the camp, their law the sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45806]]></link><description><![CDATA[They know no country, own no lord, Their home the camp, their law the sword.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ash Wednesday Beginning a short series on forgiveness:   Turn your eyes full upon yourselves, and see if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ash Wednesday Beginning a short series on forgiveness:   Turn your eyes full upon yourselves, and see if you cannot discover the same fault [that you would judge in another] in yourselves, either in times past or now-a-days. And, if you find it, remember how that it is God's appointing that you shall now behold this sin in another, in order that you may be brought to acknowledge and repent of it; and amend your ways and pray for your brother, that God may grant him repentance and amendment according to His Divine Will. Thus a good heart draws amendment from the sins of others, and is guarded from all harsh judgment and wrath, and preserves an even temper; while an evil heart puts the worst interpretation on all that it sees, and turns it to its own hurt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played a good match. We had six minutes of craziness. It was something which can't be explained. It's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30997]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played a good match. We had six minutes of craziness. It was something which can't be explained. It's not the moment of regrets. We are sorry, embittered, but this is soccer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He seems to be doing OK. He needs to work on things and develop more consistency. We want him to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38901]]></link><description><![CDATA[He seems to be doing OK. He needs to work on things and develop more consistency. We want him to throw a two-seam fastball more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12765]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19195]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man dies - Not every man really lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man dies - Not every man really lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor souls are apt to think that all those whom they read of or hear of to be gone to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor souls are apt to think that all those whom they read of or hear of to be gone to heaven, went thither because they were so good and so holy... Yet not one of them, not any man that is now in heaven (Jesus Christ alone excepted), did ever come thither any other way but by forgiveness of sins. And that will also bring us higher, though we come short of many of them in holiness and grace...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ: If it be all for naught, for nothingness At last, why does God make the world so fair? Why spill this golden splendor out across The western hills, and light the silver lamp Of eve? Why give me eyes to see, and soul To love so strong and deep? Then, with a pang This brightness stabs me through, and wakes within Rebellious voice to cry against all death? Why set this hunger for eternity To gnaw my heartstrings through, if death ends all? If death ends all, then evil must be good, Wrong must be right, and beauty ugliness.  God is a Judas who betrays His Son, And with a kiss, damns all the world to hell, -- If Christ rose not again.   ... Unknown soldier, killed in World War I  August 9, 2002 Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921 Concluding a short series of verse on Christ: With this ambiguous earth his dealings have been told us. These abide:    The signal to a maid, the human birth,    The lesson, and the young Man crucified. But not a star of all the innumerable host of stars has heard    How he administered this terrestrial ball.    Our race has kept their Lord's entrusted Word. Of his earth-visiting feet none knows the secret, cherished, perilous,    The terrible, shamefast, frightened, whispered, sweet,    Heart-shattering secret of his way with us. No planet knows that this, our wayside planet, carrying land and wave,    Love and life multiplied, and pain and bliss,    Bears, as its chief treasure, one forsaken grave. Nor, in our little day, may his devices with the heavens be guessed,    His pilgrimage to thread the Milky Way    Or his bestowal there be manifest. But in the eternities, doubtless we shall compare    Together, hear a million alien Gospels, in what guise    He trod the Pleiades, the Lyre, and the Bear. O, be prepared, my soul! To read the inconceivable, to scan    The million forms of God those stars unroll    When, in our turn, we show to them a Man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47289]]></link><description><![CDATA[A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. from the poemThe Cotter’s Saturday Night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. from the poemThe Cotter’s Saturday Night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom rings where opinions clash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom rings where opinions clash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the doubles of those whose way Was festal with fruits and flowers;  Body and brain we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58129]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the doubles of those whose way Was festal with fruits and flowers;  Body and brain we were sound as they,   But the prizes were not ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible for a hole-in-one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible for a hole-in-one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between your mind and your heart: Your mind tells you what is smart and your heart tells you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62962]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between your mind and your heart: Your mind tells you what is smart and your heart tells you what you're going to do anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first hundred years are the hardest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first hundred years are the hardest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  So long as we are full of self, we are shocked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  So long as we are full of self, we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53160</guid></item></channel></rss>