<?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[A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22347]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20048]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had no problems with the old rules, but I think taking the red line away will hopefully add to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28469]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had no problems with the old rules, but I think taking the red line away will hopefully add to scoring and make the game faster, ... As a defenseman, I look at scoring negatively, but it works both ways. I wonder about the expectations though. I played in Sweden, without a red line, and I don't think the game was faster. On the other hand, I wasn't playing with the best players in the world, as in the NHL. We'll adjust to the new icing rules and in a few years we won't remember what it was like before. There's always calls for new rules, but I just hope the game doesn't change too drastically.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1408]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer is the creator as well as the channel of devotion. The spirit of devotion is the spirit of prayer. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer is the creator as well as the channel of devotion. The spirit of devotion is the spirit of prayer. Prayer and devotion are united as soul and body are united, as life and the heart are united. There is no real prayer without devotion, no devotion without prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miracles happen to those who believe in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miracles happen to those who believe in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of the whole city.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19380]]></link><description><![CDATA[We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60175]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the players, (ie everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54118]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; friendships formed without prayer; the daily act of prayer itself hurried over, or gone through without heart: these are the kind of downward steps by which many a Christian descends to a condition of spiritual palsy, or reaches the point where God allows them to have a tremendous fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea is salvation by imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54666]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea is salvation by imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61699]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43561]]></link><description><![CDATA[No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we all have to keep working as a unit to get better. Offensive line, more than any position ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42142]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we all have to keep working as a unit to get better. Offensive line, more than any position on the field, has to work as a cohesive group. If we keep growing as a group, we'll be pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I met Billy Goldenberg, my musical director and composer, who's earned 32 Emmy nominations by the way, in 1981. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29922]]></link><description><![CDATA[I met Billy Goldenberg, my musical director and composer, who's earned 32 Emmy nominations by the way, in 1981.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hence, dear delusion, sweet enchantment hence!   - Horace Smith and James Smith, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hence, dear delusion, sweet enchantment hence!   - Horace Smith and James Smith,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20614]]></link><description><![CDATA[But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love;  The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain   Make Good    Together there we can begin again     In babyhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   Pain is a kindly, hopeful thing, a certain proof of life, a clear assurance that all is not yet over, that there is still a chance. But if your heart has no pain -- well, that may betoken health, as you suppose: but are you certain that it does not mean that your soul is dead?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may becom]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20021]]></link><description><![CDATA['Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64541]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool bolts a door with a boiled carrot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50957]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool bolts a door with a boiled carrot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is honor among thieves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59070]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is honor among thieves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50701]]></link><description><![CDATA[A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56608]]></link><description><![CDATA[What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light seeking light doth light of light beguile. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light seeking light doth light of light beguile. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our youth we can have but to-day; We may always find time to grow old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our youth we can have but to-day; We may always find time to grow old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63980]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must retool our nation to prepare for the challenge we already face to maintain our position in the global ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23291]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must retool our nation to prepare for the challenge we already face to maintain our position in the global economy. And this much is certain: America will not have national security without economic security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe! (Very wise is he that can know himself.). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe! (Very wise is he that can know himself.).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16831]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And never lie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole thing about reality weddings is that it gives people the ability to peek over the fence to see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32942]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole thing about reality weddings is that it gives people the ability to peek over the fence to see how others are doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61110]]></link><description><![CDATA[If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's quiet, it's offset. If you didn't know it was here, you wouldn't have a reason to come here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41443]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's quiet, it's offset. If you didn't know it was here, you wouldn't have a reason to come here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Error is just as important a condition of life as truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Error is just as important a condition of life as truth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[and everything after that is just cost savings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34191]]></link><description><![CDATA[and everything after that is just cost savings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34191</guid></item></channel></rss>