<?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[We come and we cry, and that is life; we yawn and we depart, and that is death! [Fr., On ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24840]]></link><description><![CDATA[We come and we cry, and that is life; we yawn and we depart, and that is death! [Fr., On entre, on crie,  Et c'est la vie!   On baille, on sort,    Et c'est la mort!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23487]]></link><description><![CDATA[When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tavern owners and, by extension, the beer truck companies (we do sell some trucks to people who deliver beer) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tavern owners and, by extension, the beer truck companies (we do sell some trucks to people who deliver beer) have not pulled any business from GM over our support of MADD.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5366]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world seems ... a little less funny without you in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world seems ... a little less funny without you in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to women at a crisis time in their life. If the product is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to women at a crisis time in their life. If the product is defective, she can't return it for a refund.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As is the mother, so is her daughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48567]]></link><description><![CDATA[As is the mother, so is her daughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536  God is our true Friend, who always gives us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536  God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us. We know well enough how to keep outward silence, and to hush our spoken words, but we know little of interior silence. It consists in hushing our idle, restless, wandering imagination, in quieting the promptings of our worldly minds, and in suppressing the crowd of unprofitable thoughts which excite and disturb the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As any policeman today will tell you, it's not the idea of getting the first shot off, it's hitting your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37076]]></link><description><![CDATA[As any policeman today will tell you, it's not the idea of getting the first shot off, it's hitting your target. Often the first guy that shoots misses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like a Bull Moose.   - Theodore Roosevelt, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57946]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like a Bull Moose.   - Theodore Roosevelt,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The place of justice is a hallowed place ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23611]]></link><description><![CDATA[The place of justice is a hallowed place]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Building up arms is not a substitute for diplomacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Building up arms is not a substitute for diplomacy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gull shall whistle in his wake, the blind wave break in fire. He shall fulfill God's utmost will, unknowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62122]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gull shall whistle in his wake, the blind wave break in fire. He shall fulfill God's utmost will, unknowing His desire,  And he shall see old planets pass and alien stars arise,   And give the gale his reckless sail in shadow of new skies.    Strong lust of gear shall drive him out and hunger arm his hand,     To wring his food from a desert nude, his foothold from the sand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads  At going out, we think, and enter straight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads  At going out, we think, and enter straight   Another golden chamber of the king's    Larger than this we leave, and lovelier.     And then in shadowy glimpses, disconnect,      The story, flower-like, closes thus its leaves.       The will of God is all in all. He makes,        Destroys, remakes, for His own pleasure, all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45132]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The living need more charity than the dead ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The living need more charity than the dead]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women know The way to rear up children (to be just);  They know a simple, merry, tender knack  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women know The way to rear up children (to be just);  They know a simple, merry, tender knack   Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes,    And stringing pretty words that make no sense,     And kissing full sense into empty words;      Which things are corals to cut life upon,       Although such trifles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The employment picture remains fairly grim, and that's having a dampening effect on measures of consumer confidence. And we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The employment picture remains fairly grim, and that's having a dampening effect on measures of consumer confidence. And we have higher energy prices, which is another drag on consumer confidence and a 'tax' on consumer spending.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get the card, it's a shock. People at age 50 don't feel ready to begin a new stage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40899]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get the card, it's a shock. People at age 50 don't feel ready to begin a new stage of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13092]]></link><description><![CDATA[For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike--for your altars and your fires; Strike--for the green graves of your sires.  God--and your native land! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike--for your altars and your fires; Strike--for the green graves of your sires.  God--and your native land!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65433]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art [of healing] is long, but life is fleeting. [Lat., Art longa, vita brevis est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art [of healing] is long, but life is fleeting. [Lat., Art longa, vita brevis est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose. [Fr., Je ne suis pas la rose, mais ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54438]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose. [Fr., Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j'ai vecu pres d'elle.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have seven suburban New York stores that people can go to if they can't get to the Manhattan location. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41667]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have seven suburban New York stores that people can go to if they can't get to the Manhattan location.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O that this too too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,  Or that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12013]]></link><description><![CDATA[O that this too too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,  Or that the Everlasting had not fixed   His canon 'gainst self-slaughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will never try to develop a strategy that wins on price. There is nothing unique about pricing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20826]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will never try to develop a strategy that wins on price. There is nothing unique about pricing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And daisy-stars, whose firmament is green. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10990]]></link><description><![CDATA[And daisy-stars, whose firmament is green.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15946]]></link><description><![CDATA[In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, and Pete Fleming, martyrs, Equador, 1956  Oh, the fullness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, and Pete Fleming, martyrs, Equador, 1956  Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on Earth! I care not if I never raise my voice again for Him, if only I may love Him, please Him. Mayhap in mercy He shall give me a host of children that I may lead them through the vast star fields to explore His delicacies whose finger ends set them to burning. But if not, if only I may see Him, touch His garments, smile into His eyes -- ah then, not stars nor children shall matter, only Himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gives us the very quintessence of perception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46059]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gives us the very quintessence of perception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I can't do anything about ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48291]]></link><description><![CDATA[My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I can't do anything about]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the worst pain I'd ever felt in my life. I didn't want to go to school. I dreaded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36135]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the worst pain I'd ever felt in my life. I didn't want to go to school. I dreaded going to the training room every day because I knew what was going to happen. It was a lot of pain, but I wanted to come back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! my child, where is the Pen That can do justice to the Hen?  Like Royalty, she goes her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! my child, where is the Pen That can do justice to the Hen?  Like Royalty, she goes her way,   Laying foundations every day,    Though not for Public Buildings, yet     For Custard, Cake and Omelette.      Of if too old for such a use       They have their fling at some abuse,        As when to censure Plays Unfit         Upon the stage they make a Hit          Or at elections seal the Fate           Of an Obnoxious Candidate.            No wonder, Child, we prize the Hen,             Whose Egg is Mightier than the Pen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum  Caliginosa nocte premit deus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17092]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum  Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a set of lies agreed upon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19308]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a set of lies agreed upon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord is good unto them who wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45709]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord is good unto them who wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had been talking to the kids in that the bottom of the lineup had to do something and pick ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37293]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had been talking to the kids in that the bottom of the lineup had to do something and pick up some weight too. They have responded here the last four-five games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has strangled His language in his tears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24014]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has strangled His language in his tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love I bear Christ is but a faint and feeble spark, but it is an emanation from himself: He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love I bear Christ is but a faint and feeble spark, but it is an emanation from himself: He kindled it and he keeps it alive; and because it is his work, I trust many waters shall not quench it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no ugly women, only lazy ones ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4044]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no ugly women, only lazy ones]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59250]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One fine day, Says Mister Mucklewraith to me, says he.  "So! you're a poet in your house," and smiled. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46846]]></link><description><![CDATA[One fine day, Says Mister Mucklewraith to me, says he.  "So! you're a poet in your house," and smiled.   "A Poet? God forbid," I cried; and then    It all came out: how Andrew slyly sent     Verse to the paper; how they printed it      In Poet's Corner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said there were too many incidents, but there's not enough incidents to make a drastic change in the program ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38133]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said there were too many incidents, but there's not enough incidents to make a drastic change in the program at this point in time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38133</guid></item></channel></rss>