<?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[Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2102]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The water owns a power Divine, And conscious blushes into wine;  Its very nature changed displays   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27559]]></link><description><![CDATA[The water owns a power Divine, And conscious blushes into wine;  Its very nature changed displays   The power Divine that it obeys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099   Once I knew what it was to rest upon the rock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099   Once I knew what it was to rest upon the rock of God's promises, and it was indeed a precious resting place, but now I rest in His grace. He is teaching me that the bosom of His love is a far sweeter resting-place than even the rock of His promises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we did everything tonight but win on the scoreboard. I think we dominated a large portion of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we did everything tonight but win on the scoreboard. I think we dominated a large portion of the game, so you know we gave up a bad goal in the beginning. We have to put ourselves in a better position where we have to defend a lead in the last ten minutes rather than try to come back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61788]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country town;  May I have a warm house, with a stone at my gate,   And a cleanly young girl to rub my bald pate.    May I govern my passions with an absolute sway,     Grow wiser and better as my strength wears away,      Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.   - Walter Pope, The Old Man's Wish,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that Aberdeen Airport will do everything possible to be a good neighbour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that Aberdeen Airport will do everything possible to be a good neighbour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my possessions for a moment of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15226]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my possessions for a moment of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of: a blessing that money cannot buy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of: a blessing that money cannot buy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53659]]></link><description><![CDATA[It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14779]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With good and gentle-humored hearts I choose to chat where'er I come  Whate'er the subject be that starts.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10085]]></link><description><![CDATA[With good and gentle-humored hearts I choose to chat where'er I come  Whate'er the subject be that starts.   But if I get among the glum    I hold my tongue to tell the truth     And keep my breath to cool my broth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1619]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law is a bottomless pit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law is a bottomless pit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the job of the coaching staff to turn that into a positive. We're in this for the long run. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40928]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the job of the coaching staff to turn that into a positive. We're in this for the long run. This isn't a sprint; it's a marathon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12915]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin withdoubts, and are patient in them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21255]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin withdoubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still have a refining issue. Refineries in other parts of the country have been able to increase output but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39169]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still have a refining issue. Refineries in other parts of the country have been able to increase output but they will have to go down later this year for maintenance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64464]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50419]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that keeps nor crust nor crumb, Weary of all shall want some. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51335]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that keeps nor crust nor crumb, Weary of all shall want some.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2027]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20772]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work. - Wisdom for Our Time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19875]]></link><description><![CDATA[HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1674]]></link><description><![CDATA[When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A piece of a Churchyard fitts every body. [A piece of a Churchyard fits every body.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49066]]></link><description><![CDATA[A piece of a Churchyard fitts every body. [A piece of a Churchyard fits every body.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate Of mighty monarchs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51771]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate Of mighty monarchs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62139]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my water-proof umbrella proved a sieve, sieve, sieve, When my shiny new umbrella proved a sieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60001]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my water-proof umbrella proved a sieve, sieve, sieve, When my shiny new umbrella proved a sieve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. [Lat., Non me pudet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20404]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. [Lat., Non me pudet fateri nescire quod nesciam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9145]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words pregnant with celestial fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words pregnant with celestial fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26888]]></link><description><![CDATA[I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She can change her Mind like the wind: whatever she has said  Or done, is light to what she'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48756]]></link><description><![CDATA[She can change her Mind like the wind: whatever she has said  Or done, is light to what she'll say or do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often despise what is most useful to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57097]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often despise what is most useful to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have rededicated myself to my procession as a way of honoring him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38550]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have rededicated myself to my procession as a way of honoring him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That would make this particularly disheartening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32298]]></link><description><![CDATA[That would make this particularly disheartening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would have hoped for there to be a willingness to calm things down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34961]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would have hoped for there to be a willingness to calm things down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65231]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65231</guid></item></channel></rss>