<?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[I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26310]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had some bad turnovers and created some easy opportunities for them. The biggest thing in the fourth quarter is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37678]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had some bad turnovers and created some easy opportunities for them. The biggest thing in the fourth quarter is we gave up way too many offensive rebounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had their lean books with the fat of others' works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46632]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had their lean books with the fat of others' works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535  We must always speak of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535  We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60027]]></link><description><![CDATA[We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what\'s right . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63960]]></link><description><![CDATA[True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what\'s right .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avarice, envy, pride. Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avarice, envy, pride. Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelqu'un comme ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60389]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelqu'un comme il veut l'etre.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that sees the beauty of holiness, or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8460]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that sees the beauty of holiness, or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world... Unless this is seen, nothing is seen that is worth seeing: for there is no other true excellence or beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27595]]></link><description><![CDATA[To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus Why does He make our hearts so strangely still,  Why stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus Why does He make our hearts so strangely still,  Why stands He forth so stately and so tall? Because He has no self to serve, no will  That does not seek the welfare of the All.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will not become a saint through other people's sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52424]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will not become a saint through other people's sins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He play'd an ancient ditty long since mute, In Provence call'd, "La belle dame sans merci." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57216]]></link><description><![CDATA[He play'd an ancient ditty long since mute, In Provence call'd, "La belle dame sans merci."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16918]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a small hobby, family farm. We have no intention of any other large animals, like cattle. Our pastures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42656]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a small hobby, family farm. We have no intention of any other large animals, like cattle. Our pastures are small.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an exciting time for the Rockets. Yao is going to be a part of the Rockets for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40682]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an exciting time for the Rockets. Yao is going to be a part of the Rockets for a long time. I feel he'll become one of the great players in NBA history. He's got the size, intelligence, youth, and quickness to be a phenomenal, forceful player in the league.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The religious desire and effort of the soul to relate itself and all its interest to God and his will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The religious desire and effort of the soul to relate itself and all its interest to God and his will, is prayer in the deepest sense. This is essential prayer: uttered or unexpressed, it is equally prayer. It is the soul's desire after God going forth in a manifestation, ... the soul striving after God. This is a prayer that may exist without ceasing, consisting, as it does, not in doing or saying this or that, but in temper and attitude of the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a good time of year. Legislation is at the forefront of people's minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39507]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a good time of year. Legislation is at the forefront of people's minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred!  Than spotted livers in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred!  Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, we only have half court and now we're going to have full court and like the computer lab ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, we only have half court and now we're going to have full court and like the computer lab that's going to be way better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not just a Jewish thing, it's a faith thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29219]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not just a Jewish thing, it's a faith thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that plaies his mony ought not to value it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49386]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that plaies his mony ought not to value it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24702]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well! Evil to some is always good to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well! Evil to some is always good to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12588</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[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18059]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we'd played three pretty good games in a row. Everyone's going to have a bad game, and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42651]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we'd played three pretty good games in a row. Everyone's going to have a bad game, and I thought we might have one after how well we played against Pilot Rock. But at least it was now and not next week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are the physicians of a mind diseased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15669]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22507]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. For it is not by the possession, but the search after truth that he enlarges his power, wherein alone consists his ever-increasing perfection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3099]]></link><description><![CDATA[An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vain is the hope by colouring to display The bright effulgence of the noontide ray  Or paint the full-orb'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vain is the hope by colouring to display The bright effulgence of the noontide ray  Or paint the full-orb'd ruler of the skies   With pencils dipt in dull terrestrial dyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now is the time for all good men to come to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now is the time for all good men to come to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People don't come into your life by accident. Everyone that crosses your path serves a purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62853]]></link><description><![CDATA[People don't come into your life by accident. Everyone that crosses your path serves a purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[raspberry drupelets cluster around a cavern of emptiness(paraphrased from her talk on C Span's Book TV). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43944]]></link><description><![CDATA[raspberry drupelets cluster around a cavern of emptiness(paraphrased from her talk on C Span's Book TV).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is a kind of legalized pillage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is a kind of legalized pillage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position. [Lat., Asperius nihil est humil cum surgit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position. [Lat., Asperius nihil est humil cum surgit in altum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4657</guid></item></channel></rss>