<?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[The best way to make children good is to make them happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to make children good is to make them happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not altogether a delerium, yet it has many points in common therewith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not altogether a delerium, yet it has many points in common therewith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44280]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried?  Ay, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10143]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried?  Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting.   Have I not tarried?    Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening.     Still have I tarried.      Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the      kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and      the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance      to burn your lips.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair ladies mask'd are roses in their bud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair ladies mask'd are roses in their bud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever has Christ in his heart, so that no earthly or temporal things -- not even those that are legitimate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever has Christ in his heart, so that no earthly or temporal things -- not even those that are legitimate and allowed -- are preferred to Him, has Christ as a foundation. But if these things be preferred, then even though a man seem to have faith in Christ, yet Christ is not the foundation to that man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me  Weary and old with service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51362]]></link><description><![CDATA[My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me  Weary and old with service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am following Nature without being able to grasp her . . . . I perhaps owe having become a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16278]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am following Nature without being able to grasp her . . . . I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shows like CSI are teaching people that without forensic evidence you can't convict anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shows like CSI are teaching people that without forensic evidence you can't convict anybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horseis worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22107]]></link><description><![CDATA[A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horseis worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effortthat separates the winner from the one in second place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may have the best-shooting backcourt in the NBA. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may have the best-shooting backcourt in the NBA.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a glowworm golden, in a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden its aerial blue  Among the flowers and grass ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a glowworm golden, in a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden its aerial blue  Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thomas a Kempis speaks for all the ages when he represents Jesus as saying to him, "A wise lover regards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thomas a Kempis speaks for all the ages when he represents Jesus as saying to him, "A wise lover regards not so much the gift of him who loves, as the love of him who gives. He esteems affection rather than valuables, and sets all gifts below the Beloved. A noble-minded lover rests not in the gift, but in Me above every gift." The sustaining power of the Beloved Presence has through the ages made the sickbed sweet and the graveside triumphant; transformed broken hearts and relations; brought glory to drudgery, poverty and old age; and turned the martyr's stake or noose into a place of coronation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He told me once The saddest thing that can befall the soul,  Is when it loses faith in God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51550]]></link><description><![CDATA[He told me once The saddest thing that can befall the soul,  Is when it loses faith in God and woman,   For he had lost them both. Lost I those gems,    Though the world's throne stood open in my path,     I would go wandering back into my childhood,      Searching for them with tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose,  Working so grossly in a natural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose,  Working so grossly in a natural cause   That admiration did not whoop at them;    But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in     Wonder to wait on treason and on murder;      And whatsoever cunning fiend it was       That wrought upon thee so preposterously        Hath got the voice in hell for excellence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're down 1-0 in a mini playoff series. We'll bounce back. We have to come out hungrier and with more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32798]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're down 1-0 in a mini playoff series. We'll bounce back. We have to come out hungrier and with more hustle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter.  We therefore deemed it meeter   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter.  We therefore deemed it meeter   To carry off the latter.   - Thomas Love Peacock,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 Am I a stone, and not a sheep,  That I can stand, 0 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 Am I a stone, and not a sheep,  That I can stand, 0 Christ, beneath Thy cross,  To number drop by drop Thy Blood's slow loss,  And yet not weep? Not so those women loved  Who with exceeding grief lamented Thee;  Not so fallen Peter weeping bitterly;  Not so the thief was moved; Not so the Sun and Moon  Which hid their faces in a starless sky:  A horror of great darkness at broad noon I only I. Yet give not o'er  But seek Thy sheep, true Shepherd of the flock;  Greater than Moses, turn and look once more  And smite a rock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love every aspect of being a woman. I believe you should celebrate who you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66792]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love every aspect of being a woman. I believe you should celebrate who you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our defense just flat got after them. They just played special, hard-nosed, consistent football. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our defense just flat got after them. They just played special, hard-nosed, consistent football.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46946]]></link><description><![CDATA[A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in a festive gathering, but one who remains shut up in his office learns nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're in a Manhattan building with 30 apartments that's one thing. But if you're the guy who parks your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39331]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're in a Manhattan building with 30 apartments that's one thing. But if you're the guy who parks your car in front of a suburban house in the middle of the night and you've got the screen from your laptop glowing, well...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35704]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64041]]></link><description><![CDATA[To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9260]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really miss having her as a training partner, ... We pushed each other in everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40780]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really miss having her as a training partner, ... We pushed each other in everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's our goal to have a wide range of power tools at every price point. We're always looking for opportunities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31550]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's our goal to have a wide range of power tools at every price point. We're always looking for opportunities to enhance that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're focusing on particular works ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â films, books, pieces of music, architecture ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â that deserve the name 'icon' and have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40285]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're focusing on particular works ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â films, books, pieces of music, architecture ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â that deserve the name 'icon' and have this influence on our culture. Everybody knows those things, but almost because they're icons, people don't look below the fact of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53683]]></link><description><![CDATA[To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain withi its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43965]]></link><description><![CDATA[All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain withi its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man,-- A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr    The man who will not act until he knows all will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr    The man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm speechless and so happy to be in the finals. As a kid, I always looked up to people above ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32182]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm speechless and so happy to be in the finals. As a kid, I always looked up to people above me to see what they could do. I think I passed some of them, most of them, and I'm happy about that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We haven't really lost the momentum. We were afraid that might happen with Congress away for two weeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29357]]></link><description><![CDATA[We haven't really lost the momentum. We were afraid that might happen with Congress away for two weeks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo. sifted through the winds that blow, Down comes the soft and silent snow,  White petals from the flowers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo. sifted through the winds that blow, Down comes the soft and silent snow,  White petals from the flowers that grow   In the cold atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She wants to see the goals in the bill become a reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41580]]></link><description><![CDATA[She wants to see the goals in the bill become a reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18570]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which we go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52573</guid></item></channel></rss>