<?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[One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46887]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on prayer   We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on prayer   We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism... To your knees, man! and to your Bible! Decide at once! Don't hedge! Time flies! Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This change in our name better reflects who we are and where we are going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33004]]></link><description><![CDATA[This change in our name better reflects who we are and where we are going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 And have the bright immensities received our risen Lord Where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 And have the bright immensities received our risen Lord Where light-years frame the Pleiades and point Orion's sword? Do flaming suns his footsteps trace through corridors sublime, The Lord of interstellar space and Conqueror of time? The heaven that hides Him from our sight knows neither near nor far: An altar candle sheds its light as surely as a star; And where His loving people meet to share the gift divine, There stands He with unhurrying feet, and Heaven's splendors shine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56413]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Customers can expect millions of dollars in savings at the bottom line, compared with Xeon-based systems, by slashing power requirements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Customers can expect millions of dollars in savings at the bottom line, compared with Xeon-based systems, by slashing power requirements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, it's too close to call. I had a lot of surprises last night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, it's too close to call. I had a lot of surprises last night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things come round to him who will but wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45725]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things come round to him who will but wait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A brother is a friend provided by nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15168]]></link><description><![CDATA[A brother is a friend provided by nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63683]]></link><description><![CDATA[A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All who (like him) have writ ill plays before, For they, like thieves, condemned, are hangman made,  To execute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10747]]></link><description><![CDATA[All who (like him) have writ ill plays before, For they, like thieves, condemned, are hangman made,  To execute the members of their trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59226]]></link><description><![CDATA[To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past-- For years fleet away with the wings of the dove-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23825]]></link><description><![CDATA[When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past-- For years fleet away with the wings of the dove--  The dearest remembrance will still be the last,   Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is sorrow's salve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is sorrow's salve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: For as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took her, like, 7 1/2 hours to get home yesterday, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36131]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took her, like, 7 1/2 hours to get home yesterday,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more specific you are, the more general it'll be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were clearly a better team with our injuries. With three weight classes out - you have a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30958]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were clearly a better team with our injuries. With three weight classes out - you have a problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ill deede cannot bring honour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49122]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ill deede cannot bring honour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a firm believer that it's not the way you look or what you have, but what you've got inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40249]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a firm believer that it's not the way you look or what you have, but what you've got inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9037]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24773]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more fools the more one laughs. [Fr., Plus on est de fous, plus on rit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more fools the more one laughs. [Fr., Plus on est de fous, plus on rit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40673]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prithee, friend, Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear,  The good and the bad together: he's friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prithee, friend, Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear,  The good and the bad together: he's friends with Caesar,   In state of health, thou say'st, and thou say'st, free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a long time to understand nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a long time to understand nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As an editor, I've always known that memoirs are selective truth. I don't know that I've ever known anybody who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31361]]></link><description><![CDATA[As an editor, I've always known that memoirs are selective truth. I don't know that I've ever known anybody who created things, made them up, so much as I know that people edit their memories. We all do this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to get caught up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to get caught up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sister wanted to be an actress. She never made it, but she does live in a trailer... so she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/406]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sister wanted to be an actress. She never made it, but she does live in a trailer... so she got halfway. She's an actress, she's just never called to the set.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death.... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daniel (Zamora) is just now rounding into form, but he adds a lot to what we do offensively. He goes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daniel (Zamora) is just now rounding into form, but he adds a lot to what we do offensively. He goes to the basket strong and gives us some toughness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. [Lat., Divine Plato escam malorum appeliat voluptatem, quod ea videlicet homines capiantur, ut pisces hamo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56287]]></link><description><![CDATA[If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seek the truth and will endure the consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9830]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For of Fortune's sharpe adversite, The worste kynde of infortune is this,  A man to hav bent in prosperite, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57241]]></link><description><![CDATA[For of Fortune's sharpe adversite, The worste kynde of infortune is this,  A man to hav bent in prosperite,   And it remembren whan it passed is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  We are so farre off from condemning any of their labours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  We are so farre off from condemning any of their labours that traveiled before us in this kinds, either in this land or beyond sea, ... that we acknowledge them to have been raised up of God, ... and that they deserve to be had of us and of posteritie in everlasting remembrance... Therefore blessed be they, and most honoured be their name, that breake the yce and give the onset upon that which helpeth forward to the saving of soules. Now what can be more available thereto, than to deliver Gods booke unto the Gods people in a tongue which they understand? ... So if we, building upon their foundation that went before us, and being holpen by their labours, doe endeavor to make that better which they left so good; no man, we are sure, has cause to mislike us; they, we persuade ourselves, if they were alive, would thank us. For is the Kingdom of God become words or syllables? Why should we be in bondage to them if we may be free? [Some antique spelling fixed -- Ed.].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pitchers today are only expected to pitch into the sixth inning. I read where a pitcher pitched deep into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pitchers today are only expected to pitch into the sixth inning. I read where a pitcher pitched deep into the sixth inning. Isn't that something? Deep into the sixth inning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54255]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miser is as much in want of that which he has, as of that which he has not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miser is as much in want of that which he has, as of that which he has not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like instant replay, ... We left [the 2009 vote] dejected and depressed. It's great to have a second shot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33651]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like instant replay, ... We left [the 2009 vote] dejected and depressed. It's great to have a second shot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many men in Court and so many strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49753]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many men in Court and so many strangers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16049]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8464]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8464</guid></item></channel></rss>