<?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[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary Concluding a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary Concluding a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us. It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14670]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26511]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The communities' response to our newsletter has been phenomenal. In less than 24 hours, we completely filled our (greeting) time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35444]]></link><description><![CDATA[The communities' response to our newsletter has been phenomenal. In less than 24 hours, we completely filled our (greeting) time slots at PTIA and gave out our entire supply of posters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29981]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He really didn't know what to do in offenses and defenses. But he was still successful. I saw promise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35370]]></link><description><![CDATA[He really didn't know what to do in offenses and defenses. But he was still successful. I saw promise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For who can be secure of private right, If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might?  Nor is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52463]]></link><description><![CDATA[For who can be secure of private right, If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might?  Nor is the people's judgment always true:   The most may err as grossly as the few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women may fall when there's no strength in men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women may fall when there's no strength in men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46354]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are moved by only two things: fear and self-interest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are moved by only two things: fear and self-interest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15526</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[Have regard to the end. [Lat., Finem respice (or Respice finem).] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have regard to the end. [Lat., Finem respice (or Respice finem).]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's pretty wide open. Everybody had better bring their best game every night. If you don't, there's going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28598]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's pretty wide open. Everybody had better bring their best game every night. If you don't, there's going to be some upsets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17721]]></link><description><![CDATA[How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46795]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AWB could not inform DFAT and the UN that that debt was being paid out of these two (wheat) contracts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38435]]></link><description><![CDATA[AWB could not inform DFAT and the UN that that debt was being paid out of these two (wheat) contracts without disclosing that the actions in 1995/1996 had themselves been outside the sanctions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In spite of our hard work and the launch of [Asheron's Call 2 expansion pack] Legions, AC2 has reached the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37706]]></link><description><![CDATA[In spite of our hard work and the launch of [Asheron's Call 2 expansion pack] Legions, AC2 has reached the point where it no longer makes sense to continue the service. We will be officially closing the Asheron's Call 2 service on 12/30/05. Until then, we plan to run live events, but we will not be adding any content or features.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No doubt they rose up early to observe The rite of May; and, hearing our intent,  Came here in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26619]]></link><description><![CDATA[No doubt they rose up early to observe The rite of May; and, hearing our intent,  Came here in grace of our solemnity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow, sleep late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52179]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow, sleep late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates. [It., L'anima mia gustava di quel cibo, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2896]]></link><description><![CDATA[My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates. [It., L'anima mia gustava di quel cibo,  Che saziando di se, di se s'asseta.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we can't dream any longer, we die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52204]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we can't dream any longer, we die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66508]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has to be underpinned by good quality physical education and by getting people into patterns of exercise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven, Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven, Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two men to make one brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66119]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two men to make one brother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:  For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined,  Loves to commune ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined,  Loves to commune with thoughts of tender power,--   A shining Jacob's-ladder of the mind!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29566]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8178]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is really an un-Christian conception of love. That is the aesthetic definition and therefore fits the erotic and everything of that nature. But to the Christian, love is the works of love. Christ's love was not an inner feeling, a full heart and what-not: it was the work of love which was his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't have to tell the kids anything. They knew where they were (in the computer rankings) and they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41952]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't have to tell the kids anything. They knew where they were (in the computer rankings) and they were excited. These are the types of games these guys grew up seeing our program be in at this point in the season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we use that term and link it with something like wrestling, that's saying that the midget is part of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35416]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we use that term and link it with something like wrestling, that's saying that the midget is part of the entertainment, so it kind of reinforces the legacy of people of short stature being used in entertainment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63861]]></link><description><![CDATA[What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we get concrete proof someone set out (to defraud), then we will pursue them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33005]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we get concrete proof someone set out (to defraud), then we will pursue them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,  And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,  And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;   Arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12365]]></link><description><![CDATA[People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch. [Fr., L'on ne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54216]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch. [Fr., L'on ne saurait mieux faire voir que le magnifique et le ridicule sont si voisins qu'ils se touchent.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was like a kid on Christmas morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35437]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was like a kid on Christmas morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6381]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've already seen the effect the film has on young people, especially girls. We were at the Pan-American Film Festival ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33995]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've already seen the effect the film has on young people, especially girls. We were at the Pan-American Film Festival in Los Angeles, and one girl told me, 'This movie makes me feel like I can do anything I want.' It shows that even if you don't have the resources, you can use your own will to change things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who steals a bugle-horn, a ring, a steed, Or such like worthless thing, has some discretion;  'Tis petty larceny: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who steals a bugle-horn, a ring, a steed, Or such like worthless thing, has some discretion;  'Tis petty larceny: not such his deed   Who robs us of our fame, our best possession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15247]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by getting a great library. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24768]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by getting a great library.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24768</guid></item></channel></rss>