<?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[Prodigal of the property of others, sparing of his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prodigal of the property of others, sparing of his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till glowworms light owl-watchmen's flight Through our green metropolis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till glowworms light owl-watchmen's flight Through our green metropolis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man-like it is to fall into sin; fiendlike it is to dwell therein. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man-like it is to fall into sin; fiendlike it is to dwell therein.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8689]]></link><description><![CDATA[The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance is another name for aspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance is another name for aspiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25671]]></link><description><![CDATA[If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  However these deeds of men are judged in themselves, still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  However these deeds of men are judged in themselves, still the Lord accomplished his work through them alike when he broke the bloody scepters of arrogant kings and when he overturned intolerable governments. Let the princes hear and be afraid. But we must, in the meantime, be very careful not to despise or violate that authority of magistrates, full of venerable majesty, which God has established by the weightiest decrees, even though it may reside with the most unworthy men, who defile it as much as they can with their own wickedness. For, if the correction of unbridled despotism is the Lord's to avenge, let us not at once think that it is entrusted to us, to whom no command has been given except to obey and suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said to the sky-poised Lark: "Hark--hark!  Thy note is more loud and free   Because there lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24099]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said to the sky-poised Lark: "Hark--hark!  Thy note is more loud and free   Because there lies safe for thee    A little nest on the ground."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor is he solicitous about fine and fashionable apparel; aspiring rather after robes of divine light, and the raiment of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor is he solicitous about fine and fashionable apparel; aspiring rather after robes of divine light, and the raiment of glorified bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;  Be content with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;  Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth,   And make use of your wings while you may.    . . . .     But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite,      They at last found it dangerous play;       Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth,        Only dazzle to lead us astray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65565]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a privilege as well as being exciting. The fans are extremely tribal, very parochial, very supportive, and it's one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32586]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a privilege as well as being exciting. The fans are extremely tribal, very parochial, very supportive, and it's one of the huge highlights so far of my coaching career.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28168]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18317]]></link><description><![CDATA[To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost,  We seek it, ere it comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25572]]></link><description><![CDATA[For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost,  We seek it, ere it comes to light,   In every cranny but the right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever . . . prefers the service of princes before his duty to his Creator, will be sure, early or late, to repent in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The danger inherent in reform is that the cure may be worse than the disease. Reform is an operation on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The danger inherent in reform is that the cure may be worse than the disease. Reform is an operation on the social body; but unlike medical surgeons, reformers are not on guard against unpredictable side effects which may divert the course of reform toward unwanted results. Moreover, quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now give me my camel back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now give me my camel back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/525]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be an agnostic--be something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be an agnostic--be something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimumstrategies and repeating them until they become habits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimumstrategies and repeating them until they become habits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Example is the best precept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Example is the best precept.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, come down. That stars that in September/Looked through the mournful rain/Now set their sight again/Upon a world half night, half light Men of distant years have said/That much depends on change of seasons/On solstices and equinox/And they have given reasons. I disagree./Too much turns on inadvertence/On what seems to be/An accident of hand and knee/A chance sunrise/A glance of eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Mirabeau's work, then is done. He sleeps with the primeval giants. He has gone over to the majority: "Abiit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14093]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Mirabeau's work, then is done. He sleeps with the primeval giants. He has gone over to the majority: "Abiit ad plures."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an arson because someone has burned down buildings but because we don't have all of the evidence we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29258]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an arson because someone has burned down buildings but because we don't have all of the evidence we're still considering what the charges will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As two floating planks meet and part on the sea, O friend! so I met and then drifted from thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26805]]></link><description><![CDATA[As two floating planks meet and part on the sea, O friend! so I met and then drifted from thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not a dead equation! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65155]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not a dead equation!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauteous pansies rise In purple, gold, and blue,  With tints of rainbow hue   Mocking the sunset ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45444]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauteous pansies rise In purple, gold, and blue,  With tints of rainbow hue   Mocking the sunset skies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She just doesn't do anything halfway. Everything she does is the right way and to the tee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38938]]></link><description><![CDATA[She just doesn't do anything halfway. Everything she does is the right way and to the tee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65735]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. -Margaret Fuller.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't usually look to take on the Legislature over something. We make our living working with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't usually look to take on the Legislature over something. We make our living working with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During the four years I have coached Caitlin, I have seen no players with even close to her speed. She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35628]]></link><description><![CDATA[During the four years I have coached Caitlin, I have seen no players with even close to her speed. She can control the ball, take it away from other players and stop impossible shots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not bald... I'm just taller than my hair ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32021]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not bald... I'm just taller than my hair]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63423]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to dance like nobody's watching and love like it's never going to hurt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11018]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to dance like nobody's watching and love like it's never going to hurt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burgerShe was sued by Amarillo cattle ranchers for saying: I'm stopped. I'll never eat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burgerShe was sued by Amarillo cattle ranchers for saying: I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger and she won.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55992]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're quite pleased to have Rick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41712]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're quite pleased to have Rick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a hard loss, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30617]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a hard loss,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are heroes in evil as well as in good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19238]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are heroes in evil as well as in good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Master Kingston, this I will say--had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55212]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Master Kingston, this I will say--had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55212</guid></item></channel></rss>