<?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[A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22786]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability is of little account without opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability is of little account without opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is encouraging to see a kid come up and do what he doing. He's got five home runs. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35269]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is encouraging to see a kid come up and do what he doing. He's got five home runs. That's more than the starting eight combined. You watch him in batting practice, and you know he is a special kind of hitter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More have repented speech then silence. [More have repented speech than silence.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49634]]></link><description><![CDATA[More have repented speech then silence. [More have repented speech than silence.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life Prolongs it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48776]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life Prolongs it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all hearts were open and all desires known -- as they would be if people showed their souls -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61058]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all hearts were open and all desires known -- as they would be if people showed their souls -- how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5256]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9623]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men; which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In many regions, soldiers are too emotionally involved, partly because of inadequate logistics support, and of rivalry or (ineffective coordination) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40298]]></link><description><![CDATA[In many regions, soldiers are too emotionally involved, partly because of inadequate logistics support, and of rivalry or (ineffective coordination) within the army.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633  If I be bound to pray for all that be in distress, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633  If I be bound to pray for all that be in distress, surely I am bound, so far as it is in my power, to practice what I pray for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3584]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what a man thinks you do not have worry about what he will do. If you can make a man believe that he is inferior, you don’t have to compel him to seek an inferior status, he will do so without being told and if you can make a man believe that he is justly an outcast, you don’t have to order him to the back door, he will go to the back door on his own and if there is no back door, the very nature of the man will demand that you build one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  If the ordinary canons of history, used in every other case, hold good in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  If the ordinary canons of history, used in every other case, hold good in this case, Jesus is undoubtedly an historical person. If he is not an historical person, the only alternative is that there is no such thing as history at all -- it is delirium, nothing else; and a rational being would be better employed in the collection of snuff-boxes. And if history is impossible, so is all other knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen  Collect; with elbows idly press'd   On ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen  Collect; with elbows idly press'd   On hob, reclines the corner's guest,    Reading the news to mark again     The bankrupt lists or price of grain.      Puffing the while his red-tipt pipe       He dreams o'er troubles nearly ripe,        Yet, winter's leisure to regale,         Hopes better times, and sips his ale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The joy late coming late departs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The joy late coming late departs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must retool our nation to prepare for the challenge we already face to maintain our position in the global ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23291]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must retool our nation to prepare for the challenge we already face to maintain our position in the global economy. And this much is certain: America will not have national security without economic security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36277]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44170]]></link><description><![CDATA[A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The faults of his adored escape the notice of the blind admirer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50341]]></link><description><![CDATA[The faults of his adored escape the notice of the blind admirer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity,  To catch the sunbeams ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60003]]></link><description><![CDATA[See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity,  To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator;   Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691   I apprehended it a Matter of great Necessity to imprint ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691   I apprehended it a Matter of great Necessity to imprint true catholicism on the Minds of Christians, it being a most lamentable thing to observe how few Christians in the World there be, that fall not into one Sect or another .... And if they can but get to be of a Sect which they think the holiest (as the Anabaptists and the Separatists), or which is the largest (as the Greeks and the Romans), they think then that they are sufficiently warranted to deny others to be God's Church, or at least to deny them Christian love and communion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success begins with belief and ends with doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success begins with belief and ends with doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63454]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28720]]></link><description><![CDATA[He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What bird so sings, yet does so wail? O, 'tis the ravish'd nightingale--  Jug, jug, jug, jug--tereu, she cries, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44551]]></link><description><![CDATA[What bird so sings, yet does so wail? O, 'tis the ravish'd nightingale--  Jug, jug, jug, jug--tereu, she cries,   And still her woes at midnight rise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52492]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You bring the personality with you wherever you go. So in the past we were at York Cinema and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36398]]></link><description><![CDATA[You bring the personality with you wherever you go. So in the past we were at York Cinema and we loved to be there and it did have a great old personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff--it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff--it is a palliative rather than a remedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would be able to use federal money to pay our staff, which is on duty 24 hours a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41499]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would be able to use federal money to pay our staff, which is on duty 24 hours a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No true Witches today practice human sacrafice, torture, or any form of ritual murder.Anyone who does is not a Witch, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54303]]></link><description><![CDATA[No true Witches today practice human sacrafice, torture, or any form of ritual murder.Anyone who does is not a Witch, but a psychopath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's going to make us feel right at home. We're lucky to have so many good skaters to work with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29984]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's going to make us feel right at home. We're lucky to have so many good skaters to work with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65570]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies,  And they are fools who roam;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18645]]></link><description><![CDATA[If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies,  And they are fools who roam;   The world has nothing to bestow,    From our own selves our bliss must flow,     And that dear hut,--our home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379  Humility is the root, mother, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379  Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1835]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was cooking breakfast this morning for my kids, and I thought, "He's (Ronald Reagan) just like a Teflon frying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was cooking breakfast this morning for my kids, and I thought, "He's (Ronald Reagan) just like a Teflon frying pan: Nothing sticks to him]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this provision became law, it could literally lead to the privatization of millions of acres of public land, including ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32773]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this provision became law, it could literally lead to the privatization of millions of acres of public land, including national park and national forest land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning them. [Fr., Il n'est pas necessaire de tenir ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53088]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning them. [Fr., Il n'est pas necessaire de tenir les choses pour en raisonner.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your life is what your thoughts make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your life is what your thoughts make it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63453</guid></item></channel></rss>