<?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[If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17885]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you remember, sweet Alice, Ben Bolt? Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown;  Who wept with delight when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you remember, sweet Alice, Ben Bolt? Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown;  Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile,   And trembl'd with fear at your frown!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're hoping to go five innings, and 15-pitch innings to get him up to 75 pitches, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30456]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're hoping to go five innings, and 15-pitch innings to get him up to 75 pitches,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cytherea, How bravely thou becom'st thy bed, fresh lily,  And whiter than the sheets! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cytherea, How bravely thou becom'st thy bed, fresh lily,  And whiter than the sheets!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their own death accompanies the wound they inflict. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their own death accompanies the wound they inflict.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the rider that breaks youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the rider that breaks youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012   The centre of trouble is not the turbulent appetites -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012   The centre of trouble is not the turbulent appetites -- though they are troublesome enough. The centre of trouble is in the personality of man as a whole, which is self-centred and can only be wholesome and healthy if it is God-centred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing you can do for love is deny it; so when you find that special someone, don't let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11903]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing you can do for love is deny it; so when you find that special someone, don't let anyone or anything to get in your way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infinite riches in a little room. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infinite riches in a little room.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No creature smarts so little as a fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50941]]></link><description><![CDATA[No creature smarts so little as a fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1806]]></link><description><![CDATA[No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lives are more complex, and it's made communications around money more complex. There are more bad emotions around money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lives are more complex, and it's made communications around money more complex. There are more bad emotions around money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14922]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is nought good a sleeping hound wake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12656]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is nought good a sleeping hound wake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Synods are mystical Bear-gardens. Where Elders, Deputies, Church-wardens,  And other Members of the Court,   Manage the Babylonish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Synods are mystical Bear-gardens. Where Elders, Deputies, Church-wardens,  And other Members of the Court,   Manage the Babylonish sport.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anytime you're competing on large animals, there's a chance someone's going to get hurt. They're competing on the ragged edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anytime you're competing on large animals, there's a chance someone's going to get hurt. They're competing on the ragged edge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've owned a lot of crap in my days -- rental houses and strip malls -- but we finally got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've owned a lot of crap in my days -- rental houses and strip malls -- but we finally got this place, and it's worth all the crap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888  Much of today's Christianity is almost completely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888  Much of today's Christianity is almost completely earthbound, and the words of Jesus about what follows this life are scarcely studied at all. This, I believe, is partly due to man's enormous technical successes, which make him feel master of the human situation. But it is also partly due to our scholars and experts. By the time they have finished with their dissection of the New Testament and with their explaining away as "myth" all that they find disquieting or unacceptable to the modern mind, the Christian way of life is little more than humanism with a slight tinge of religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like cliffhangers, with the hero in trouble at the end. I used to go on real bendersI don't do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39027]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like cliffhangers, with the hero in trouble at the end. I used to go on real bendersI don't do that anymore. But when you go on bender you never know what's going to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;  We bear the burden and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24835]]></link><description><![CDATA[With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;  We bear the burden and the heat   Of the long day, and wish 'twere done.    Not till the hours of light return     All we have built as we discern.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know every reporter there will be looking for that statement. Out of every 50 statements there that are neutral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38621]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know every reporter there will be looking for that statement. Out of every 50 statements there that are neutral the only ones you'll hear are the ones that are controversial or inappropriate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the fire in which we burn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the fire in which we burn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25413]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone.  The plains are everlasting as the hills, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone.  The plains are everlasting as the hills,   The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else    Comes on the mind with the like shock as though     Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what wethink will make us happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what wethink will make us happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember my strong advice, just remember to always think twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember my strong advice, just remember to always think twice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What linebackers do is run and tackle, so you can't change the game to make it any easier. Besides, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30522]]></link><description><![CDATA[What linebackers do is run and tackle, so you can't change the game to make it any easier. Besides, this sort of thing really gets your focus sharp. What we're looking to do in this game, it kind of takes over everything else -- you really have to look at the opportunity you have instead of who's missing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can support a boat or overturn it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61304]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can support a boat or overturn it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high-road that leads him to England. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54892]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high-road that leads him to England.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost every position he took in his life I was highly supportive of. He was a hero in many respects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost every position he took in his life I was highly supportive of. He was a hero in many respects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief  That thou her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief  That thou her maid art far more fair than she.   Be not her maid, since she is envious.    Her vestal livery is but sick and green,     And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40472]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the best, the most skillful, the most devious and the most cunning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30126]]></link><description><![CDATA[the best, the most skillful, the most devious and the most cunning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17994]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As shines the moon in clouded skies, She in her poor attire was seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51689]]></link><description><![CDATA[As shines the moon in clouded skies, She in her poor attire was seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have nothing to declare but my genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have nothing to declare but my genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58589]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's such a complex little show. Watching the second season, the writing deepened, the performance deepened, our interactions deepened. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36263]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's such a complex little show. Watching the second season, the writing deepened, the performance deepened, our interactions deepened. It was fun to get another whack at it, and we all know what we're doing a little bit more this time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36263</guid></item></channel></rss>