<?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[The first three weeks were bitterly cold, but the last week was pretty darn warm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37833]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first three weeks were bitterly cold, but the last week was pretty darn warm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you are will show in what you do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21246]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you are will show in what you do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A spark can start a fire that burns the entire prairie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62812]]></link><description><![CDATA[A spark can start a fire that burns the entire prairie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close theywere to success when they gave up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close theywere to success when they gave up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The redbreast oft, at evening hours, Shall kindly lend his little aid,  With hoary moss, and gathered flowers,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The redbreast oft, at evening hours, Shall kindly lend his little aid,  With hoary moss, and gathered flowers,   To deck the ground where thou art laid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To meditate an injury is to commit one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51204]]></link><description><![CDATA[To meditate an injury is to commit one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've played a lot of games and there's not a lot of guys who have been through this before. Maybe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40555]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've played a lot of games and there's not a lot of guys who have been through this before. Maybe we're getting tired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26854]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You might only go on the field five or six times a game, ... But you're dealing with a lot, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39724]]></link><description><![CDATA[You might only go on the field five or six times a game, ... But you're dealing with a lot, your heart is racing. The more times you go out in front of a crowd, the more relaxed you're going to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle? They look the same, you dumb s..., ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29451]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle? They look the same, you dumb s...,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3474]]></link><description><![CDATA[An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to have passion to play football. We had it on the goal line. But we didn't play like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42683]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to have passion to play football. We had it on the goal line. But we didn't play like that all the time on the field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An artist took that picture and made a painting of Chris carrying the girl. It has the ruins of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31425]]></link><description><![CDATA[An artist took that picture and made a painting of Chris carrying the girl. It has the ruins of the Trade Center in the background. It's a great painting. I was lucky to get a lithograph of the painting. That picture has made its way around the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can you be in hell while you are in my heart? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19109]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your day will come is another way of saying you get yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your day will come is another way of saying you get yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44095]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65966]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can handle the puck in a crowd, he has great speed. If they call the rules the way they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37379]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can handle the puck in a crowd, he has great speed. If they call the rules the way they say they are going to call the rules, he should be great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amber in good faith always believed that Mr. Flores was her child's father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amber in good faith always believed that Mr. Flores was her child's father.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The East bow'd low before the blast, In patient, deep disdain.  She let the legions thunder past,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The East bow'd low before the blast, In patient, deep disdain.  She let the legions thunder past,   And plunged in thought again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27586]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman conceales what shee knowes not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49090]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman conceales what shee knowes not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil's in the moon for mischief; they Who call'd her chaste, methinks, began too soon  Their nomenclature; there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43066]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil's in the moon for mischief; they Who call'd her chaste, methinks, began too soon  Their nomenclature; there is not a day,   The longest, not the twenty-first of June,    Sees half the business in a wicked way,     On which three single hours of moonshine smile--      And then she looks so modest all the while!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life isn't all beer and skittles; but beer and skittles or something better of the same sort, must form a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life isn't all beer and skittles; but beer and skittles or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth  The solution lies in a complete realisation of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth  The solution lies in a complete realisation of what we mean by asserting that God is Almighty. The two ideas of Free-will and Divine Sovereignty can not be reconciled in our own minds, but that does not prevent them from being reconciled in God's mind. We measure Him by our own intellectual standard if we think otherwise. And so our solution of the problem of Free-will and of the problems of history and of individual salvation must finally lie in the full acceptance and realisation of what is implied by the infinity and the omniscience of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?  Sweet Helen, make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?  Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.--   Her lips suck forth my soul; see, where it flies!--]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shauna and I had no office yet. We had to find the equipment for the office, we had to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shauna and I had no office yet. We had to find the equipment for the office, we had to find furniture, start writing grants, contact the IRS about our public charitable status, and get with the state about our tax-exempt status. We ended up going around Methodist Hospital to offices that were vacant at the time to make phone calls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our greatest weariness comes from work not done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we find a thinker reflecting or echoing an apparently erroneous, narrow, or even illogical thought that was popular or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52176]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we find a thinker reflecting or echoing an apparently erroneous, narrow, or even illogical thought that was popular or authoritative in his time, we must never rule out the possibility that what we have discovered is not the limit of his vision but only an example of his deliberate rhetorical accommodation to reigning prejudice which he does not share but thinks it best not to expose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If France thinks that by propping up Deby against the will of an entire people, it will be able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28741]]></link><description><![CDATA[If France thinks that by propping up Deby against the will of an entire people, it will be able to safeguard its interests (in Chad), it's making a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, they are taking care of me. Thank God they were there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, they are taking care of me. Thank God they were there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe the success of the continued evolution of the Paul Lee's Chinese Kitchen brand will be best served under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30184]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe the success of the continued evolution of the Paul Lee's Chinese Kitchen brand will be best served under Paul Fleming's stewardship. As a measure of our confidence in Paul and his team, we have retained the option to re-enter the joint venture in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a great way to meet new friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37962]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a great way to meet new friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 Am I a stone, and not a sheep,  That I can stand, 0 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 Am I a stone, and not a sheep,  That I can stand, 0 Christ, beneath Thy cross,  To number drop by drop Thy Blood's slow loss,  And yet not weep? Not so those women loved  Who with exceeding grief lamented Thee;  Not so fallen Peter weeping bitterly;  Not so the thief was moved; Not so the Sun and Moon  Which hid their faces in a starless sky:  A horror of great darkness at broad noon I only I. Yet give not o'er  But seek Thy sheep, true Shepherd of the flock;  Greater than Moses, turn and look once more  And smite a rock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44851]]></link><description><![CDATA[It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times  Make mountains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54142]]></link><description><![CDATA[O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times  Make mountains level. and the continent,   Weary of solid firmness, melt itself    Into the sea!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees  Who, hopeless, lays his dead away,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees  Who, hopeless, lays his dead away,   Nor looks to see the breaking day    Across the mournful marbles play!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare is the union of beauty and purity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rare is the union of beauty and purity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2506]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2506</guid></item></channel></rss>