<?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[How lovely are the portals of the night, When stars come out to watch the daylight die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59918]]></link><description><![CDATA[How lovely are the portals of the night, When stars come out to watch the daylight die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But if We have such another victory, we are undone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60592]]></link><description><![CDATA[But if We have such another victory, we are undone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that seekes trouble never misses. [He that seeks trouble never misses.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49391]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that seekes trouble never misses. [He that seeks trouble never misses.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to Jesus, by far the most important thing about praying is to keep at it... Be importunate, Jesus says ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6763]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to Jesus, by far the most important thing about praying is to keep at it... Be importunate, Jesus says -- not, one assumes, because you have to beat a path to God's door before he'll open it, but because until you beat the path maybe there's no way of getting to your door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always voted at my party's call, And I never thought of thinking of myself at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61004]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always voted at my party's call, And I never thought of thinking of myself at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is an optimist with experience ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45184]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is an optimist with experience]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O that I were a mockery king of snow, Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke  To melt myself away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56719]]></link><description><![CDATA[O that I were a mockery king of snow, Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke  To melt myself away in water drops!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24245]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10084]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly, if they are going to be calling the games the way they have been, then our power play is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly, if they are going to be calling the games the way they have been, then our power play is going to have to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65114]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness dependsfar more on the way we meet the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness dependsfar more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of thoseevents themselvers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2263]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You make decisions, and it doesn't always turn out right. That doesn't mean you made the wrong decision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41226]]></link><description><![CDATA[You make decisions, and it doesn't always turn out right. That doesn't mean you made the wrong decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are to live unto God at any time, or in any place, we are to live unto Him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7062]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are to live unto God at any time, or in any place, we are to live unto Him at all times and all places. If we are to use anything as the gift of God, we are to use everything as His gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46135]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64409]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield: Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke:  How jocund did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield: Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke:  How jocund did they drive their team a-field!   How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make haste; the better foot before. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make haste; the better foot before. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47334]]></link><description><![CDATA[A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word "but" which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative -- before they tell you. Thus: "I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but ... " (a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is never permanent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is never permanent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She only said, My life is dreary, He cometh not, she said;  She said I am aweary, aweary,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51712]]></link><description><![CDATA[She only said, My life is dreary, He cometh not, she said;  She said I am aweary, aweary,   Oh God, that I were dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9260]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest story of the year is clearly the record-breaking hurricane season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest story of the year is clearly the record-breaking hurricane season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44187]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat/ But to lie there-that's a disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elijah went before the people and said, How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elijah went before the people and said, How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him. But the people said nothing. [1 Kings 18:21].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26893]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guess if you can, choose if you dare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guess if you can, choose if you dare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like instant replay, ... We left [the 2009 vote] dejected and depressed. It's great to have a second shot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33651]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like instant replay, ... We left [the 2009 vote] dejected and depressed. It's great to have a second shot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares:  Uneasy lies the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares:  Uneasy lies the heads of all that rule,   His worst of all whose kingdom is a school.    Supreme he sits; before the awful frown     That binds his brows the boldest eye goes down;      Not more submissive Israel heard and saw       At Sinai's foot the Giver of the Law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, "Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a kicker, you don't want to think, ... You can over-analyze any situation. The more I clear my mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39723]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a kicker, you don't want to think, ... You can over-analyze any situation. The more I clear my mind when I go out on the field, the better I do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him feel that he is a part of some larger entity which transcends the boundaries of the individual self. This psychological urge to belong, to participate, to commune is as primary and real as its opposite. The all-important question is the nature of that higher entity of which the individual feels himself a part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47152]]></link><description><![CDATA[All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550  Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550  Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say Jessica was working on a math problem ... I would always try to illustrate the solution by drawing things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say Jessica was working on a math problem ... I would always try to illustrate the solution by drawing things out. And she just started to copy what I was doing. Of course, as she got better at it, I would show her the 3-d aspect of shading or how to render perspective and she could just do it. She would just pick it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64771]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still think this situation could have been handled better and I still think there should have been more of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33089]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still think this situation could have been handled better and I still think there should have been more of a heads up for students. We should have received a megamod in the summer about this, and in the beginning of the summer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51333</guid></item></channel></rss>