<?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[Right after Jen [Jennifer McNamara] got hurt and we came back and won the tournament [Ryan Kickoff Classic], that was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right after Jen [Jennifer McNamara] got hurt and we came back and won the tournament [Ryan Kickoff Classic], that was amazing. That showed us that we can win if we play as a team, no matter who's out there on the court. We've really switched people around everybody plays everywhere at different times. We've just been able to really pull together as a team because we have a common goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59145]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49014]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a part of both organizations, there is no comparison in the two organizations. This is a professional organization. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a part of both organizations, there is no comparison in the two organizations. This is a professional organization. The Hornets were just -- I don't know what the hell it was. There is no explaining for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou believest that Christ was crucified for the sins of the world, thou must with Him be crucified... If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6462]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou believest that Christ was crucified for the sins of the world, thou must with Him be crucified... If thou refusest to comply with this order, thou canst not be a living member of Christ, nor be united with Him by faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temperance is a bridle of gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temperance is a bridle of gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is with those who persevere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46158]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is with those who persevere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be -- like the reality of yesterday -- an illusion tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[In so many ways, the Mets had this game at their fingertips. Anderson had a chance to beat the throw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41863]]></link><description><![CDATA[[In so many ways, the Mets had this game at their fingertips. Anderson had a chance to beat the throw home because Perez double-clutched, but Dodgers catcher Dioner Navarro blocked the plate with his shin guard and would not let Anderson sneak a hand around him.] I didn't have anywhere to go, ... If you have a collision there, you don't know what you're going to get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that sees the beauty of holiness, or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8460]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that sees the beauty of holiness, or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world... Unless this is seen, nothing is seen that is worth seeing: for there is no other true excellence or beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finance, like time, devours its own children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finance, like time, devours its own children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed. [Lat., Ignoratione rerum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed. [Lat., Ignoratione rerum bonarum et malarum maxime hominum vita vexatur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This county is in dire need of affordable housing. We have to use every single tool we have to put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30903]]></link><description><![CDATA[This county is in dire need of affordable housing. We have to use every single tool we have to put affordable housing anywhere it can be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind's frigidity: frozen steel, dark rage, morbidity. Cold fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17008]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind's frigidity: frozen steel, dark rage, morbidity. Cold fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even after 9/11, when their life-saving role became clear, employers have dragged their feet on raising wages to a mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even after 9/11, when their life-saving role became clear, employers have dragged their feet on raising wages to a mostly African-American workforce. Four years after 9/11, the real estate industry has short-changed security officers, undermined the safety of their own buildings and jeopardized the well-being of the entire city.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And see all sights from pole to pole And glance, and nod, and bustle by,  And never once possess ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57267]]></link><description><![CDATA[And see all sights from pole to pole And glance, and nod, and bustle by,  And never once possess our soul   Before we die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is just an awesome pitcher. He can really pitch ... the velocity he has, mixing his pitches. His outside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40565]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is just an awesome pitcher. He can really pitch ... the velocity he has, mixing his pitches. His outside pitch was really catching us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55498]]></link><description><![CDATA[He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just kind of connected better than the rest. He jumps up and puts his front legs on my shoulders ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32549]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just kind of connected better than the rest. He jumps up and puts his front legs on my shoulders and rests his head on my shoulders. He's very loving and listens to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The silente man still suffers wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silente man still suffers wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance never settles a question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance never settles a question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can see a lot just by observing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44779]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can see a lot just by observing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncover when the flag goes by, boys, 'Tis freedom's starry banner that you greet,  Flag fames in song and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncover when the flag goes by, boys, 'Tis freedom's starry banner that you greet,  Flag fames in song and story   Long may it wave, old glory    The flag that has never known defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a few problems at the start, but that is usual. This team has never played together before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40201]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a few problems at the start, but that is usual. This team has never played together before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.   The best leaders of all, the people know not they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.   The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.   The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other. •Ma-Tsu   You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed. •Mumon  Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung. •Zen Saying  No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself. •Tilopa   When you pass through, no one can pin you down, no one can call you back. •Ying-An   There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things. •Yuan-Wu  The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. •Robert M. Pirsig  Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. •Zen Proverb  Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachments of the officeholders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The program has changed in the past to meet the demands of the times and must do so again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The program has changed in the past to meet the demands of the times and must do so again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59767]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me, as time goes on, that the only thing that is worth seeking for is to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6464]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me, as time goes on, that the only thing that is worth seeking for is to know and to be known by Christ -- a privilege open alone to the childlike, who, with receptivity, guilelessness, and humility, move Godward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some cursed fraud Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown,  And me with thee hath ruined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some cursed fraud Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown,  And me with thee hath ruined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31406]]></link><description><![CDATA[15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find;  Lo! as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24834]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find;  Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life,   A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24229</guid></item></channel></rss>