<?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[Failures are divided into two classes-those who thought and never did, andthose who did and never thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failures are divided into two classes-those who thought and never did, andthose who did and never thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63392]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're trying to do is walk the line between not giving out any more [incentives] than absolutely necessary and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35923]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're trying to do is walk the line between not giving out any more [incentives] than absolutely necessary and ensuring ... the program is not being taken advantage of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross  If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross  If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love. If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying peace, peace, where there is no peace; if I forget the poignant words, "Let love be without dissimulation" and blunt the edge of truth, speaking not right things but smooth things, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say, compared to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny;  Others aver, that he to Handel   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say, compared to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny;  Others aver, that he to Handel   Is scarcely fit to hold a Candle:    Strange all this difference should be,     'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all is done, there is no such error or heresy, nothing so fundamentally opposed to religion, as a wicked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7178]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all is done, there is no such error or heresy, nothing so fundamentally opposed to religion, as a wicked life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a morning raine leave not your journey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49250]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a morning raine leave not your journey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I own the soft impeachment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9649]]></link><description><![CDATA[I own the soft impeachment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These blessed candles of the night. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55620]]></link><description><![CDATA[These blessed candles of the night. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43608]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not think that the U.N. is really perceived to be taking sides in toto, but there have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not think that the U.N. is really perceived to be taking sides in toto, but there have been complaints that certain personnel in the U.N. seem to favor, for example, the pro-independence groups.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18442]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The film created a huge buzz at Cannes. Few people realize that Natalie Portman is Jewish and that she was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The film created a huge buzz at Cannes. Few people realize that Natalie Portman is Jewish and that she was born in Jerusalem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2156]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Gunn) is definitely one of the Bay Area's best. He does it all -- dribble, shoot and defend. He makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35020]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Gunn) is definitely one of the Bay Area's best. He does it all -- dribble, shoot and defend. He makes shots when we need them most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come. But that night, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come. But that night, I think we knew it was time to let go of what had been, and look ahead to what would be. Other days. New days. Days to come. The thing is, we didn't have to hate each other for getting older. We just had to forgive ourselves... for growing up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a terrible way to lose, like that. We definitely played hard as a team, (but) we only got one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33513]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a terrible way to lose, like that. We definitely played hard as a team, (but) we only got one point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14480]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rather than go through such a pointlessly repetitive exercise, the court ruled that the chief of the Forest Service properly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rather than go through such a pointlessly repetitive exercise, the court ruled that the chief of the Forest Service properly adopted the broad moratorium through an agency-wide rule,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence is that knocking? How is't with me, when every noise appals me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence is that knocking? How is't with me, when every noise appals me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   Joy is not gush: joy is not jolliness. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   Joy is not gush: joy is not jolliness. Joy is simply perfect acquiescence in God's will, because the soul delights itself in God himself... rejoice in the will of God, and in nothing else. Bow down your heads and your hearts before God, and let the will, the blessed will of God, be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look back and thank God. Look forward and trust God. He closes doors no one can open and He opens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look back and thank God. Look forward and trust God. He closes doors no one can open and He opens doors no one can close.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2195]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all forms of government the people is the true legislator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24595]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must be sacrificed now and again To provide for the next generation of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54606]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must be sacrificed now and again To provide for the next generation of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou know'st, great son, The end of war's uncertain, but this certain,  That, if thou conquer Rome, the benefit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou know'st, great son, The end of war's uncertain, but this certain,  That, if thou conquer Rome, the benefit   Which thou shalt thereby reap is such a name    Whose repetition will be dogged with curses,     Whose chronicle thus writ: 'The man was noble,      But with his last attempt he wiped it out,       Destroyed his country; and his name remains        To th' ensuing age abhorred,' Speak to me son.         Thou hast affected the fine strains of honor,          To imitate the graces of the gods;           To tear with thunder the wide cheeks o' th' air,            And yet to change thy sulphur with a bolt             That should rive an oak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a law and not a punishment. Three things ought to console us for giving up life; the friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a law and not a punishment. Three things ought to console us for giving up life; the friends whom we have lost, the few persons worth of being loved whom we leave behind us, and finally the memory of our stupidities and the assurance that they are now going to stop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank the McAllen Police Department for assisting us in bringing this man to justice, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank the McAllen Police Department for assisting us in bringing this man to justice,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I played well, but I still have a lot of guys to compete against. All three of our quarterbacks bring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30833]]></link><description><![CDATA[I played well, but I still have a lot of guys to compete against. All three of our quarterbacks bring different aspects to the game. They're doing a great job of getting the ball to their receivers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark now, how a plain tale shall put you down. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mark now, how a plain tale shall put you down. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who so regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind. [Ecclesiasti!4:2]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who so regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind. [Ecclesiasti!4:2].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is a country where, thanks to Congress, there are 40 million laws to enforce 10 commandments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24272]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is a country where, thanks to Congress, there are 40 million laws to enforce 10 commandments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guys are very rude. I said, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44427]]></link><description><![CDATA[New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guys are very rude. I said, "I'd like a card." He says, "You have to prove you're a citizen of New York." So I stabbed him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold our greyhound in our hand, Our falcon on our glove;  But where shall we find leash, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51113]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold our greyhound in our hand, Our falcon on our glove;  But where shall we find leash, or band,   For dame that loves to rove?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  As a good Christian should consider every place as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  As a good Christian should consider every place as holy, because God is there, so he should look upon every part of his life as a matter of holiness, because it is offered unto God. The profession of a clergyman is a holy profession, because it is a ministration in holy things, an attendance at the alter. But worldly business is to be made holy unto the Lord, by being done as a service unto Him, and in conformity to His Divine will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52525]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book.   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52525</guid></item></channel></rss>