<?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[Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven, When drooping health and spirits go amiss?  How tasteless then whatever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven, When drooping health and spirits go amiss?  How tasteless then whatever can be given!   Health is the vital principle of bliss,    And exercise of health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having well polished the whole bow, he added a golden tip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having well polished the whole bow, he added a golden tip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47769]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not. [Fr., Un tiens vaut, ce dit-on, mieux que deux tu l'auras.  L'un est sur, l'autre ne l'est pas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64145]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lean too much on the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lean too much on the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They do believe that the fire began in an upper story, but it's too early for us to have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34394]]></link><description><![CDATA[They do believe that the fire began in an upper story, but it's too early for us to have a cause it's still under investigation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God,  And save them by the barrel-load.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45473]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God,  And save them by the barrel-load.   Some may perchance, with strange surprise,    Have blundered into Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   The gospel comprises indeed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man's redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation: and the corpuscularian or mechanical philosophy strives to deduce all the phenomena of nature from adiaphorous matter, and local motion. But neither the fundamental doctrine of Christianity nor that of the powers and effects of matter and motion seems to be more than an epicycle ... of the great and universal system of God's contrivances, and makes but a part of the more general theory of things, knowable by the light of nature, improved by the information of the scriptures: so that both these doctrines... seem to be but members of the universal hypothesis, whose objects I conceive to be the natural counsels, and works of God, so far as they are discoverable by us in this life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you seek.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/634]]></link><description><![CDATA[I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you two!']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One mouth doth nothing without another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49695]]></link><description><![CDATA[One mouth doth nothing without another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the quest for an understanding of hair cells at a molecular level that drives our research. We would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41358]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the quest for an understanding of hair cells at a molecular level that drives our research. We would like to understand how hair cells work, why they are vulnerable and why in mammals hair cells do not regenerate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining;  Thy fate is the common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining;  Thy fate is the common fate of all,   Into each life some rain must fall,    Some days must be dark and dreary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14580]]></link><description><![CDATA[How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle  When Jesus calls his disciples "brothers" and "friends", he is contradicting general Jewish usage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle  When Jesus calls his disciples "brothers" and "friends", he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6259</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[We are creating an exclusive growth environment that benefits some people but not the poor. While there is some multiplier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31473]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are creating an exclusive growth environment that benefits some people but not the poor. While there is some multiplier effect, the pace is still slow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The generous heart Should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51770]]></link><description><![CDATA[The generous heart Should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to nature; they are, rather, the foremost features of man's nature. The most appropriate description of man as differentiated from nonhuman beings is: a being purposively struggling against the forces adverse to his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid  (Archer of archers both in men and women), ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid  (Archer of archers both in men and women),   Be worse provided than a common archer?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Bible, faith is a mixture of trust and trustworthiness. To have complete confidence in God makes a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6566]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the Bible, faith is a mixture of trust and trustworthiness. To have complete confidence in God makes a man reliable. And, when someone never lets you down, you look instinctively for a deeper relationship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A warke it ys as easie to be done As tys to saye Jacke! robys on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62112]]></link><description><![CDATA[A warke it ys as easie to be done As tys to saye Jacke! robys on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1229]]></link><description><![CDATA[As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. -Mahatma Gandhi.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow, Boreas, foe to human kind! Blow, blustering, freezing, piercing wind!  Blow, that thy force I may rehearse,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow, Boreas, foe to human kind! Blow, blustering, freezing, piercing wind!  Blow, that thy force I may rehearse,   While all my thoughts congeal to verse!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52346]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Safe in a ditch he bides, With twenty trenched gashes on his head,  The least a death to nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Safe in a ditch he bides, With twenty trenched gashes on his head,  The least a death to nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politically, it's not a comfortable position for them to be in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politically, it's not a comfortable position for them to be in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People see a half-mile of clean road and think they can drive 75, and that's just not the case. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31267]]></link><description><![CDATA[People see a half-mile of clean road and think they can drive 75, and that's just not the case. They need to slow down and be careful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the first year for this. The productions are grad student directed, designed and all student run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39227]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the first year for this. The productions are grad student directed, designed and all student run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49994]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unions are seeing the reality of the situation. Their jobs and the future of their airlines are in very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unions are seeing the reality of the situation. Their jobs and the future of their airlines are in very deep jeopardy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time only flies when you're having fun and dying, it's flying right now and I'm definitely not the former. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time only flies when you're having fun and dying, it's flying right now and I'm definitely not the former.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to get someone else some work at the catcher spot, just in case one girl happens to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35402]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to get someone else some work at the catcher spot, just in case one girl happens to be struggling. These girls are so new, I'm still finding out what positions they can play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63211]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relying on our nation and armed forces, we will make the aggressor regret its actions, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relying on our nation and armed forces, we will make the aggressor regret its actions,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam, well may we labour, still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adam, well may we labour, still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead -- these the living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25423]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead -- these the living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been raising money to pay off the marquee and we've been raising money to pay off the buildings. Right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29940]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been raising money to pay off the marquee and we've been raising money to pay off the buildings. Right now, we've sent letters out to people asking for $1,000 donations to pay off the buildings. While trying to pay off the building, we've also been raising money to renovate the marquee. ... I'm hoping people will respond to the letters that we sent and at least send some money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29940</guid></item></channel></rss>