<?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 lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said there were too many incidents, but there's not enough incidents to make a drastic change in the program ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38133]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said there were too many incidents, but there's not enough incidents to make a drastic change in the program at this point in time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gift much expected is paid, not given. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49026]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gift much expected is paid, not given.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break,  Never dreamed, though right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10275]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break,  Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,   Held we fall to rise, are baffled to flight better,    Sleep to wake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For people who like that kind of a book that is the kind of book they will like ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28303]]></link><description><![CDATA[For people who like that kind of a book that is the kind of book they will like]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48256]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6924]]></link><description><![CDATA[He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which reje]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still have a refining issue. Refineries in other parts of the country have been able to increase output but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39169]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still have a refining issue. Refineries in other parts of the country have been able to increase output but they will have to go down later this year for maintenance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terms ill defined, and forms misunderstood, And customs, when their reasons are unknown,  Have stirred up many zealous souls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terms ill defined, and forms misunderstood, And customs, when their reasons are unknown,  Have stirred up many zealous souls   To fight against imaginary giants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Philip & James, Apostles   If we do not at least try to manifest something of Creative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Philip & James, Apostles   If we do not at least try to manifest something of Creative Charity in our dealings with life, whether by action, thought, or prayer, and do it at our own cost -- if we roll up the talent of love in the nice white napkin of piety and put it safely out of the way, sorry that the world is so hungry and thirsty, so sick and so fettered, and leave it at that: then, even that little talent may be taken from us. We may discover at the crucial moment that we are spiritually bankrupt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47353]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1452]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64002]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man delights not me--nor woman neither, though, by your smiling you seem to say so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man delights not me--nor woman neither, though, by your smiling you seem to say so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25785]]></link><description><![CDATA[What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has changed things. It takes more time to get ready to go somewhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40769]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has changed things. It takes more time to get ready to go somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking.... If we are to be sure of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking.... If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's good tying the sack before it be full. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49577]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's good tying the sack before it be full.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historically that (bass) number is way, way down. The same with threadfin -- their numbers are up, but it's still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historically that (bass) number is way, way down. The same with threadfin -- their numbers are up, but it's still way, way down from historic levels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From a personnel perspective, the personnel matter has been resolved. We took what action needed to be taken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38445]]></link><description><![CDATA[From a personnel perspective, the personnel matter has been resolved. We took what action needed to be taken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43994]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is it, folks. This is the idea which has kept me virtually unknown for the past 16 years. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20134]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is it, folks. This is the idea which has kept me virtually unknown for the past 16 years. I have watched my crowds dwindle. I am going nowhere, and nowhere quick, but, those of you who have children, I am sorry to tell you this, but they are not special. Wait! I know some of you are going "what, what?" Let me just clarify: I know YOU think they're special ... ha ha ha! I'm aware of that. I'm just here to tell you, that they're NOT! Ha ha ha ha! Sorry. Did you know that every time a guy comes he comes two-hundred million sperm? One out of TWO-HUNDRED MILLION – that load, we're only talking about one load – connected: gee, what are the fucking odds? Do you know what that means? I've wiped nations off've my chest with a grey gymsock. ENTIRE CIVILISATIONS HAVE FLAKED AND CRUSTED IN THE HAIR AROUND MY NAVEL! [...] I've tossed universes in my underpants while napping. Boom! A Milkyway shoots into my jockeyshorts: "Unngh ... what's for fucking breakfast?!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51801]]></link><description><![CDATA[He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The belly is the teacher of art and the bestower of genius. [Lat., Magister artis ingeniique largitor venter.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20156]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belly is the teacher of art and the bestower of genius. [Lat., Magister artis ingeniique largitor venter.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40476]]></link><description><![CDATA[If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more a man dreams, the less he believes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more a man dreams, the less he believes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense. [Lat., Non ampliter, sed munditer convivium; plus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15593]]></link><description><![CDATA[A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense. [Lat., Non ampliter, sed munditer convivium; plus salis quam sumptus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cook dominated. She didn't make any mistakes, and if she did, they didn't find them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cook dominated. She didn't make any mistakes, and if she did, they didn't find them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think Joe has mentioned it and I've seen it written before, that our game may have cost them two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think Joe has mentioned it and I've seen it written before, that our game may have cost them two or three games. They couldn't get that game out of their system, it was such a tough loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all due respect to Columbus, I think everyone around the league coming into this game said Columbus didn't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31574]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all due respect to Columbus, I think everyone around the league coming into this game said Columbus didn't have a shot. And I think that's what we felt coming in too. Maybe we were a little complacent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would appear as though I cannot catch second place. I'm fine. I'm feeling OK. I accomplished what I wanted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33914]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would appear as though I cannot catch second place. I'm fine. I'm feeling OK. I accomplished what I wanted to do, and that was run for an elected office and tell people that I was out there and I'm available.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664    All the revelations of God, as well as the laws of men, go upon this presumption, that men are not stark fools, but that they will consider their interest and have some regard to the great concernment of their eternal salvation. And this is as much to secure men from mistake in matters of belief as God hath afforded to keep men from sin in matters of practice. He hath made no effectual and infallible provision that men shall not sin; and yet it would puzzle any man to give a good reason why God should take more care to secure men against errors in belief than against sin and wickedness in their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Bush has made this declaration so Tennessee can get back on their feet and go on with their lives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38111]]></link><description><![CDATA[President Bush has made this declaration so Tennessee can get back on their feet and go on with their lives as quickly as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't describe it. It's totally weird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42638]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't describe it. It's totally weird.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers are words Which even a babe may understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers are words Which even a babe may understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a great time on the floor, though we had a few bobbles. We were so relaxed. By that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42385]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a great time on the floor, though we had a few bobbles. We were so relaxed. By that time, we knew we had it won.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[sense of autonomy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38389]]></link><description><![CDATA[sense of autonomy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18133]]></link><description><![CDATA[No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is the ghost Of a summer that lived for us,  Here is a promise   Of summer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is the ghost Of a summer that lived for us,  Here is a promise   Of summer to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is a game between two teams of nine players each, under direction of a manager, played on an enclosed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is a game between two teams of nine players each, under direction of a manager, played on an enclosed field in accordance with these rules, under jurisdiction of one or more umpires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56973</guid></item></channel></rss>