<?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[A man convinced against his will, Is of the some opinion still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48709]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man convinced against his will, Is of the some opinion still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In time there is no present, In eternity no future,  In eternity no past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14212]]></link><description><![CDATA[In time there is no present, In eternity no future,  In eternity no past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And none speaks false, when there in none to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26109]]></link><description><![CDATA[And none speaks false, when there in none to hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1017]]></link><description><![CDATA[But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to care not for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now we have two anniversaries, and we celebrate them both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now we have two anniversaries, and we celebrate them both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arms and laws do not flourish together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arms and laws do not flourish together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood,  The holy name ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18326]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood,  The holy name of Grief--holy herein,   That, by the grief of One, came all our good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superstition was that disability of any sort was the mark of the devil. The phrases are in languages throughout ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superstition was that disability of any sort was the mark of the devil. The phrases are in languages throughout Europe: the devil's hoof, the devil's horn mark. It reaches back to early Christianity and the middle ages. Where a child was born out of wedlock, the church cooked up the impression that you'd done something sinful, and something dreadful would result. You will still find, particularly in Greece, people doing a little sign when they see a very badly disabled child ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ it needs warding off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were identified as being a danger to Greenway users. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40583]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were identified as being a danger to Greenway users.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We welcome news of the pope's arrival. It's a good thing -- it will promote good feelings among us all, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28332]]></link><description><![CDATA[We welcome news of the pope's arrival. It's a good thing -- it will promote good feelings among us all, ... After all, it's the pope. He's not just anybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not taking any possible action off the table. We need to be prepared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40518]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not taking any possible action off the table. We need to be prepared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26317]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food, which they take for granted - but his or her entertainment value]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47996]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do ill to praise, but worse to censure, what you do not understand]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, like a mirror, never gives back more than we put into it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, like a mirror, never gives back more than we put into it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.  The sun insists on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.  The sun insists on gladness; but at night,   When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force. [Fr., La ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force. [Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17549]]></link><description><![CDATA[No flowery road leads to glory. [Fr., Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54432]]></link><description><![CDATA[All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The heart's slavish and dogged devotion to its idol ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The heart's slavish and dogged devotion to its idol is what fathers of the Church have called "the bondage of the will". This bondage becomes most painfully apparent in our lives when we earnestly feel the need of changing but cannot; when we are attracted to another value that for one reason or another conflicts with the desires of our true god --that value nearest and dearest to us. But our true god lies so deeply inside us that often we are not even consciously aware of its presence or of what it actually is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It felt good to finally get the chance to play and show what I can do. If I had to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34559]]></link><description><![CDATA[It felt good to finally get the chance to play and show what I can do. If I had to judge myself, I?d say it was fair, but around here, you never know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Danny's the last of that generation of players that saved baseball in Seattle. Of the 34 postseason games this team ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Danny's the last of that generation of players that saved baseball in Seattle. Of the 34 postseason games this team has played, Dan Wilson started 30 of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  The love of Jesus is at once avid and generous. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  The love of Jesus is at once avid and generous. All that He has, all that He is, He gives; all that we are, all that we have, He takes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Gateway to Soldiers began with a delivery of about 153 bulletproof vests to Camp Shelby, Miss., for the 153rd CAV ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29969]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Gateway to Soldiers began with a delivery of about 153 bulletproof vests to Camp Shelby, Miss., for the 153rd CAV unit out of Ocala. Several people donated the vests to the program, and Adams helped in delivering them to Camp Shelby. Adams said Gateway to Soldiers helps provide support to soldiers and their families, especially those involved in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.] We want to change somebody, ... We want to build a relationship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before;  The danger o'er, both are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16479]]></link><description><![CDATA[God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before;  The danger o'er, both are alike requited,   God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. [Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. [Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50265]]></link><description><![CDATA[If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1631]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1000]]></link><description><![CDATA[To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that people working together, doing the same job should have the same rights and privileges, ... The health ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29619]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that people working together, doing the same job should have the same rights and privileges, ... The health of public broadcasting rests on people actually being able to build a career.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All complaine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49098]]></link><description><![CDATA[All complaine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18977]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tougher the job, the greater the reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15973]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tougher the job, the greater the reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But each day brings from its pretty dust Our soon choked souls to fill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57268]]></link><description><![CDATA[But each day brings from its pretty dust Our soon choked souls to fill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57268</guid></item></channel></rss>