<?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[This was a property listed with 'For Sale' signs outside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40647]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a property listed with 'For Sale' signs outside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas Eve They were all looking for a king To slay their foes, and lift them high; Thou cam'st, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve They were all looking for a king To slay their foes, and lift them high; Thou cam'st, a little baby thing That made a woman cry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came out swinging today and it paid off. We have a few guys in the middle of the lineup ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41145]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came out swinging today and it paid off. We have a few guys in the middle of the lineup who can take the ball deep; that pitch that Turner hit got up in the jet stream and just took off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It doesn't heal anything. I don't know how or what does the healing, but it isn't Time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle. They look the same you dumb s---, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29455]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle. They look the same you dumb s---,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People like me who believe the left can be a moderate forcewe have failed. We are stuck in the medieval ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41122]]></link><description><![CDATA[People like me who believe the left can be a moderate forcewe have failed. We are stuck in the medieval notion that there is an aristocracy and a people, and the people want a piece of what the aristocracy hada life subsidized enough to have a minimum of work and a maximum of pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lost reputation is the best degree for Christ's service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6817]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lost reputation is the best degree for Christ's service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18960]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past -Nathaniel Hawthorne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate ingratitude more in a man Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,  Or any taint of vie whose strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20903]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate ingratitude more in a man Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,  Or any taint of vie whose strong corruption   Inhabits our frail blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terrible is the temptation to be good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terrible is the temptation to be good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was big. I think that was the play that got everybody going a little bit. Then, when I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41879]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was big. I think that was the play that got everybody going a little bit. Then, when I was able to tie it with a free throw, it made a little statement to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have to have faith, I have experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have to have faith, I have experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65915]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 Commemoration of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, tractarian, 1882  If the heart is devoted to the mirage of the world, to the creature instead of the Creator, the disciple is lost... However urgently Jesus may call us, His call fails to find access to our hearts. Our hearts are closed, for they have already been given to another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26573]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens after the October meeting is far from clear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36603]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens after the October meeting is far from clear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Midnight, and yet no eye Through all the Imperial City closed in sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Midnight, and yet no eye Through all the Imperial City closed in sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63581]]></link><description><![CDATA[As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the sake of domestic peace, liberalism aims at democratic government. Democracy is therefore not a revolutionary institution. On the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47199]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the sake of domestic peace, liberalism aims at democratic government. Democracy is therefore not a revolutionary institution. On the contrary it is the very means of preventing revolution and civil wars. It provides a method for the peaceful adjustment of government to the will of the majority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where now I have no one to blush with me, To cross their arms and hang their heads with mine, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where now I have no one to blush with me, To cross their arms and hang their heads with mine,  To mask their brows and hide their infamy;   But I alone, alone must sit and pine,    Seasoning the earth with show'rs of silver brine,     Mingling my talk with tears, my grief with groans,      Poor wasting monuments of lasting moans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain have you acquired knowledge if you have notimparted it to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21692]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain have you acquired knowledge if you have notimparted it to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. [Lat., Res secundae valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a good rebounding team because of technique and attitude. It helps that we have a lot of big men. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40553]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a good rebounding team because of technique and attitude. It helps that we have a lot of big men. But we still have to have the right form.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O child! O new-born denizen Of life's great city! on thy head  The glory of morn is shed,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3642]]></link><description><![CDATA[O child! O new-born denizen Of life's great city! on thy head  The glory of morn is shed,   Like a celestial benison!    Here at the portal thou dost stand,     And with thy little hand      Thou openest the mysterious gate       Into the future's undiscovered land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher.  To show us where she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher.  To show us where she stood there rests alone   Tiber; and that too hastens to be gone.    Learn, hence what fortune can. Towns glide away;     And rivers, which are still in motion, stay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64334]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were disciplined in the second half, though, and we made it through as group winners, when no one thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40198]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were disciplined in the second half, though, and we made it through as group winners, when no one thought we had a chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/68]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/68</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So may glory from defect arise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17539]]></link><description><![CDATA[So may glory from defect arise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not now either arising from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8535]]></link><description><![CDATA[My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not now either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening towards active assistance, is simply bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire:   Rejoice that we may still keep climbing higher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is theplace where no one else has even been. You have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is theplace where no one else has even been. You have to leave the city of yourcomfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you willdiscover will be wonderful. What you will discover will be yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed.  Speak truly, and each word of thine   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed.  Speak truly, and each word of thine   Shall be a fruitful seed.    Live truly, and thy life shall be     A great and noble creed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  I would very earnestly ask you to check your conception of Christ, the image ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  I would very earnestly ask you to check your conception of Christ, the image of Him which as a Christian you hold in your mind, with the actual revealed Person who can be seen and studied in action in the pages of the Gospels. It may be of some value to hold in our minds a bundle of assorted ideals to influence and control our conduct. But surely we need to be very careful before we give that "bundle" the name of Jesus Christ the Son of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bottom line is that no matter what we do, the site will be clean when we are done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bottom line is that no matter what we do, the site will be clean when we are done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O God, keep me innocent; make others great! [Fr., O mon Dieu, conserve-moi innocente, donne la grandeur aux autres.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20957]]></link><description><![CDATA[O God, keep me innocent; make others great! [Fr., O mon Dieu, conserve-moi innocente, donne la grandeur aux autres.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like we have to go out and earn respect, and the only way to do that is go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37341]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like we have to go out and earn respect, and the only way to do that is go out and play hard for four quarters and win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19819]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bargain like a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bargain like a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despise not sweet inviting love-making nor the merry dance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Take courage, soul! Hold not thy strength in vain!  With faith o'ercome the steeps   Thy God hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14965]]></link><description><![CDATA["Take courage, soul! Hold not thy strength in vain!  With faith o'ercome the steeps   Thy God hath set for thee.    Beyond the Alpine summits of great pain     Lieth thine Italy."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8931]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8931</guid></item></channel></rss>