<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How a farmer controls corn rootworm in Indiana really depends on what sort of pest pressure they face. In southern ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32133]]></link><description><![CDATA[How a farmer controls corn rootworm in Indiana really depends on what sort of pest pressure they face. In southern Indiana, most farmers wouldn't treat for it at all because there are very few corn rootworm larvae in that part of the state. In the moderate region in northeast and central Indiana, farmers may use soil insecticides or seed treatments for control. In the high pressure northwest corner of Indiana, most farmers use soil insecticides and some use seed treatments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34881]]></link><description><![CDATA[My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While tears that from repentance flow, In bright exhalement reach the skies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50683]]></link><description><![CDATA[While tears that from repentance flow, In bright exhalement reach the skies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calculation never made a hero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calculation never made a hero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope and fear are inseparable. -La Rochefoucauld. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope and fear are inseparable. -La Rochefoucauld.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling. [Lat., Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling. [Lat., Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed saepe cadendo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we must believe that Judas, who repented even to agony, who repented so that his high-prized life, self, soul, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8250]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we must believe that Judas, who repented even to agony, who repented so that his high-prized life, self, soul, became worthless in his eyes and met with no mercy at his own hand, -- must we believe he could find no mercy in such a God? I think when Judas fled from his hanged and fallen body, he fled to the tender help of Jesus, and found it -- I say not how. He was in a more hopeful condition now than during any moment of his past life, for he had never repented before. But I believe that Jesus loved Judas even when he was kissing Him with traitor's kiss; and I believe that He was his Saviour still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   When we are troubled with temptation and evil thoughts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   When we are troubled with temptation and evil thoughts, then we see clearly the great need we have of God, since without him we can do nothing good. No one is so good that he is immune to temptation; we will never [in this life] be entirely free of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61021]]></link><description><![CDATA[I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A-four and a-three and a-two and a-one... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15208]]></link><description><![CDATA[A-four and a-three and a-two and a-one...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard work has a future. Laziness pays off now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard work has a future. Laziness pays off now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24198]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16603]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even a s Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13638]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even a s Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9658]]></link><description><![CDATA[To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53628]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9515]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need three things in the theatre--the play, the actors and the audience,--and each must give something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/441]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need three things in the theatre--the play, the actors and the audience,--and each must give something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see the better course and approve of it; I follow, alas! the worse! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50729]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see the better course and approve of it; I follow, alas! the worse!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playing against that type of speed, we learned that we can move the ball if we execute. We've just got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Playing against that type of speed, we learned that we can move the ball if we execute. We've just got to be more fundamentally sound on the defensive side of the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14278]]></link><description><![CDATA[When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60027]]></link><description><![CDATA[We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59005]]></link><description><![CDATA[In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice;  The confidence of reason give;   And in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice;  The confidence of reason give;   And in the light of truth thy    Bondman let me live!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most scientists - no matter what they're doing, good or bad - never get any attention at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most scientists - no matter what they're doing, good or bad - never get any attention at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She hath made me four and twenty nosegays for the shearers--three-man songmen all, and very good ones; but they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56472]]></link><description><![CDATA[She hath made me four and twenty nosegays for the shearers--three-man songmen all, and very good ones; but they are most of them means and bases, but one puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms to hornpipes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He got out of a big jam when he got Hilliard. The bottom line is he hit his spots and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31518]]></link><description><![CDATA[He got out of a big jam when he got Hilliard. The bottom line is he hit his spots and let the defense do the work for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We met with them on the 13th of September to give them a proposal. One of the things ... that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37149]]></link><description><![CDATA[We met with them on the 13th of September to give them a proposal. One of the things ... that we could sacrifice was an average of a dollar an hour. Those employees are on the low end of the scale. They're making eight, nine dollars an hour ... so a dollar from them is a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23091]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18993]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that cannot obey, cannot command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12397]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that cannot obey, cannot command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never "just run out for a few minutes" without looking your best. This is not vanity -- it's self-liking. Your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never "just run out for a few minutes" without looking your best. This is not vanity -- it's self-liking. Your face is always on display.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is our core player. She brings incredible energy, and we love playing with her and with her energy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34662]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is our core player. She brings incredible energy, and we love playing with her and with her energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66433]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the soul; it cures the poor of sadness, and the rich of presumption; it keeps the oppressed from feeling desolate, and the prosperous from insolence; it averts sadness from the lonely, and dissipation from social life; it is as warmth in winter and as refreshing dew in summer; it knows how to abound and how to suffer want, how to profit alike by honour and by contempt; it accepts gladness and sadness with an even mind, and fills men's hearts with a wondrous sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7269</guid></item></channel></rss>