<?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[Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't even know what the odds are for one kid or one team to make it here. Obviously, being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38813]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't even know what the odds are for one kid or one team to make it here. Obviously, being from Canada this is their Stanley Cup - they made it. It's hard enough to get here and it's hard enough to advance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61458]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government is vacillating because it is unable to find an agreement within the coalition for partisan reasons, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35812]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government is vacillating because it is unable to find an agreement within the coalition for partisan reasons,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lost reputation is the best degree for Christ's service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6817]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lost reputation is the best degree for Christ's service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/677]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a major league pitcher. He has a lot of experience; he knows how to pitch in and out, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41146]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a major league pitcher. He has a lot of experience; he knows how to pitch in and out, and he knows how to get ahead in the count.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of future applications. Videoconferencing through your television is one of the things they're talking about, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of future applications. Videoconferencing through your television is one of the things they're talking about, or being able to chat with friends as the television program is going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds, At which the universal host up sent  A shout that tore hell's concave, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds, At which the universal host up sent  A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond   Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the things that we stress is never talk to a stranger. We tell them, 'Run away and tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42394]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the things that we stress is never talk to a stranger. We tell them, 'Run away and tell your teacher, tell your mother, somebody you can trust. Always trust a policeman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals are human just like us in a different shape and form so do not abuse them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals are human just like us in a different shape and form so do not abuse them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All who (like him) have writ ill plays before, For they, like thieves, condemned, are hangman made,  To execute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10747]]></link><description><![CDATA[All who (like him) have writ ill plays before, For they, like thieves, condemned, are hangman made,  To execute the members of their trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22264]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of guys have been here for a while and we haven't done anything. Coach Collier said he's tired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30258]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of guys have been here for a while and we haven't done anything. Coach Collier said he's tired of waiting and we're tired, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am in earnest--I will not equivocate--I will not excuse--I will not retreat a single inch and I will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53958]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am in earnest--I will not equivocate--I will not excuse--I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the first quarter, the earnings surprises have been getting smaller and we expect that to continue based on anecdotal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the first quarter, the earnings surprises have been getting smaller and we expect that to continue based on anecdotal evidence that analysts know the economy's moving faster and all the pre-announcements that come out now,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would make it awfully difficult to do sewer projects in the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32160]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would make it awfully difficult to do sewer projects in the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2079]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/352]]></link><description><![CDATA[That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You (reporters) should have printed what he meant, not what he said. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23345]]></link><description><![CDATA[You (reporters) should have printed what he meant, not what he said.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The symbol of the New Testament and the Christian Church is a cross, which stands for a love faithful despite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The symbol of the New Testament and the Christian Church is a cross, which stands for a love faithful despite physical agony and rejection by the world. No amount of air-conditioning and pew-cusioning in the suburban church can cover over the hard truth that the Christian life... is a narrow way of suffering; that discipleship is costly: that, for the faithful, there is always a cross to be carried. No one can understand Christianity to its depths who comes to it to enjoy it as a pleasant weekend diversion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53065]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525   "Help!"   "Sorry! 'monmywaytochurch."   The deepest sins are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525   "Help!"   "Sorry! 'monmywaytochurch."   The deepest sins are camouflaged as holiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4755]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24992]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56594]]></link><description><![CDATA[In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66426]]></link><description><![CDATA[By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15266]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As many servants so many enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51130]]></link><description><![CDATA[As many servants so many enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never laugh at live dragons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never laugh at live dragons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was back and forth all game, and we had no downturns. We only missed two serves in three games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31199]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was back and forth all game, and we had no downturns. We only missed two serves in three games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8982</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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8142]]></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  A man may be haunted with doubts, and only grow thereby in faith. Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood... Doubt must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53972]]></link><description><![CDATA[The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a natural reaction when you feel people are here outside the law, that they should be stopped or sent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39986]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a natural reaction when you feel people are here outside the law, that they should be stopped or sent back. But people need to understand greater forces are at play than a person deciding to cross a border - that in globalization, for example, labor is moving as much as capital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60458</guid></item></channel></rss>