<?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[They don't have many issues left, but they cannot predict an agreement will be made by (Friday) morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41262]]></link><description><![CDATA[They don't have many issues left, but they cannot predict an agreement will be made by (Friday) morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a very demanding profession. There?s a need to be accurate, and if people keep running ragged, there?s this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37763]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a very demanding profession. There?s a need to be accurate, and if people keep running ragged, there?s this sense of burnout. We know our people need to rest and recover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the Spirit that denies. [Ger., Ich bin der Geist stets verneint.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57397]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the Spirit that denies. [Ger., Ich bin der Geist stets verneint.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long-range planning works best in the short term. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long-range planning works best in the short term.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The NFL is a fraternity,'' Rudd said. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The NFL is a fraternity,'' Rudd said.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373   Although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373   Although it is indisputable that our Lord founded a church, it is an unproved assumption that the church is an aggregation of visible and organized societies. The theory upon which the public worship of the primitive churches proceeded was that each community was complete in itself, and that, in every act of public worship, every element of the community was present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First he wrought, and afterward he taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25379]]></link><description><![CDATA[First he wrought, and afterward he taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have it in our power to begin the world over again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62227]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have it in our power to begin the world over again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9498]]></link><description><![CDATA[A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay  Every pleasure with a pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay  Every pleasure with a pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an old cliche, but we've still got to get one more win. But we have the confidence to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31638]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an old cliche, but we've still got to get one more win. But we have the confidence to know that we can be down and dig our way out of the hole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47789]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57326]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60632]]></link><description><![CDATA[This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking. It is a war thrust upon us and we cannot yield to tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been a tendency of late to interpret alienation from faith in intellectual rather than experiential terms. Academically oriented ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6765]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been a tendency of late to interpret alienation from faith in intellectual rather than experiential terms. Academically oriented Christians especially tend to think that the barriers to faith should be removed by repackaging the content of the message in a way more congenial to the modern outlook. But it is quite possible that we are dealing not so much with a failure of intellect as with an alienation from the experiential roots of Christianity itself so amply attested in the New Testament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that they like to run. They play a similar game to us, defense first, so it should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42281]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that they like to run. They play a similar game to us, defense first, so it should be an interesting game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient self-inspection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient self-inspection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just stupid and unacceptable to the Mariners. This has sullied the reputation of the Seattle Mariners, and for that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31916]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just stupid and unacceptable to the Mariners. This has sullied the reputation of the Seattle Mariners, and for that it's terribly disappointing. We'll try to eradicate this, and we'll take strong internal action against the transgressors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coach always preaches to us, get ahead, get ahead, make something happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coach always preaches to us, get ahead, get ahead, make something happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.  . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61309]]></link><description><![CDATA[How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.  . . . .   The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,    The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54895]]></link><description><![CDATA[That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no clear reasons and I am not going to make one up to explain the recent strengthening of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40854]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no clear reasons and I am not going to make one up to explain the recent strengthening of Epsilon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  My grandfather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. •Indira Gandhi  I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. •Douglas Adams  There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. •William Bennett  The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. •Robert Frost  When work is a pleasure, life is a joy; when work is a duty, life is slavery. •Maksim Gorky  One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. •Elbert Hubbard  It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. •Jerome K Jerome  One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. •Bertrand Russell  Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them. •Lily Tomlin  Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. •Robert Benchley  Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. •Thomas Edison  Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. •Sam Ewing  Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love. •David McCullough  Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. •John G. Pollard  Banker: A fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. •Mark Twain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mind your P's and Q's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mind your P's and Q's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou living ray of intellectual fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou living ray of intellectual fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A normal show would cost somebody to have a professional handler, about $75 a show. At Westminster, because the handlers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33825]]></link><description><![CDATA[A normal show would cost somebody to have a professional handler, about $75 a show. At Westminster, because the handlers are all champions, the fees can more than double. Probably more like $200.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30228]]></link><description><![CDATA[He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42327]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64439]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every parting there is an image of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45563]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every parting there is an image of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   Joy is not gush: joy is not jolliness. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   Joy is not gush: joy is not jolliness. Joy is simply perfect acquiescence in God's will, because the soul delights itself in God himself... rejoice in the will of God, and in nothing else. Bow down your heads and your hearts before God, and let the will, the blessed will of God, be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far and relaxed too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far and relaxed too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in Communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in Communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country; several of the best friends I have got are Communists]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9087</guid></item></channel></rss>