<?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[The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7056]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.  Thomas à Kempis, Of the Imitation of Christ  [With thanks to Roger E. Doriot]    February 12, 1997  Ash Wednesday  Were Christians duly instructed how many lesser differences in mind and judgment and practice are really consistent with the nature, ends, and genuine fruit of the unity that Christ requires among them, it would undoubtedly prevail with them so as to manage themselves in their differences by mutual forbearance and condescension in their love, as not to contract the guilt of being disturbers or breakers of it. To speak plainly, among all the churches in the world which are free from idolatry and persecution, it is not different opinions, nor a difference in judgment about revealed truths, nor a different practice in sacred administrations, but pride, self-interest, love of honour, reputation, and dominion, with the influence of civil or political intrigues and considerations, that are the true cause of that defect of evangelical unity that is at this day amongst them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool's bolt is soon shot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51366]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool's bolt is soon shot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6002]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released. -Robert Penn Warren.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6046]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The back-doore robs the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The back-doore robs the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very telling that marshals are interested in going to Border Patrol at a lower pay grade, a very revealing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38933]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very telling that marshals are interested in going to Border Patrol at a lower pay grade, a very revealing reflection of low morale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is encouraging to see a kid come up and do what he doing. He's got five home runs. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35269]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is encouraging to see a kid come up and do what he doing. He's got five home runs. That's more than the starting eight combined. You watch him in batting practice, and you know he is a special kind of hitter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51300]]></link><description><![CDATA[If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was Shakespeare's form; Who walked in every path of human life,  Felt every passion; and to all mankind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55306]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was Shakespeare's form; Who walked in every path of human life,  Felt every passion; and to all mankind   Doth now, will ever, that experience yield    Which his own genius only could acquire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is rich that is satisfied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2109]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is rich that is satisfied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, saith unto him, There is a lad here, which hath five barley ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16055]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, saith unto him, There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hadn't a single redeeming vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60484]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hadn't a single redeeming vice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some guard these traitors to the block of death, Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some guard these traitors to the block of death, Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and the little ruffles set me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7886]]></link><description><![CDATA[If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and the little ruffles set me on edge; if I make much of the trifles of life, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been cheering these dudes on for about 80 games now. Time for them to sit down and relax and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28780]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been cheering these dudes on for about 80 games now. Time for them to sit down and relax and watch us play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion. [Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54731]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion. [Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids were terrific. They were excited about the activities, they learned so much and they made a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids were terrific. They were excited about the activities, they learned so much and they made a lot of connections about what they are learning in the classroom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're hoping for a good turnout and looking for some legislative action for the environment. We need good strong support ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41791]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're hoping for a good turnout and looking for some legislative action for the environment. We need good strong support so we can get funding for our natural resources.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple. -The Two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55332]]></link><description><![CDATA[O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a long time since a visit to America stopped being an infallible formula for strengthening the reputation of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41119]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a long time since a visit to America stopped being an infallible formula for strengthening the reputation of European politicians. In the last decade, however, that contact with the American ally can result in at least as many headaches as it does advantages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul  Under the ribs of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul  Under the ribs of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18987</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[This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected- in so far as it could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25699]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected- in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Savage bears agree with one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Savage bears agree with one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,— Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were extremely happy with the way we came out tonight. Twenty-two points has been a halftime score for us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33760]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were extremely happy with the way we came out tonight. Twenty-two points has been a halftime score for us in some games. So that was nice. We knocked down some open shots. David and Jeff made some nice moves inside. We controlled the boards and were able to get the ball down the floor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21445]]></link><description><![CDATA[And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do or do not... there is no try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do or do not... there is no try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27665]]></link><description><![CDATA[When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.  [Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.  [Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,   Das ist der rechte Mann.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Ms. Fitch will work through June 30, she will complete the fiscal year and her successor will be drawn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37193]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Ms. Fitch will work through June 30, she will complete the fiscal year and her successor will be drawn from the new pool now forming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16791]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't trust in fortune until you are in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't trust in fortune until you are in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lover of Jesus and of the truth . . . can lift himself above himself in spirit. [Lat., Amator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18387]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lover of Jesus and of the truth . . . can lift himself above himself in spirit. [Lat., Amator Jesu et veritatis . . . potest se . . . elevare supra seipsum in spiritu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There shall be no more snow No weary noontide heat,  So we lift our trusting eyes   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17089]]></link><description><![CDATA[There shall be no more snow No weary noontide heat,  So we lift our trusting eyes   From the hills our Fathers trod:    To the quiet of the skies:     To the Sabbath of our God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22861]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22861</guid></item></channel></rss>