<?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[We are preparing for fire, flooding and pandemic disease right now. We hope that none of it happens, but we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34448]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are preparing for fire, flooding and pandemic disease right now. We hope that none of it happens, but we are planning so when it does we are ready.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The team played football today the way I like to see it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The team played football today the way I like to see it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have short-term memory loss, though I like to think of it as Presidential eligibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26960]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have short-term memory loss, though I like to think of it as Presidential eligibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14519]]></link><description><![CDATA[One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to women at a crisis time in their life. If the product is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to women at a crisis time in their life. If the product is defective, she can't return it for a refund.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He sees only night, and hears only silence. [Fr., Il ne voit que la nuit, n'entend que le silence.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56284]]></link><description><![CDATA[He sees only night, and hears only silence. [Fr., Il ne voit que la nuit, n'entend que le silence.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13045]]></link><description><![CDATA[In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62758]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is a parade.  Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is a parade.  Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If moisture gets in under the glass (covering), it can completely ruin the painting. They also do fade like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39328]]></link><description><![CDATA[If moisture gets in under the glass (covering), it can completely ruin the painting. They also do fade like a watercolor on paper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boldness is a child of ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boldness is a child of ignorance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all need a break these days. So many people and businesses are still displaced because of Katrina so we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39618]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all need a break these days. So many people and businesses are still displaced because of Katrina so we didn't really want to push the fund-raising side of the event and wanted to present it more as a way to relieve stress. Walking is good for the heart and a great way to relieve stress, which everyone needs these days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,  Which, as they kiss, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11844]]></link><description><![CDATA[These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,  Which, as they kiss, consume.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53569]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound. [Fr., La patrie est aux lieux ou l'ame est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound. [Fr., La patrie est aux lieux ou l'ame est enchainee.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47801]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6150]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928   What makes some theological works like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928   What makes some theological works like sawdust to me is the way the authors can go on discussing how far certain positions are adjustable to contemporary thought, or beneficial in relation to social problems, or "have a future" before them, but never squarely ask what grounds we have for supposing them to be true accounts of any objective reality. As if we were trying to make rather than to learn. Have we no Other to reckon with?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17151]]></link><description><![CDATA[No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of options out there that advertisers now have besides the 30-second commercial on network television, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30403]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of options out there that advertisers now have besides the 30-second commercial on network television,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civility costs nothing and buys everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civility costs nothing and buys everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to run faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28251]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to run faster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66779]]></link><description><![CDATA[A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59330]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gaming commission would look long and hard. We think it would be hard to get licensed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37303]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gaming commission would look long and hard. We think it would be hard to get licensed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make me over, Mother April, When the sap begins to stir!  When thy flowery hand delivers   All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make me over, Mother April, When the sap begins to stir!  When thy flowery hand delivers   All the mountain-prisoned rivers,    And thy great heart beats and quivers,     To revive the days that were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is injury let me sow pardon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is injury let me sow pardon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith, I know nothing about it; I am my own ancestor. [Fr., An, ma foi, je n'en sais rien; moi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith, I know nothing about it; I am my own ancestor. [Fr., An, ma foi, je n'en sais rien; moi je suis mon ancetre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us do or die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us do or die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2700]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In view of history, I sincerely wish that the ravages of war will never be repeated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34516]]></link><description><![CDATA[In view of history, I sincerely wish that the ravages of war will never be repeated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The headline is very misleading on this one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The headline is very misleading on this one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get something done a committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9006]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get something done a committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either make the tree food, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either make the tree food, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hair that covers the wit is more than the wit, for the greater hides the less. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hair that covers the wit is more than the wit, for the greater hides the less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all fooles wore white Caps, wee should seeme a flock of geese. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49507]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all fooles wore white Caps, wee should seeme a flock of geese.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45791]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the runs of Iona.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that the ground motions in 1906 were significantly larger than those in 1989ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âit's that the area experiencing intense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30385]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that the ground motions in 1906 were significantly larger than those in 1989ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âit's that the area experiencing intense shaking was much, much greater. We don't know if the next rupture will look like 1906 earthquake, but we know that many of the same areas hit hard in 1906, like San Francisco, Santa Rosa, and the Santa Cruz mountains will be hit hard again in the next large earthquake on the San Andreas Fault .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours and excise our brains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57840]]></link><description><![CDATA[No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours and excise our brains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64825]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a great opportunity for us to meet the people in the community and outline the way they can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29269]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a great opportunity for us to meet the people in the community and outline the way they can benefit from our project. And we are really fortunate to have the backing of many of the local community groups.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29269</guid></item></channel></rss>