<?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[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 For the power Thou hast given ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 For the power Thou hast given me to lay hold of things unseen: For the strong sense I have that this is not my home: For my restless heart which nothing finite can satisfy:  I give Thee thanks, O God. For the invasion of my soul by Thy Holy Spirit: For all human love and goodness that speak to me of Thee: For the fullness of Thy glory outpoured in Jesus Christ  I give Thee thanks, O God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12227]]></link><description><![CDATA[It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All persons as they become less prosperous, are the more suspicious. They take everything as an affront; and from their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58417]]></link><description><![CDATA[All persons as they become less prosperous, are the more suspicious. They take everything as an affront; and from their conscious weakness, presume that they are neglected. [Lat., Omnes quibus res sunt minus secundae magis sunt, nescio quomodo,  Suspiciosi; ad contumeliam omnia accipiunt magis;   Propter suam impotentiam se credunt negligi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because the temperature is at 32 or just a little above, it is heavy snow to push off the roadway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because the temperature is at 32 or just a little above, it is heavy snow to push off the roadway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/680]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of Earth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of Earth, overlaying our hard hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43256]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't stand accessories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39299]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't stand accessories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44664]]></link><description><![CDATA[The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gard'ner, for telling me these news of woe, Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gard'ner, for telling me these news of woe, Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was trying not to play her a lot. I thought we were in pretty good shape at 12-4. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35489]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was trying not to play her a lot. I thought we were in pretty good shape at 12-4. I didn't realize that was the highlight of the first half.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boils and plagues Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd  Further than seen, . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boils and plagues Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd  Further than seen, . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With him most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46653]]></link><description><![CDATA[With him most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46653</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[The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20428]]></link><description><![CDATA[If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  Never do anything through strife, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  Never do anything through strife, or emulation, or vainglory. Never do anything in order to excel other people, but in order to please God, and because it is His will that you should do everything in the best manner that you can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2856]]></link><description><![CDATA[My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 1998, Linux had 16 percent of the server operating system market, and in 1999, it already had 25 percent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40461]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 1998, Linux had 16 percent of the server operating system market, and in 1999, it already had 25 percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They always talk who never think, and who have the least to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25546]]></link><description><![CDATA[They always talk who never think, and who have the least to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't become political, ... I was born political. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31822]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't become political, ... I was born political.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9100]]></link><description><![CDATA[What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have some size as always and a great point guard in Philip Garnett. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39893]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have some size as always and a great point guard in Philip Garnett.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26328]]></link><description><![CDATA[While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prision, I am not free. -Eugene V Debs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4573]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64951]]></link><description><![CDATA[All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's still a lot of softball to be played. We would like for the tournament to be here but our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37542]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's still a lot of softball to be played. We would like for the tournament to be here but our goal is to qualify for the tournament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62410]]></link><description><![CDATA[For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10475]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28763]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54271]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which othermen have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which othermen have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palsied eld. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Palsied eld. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're very happy with the document that the seven states have agreed on, and we're optimistic that the Department of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40443]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're very happy with the document that the seven states have agreed on, and we're optimistic that the Department of Interior will adopt the states' position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[College isn't the place to go for ideas. -Hellen Keller. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13574]]></link><description><![CDATA[College isn't the place to go for ideas. -Hellen Keller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46405]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday. (atage 85). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday. (atage 85).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist    It is good to follow the path of duty, though in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist    It is good to follow the path of duty, though in the midst of darkness and discouragement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/803]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66214]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14317]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here in His holy House of Prayer we may come on our day of rest, and be safe, if we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here in His holy House of Prayer we may come on our day of rest, and be safe, if we will, from any thoughts but those of the world to come. Here we gather together for no earthly business, but for a purpose of one sort only; and that purpose is the same for which saints and angels are met together in that innumerable company before the throne of God. If there is a place on earth which, however faintly and dimly, shadows out the courts of God on high, surely it is where His people are met together, in all their weakness and ignorance and sin, in their poor and low estate, yet with humble and faithful hearts, in His House of Prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simplewe couldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22468]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simplewe couldn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9364]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that the ground motions in 1906 were significantly larger than those in 1989it's that the area experiencing intense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30387]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that the ground motions in 1906 were significantly larger than those in 1989it'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/30387</guid></item></channel></rss>