<?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[Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're scared, buy a big dog and tie it around your waist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34635]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're scared, buy a big dog and tie it around your waist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32132]]></link><description><![CDATA[National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. [Fr., Quand on n'a pas ce que ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47756]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. [Fr., Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime,  Il faut aimer ce que l'on a.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware the fury of a patient man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware the fury of a patient man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the end of a generation that remade and saved baseball in Seattle. He's the last connection to that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31913]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the end of a generation that remade and saved baseball in Seattle. He's the last connection to that miracle 1995 team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597 Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 1. the ministry of holding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597 Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 1. the ministry of holding one's tongue   Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words... Thus it must be a decisive rule of every Christian fellowship that each individual is prohibited from saying much that occurs to him. This prohibition does not include the personal word of advice and guidance. But to speak about a brother is forbidden, even under the cloak of help and goodwill; for it is precisely in this guise that the spirit of hatred among brothers creeps in when it is seeking to create mischief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27877]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end of a generation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end of a generation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's tough to compare to anyone, I think, because of not only his success but the longevity of his success. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30469]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's tough to compare to anyone, I think, because of not only his success but the longevity of his success. I mean, who pitches for 20-some years and has only one losing season and at the age of 43 has a sub-2.00 ERA?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27017]]></link><description><![CDATA[By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings,  Nor as she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings,  Nor as she turns the giddy wheel around,   Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man makes a god of his own desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man makes a god of his own desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25024]]></link><description><![CDATA[In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45196]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike by Algebra. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24527]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike by Algebra.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is influence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is influence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12265]]></link><description><![CDATA[What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The living need more charity than the dead ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The living need more charity than the dead]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind;  No general object of desire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind;  No general object of desire is known,   Each has his will, and each pursues his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else  But what your jealousies awake, I tell you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23171]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else  But what your jealousies awake, I tell you   'Tis rigor and not law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is she not passing fair? -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is she not passing fair? -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2720]]></link><description><![CDATA[His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no future pang Can deal that justice on the self condemn'd  He deals on his own soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9793]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no future pang Can deal that justice on the self condemn'd  He deals on his own soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24530]]></link><description><![CDATA[And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard the same news after I was elected [in June] and quite frankly I laughed at it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41325]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard the same news after I was elected [in June] and quite frankly I laughed at it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2504]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Clavus clavo pellitur, consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18520]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Clavus clavo pellitur, consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't even know he was into art. I did a little bit because my parents passed when he was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't even know he was into art. I did a little bit because my parents passed when he was 7 and the next year my friend's father passed. He went home and drew the whole cemetery with the casket, the seats and all the tombstones with all the names on it. That's when we knew he could draw from memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60178]]></link><description><![CDATA[We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bread is the staff of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bread is the staff of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This should not have been reported as an in kind contribution and it's unfortunate that these members put the party ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30949]]></link><description><![CDATA[This should not have been reported as an in kind contribution and it's unfortunate that these members put the party in this situation,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Alliance aims to achieve the same results in 2006. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Alliance aims to achieve the same results in 2006.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charm is a product of the unexpected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charm is a product of the unexpected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43289]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward. [Lat., Neutiquam officium liberi esse hominis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15483]]></link><description><![CDATA[No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward. [Lat., Neutiquam officium liberi esse hominis puto  Cum is nihil promereat, postulare id gratiae apponi sibi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are actually hoping that the special session will work to educators' benefit in that something positive needs to happen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34564]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are actually hoping that the special session will work to educators' benefit in that something positive needs to happen in order for (Perry's) re-election to occur.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order for rapid population growth to matter, a nation must steadily create good, decent- paying jobs to benefit from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36687]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order for rapid population growth to matter, a nation must steadily create good, decent- paying jobs to benefit from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opposites are not contradictory but complementary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What ugly sights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What ugly sights of death within mine eyes! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks, Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon, Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea: Some lay in dead men's skulls; and in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept, As 't were in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All styles are good except the tiresome kind. [Fr., Tous les genres sont bons, hors le genre ennuyeux.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58103]]></link><description><![CDATA[All styles are good except the tiresome kind. [Fr., Tous les genres sont bons, hors le genre ennuyeux.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27058</guid></item></channel></rss>