<?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[Circumstances beyond my individual control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances beyond my individual control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would live to study, and not study to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25393]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would live to study, and not study to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ID theft and security breaches are crimes like any other - they won't completely go away. So we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39199]]></link><description><![CDATA[ID theft and security breaches are crimes like any other - they won't completely go away. So we have to try to reduce the amount of data that's at risk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42533]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has been a special group of seniors that has accomplished a lot. One of the things missing from their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38082]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has been a special group of seniors that has accomplished a lot. One of the things missing from their resume is a win over Navy. That's a huge void they would like to fill in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look to rotate them because they are about the same in ability and all three are inexperienced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33793]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look to rotate them because they are about the same in ability and all three are inexperienced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew a very wise man that believed that . . . if a man were permitted to make all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3696]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew a very wise man that believed that . . . if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.   - Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (2),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47572]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses. Both the strong and the weak grasp at this alibi. The latter hide their malevolence under the virtue of obedience: they acted dishonorably because they had to obey orders. The strong, too, claim absolution by proclaiming themselves the chosen instrument of a higher power- God, history, fate, nation or humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, Thou mak'st thy knife keen; but no metal can--  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, Thou mak'st thy knife keen; but no metal can--  No, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness   Of thy sharp envy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16476]]></link><description><![CDATA[God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point, we have grave concerns because of the expense that small businesses might incur in trying to comply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35446]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point, we have grave concerns because of the expense that small businesses might incur in trying to comply with the ordinance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19270]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change is the end result of all true learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change is the end result of all true learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it's a lot of bodies in a classroom, but we don't have any choice, ... We just have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it's a lot of bodies in a classroom, but we don't have any choice, ... We just have to kind of make do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890  Be careful to be found a wise and faithful servant, and communicate the heavenly to your fellow servants without envy or idleness. Do not take up the vain excuse of your rawness of inexperience which you may imagine or assume. For sterile modesty is never pleasing, not that humility laudable which passes the bounds of reason. Attend to your work; drive out bashfulness by a sense of duty, and act as a master. But I am not sufficient for these things, you say. As if your offering were not accepted from what you have, and not from what you have not. Be prepared to answer for the single talent committed to your charge, and take no thought for the test. For he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. Give all, as assuredly you shall pay to the uttermost farthing; but of a truth out of what you have, not what you have not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we are at war, and we here at THE DAILY SHOW will do our best to keep you informed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44446]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we are at war, and we here at THE DAILY SHOW will do our best to keep you informed of any late-breaking...humor we can find. Of course, our show is obviously at a disadvantage compared to the many news sources that we're competing with… at a disadvantage in several respects. For one thing, we are fake. They are not. So in terms of credibility we are, well, oddly enough, actually about even. We're about even.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day! -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55330]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day! -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder; God will take care of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26398]]></link><description><![CDATA[What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder; God will take care of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7184]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47016]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25732]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to pay a monthly subscription. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28908]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to pay a monthly subscription.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58759]]></link><description><![CDATA[The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We worked hard all year and tried to set an example for our people back home. Just because we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36500]]></link><description><![CDATA[We worked hard all year and tried to set an example for our people back home. Just because we are a small school, we don't have to follow the mold of other schools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life is my argument. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63708]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life is my argument.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38796]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two hands to clap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2914]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two hands to clap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66049]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In dog years, I'm dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12683]]></link><description><![CDATA[In dog years, I'm dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42919]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To say that a farm boy knows how to milk a cow is to say that we can send him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47193]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say that a farm boy knows how to milk a cow is to say that we can send him out to the barn with an empty pail and expect him to return with milk. To say that a criminologist understands crime is not to say that we can send him out with a grant or a law and expect him to return with a lower crime rate. He is more likely to return with a report on why he has not succeeded yet, and including the inevitable need for more money, a larger staff, more sweeping powers, etc.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61605]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet's darling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet's darling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56398]]></link><description><![CDATA[All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18835]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three,  Climb up here to pray;   Burghers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54582]]></link><description><![CDATA[On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three,  Climb up here to pray;   Burghers and dames, at summer's prime,    Ride out to church from Chamberry,     Dight with mantles gay,      But else it is a lonely time       Round the Church of Brou.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the tyrants the world affords,Our own affections are the fiercest lords. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the tyrants the world affords,Our own affections are the fiercest lords.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1021]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, "The Beryl Coronet".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Merkel and her party] did criticize the Schroeder government, which in their view was needlessly antagonizing the Americans, ... But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32535]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Merkel and her party] did criticize the Schroeder government, which in their view was needlessly antagonizing the Americans, ... But they didn't really suggest strong support for American policy, which would be very difficult since that's a sure voter loser in Germany.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65618]]></link><description><![CDATA[I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24642</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></channel></rss>