<?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 difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12218]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He played awesome. You see his reflexes, on little tips in front, gloving them. He's a big-time goalie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32043]]></link><description><![CDATA[He played awesome. You see his reflexes, on little tips in front, gloving them. He's a big-time goalie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20906]]></link><description><![CDATA[And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the cruelest animal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the cruelest animal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blue Order was very much chugging forward. The driving force of this whole effort was a content access effort and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blue Order was very much chugging forward. The driving force of this whole effort was a content access effort and now we have very much achieved the goal of making all content captured available to anybody in our facility on a PC.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to hang my hat on my speed, ... I want to show I'm a legit 4.3 guy. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to hang my hat on my speed, ... I want to show I'm a legit 4.3 guy. And off the field I want the teams to know I'm always prepared -- studying, breaking down game film, learning the system, execution -- I'm all business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11548]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That Raven on yon left-hand oak (Curse on his ill-betiding croak)  Bodes me no good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52979]]></link><description><![CDATA[That Raven on yon left-hand oak (Curse on his ill-betiding croak)  Bodes me no good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4920]]></link><description><![CDATA[From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21782]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[She: Combines an entrepreneurial spirit with skills as a former computer specialist and corporate trainer to design real-world projects incorporating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31134]]></link><description><![CDATA[[She: Combines an entrepreneurial spirit with skills as a former computer specialist and corporate trainer to design real-world projects incorporating task management, teamwork, responsibility, etiquette, success and failure; Has entrepreneurship students form companies to make and market products, complete tasks in an Apprentice-like game and manage a community golf tournament that raises up to $3,000 a year for charity; Advises student council and school online magazine, www.dawgmag.org; Turns simple keyboarding drills into PowerPoint-driven games with raffle tickets for small prizes; Videoconferencing with All-USA Teacher Teammate Pam Vaughan and her rural Arkansas chemistry class for a year-long project in which her students will market soap made by Vaughan's students; Collaborates with local businesses and corporations to form districtwide partnerships;] She has a passion for teaching and for children, a creative mind and limitless energy, ... When you put that together, you have something special.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was kind of not publicized very well. Otherwise we may have reacted sooner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37870]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was kind of not publicized very well. Otherwise we may have reacted sooner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45944]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present -- love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure -- the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25193]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frigthened. -Robert C. Murphy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3952]]></link><description><![CDATA[It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greensleeves was all my joy, Greensleeves was my delight,  Greensleeves was my heart of gold,   And who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greensleeves was all my joy, Greensleeves was my delight,  Greensleeves was my heart of gold,   And who but Lady Greensleeves?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60773]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity. [Lat., Est haec saeculi labes quaedam et macula virtuti invidere, velle ipsum florem dignitatis infringere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that burnes most shines most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49325]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that burnes most shines most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49900]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47976]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Erin, how sweetly thy green bosom rises! An emerald set in the ring of the sea.  Each blade ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear Erin, how sweetly thy green bosom rises! An emerald set in the ring of the sea.  Each blade of thy meadows my faithful heart prizes,   Thou queen of the west, the world's cushla ma chree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that?  The wonder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that?  The wonder of the eagle were the less,   But he not less the eagle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50522]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Core inflation was the good news in the report. That calmed the financial markets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Core inflation was the good news in the report. That calmed the financial markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10235]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's CNN for security geeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34183]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's CNN for security geeks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail, guest, we ask not what thou art; If friend, we greet thee, hand and heart;  If stranger, such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail, guest, we ask not what thou art; If friend, we greet thee, hand and heart;  If stranger, such no longer be;   If foe, our love shall conquer thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65628]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to miss him a lot. Other guys have to step up and do a great job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34529]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to miss him a lot. Other guys have to step up and do a great job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time. [Lat., Pereant amici, dum una inimici intercidant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time. [Lat., Pereant amici, dum una inimici intercidant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is a beautiful thing, except for that part about letting just any old yokel vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is a beautiful thing, except for that part about letting just any old yokel vote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20874]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its own soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who heeds not experience, trust him not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who heeds not experience, trust him not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring your own boots, work gloves and dress for cold weather. It is going to get dirty out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring your own boots, work gloves and dress for cold weather. It is going to get dirty out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25534]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gives a benefit twice who gives quickly. [Lat., Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4141]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gives a benefit twice who gives quickly. [Lat., Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51107]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51107</guid></item></channel></rss>