<?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[He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1492]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36814]]></link><description><![CDATA[With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country's infrastructure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/73]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/73</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was a wonderful nurse that I would say every nurse should emulate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40080]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was a wonderful nurse that I would say every nurse should emulate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual"- find out how he feels about astrology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56969]]></link><description><![CDATA[A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual"- find out how he feels about astrology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  The life of faith does not earn eternal life: it is eternal life. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  The life of faith does not earn eternal life: it is eternal life. And Christ is its vehicle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's clearly very important to them, ... I'm really amazed at how desperately she's behaving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32619]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's clearly very important to them, ... I'm really amazed at how desperately she's behaving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24084]]></link><description><![CDATA[We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not a solution people are wanting to buy into. The main objection is to using public funds for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33245]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not a solution people are wanting to buy into. The main objection is to using public funds for private institutions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25597]]></link><description><![CDATA[No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17611]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. "God wishes," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52303]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. "God wishes," said Calvin, "that one should put aside all humanity when it is a question of striving for His glory.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22029]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the past decade, Afghanistan has been the principal source of international terrorism, religious extremism, international drug trafficking and organized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the past decade, Afghanistan has been the principal source of international terrorism, religious extremism, international drug trafficking and organized crime in this region,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cat and the CockA cat caught a Cock, and pondered how he might find a reasonable excuse for eating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cat and the CockA cat caught a Cock, and pondered how he might find a reasonable excuse for eating him. He accused him of being a nuisance to men by crowing in the nighttime and not permitting them to sleep. The Cock defended himself by saying that he did this for the benefit of men, that they might rise in time for their labors. The Cat replied, Although you abound in specious apologies, I shall not remain supperless; and he made a meal of him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now it is the time of night That the graves, all gaping wide,  Every one lets forth his sprite, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now it is the time of night That the graves, all gaping wide,  Every one lets forth his sprite,   In the churchway paths to glide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfect going-away gift for a college student-athlete. A dictionary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfect going-away gift for a college student-athlete. A dictionary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're one of the top one or two in the league, why should age be a question? It's different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38880]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're one of the top one or two in the league, why should age be a question? It's different if he's taking snaps and his rheumatism is acting up, you know what I mean?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always, always hated it, ... but I was always the only kid on the team who could do it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34738]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always, always hated it, ... but I was always the only kid on the team who could do it. So my coaches always told me, 'Well, if you can snap, go over to the side and practice a little bit,' and literally I was always the only guy who could do it. So I did it in pee wee, midget, junior high school, high school, college. My goal when I came in the league was to play one 'Monday Night Football' game. Now, I've played 10 seasons, and I've got four kids at home and I can hardly stay awake to watch a 'Monday Night Football' game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no instinct like that of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22817]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no instinct like that of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some councils have only two or three pupils who need this help. That is not a big enough group to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some councils have only two or three pupils who need this help. That is not a big enough group to build up real expertise in dealing with them. They will look at using specialists like Spark of Genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27739]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21208]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be,  And do the best to climb, and get to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58214]]></link><description><![CDATA[In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That took the wind out of our sail, that's for sure. You'd like it not to, but that's a pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33523]]></link><description><![CDATA[That took the wind out of our sail, that's for sure. You'd like it not to, but that's a pretty big hit by that kid. He did a good job. I think he was on base all day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maud Muller looked and sighed: :Ah me! That I the Judge's bride might be!  He would dress me up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maud Muller looked and sighed: :Ah me! That I the Judge's bride might be!  He would dress me up in silks so fine,   And praise and toast me at his wine."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many victories worse than a defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60598]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many victories worse than a defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where tempests never beat nor billows roar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where tempests never beat nor billows roar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49125]]></link><description><![CDATA[An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21344]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there light is from within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life Prolongs it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48776]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life Prolongs it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was big. I think that was the play that got everybody going a little bit. Then, when I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41879]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was big. I think that was the play that got everybody going a little bit. Then, when I was able to tie it with a free throw, it made a little statement to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10017]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19579]]></link><description><![CDATA[The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4986</guid></item></channel></rss>