<?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 mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5812]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17572]]></link><description><![CDATA[For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59181]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king reigns but does not govern. [Ger., Der Konig herrscht aber regiert nicht.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54446]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king reigns but does not govern. [Ger., Der Konig herrscht aber regiert nicht.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was my first time in front of the television cameras and my home crowd so I'm delighted by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41741]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was my first time in front of the television cameras and my home crowd so I'm delighted by the way I played and the result,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make a ragout, first catch your hare. [Fr., Poure faire un civet, prenez un lievre.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10130]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make a ragout, first catch your hare. [Fr., Poure faire un civet, prenez un lievre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not what we give, but what we share,-- For the gift without the giver is bare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not what we give, but what we share,-- For the gift without the giver is bare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have faith in the boys. The man upstairs blessed us. The boys have talent and it shows. They are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40568]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have faith in the boys. The man upstairs blessed us. The boys have talent and it shows. They are awesome players and good athletes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things like that don't bother me. Just one week ago, Paul said he wanted to play his whole career in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things like that don't bother me. Just one week ago, Paul said he wanted to play his whole career in one uniform. It's important for us to keep all our players in the right frame of mind, and it would be great if everyone felt good about everything for the whole year. But that's not the way the NBA season works. All I know is I talk to Paul and he tells me he wants to keep together and get better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart loves, but moods have no loyalty. Moods should be heard but never danced to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart loves, but moods have no loyalty. Moods should be heard but never danced to]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36958]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58375]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...' -Isaac Asimov.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pool is huge here. I can't go anywhere without running into someone who plays on a league. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pool is huge here. I can't go anywhere without running into someone who plays on a league.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it's all said and done we will lose a piece to a carnivorous vegetarian ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60452]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it's all said and done we will lose a piece to a carnivorous vegetarian]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They will probably be there the rest of the week, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37668]]></link><description><![CDATA[They will probably be there the rest of the week,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair! For me her constant flame appears;  The garland she hath culled, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair! For me her constant flame appears;  The garland she hath culled, I wear   On brows bald since my thirty years.    Ye veils that deck my loved one rare,     Fall, for the crowning triumph's nigh.      Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair!       And I, so plain a man am I!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the right thing to do. It's not the right thing to risk to try to get in this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32964]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the right thing to do. It's not the right thing to risk to try to get in this country through these very dangerous areas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44785]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13166]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What! upon compulsion? No! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51301]]></link><description><![CDATA[What! upon compulsion? No!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress has a duty to taxpayers to make informed decisions when carrying out its legislative, appropriation, and oversight functions. Such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congress has a duty to taxpayers to make informed decisions when carrying out its legislative, appropriation, and oversight functions. Such decisions require access to timely and accurate information, and when access is restricted, we are unable to provide oversight and fulfill our constitutional responsibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,  But yet an union in partition--   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60146]]></link><description><![CDATA[So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,  But yet an union in partition--   Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;    So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart;     Two of the first, like coats in heraldry,      Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis impious in a good man to be sad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54627]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis impious in a good man to be sad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59015]]></link><description><![CDATA[When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888  Much of today's Christianity is almost completely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888  Much of today's Christianity is almost completely earthbound, and the words of Jesus about what follows this life are scarcely studied at all. This, I believe, is partly due to man's enormous technical successes, which make him feel master of the human situation. But it is also partly due to our scholars and experts. By the time they have finished with their dissection of the New Testament and with their explaining away as "myth" all that they find disquieting or unacceptable to the modern mind, the Christian way of life is little more than humanism with a slight tinge of religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as creeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56544]]></link><description><![CDATA[If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as creeps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240  He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25548]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am never merry when I hear sweet music. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55615]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am never merry when I hear sweet music. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This meeting greatly strengthened my conviction that cooperation between both countries may have another strong boost. We identified a desire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28245]]></link><description><![CDATA[This meeting greatly strengthened my conviction that cooperation between both countries may have another strong boost. We identified a desire for cooperation in all levels of government, not only of the Executive, but also of the Legislative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been in this business for years, and this has been the hardest three days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32491]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been in this business for years, and this has been the hardest three days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1127]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. - The Life of Poetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19908]]></link><description><![CDATA[My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want people to think that this was for nothing. Judy recognizes that the leadership style needs to change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40842]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want people to think that this was for nothing. Judy recognizes that the leadership style needs to change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the 1000 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the 1000 small uncaring ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think Nature hath lost the mould Where she her shape did take;  Or else I doubt if Nature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think Nature hath lost the mould Where she her shape did take;  Or else I doubt if Nature could   So fair a creature make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The itch of disputing is the scab of the Church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The itch of disputing is the scab of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people-not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5681]]></link><description><![CDATA[True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5681</guid></item></channel></rss>