<?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[Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And we will be in tune with our bodies only if we truly love and honor them. We can't be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55191]]></link><description><![CDATA[And we will be in tune with our bodies only if we truly love and honor them. We can't be in good communication with the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[While the U.S. media] was praising freedom on the march after the Iraqi elections, he told the real story: The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30036]]></link><description><![CDATA[[While the U.S. media] was praising freedom on the march after the Iraqi elections, he told the real story: The seeds of Islamic fundamentalism is all over Iraqi walls, ... He said that six months before anybody else in the media.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5779]]></link><description><![CDATA[A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop. The leaves of life keep falling one by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24863]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop. The leaves of life keep falling one by one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles,a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles,a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Megan] really carried us when we got down early and hit some tough shots. We thought they may struggle against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35393]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Megan] really carried us when we got down early and hit some tough shots. We thought they may struggle against our zone and our press gave us a spark and forced some turnovers. After a rough start to the year, we have become a pretty good defensive team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, everybody would prefer to play inside, you know, because the conditions are totally different. But what can we do? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, everybody would prefer to play inside, you know, because the conditions are totally different. But what can we do? If the supervisor, they make the schedules, they put you on this court, what can you do?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we debunk a fanatical faith or prejudice, we do not strike at the root of fanaticism. We merely prevent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53720]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we debunk a fanatical faith or prejudice, we do not strike at the root of fanaticism. We merely prevent its leaking out at a certain point, with the likely result that it will leak out at some other point. Thus by denigrating prevailing beliefs and loyalties, the militant man of words unwittingly creates in the disillusioned masses a hunger for faith. For the majority of people cannot endure the barrenness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in which they can lose themselves. Thus, in spite of himself, the scoffing man of words becomes the precursor of a new faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was many and many a year ago, In a District styled E.C.,  That a monster dwelt whom I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16211]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was many and many a year ago, In a District styled E.C.,  That a monster dwelt whom I cam to know   By the name of Cannibal Flea,    And the brute was possessed with no other thought     Than to live--and to live on me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dollar will weaken. We bought some euros below $1.20. We took advantage of the dip in the euro. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dollar will weaken. We bought some euros below $1.20. We took advantage of the dip in the euro.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children across the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66370]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who are having problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a life lived for others is worth living ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a life lived for others is worth living]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them to begin to see [the agency] as a more positive presence in the communities - that's huge progress. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42526]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them to begin to see [the agency] as a more positive presence in the communities - that's huge progress. We sit now right on the cusp of losing that if we're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49988]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel the coast is getting something rammed down the throat by the rest of the state and in particular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28696]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel the coast is getting something rammed down the throat by the rest of the state and in particular by Haley Barbour who used to be a lobbyist for the petroleum industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more pleasurable than to sit in the shade, sip gin and contemplate other people's adulteries, and while the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more pleasurable than to sit in the shade, sip gin and contemplate other people's adulteries, and while the wormy apple of marriage still lives, the novel will not die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a Lenten series on prayer:  If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a Lenten series on prayer:  If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47301]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you plan for one year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years, planttrees. If you plan for 100 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21411]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you plan for one year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years, planttrees. If you plan for 100 years, educate mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of too much learning become mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of too much learning become mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19898]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to make things happen. Hit-and-run, steals, we wanted to put pressure on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to make things happen. Hit-and-run, steals, we wanted to put pressure on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with being best man at a wedding is that you never get a chance to prove it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with being best man at a wedding is that you never get a chance to prove it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee,  Bright'ning each other! thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee,  Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17683]]></link><description><![CDATA[He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9425]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5810]]></link><description><![CDATA[To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both of them have tremendous power. But it's my opinion Bonds shouldn't even be in the game today. He's violated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both of them have tremendous power. But it's my opinion Bonds shouldn't even be in the game today. He's violated federal law. He's a product of illegal drugs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers:  To some she gives honor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers:  To some she gives honor without deserving;   To other some, deserving without honor;    Some wit, some wealth,--and some, wit without wealth;     Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a true man, and Christ was a true man. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8102]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a true man, and Christ was a true man. His prayer in Gethsemane, his sweat of blood, show that the preceding anxiety is a part of human affliction, which we must try to accept with some sort of submission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have anything against work. I just figure, whydeprive somebody who really loves it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22170]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have anything against work. I just figure, whydeprive somebody who really loves it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really comprehensive. I wasn't familiar with early science fiction. It's cool to see the roots of sci-fi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30635]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really comprehensive. I wasn't familiar with early science fiction. It's cool to see the roots of sci-fi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just went to roll around with him for a little bit. He got his first points. And dislocated my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39385]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just went to roll around with him for a little bit. He got his first points. And dislocated my elbow. I guess that was the passing of the torch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64041]]></link><description><![CDATA[To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twixt kings and tyrans there's this difference known: Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their owne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59966]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twixt kings and tyrans there's this difference known: Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their owne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Columbus, bringing in Adam Foote was a huge pickup for them, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Columbus, bringing in Adam Foote was a huge pickup for them,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to itand helps it. Love works, and hope works, and all other graces -- self-denial, readiness to the cross -- they all work and help faith. Yet when we come to die, faith is left alone. Now, try what faith will do. Not to be surprised with any thing is the substance of human wisdom; not to be surprised with death is a great part of the substance of our spiritual wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53931</guid></item></channel></rss>