<?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[An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27272]]></link><description><![CDATA[An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19307]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd be under the nearest table the second I felt the first shudder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd be under the nearest table the second I felt the first shudder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the cornerstone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the cornerstone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The English Infantry is the most formidable in Europe, but fortunately there is not much of it. [Fr., L'infanterie anglaise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The English Infantry is the most formidable in Europe, but fortunately there is not much of it. [Fr., L'infanterie anglaise est la plus redoubtable de l"Europe; heureusement, il n'y en a pas beaucoup.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61415]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11368]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49118]]></link><description><![CDATA[An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yearn to understand first and to be understood second. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As things stand, there is no consistent evidence that there is an increased risk of cancer associated with mobile phone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30797]]></link><description><![CDATA[As things stand, there is no consistent evidence that there is an increased risk of cancer associated with mobile phone use, but we need to recognise that the statistics are not enormous. The number of people who have had long-term use of phones (and cancer) is really small,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's sometimes a difficult thing for family members to understand. The process can be vastly different, depending on the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29341]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's sometimes a difficult thing for family members to understand. The process can be vastly different, depending on the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/81]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/81</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We simply blew opportunities, especially early in the game, to get a double digit lead. This allowed Harrisburg to stay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39900]]></link><description><![CDATA[We simply blew opportunities, especially early in the game, to get a double digit lead. This allowed Harrisburg to stay close,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. -James L. Fisher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't aim a duck to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21652]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't aim a duck to death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true. -The Winter's Tale. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those are rules that should be followed at any time, but they are even more necessary right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those are rules that should be followed at any time, but they are even more necessary right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only are these fine wines presented in eco-friendly packaging, these smaller formats will give consumers the convenience and versatility ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only are these fine wines presented in eco-friendly packaging, these smaller formats will give consumers the convenience and versatility in their wine drinking occasions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2673]]></link><description><![CDATA[For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future. [Lat., Parvula (nam exemplo est) magni formica laboris  Ore trahit, quodcunque potest, atque addit acervo   Quem struit; hand ignara ac non incauta futuri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought never to do wrong when people are looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62456]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He needs a million dollars to be able to be noticed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31854]]></link><description><![CDATA[He needs a million dollars to be able to be noticed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58655]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock. [It., Sta come torre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock. [It., Sta come torre ferme, che non crolla  Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the greatest refreshment in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the greatest refreshment in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it\'s sitting down making a quilt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it\'s sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two other parts [Moore] played from the '50s are so different from Evelyn Ryan. The character she played in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37207]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two other parts [Moore] played from the '50s are so different from Evelyn Ryan. The character she played in The Hours was a woman who fled the oppression of her home. Evelyn Ryan stayed. She chose to brave it out, because she was determined to make sure every one of those 10 kids of hers made it out of that house intact. It's heroic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our Army, which may rather be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our Army, which may rather be called a great rabble, our credit and reputation lost, and great part of the country; and a powerful foreign enemy advancing upon us, are so many difficulties we cannot surmount them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45922]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42075]]></link><description><![CDATA[People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The image of NSA has been muddied considerably by this revelation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42196]]></link><description><![CDATA[The image of NSA has been muddied considerably by this revelation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A picture is a poem without words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45415]]></link><description><![CDATA[A picture is a poem without words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21339]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Robertson is no ordinary citizen, ... has been one of the president's staunchest allies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Robertson is no ordinary citizen, ... has been one of the president's staunchest allies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the Lord". It is... not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8511]]></link><description><![CDATA[In most parts of the Bible, everything is implicitly or explicitly introduced with "Thus saith the Lord". It is... not merely a sacred book but a book so remorselessly and continuously sacred that it does not invite -- it excludes or repels -- the merely aesthetic approach. You can read it as literature only by a tour de force... It demands incessantly to be taken on its own terms: it will not continue to give literary delight very long, except to those who go to it for something quite different. I predict that it will in the future be read, as it always has been read, almost exclusively by Christians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that the ground motions in 1906 were significantly larger than those in 1989ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âit's that the area experiencing intense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30385]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that the ground motions in 1906 were significantly larger than those in 1989ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âit's that the area experiencing intense shaking was much, much greater. We don't know if the next rupture will look like 1906 earthquake, but we know that many of the same areas hit hard in 1906, like San Francisco, Santa Rosa, and the Santa Cruz mountains will be hit hard again in the next large earthquake on the San Andreas Fault .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your voice dries up if you don't use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your voice dries up if you don't use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Philip & James, Apostles  Here is opened to us the true reason of the whole process of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Philip & James, Apostles  Here is opened to us the true reason of the whole process of our Saviour's incarnation, passion, death, resurrection, and ascension into Heaven. It was because fallen man was to go through all these stages as necessary parts of his return to God; and therefore, if man was to go out of his fallen state there must be a son of this fallen man, who, as a head and fountain of the whole race, could do all this -- could go back through all these gates and so make it possible for all the individuals of human nature, as being born of Him, to inherit His conquering nature and follow Him through all these passages to eternal life. And thus we see, in the strongest and clearest light, both why and how the holy Jesus is become our great Redeemer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nail in the wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48529]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nail in the wound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let others tell of storms and showers, I'll only mark your sunny hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let others tell of storms and showers, I'll only mark your sunny hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know everyone here along Sullivan Creek is concerned about mosquitoes. I'm kind of concerned about my grandkids and my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34186]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know everyone here along Sullivan Creek is concerned about mosquitoes. I'm kind of concerned about my grandkids and my health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Powerful indeed is the empire of habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18536</guid></item></channel></rss>