<?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[...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59820]]></link><description><![CDATA[...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just did not take care of our business. We missed too many shots, made too many mistakes, and played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40168]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just did not take care of our business. We missed too many shots, made too many mistakes, and played non-aggressive. I sincerely believe we have three of the best players in the greater Houston area, yet all three of them struggled tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633  If I be bound to pray for all that be in distress, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633  If I be bound to pray for all that be in distress, surely I am bound, so far as it is in my power, to practice what I pray for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy your game and chase your dreams, because dreams do come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy your game and chase your dreams, because dreams do come true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was very popular last year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33524]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was very popular last year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place  A limit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place  A limit to the giant's unchained strength,   Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have,  Not knowing them until we know their grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have,  Not knowing them until we know their grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a strong, good-sized kid. He doesn't come down easily. But we don't give him the ball a lot inside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31886]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a strong, good-sized kid. He doesn't come down easily. But we don't give him the ball a lot inside for 2-3 yard dive plays. We prefer giving him the ball off-tackle where he can get into the open field. Once he's in the clear, he's a vapor trail. He's gone. I don't remember seeing anybody who has caught him from behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51883]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is the first truly democratic culture, the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is the first truly democratic culture, the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. the most terrifying thing is what people do want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10633]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more obnoxious than a low person raised to a high position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more obnoxious than a low person raised to a high position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5885]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They, that unnamed "they," they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10410]]></link><description><![CDATA[They, that unnamed "they," they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61653]]></link><description><![CDATA[MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26580]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divorce should be the last possible option, rather than something we should be smoothing the passage to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Divorce should be the last possible option, rather than something we should be smoothing the passage to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877   If our hopes, whatever we protest, really lie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877   If our hopes, whatever we protest, really lie in this world instead of in the eternal order, we shall find it difficult to accept the New Testament teaching of the Second Coming. In our eyes, the job is not yet done; and such an action would be, though we would not put it so, an interference. But suppose our hope rests in the purpose of God: then we safely leave the timing of the earthly experiment to Him. Meanwhile, we do what we were told to do -- to be alert and to work and pray for the spread of His Kingdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Objectivity is a false god. We are human beings and we screw up or have flaws that are hidden from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Objectivity is a false god. We are human beings and we screw up or have flaws that are hidden from us. But fairness and balance are possible. Not stereotyping people we write about is possible. We can be skeptical without being cynical,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You might point out to Howard Davies that he could get no better grounding in the game of hurling than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39814]]></link><description><![CDATA[You might point out to Howard Davies that he could get no better grounding in the game of hurling than to check out the Offaly Senior Hurling Championship Q/F featuring Birr against Lusmagh next Saturday evening, with the 'throw-in' at 4:30pm in Banagher. No prizes for guessing who you'll be shouting for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are not perfect (except when they smile). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65744]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are not perfect (except when they smile).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the poor that are hit the hardest and they have the least coping mechanisms and probably don't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41514]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the poor that are hit the hardest and they have the least coping mechanisms and probably don't have insurance. Their homes are completely gone and they probably won't be able to rebuild and regain their livelihoods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27473]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to give the roar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28735]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  Persons that are well affected to religion, that receive instructions of piety ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6945]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  Persons that are well affected to religion, that receive instructions of piety with pleasure and satisfaction, often wonder how it comes to pass that they make no greater progress in that religion which they so much admire. Now the reason of it is this: it is because religion lives only in their head, but something else has possession of their heart; and therefore they continue from year to year mere admirers and praisers of piety, without ever coming up to the reality and perfection of its precepts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a general sense I think at least in the British Foreign Office and the British military that the U.S. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32533]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a general sense I think at least in the British Foreign Office and the British military that the U.S. tactics have been too heavy-handed and may be responsible for some of what we're seeing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17193]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12049]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31756]]></link><description><![CDATA[We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think the market is ready to tip, and when a market tips, it can accelerate very quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36882]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think the market is ready to tip, and when a market tips, it can accelerate very quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tax collector must love poor people--he's creating so many of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58671]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tax collector must love poor people--he's creating so many of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fervent hope is it brings some peace, comfort or satisfaction to the victims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fervent hope is it brings some peace, comfort or satisfaction to the victims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the devil was he doing in this galley? [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58408]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the devil was he doing in this galley? [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other things may change us, but we start and end with family ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other things may change us, but we start and end with family]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so practical as a good theory ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47975]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so practical as a good theory]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11951]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63060]]></link><description><![CDATA[If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose firm is equal to the deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose firm is equal to the deed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65678]]></link><description><![CDATA[A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24455]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22785</guid></item></channel></rss>