<?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[I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56107]]></link><description><![CDATA[I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17980]]></link><description><![CDATA["Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens not to like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17980</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[He does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61461]]></link><description><![CDATA[He does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat., Sociis atque amicis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23759]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the kids get pumped up to play against other competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the kids get pumped up to play against other competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're kind of groping their way forward to understand how they can make the pope as available as possible to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38497]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're kind of groping their way forward to understand how they can make the pope as available as possible to his followers while at the same time protecting his health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I build confidence when I practice a variety of shots - hitting it high or low, working the ball. A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9693]]></link><description><![CDATA[I build confidence when I practice a variety of shots - hitting it high or low, working the ball. A lot of golfers go to the range and just hit full shots. That doesn't build on-course confidence, because you won't always hit full shots out there. My confidence is built on knowing I can effectively work the ball in any circumstance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6565]]></link><description><![CDATA[When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising determination to lift themselves and their children our of hunger and disease and misery, up to a higher level. Jesus started a fire upon the earth, and it is burning hot today, the fire of a new hope in the hearts of the hungry multitudes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9716]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's got a master plan for everything, and it's still following that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31729]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's got a master plan for everything, and it's still following that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48517]]></link><description><![CDATA[As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know any other way to lead but by example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know any other way to lead but by example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier. Many ideas- probably most- will have to be discarded somewhere in the process of producing authenticated knowledge. Authentication is as important as the raw information itself, and the manner and speed of the authentication process can be crucial...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10135]]></link><description><![CDATA[I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50531]]></link><description><![CDATA[When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world, the flesh, the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world, the flesh, the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are still waiting to set the prices for the dinner because we have had to move to a larger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34562]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are still waiting to set the prices for the dinner because we have had to move to a larger room in the center. We have to move from a room seating 250 to one that holds 560 people because of the interest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle   I shall not value his prayers at all, be he never so earnest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle   I shall not value his prayers at all, be he never so earnest and frequent in them, who gives not alms according to his ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ballance distinguisheth not betweene gold and lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49795]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ballance distinguisheth not betweene gold and lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It really has no bearing on any decisions. Coaching and playing is all we can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38255]]></link><description><![CDATA[It really has no bearing on any decisions. Coaching and playing is all we can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men forget everything; women remember everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men forget everything; women remember everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, "whatever it takes!". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2125]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, "whatever it takes!".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52346]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The family is the school of duties... founded on love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The family is the school of duties... founded on love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Companies appeared to be cautious because of the possibility of spikes in crude oil prices which could hit corporate profitability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Companies appeared to be cautious because of the possibility of spikes in crude oil prices which could hit corporate profitability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two hands to clap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2914]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two hands to clap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3111]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59693]]></link><description><![CDATA[As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.   - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wished your venison better--it was ill killed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13270]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wished your venison better--it was ill killed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  The very Nazis look at you with wonderment and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  The very Nazis look at you with wonderment and an open contempt! For even they are sure that to live for nothing higher than oneself is to lose life; that life, to be called life, can be found only in serving something bigger than one's personal interests; something that crowds these out of mind and heart, till one forgets about them and lives wholly, and without exception, for that other, worthier thing... It is long since Aristotle told us that only barbarians have as their ideal the wish to live as they please, and to do what they like. And the New Testament gravely sets us down before the Cross, and bids us gaze, and still gaze, and keep gazing, till the fact has soaked itself into our minds that that, not less than that, is now the standard set us, and that whatever in our lives clashes with that is sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on;  Back-turning slackens resolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on;  Back-turning slackens resolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5755]]></link><description><![CDATA[All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is slow suicide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is slow suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56497</guid></item></channel></rss>