<?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[What you don't do can be a destructive force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20699]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you don't do can be a destructive force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madam, I swear I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madam, I swear I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity,  And pity 'tis 'tis true--a foolish figure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evangelism is selling a dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evangelism is selling a dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65850]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the whirligig of time Brings in his revenges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the whirligig of time Brings in his revenges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason for filing the intervention has been accomplished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39680]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason for filing the intervention has been accomplished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once when I was in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger. He said he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once when I was in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger. He said he was about to die and wanted to tell someone about the treasure. I said, "Okay, as long as it's not a long story. Some of us have a plane to catch, you know." He stared telling hes story, about the treasure and his life and all, and I thought: "This story isn't too long." But then, he kept going, and I started thinking, "Uh-oh, this story is getting long." But then the story was over, and I said to myself: "You know, that story wasn't too long after all." I forget what the story was about, but there was a good movie on the plane. It was a little long, though.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the US does need to be more even-handed in its dealings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33553]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the US does need to be more even-handed in its dealings in the Middle East, [and] more sophisticated in its dealings with the Muslim world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50864]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my hope that the 2006 Season of Justice will not only be a time to raise awareness on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29044]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my hope that the 2006 Season of Justice will not only be a time to raise awareness on our campus and in our community about justice issues around the world, but also a time for spiritual growth. It is our belief, and the belief of IJM, that God cares deeply about justice. As Christians, we are called to seek God and to do that fully we must also seek justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was gratuitously insulting 50 million Americans who call themselves Republicans, some of whom we hope will vote Democrat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33258]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was gratuitously insulting 50 million Americans who call themselves Republicans, some of whom we hope will vote Democrat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe such progress is relished because it feels nice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10775]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest story of the year is clearly the record-breaking hurricane season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest story of the year is clearly the record-breaking hurricane season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second disasterous. -Margot Fonteyn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobodyelse has thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobodyelse has thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  It is clear that he does not pray, who, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing they wanted was a shower and a change of clothes. People had been wading through floodwater in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing they wanted was a shower and a change of clothes. People had been wading through floodwater in the clothes they were wearing, and then had to live in them for days at the convention center. They smelled like urine, feces, and death, but they had to wait in line to be processed and then find a bed and then they could take a shower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd. Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd. Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, love is the soul of a true Irishman; He loves all that's lovely, loves all that he can,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23048]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, love is the soul of a true Irishman; He loves all that's lovely, loves all that he can,  With his sprig of shillelagh and shamrock so green.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[NetBSD/sparc: 100% SpF (Solaris protection Factor) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57116]]></link><description><![CDATA[NetBSD/sparc: 100% SpF (Solaris protection Factor)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike--for your altars and your fires; Strike--for the green graves of your sires.  God--and your native land! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike--for your altars and your fires; Strike--for the green graves of your sires.  God--and your native land!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know we still can get a lot better. We all hope our best basketball is yet to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31691]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know we still can get a lot better. We all hope our best basketball is yet to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836   You have your season, and you have but your season; neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836   You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work as well as your life is at an end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is rarely pure and never simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59773]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is rarely pure and never simple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27584]]></link><description><![CDATA[People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know it ain't easy For these thoughts here to leave meThere's no words to describe itIn French or in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11931]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know it ain't easy For these thoughts here to leave meThere's no words to describe itIn French or in EnglishWell, diamonds they fadeAnd flowers they bloomAnd I'm telling youThese feelings won't go awayThey've been knockin' me sidewaysThey've been knockin' me out latelyWhenever you come around meThese feelings won't go away They've been knockin' me sidewaysI keep thinking in a moment thatTime will take them awayBut these feelings won't go away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39419]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked him, came across the middle and dunked on him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't see major these kinds of fluctuations unless there's major maintenance going on, which is usually announced in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34534]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't see major these kinds of fluctuations unless there's major maintenance going on, which is usually announced in the press.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By unseen hand uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud  Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8909]]></link><description><![CDATA[By unseen hand uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud  Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad,   And wafted up to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't have asked for anything better than the way they've treated me here, especially my teammates. I wasn't worried, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't have asked for anything better than the way they've treated me here, especially my teammates. I wasn't worried, but I was pretty nervous about how I'd be accepted. Ever since Day One it's just been great. There's been no negativity at all, absolutely none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55169]]></link><description><![CDATA[People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10242]]></link><description><![CDATA[God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has always been a good shooter. After he got about halfway through his junior varsity year, we saw he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33962]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has always been a good shooter. After he got about halfway through his junior varsity year, we saw he could be a good player because he could shoot the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how he likes, and as much as he likes?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate grows and victors where love is afraid to share its bloom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate grows and victors where love is afraid to share its bloom]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While I think the dangers of a member of the committee being blackmailed are somewhat exaggerated in political discourse, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33663]]></link><description><![CDATA[While I think the dangers of a member of the committee being blackmailed are somewhat exaggerated in political discourse, it would still be a prudent discussion for the minority leader to have with Mr. Condit, ... It can very well be that one would want to err on the side of prudence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57638</guid></item></channel></rss>