<?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'll be working with everybody so I'll get to know fairly well what different issues are coming up in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29276]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be working with everybody so I'll get to know fairly well what different issues are coming up in the stations. I'll just be going from the field to the office more. I have to thank Tim (Bragg, who retired last week as assistant fire chief with 28 years at MFD). He prepared me well for the office end of this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we did very well. We had two major benefactors that really made sure all the women and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33341]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we did very well. We had two major benefactors that really made sure all the women and the children in the shelter got their wish list.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58533]]></link><description><![CDATA[A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't win unless you learn how to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39420]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't win unless you learn how to lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is maintained that a society is free only when dissenting minorities have room to throw their weight around. As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is maintained that a society is free only when dissenting minorities have room to throw their weight around. As a matter of fact, a dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probablythemselves will not be realized. Make big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probablythemselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope andwork. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will notdie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21777</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[Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty, and I'll show you a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty, and I'll show you a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield,  Nature's, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield,  Nature's, not honour's law we must obey:   This made me cast my useless shield away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive. And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept. [Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus valent praecepta quam experimenta.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14690]]></link><description><![CDATA[In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept. [Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus valent praecepta quam experimenta.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59535]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't place too much confidence in the man who boasts of being as honest as the day is long. Wait ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't place too much confidence in the man who boasts of being as honest as the day is long. Wait until you meet him at night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! replied my gentle fair, Beloved, what are names but air?  Choose thou, whatever suits the line:   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! replied my gentle fair, Beloved, what are names but air?  Choose thou, whatever suits the line:   Call me Sappho, call me Chloris,    Call me Lalage, or Doris,     Only, only, call me thine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People generally quarrel because they can't argue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52705]]></link><description><![CDATA[People generally quarrel because they can't argue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He comes to the world, as a gentleman comes To a lodging ready furnished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50159]]></link><description><![CDATA[He comes to the world, as a gentleman comes To a lodging ready furnished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a lifelong experience. Experience is a lifelong education. Education plus experience equals expertise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a lifelong experience. Experience is a lifelong education. Education plus experience equals expertise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15077]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there:  Like a yawn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there:  Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came,   And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame.    With burnt mouth red like a lion's it drank     The blood of the sun as he slaughtered sank,      And dipped its cup in the purpurate shine       When the eastern conduits ran with wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in,  I think of those companions true  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in,  I think of those companions true   Who studied with me at the U-    Niversity of Gottingen.   - George Canning, Song--Of One Eleven Years in Prison,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate,  Longing to see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56609]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate,  Longing to see the charmed door of dreams   Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24788]]></link><description><![CDATA[The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Police were told the group was armed and they had made political demands, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Police were told the group was armed and they had made political demands,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing a poem is discovering ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing a poem is discovering]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've done lots of research, and we've found sources for everything but the 70-foot poles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32726]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've done lots of research, and we've found sources for everything but the 70-foot poles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32726</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[We know that there's several stages of emotional crisis that people go through. Right now, people are in the stage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31085]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know that there's several stages of emotional crisis that people go through. Right now, people are in the stage when they realize things won't work out quite how they thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22494]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence is the bond of friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence is the bond of friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's probably the most disciplined team I've ever seen in high school basketball. All the teams in the Panhandle don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28360]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's probably the most disciplined team I've ever seen in high school basketball. All the teams in the Panhandle don't play like that. But we just adapted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32088]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62597]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can never tell what the future has in store for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66833]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can never tell what the future has in store for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Am I good? I think so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Am I good? I think so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. ]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10833]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54162]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit, The clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell;  My mistress ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit, The clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell;  My mistress made it one upon my cheek:   She is so hot because the meat is cold;    The meat is cold because you come not home;     You come not home because you have no stomach;      You have no stomach, having broke your fast;       But we, that know what 'tis to fast and pray,        Are penitent for your default to-day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They didn't know if he was going to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33866]]></link><description><![CDATA[They didn't know if he was going to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is a fatal thing. . . . Nothing succeeds like excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is a fatal thing. . . . Nothing succeeds like excess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60109]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of fellows nowadays have a B. A., M. D., or Ph. D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47536]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of fellows nowadays have a B. A., M. D., or Ph. D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J. O. B.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47536</guid></item></channel></rss>