<?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[Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy. -- Drillers whom Edwin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy. -- Drillers whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist in his project to drill for oil in 1859.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when once Christ had called him, Peter had no alternative he must leave the ship and come to Him. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8598]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when once Christ had called him, Peter had no alternative he must leave the ship and come to Him. In the end, the first step of obedience proves to be an act of faith in the word of Christ. But we should completely misunderstand the nature of grace if we were to suppose that there was no need to take the first-step, because faith was already there. Against that, we must boldly assert that the step of obedience must be taken before faith can be possible. Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64158]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know I'm going to be happy way later in the future, knowing that's the way I conducted myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know I'm going to be happy way later in the future, knowing that's the way I conducted myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19919]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23408]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purpose is what gives life a meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Purpose is what gives life a meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goate must browse where she is tyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goate must browse where she is tyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the exception of Florida, most Hispanic and Latino voters throughout the country are Democratic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42442]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the exception of Florida, most Hispanic and Latino voters throughout the country are Democratic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meek Walton's heavenly memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meek Walton's heavenly memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue about giving me my special use permit will be between the City of Canyon and the school. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34057]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue about giving me my special use permit will be between the City of Canyon and the school. They have to work that out, and I feel confident that I'll get my special use permit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truthAll death will he annul, all tears assuage?Or fill these void veins full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truthAll death will he annul, all tears assuage?Or fill these void veins full again with youthAnd wash with an immortal water age?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62465]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've gotten to know them on a personal level, and I don't have to teach as much. They know what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've gotten to know them on a personal level, and I don't have to teach as much. They know what to expect from me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[L'Abbe de Ville proposed a toast, His master, as the rising Sun:  Reisbach then gave the Empress Queen,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59416]]></link><description><![CDATA[L'Abbe de Ville proposed a toast, His master, as the rising Sun:  Reisbach then gave the Empress Queen,   As the bright moon and much praise won.    The Earl of Stair, whose turn next came,     Gave for his toast his own King Will,      As Joshua the sun of Nun,       Who made both Sun and Moon stand still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is in conflict with human nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is in conflict with human nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought!  In nature there is nothing melancholy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44541]]></link><description><![CDATA["Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought!  In nature there is nothing melancholy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were so proud of their actions that they showed off their blood-splattered shoes they were wearing and treated his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33277]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were so proud of their actions that they showed off their blood-splattered shoes they were wearing and treated his broken lifeless body as their trophy, parading friends through the woods to look at it. They listened as he cried out for help and begged him to stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to the smalles of the tiny flowers hidden in the meadow's grass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had our ups and downs this year like any season. But it ended so perfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37688]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had our ups and downs this year like any season. But it ended so perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is known when needed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29554]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is known when needed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away….]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63826]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, aggressive, intellectualized modes that may indeed cause them pain, for most women the ego is like a fragile African Violet, grown in secret from a seed, carefully nursed and fertilized and sheltered from too much sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At my fingers' ends. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55735]]></link><description><![CDATA[At my fingers' ends. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 Commemoration of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, tractarian, 1882  As St. Cyprian well said, we may judge how ready He is to give us those good things which He Himself solicits us to ask of Him. Let us pray then with faith, and not lose the fruits of our prayers by a wavering uncertainty which, as St. James testifies, hinders the success of them. The same apostle advises us to pray when we are in trouble because thereby we should find consolation; yet we are so wretched that this heavenly employment is often a burden instead of a comfort to us. The lukewarmness of our prayers is the source of all our other infidelities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12948]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12286]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to make this place so unpleasant that they won't even think about doing something that could bring them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38224]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to make this place so unpleasant that they won't even think about doing something that could bring them back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48481]]></link><description><![CDATA[But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look at each other wondering what the other is thinking but we never say a thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57192]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look at each other wondering what the other is thinking but we never say a thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928  The less you feel and the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928  The less you feel and the more firmly you believe, the more praiseworthy is your faith and the more it will be esteemed and appreciated; for real faith is much more than a mere opinion of man. In it we have true knowledge: in truth, we lack nothing save true faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To break training without permission is an act of treason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59661]]></link><description><![CDATA[To break training without permission is an act of treason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the kind of intractable problem that can probably only be resolved through negotiations, and those negotiations may have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37502]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the kind of intractable problem that can probably only be resolved through negotiations, and those negotiations may have to include the Boeing- Airbus dispute - which, given its complexity, should be settled through negotiations anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was very, very challenging. There was never a doubt that it was important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34967]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was very, very challenging. There was never a doubt that it was important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   George Brush, the hero of [Thornton Wilder's] "Heaven's My Destination", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   George Brush, the hero of [Thornton Wilder's] "Heaven's My Destination", a textbook salesman and evangelist extraordinary, is the innocent fool, in the kindliest sense of both the noun and the adjective. He is striving to be the fool in Christ, sowing the inevitable amazement, consternation and wrath that must ensue when Christ's fool runs at large among the worldly wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's;  God is, they are,   Man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's;  God is, they are,   Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of ongoing litigation, we won't answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of ongoing litigation, we won't answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38763</guid></item></channel></rss>