<?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[Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2866]]></link><description><![CDATA[You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here With my beer  I sit,   While golden moments flit:    Alas!    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here With my beer  I sit,   While golden moments flit:    Alas!     They pass      Unheeded by:       And as they fly,        I,         Being dry,          Sit, idly sipping here           My beer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63510]]></link><description><![CDATA[In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things just kind of built from there. I always liked watching them in football. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things just kind of built from there. I always liked watching them in football.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50704]]></link><description><![CDATA[A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50704</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[(MacKenzie) has been stringing great practices together. He had a great game last Thursday and then (Saturday) he got started ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30911]]></link><description><![CDATA[(MacKenzie) has been stringing great practices together. He had a great game last Thursday and then (Saturday) he got started a little slowly, but then he got into his groove and started to shoot better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited by a large family of carpenters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25150]]></link><description><![CDATA[... being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited by a large family of carpenters and architects. Every morning when you wake up, the house is a little different. Maybe there is a new turret, or some walls have moved. Or perhaps someone has temporarily removed the floor under your bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foul whisp'rings are abroad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foul whisp'rings are abroad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a pretty significant day for us. It is a day of abstinence when we fast, pray and smear ourselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32459]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a pretty significant day for us. It is a day of abstinence when we fast, pray and smear ourselves with burnt ash to remind us of our sinfulness, forgiveness and mortality. It sets the tone for the penitential season leading up to Easter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730   Faith is not so much belief about God as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730   Faith is not so much belief about God as it is total, personal trust in God, rising to a personal fellowship with God that is stronger than anxiety and guilt, loneliness and all manner of disaster. The Christian's faith in Christ is trust in a Living Person, once crucified, dead, and buried, and now living forevermore. Call it, if you will, an assumption that ends as an assurance, or an experiment that ends as an experience, Christian faith is in fact a commitment that ends as a communion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If man is not made for God, why is he not happy except in God? If man is made for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7851]]></link><description><![CDATA[If man is not made for God, why is he not happy except in God? If man is made for God, why is he so opposed to God?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The easiest way to teach children the value of money is to borrow some from them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The easiest way to teach children the value of money is to borrow some from them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5076]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bachelor has to have inspiration for making love to a woman, a married man needs only an excuse ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3648]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bachelor has to have inspiration for making love to a woman, a married man needs only an excuse]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/334]]></link><description><![CDATA[From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set all at sixe and seven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set all at sixe and seven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12767]]></link><description><![CDATA[There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53377]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew this was a young team coming in and there was a lot of butterflies and jitters before the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38259]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew this was a young team coming in and there was a lot of butterflies and jitters before the game. One game does not make a season and we will bounce back and get ready to play Bronson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Devil himself is good, when he is pleased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Devil himself is good, when he is pleased.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then, everlasting Love, restrain thy will; 'Tis god-like to have power, but not to kill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then, everlasting Love, restrain thy will; 'Tis god-like to have power, but not to kill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are to live unto God at any time, or in any place, we are to live unto Him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7062]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are to live unto God at any time, or in any place, we are to live unto Him at all times and all places. If we are to use anything as the gift of God, we are to use everything as His gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will please though ten times repeated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50287]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will please though ten times repeated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every teacher has to learn the lession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every teacher has to learn the lession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. -Horace Mann.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we have to have traditional roots, but then make things modern for the 90s. I think it makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39125]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we have to have traditional roots, but then make things modern for the 90s. I think it makes us more creative by taking traditional concepts and blowing them out a little bit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fond man! the vision of a moment made! Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sad and solemn night Hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires;  The glorious host of light   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57818]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sad and solemn night Hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires;  The glorious host of light   Walk the dark hemisphere till she retires;    All through her silent watches, gliding slow,     Her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother of revolution and crime is poverty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47866]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother of revolution and crime is poverty]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56057]]></link><description><![CDATA[After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literary Men are . . . a perpetual priesthood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literary Men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is art But life upon the larger scale, the higher,  When, graduating up in a spiral line  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48354]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is art But life upon the larger scale, the higher,  When, graduating up in a spiral line   Of still expanding and ascending gyres,    It pushed toward the intense significance     Of all things, hungry for the Infinite?      Art's life--and where we live, we suffer and toil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith; and he that hath fellowship with a proud man shall be like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1391]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith; and he that hath fellowship with a proud man shall be like unto him. [Ecclesiasticus 13:1].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise,  And some the architect: his hand was known  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise,  And some the architect: his hand was known   In heaven by many a tower'd structure high,    Where scepter'd angels held their residence,     And sat as princes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are reports that some of the northerners attacked a primary school near the barracks this morning and killed some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36783]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are reports that some of the northerners attacked a primary school near the barracks this morning and killed some children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Thanks to Maria ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Thanks to Maria Marquis Thoreau There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. -Margaret Thatcher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5619]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18237]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13491]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is a constant effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is a constant effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We realized that as a system we could handle those cases ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ in a family-centered way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33224]]></link><description><![CDATA[We realized that as a system we could handle those cases ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ in a family-centered way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are trying to go in a similar direction here with it. For Saturday night, the lights are coming from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32728]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are trying to go in a similar direction here with it. For Saturday night, the lights are coming from Kennebec Rental in Fairfield where Bob works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32728</guid></item></channel></rss>