<?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[The republic of letters. [Fr., La republique des lettres.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25259]]></link><description><![CDATA[The republic of letters. [Fr., La republique des lettres.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody answered the phone anyway. We had to leave messages. Said, thanks for coming, we appreciate it, stuff like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody answered the phone anyway. We had to leave messages. Said, thanks for coming, we appreciate it, stuff like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13212]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64873]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57527]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopefully, in a year, when we come back to Iowa City, it'll be tough to get in the door because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully, in a year, when we come back to Iowa City, it'll be tough to get in the door because people want to come out and hear us. The goal is to keep building, and that takes time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creation science is an attempt to give credibility to Hebrew mythology by making people believe that the world's foremost biologists, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creation science is an attempt to give credibility to Hebrew mythology by making people believe that the world's foremost biologists, paleontologists, and geologists are a bunch of incompetent nincompoops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43258]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now-always and indeed then most truly when it seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now-always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances. -Albert Schweitzer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this:   "To rise above the little things." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/324]]></link><description><![CDATA[One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this:   "To rise above the little things."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Alex Adams (81) and Hannah Lavy (82) rounded out Fayettevilles scoring. The defending conference champ Lady Bulldogs edged Bentonville by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28794]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Alex Adams (81) and Hannah Lavy (82) rounded out Fayettevilles scoring. The defending conference champ Lady Bulldogs edged Bentonville by four shots.] Theyve just been steady all year long, ... The best thing I can do for them is to stay out of the way. All the credit goes to them and Kelly Lavy, my assistant head coach. Shes a jack of all trades and our girls program wouldnt be anywhere near what it is without her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to go in, keep my mouth shut and just listen to the guys, ... I have to earn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to go in, keep my mouth shut and just listen to the guys, ... I have to earn the respect of my teammates and coaches, and I'm going to do whatever it takes to earn that respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53395]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smells -- and he smelled real nice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was big. That really gave us a cushion. If you have just a one-run game, it changes the whole ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35538]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was big. That really gave us a cushion. If you have just a one-run game, it changes the whole game. It changes the strategy for both teams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not to brag, I think he's qualified too, in fact I know he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not to brag, I think he's qualified too, in fact I know he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not about how much you say 'I love you,' but how much you can prove that it's true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not about how much you say 'I love you,' but how much you can prove that it's true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary  Gladly shall I come whenever bodily strength will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary  Gladly shall I come whenever bodily strength will allow to join my testimony with yours in Olney pulpit, that God is love. As yet I have not recovered from the fatigues of my American expedition. My shattered bark is scarce worth docking any more. But I would fain wear, not rust, out. Oh! my dear Mr. Newton, indeed and indeed I am ashamed that I have done and suffered so little for Him that hath done and suffered so much for ill and hell-deserving me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25680]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some love one, some love two. I love one, and that is you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some love one, some love two. I love one, and that is you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy; that is the complexion of virtue." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy; that is the complexion of virtue."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babe was a wonderful person. He was just a big kid who loved the limelight. If 500 children were waiting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babe was a wonderful person. He was just a big kid who loved the limelight. If 500 children were waiting for his autograph, he'd stand there and sign for each one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4400]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face?  Better dwell in the midst of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57174]]></link><description><![CDATA[O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face?  Better dwell in the midst of alarms,   Than reign in this horrible place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10313]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be human means to feel inferior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14606]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be human means to feel inferior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't even know he was into art. I did a little bit because my parents passed when he was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't even know he was into art. I did a little bit because my parents passed when he was 7 and the next year my friend's father passed. He went home and drew the whole cemetery with the casket, the seats and all the tombstones with all the names on it. That's when we knew he could draw from memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. Exclaim no more against it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. Exclaim no more against it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14673]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66914]]></link><description><![CDATA[All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The need has gone; the memorial thereof remains. [Lat., Factum abiit; monumenta manent.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The need has gone; the memorial thereof remains. [Lat., Factum abiit; monumenta manent.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A proper man, as one shall see in a summer's day. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55519]]></link><description><![CDATA[A proper man, as one shall see in a summer's day. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine is bottled poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine is bottled poetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15022]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12712]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lion Beer needs to increase its export business to maintain viable growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lion Beer needs to increase its export business to maintain viable growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I picked up those little girls that drowned, all I could think about was my grandbabies, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37120]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I picked up those little girls that drowned, all I could think about was my grandbabies,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2400]]></link><description><![CDATA[I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goalkeeper thought Tony was going to shoot, and he stayed on his line. He passed instead, which gave me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39072]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goalkeeper thought Tony was going to shoot, and he stayed on his line. He passed instead, which gave me a pretty easy shot. I got it in, which was huge for us. We really needed to win this game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, by the ignorant mass- which is easily swayed once its imagination is caught- but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and in the monopoly of learning. Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. The academic backwoodsmen have been the curse of genius from Aristarchus to Darwin and Freud; they stretch, a solid and hostile phalanx of pedantic mediocrities, across the centuries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go;  The horse knows the way   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go;  The horse knows the way   To carry the sleigh,    Through the white and drifted snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I said to myself, 'That's an omen, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37789]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I said to myself, 'That's an omen,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9255]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wyclif, Reformer, 1384  All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wyclif, Reformer, 1384  All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all thy sober charms possest, Whose wishes never learnt to stray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61783]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all thy sober charms possest, Whose wishes never learnt to stray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22993]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22993</guid></item></channel></rss>