<?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[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  In religion, we are not asked to make up our minds, we are asked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  In religion, we are not asked to make up our minds, we are asked to make up our lives... We may refuse to make up our minds, but our lives get made up, one way or the other... Whatever we believe with our minds, our lives are committed either to God's way or to the God-denying way, and what matters in religion is the act of commitment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61348]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a long time to understand nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a long time to understand nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's quite an athlete, isn't he? He can pitch game one, he can run balls down in the outfield, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34547]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's quite an athlete, isn't he? He can pitch game one, he can run balls down in the outfield, he can drive in runs. We're happy to have him, put it that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He quits his place well, that leaves his friend there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49322]]></link><description><![CDATA[He quits his place well, that leaves his friend there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had hired coach Frank Nails that season and he asked me to speak at the pep rally. I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had hired coach Frank Nails that season and he asked me to speak at the pep rally. I am -- and was then -- 5-foot-3, 138 pounds, and I stood next to 6-foot-6, 240-pound linemen and scolded them, telling them if they hit a little harder we might win a few games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You to the left and I to the right, For the ways of men must sever--  And it may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59393]]></link><description><![CDATA[You to the left and I to the right, For the ways of men must sever--  And it may be for a day and a night,   And it well may be forever.    But whether we meet or whether we part,     (For our ways are past our knowing)      A pledge from the heart to its fellow heart,       On the ways we all are going!        Here's luck!         For we know not where we are going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30693]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess to just keep playing music; to just keep outdoing the last record.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66556]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romeo smiles a little more. Maybe that's good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romeo smiles a little more. Maybe that's good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh--  To figure in the Catalogue,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh--  To figure in the Catalogue,   And woo the public eye.    Something I must invent and paint;     But oh my wit is not      Like one of those kind substantives       That answer Who and What?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear  The better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53099]]></link><description><![CDATA[But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear  The better reason, to perplex and dash   Maturest counsels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[’I'd have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn't for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60243]]></link><description><![CDATA[’I'd have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn't for the fact that you are the University authorities . . .']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw my first Friesian back in 1980 when I was a judge at the California State Fair. I just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32766]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw my first Friesian back in 1980 when I was a judge at the California State Fair. I just couldn't believe what I was seeing --- the animation, the style, the tremendous stature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thursday Jennifer Whitaker will take 80 student nurses to the convention center to do family assessments, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thursday Jennifer Whitaker will take 80 student nurses to the convention center to do family assessments,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the winning spirit on the inside because we were brought up as winners. Some of these athletes that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33376]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the winning spirit on the inside because we were brought up as winners. Some of these athletes that you get now just want to play. It has to be taught and instilled in them. That's basically what we had to do with this group. They're just now getting the concept of what it takes to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraqresent being invaded and know the ground better than we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60636]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraqresent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24784]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an exciting addition to our kids program. Shari's is already a favorite destination for kids, as they get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33147]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an exciting addition to our kids program. Shari's is already a favorite destination for kids, as they get to choose their meal from their own fold-out laminated menu just like mom and dad, plus every child receives a Free Cookie-on-a-Stick to end their meal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals-that is, goalsthat do not inspire them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21406]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals-that is, goalsthat do not inspire them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm in charge of the EOC ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31559]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm in charge of the EOC]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52571]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel real good, not tired at all. I thought there would be more hype. But I did feed off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36389]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel real good, not tired at all. I thought there would be more hype. But I did feed off [the crowd].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42061]]></link><description><![CDATA[We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tsze-Kung asked, "Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tsze-Kung asked, "Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We take our hats off to them. Hey, you take it like a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39666]]></link><description><![CDATA[We take our hats off to them. Hey, you take it like a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do desire we may be better strangers. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55668]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do desire we may be better strangers. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20067]]></link><description><![CDATA[My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53319]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13604]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind To look out through, and his Frailty find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27519]]></link><description><![CDATA[As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind To look out through, and his Frailty find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here [in Matthew 23] is an interpretation of Israel's history according to which God's people have always been disobedient and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here [in Matthew 23] is an interpretation of Israel's history according to which God's people have always been disobedient and rebellious: their alienation from God, it is clearly implied, is to reach its climax in the murder of the Messiah himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62395]]></link><description><![CDATA[A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not a young club, but we've only got a couple seniors. We're really kind of a junior-dominated club right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36122]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not a young club, but we've only got a couple seniors. We're really kind of a junior-dominated club right now, so we've got a chance to be pretty good this year, but I think next year might really be our year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to repay almost $3,000 to groups and people who had given us money thinking it was deductible, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38117]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to repay almost $3,000 to groups and people who had given us money thinking it was deductible, and I figure we've lost maybe another $4,000 in donations we would have gotten since this came up. So we're hurting. We need some help to pay the bills and keep our programs going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impatience is the mark of independence not of bondage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impatience is the mark of independence not of bondage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its very activity and gains new strength by its movements; small at first through fear, it soon raises itself aloft and sweeps onward along the earth. Yet its head reaches the clouds. . . . A huge and horrid monster covered with many feathers: and for every plume a sharp eye, for every pinion a biting tongue. Everywhere its voices sound, to everything its ears are open. [Lat., Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes: Fama malum quo non velocius ullum;  Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo;   Parva metu primo; mox sese attollit in auras,    Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubilia condit.     . . . .      Monstrum, horrendum ingens; cui quot sunt corpore plumae       Tot vigiles oculi subter, mirabile dictu,        Tot linquae, totidem ora sonant, tot subrigit aures.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This should not have been reported as an in-kind contribution. The party will pay for the costs incurred. It's unfortunate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30950]]></link><description><![CDATA[This should not have been reported as an in-kind contribution. The party will pay for the costs incurred. It's unfortunate these members put the party in this situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure we play rough, they said, but look what others do to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure we play rough, they said, but look what others do to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's part of our culture and firm belief that smart, talented local bankers make the best decisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41946]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's part of our culture and firm belief that smart, talented local bankers make the best decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O monstrous! but one halfpennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22929]]></link><description><![CDATA[O monstrous! but one halfpennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16776]]></link><description><![CDATA[... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16776</guid></item></channel></rss>