<?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[See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43795]]></link><description><![CDATA[See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to love what's loveable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25814]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to love what's loveable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are borne along by the violence of their rage, and think it is a waste of time to ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2545]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are borne along by the violence of their rage, and think it is a waste of time to ask who are guilty. [Lat., Trahit ipse furoris  Impetus, et visum est lenti quaesisse nocentum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36792]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8013]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had my labour for my travail. -Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56061]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had my labour for my travail. -Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18560]]></link><description><![CDATA[My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41963]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next morning, as I was preparing to go to work, I felt God saying he was going to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next morning, as I was preparing to go to work, I felt God saying he was going to make it happen for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hier aupres de Charenton Un serpent morait Jean Freron,  Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva?   Ce fut le serpent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hier aupres de Charenton Un serpent morait Jean Freron,  Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva?   Ce fut le serpent qui creva.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/669]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule. [Fr., Qui ne s'adventure n'a cheval ny mule, ce dist Salomon.--Qui trop, dist Echephron, s'adventure--perd cheval et mule, respondit Malcon.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, A living-dead man. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55410]]></link><description><![CDATA[A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, A living-dead man. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray you all, If you have hitherto concealed this sight,  Let it be tenable in your silence still. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray you all, If you have hitherto concealed this sight,  Let it be tenable in your silence still.   And whatsoever else shall hap to-night,    Give it an understanding but no tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A full belly neither fights nor flies well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49021]]></link><description><![CDATA[A full belly neither fights nor flies well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58131]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary Concluding a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary Concluding a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us. It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is go t by many actions and lost by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53908]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is go t by many actions and lost by one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1697]]></link><description><![CDATA[The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14697]]></link><description><![CDATA[One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are dreaded by many then beware of many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48607]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are dreaded by many then beware of many.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When occupations come to us we must accept them; when things come to us we must understand them from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44859]]></link><description><![CDATA[When occupations come to us we must accept them; when things come to us we must understand them from the ground up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will not allow you to sit here, conspire with the opposition and give them money to overthrow the president, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36711]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will not allow you to sit here, conspire with the opposition and give them money to overthrow the president,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a remarkable collection even then. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39327]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a remarkable collection even then.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fear that in a pressure situation he can repeat this action (stabbing). We advise people to exercise caution and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34898]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fear that in a pressure situation he can repeat this action (stabbing). We advise people to exercise caution and contact police if they meet this man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They kindly leave us, but not quite alone, But in good company, the gout or stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48770]]></link><description><![CDATA[They kindly leave us, but not quite alone, But in good company, the gout or stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined;Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined;Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an arson because someone has burned down buildings but because we don't have all of the evidence we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29258]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an arson because someone has burned down buildings but because we don't have all of the evidence we're still considering what the charges will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our faith and our friendships are not shattered by one big act, but by many small neglects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our faith and our friendships are not shattered by one big act, but by many small neglects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  The Servant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  The Servant Messiah carries out his ministry in the lives of his ministers. His life is reproduced in their lives, so they also are servants. But this ministry is exercised in and towards the Church, so as to enable the Church itself to carry out the ministry of the Servant. The Messiah came as a Servant; his ministers are servants; and the Church he created is a Servant-Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popularity is the easiest thing in the world to gain and it is the hardest thing to hold ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popularity is the easiest thing in the world to gain and it is the hardest thing to hold]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48108]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep  Moans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep  Moans round with many voices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chris looked pretty good, I thought, in two playoff games. If he's over his injury -- and I think he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chris looked pretty good, I thought, in two playoff games. If he's over his injury -- and I think he is -- he could move into the spot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now out of this nettle, danger, will I pluck the flower, safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now out of this nettle, danger, will I pluck the flower, safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She told me once, 'Being in the circle is a lot harder than shooting free throws'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39762]]></link><description><![CDATA[She told me once, 'Being in the circle is a lot harder than shooting free throws'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is but the fate of place, and the rough brake That virtue must go through. -King Henry VIII. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56032]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is but the fate of place, and the rough brake That virtue must go through. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxing out is the most important part of rebounding. You had to make sure your competitor is behind you and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boxing out is the most important part of rebounding. You had to make sure your competitor is behind you and then go after the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After supper walk a mile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48622]]></link><description><![CDATA[After supper walk a mile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Oxen and the Axle-TreesA heavy wagon was being dragged along a country lane by a team of Oxen. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Oxen and the Axle-TreesA heavy wagon was being dragged along a country lane by a team of Oxen. The Axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly; whereupon the Oxen, turning round, thus addressed the wheels: Hullo there! why do you make so much noise? We bear all the labor, and we, not you, ought to cry out. Those who suffer most cry out the least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't play too well down there. Basically, the thought is in our head that we have to redeem ourselves. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36002]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't play too well down there. Basically, the thought is in our head that we have to redeem ourselves. If we do, we'll make school history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he does have that potential to be a good enough player on a team that's trying to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36117]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he does have that potential to be a good enough player on a team that's trying to get to the next level. Even if he is, realistically, he's not going to be there in the next year. It's going to take a couple years for him to develop into that. Garnett, as great as he is, is still going to take a lot of shots on the perimeter. The point guard is even more critical on a team without a dominant post presence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36117</guid></item></channel></rss>