<?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[We just did not take care of our business. We missed too many shots, made too many mistakes, and played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40168]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just did not take care of our business. We missed too many shots, made too many mistakes, and played non-aggressive. I sincerely believe we have three of the best players in the greater Houston area, yet all three of them struggled tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret is out. There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret is out. There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always going to be competition to be better. Last year's team was senior-driven, this year we have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39941]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always going to be competition to be better. Last year's team was senior-driven, this year we have the numbers with 20 seniors and many underclassmen that are going to play key roles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20279]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  The demand that the Atonement shall be exhibited in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  The demand that the Atonement shall be exhibited in vital relation to a new life in which sin is overcome... is entirely legitimate, and it touches a weak point in the traditional Protestant doctrine. Dr. [Thomas] Chalmers tells us that he was brought up -- such was the effect of the current orthodoxy upon him -- in a certain distrust of good works. Some were certainly wanted, but not as being themselves salvation, only, as he puts it, as tokens of justification. It was a distinct stage in his religious progress when he realised that true justification sanctifies, and that the soul can and ought to abandon itself spontaneously and joyfully to do the good that it delights in... An atonement that does not regenerate... is not an atonement in which men can be asked to believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61552]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12495]]></link><description><![CDATA[But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are not men and yet they stay alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are not men and yet they stay alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've invited some legislators but they just looked at me like I was weird. Obviously, I haven't asked the right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41756]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've invited some legislators but they just looked at me like I was weird. Obviously, I haven't asked the right ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo. sifted through the winds that blow, Down comes the soft and silent snow,  White petals from the flowers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo. sifted through the winds that blow, Down comes the soft and silent snow,  White petals from the flowers that grow   In the cold atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want faith, I want knowledge. I do not want hope, I want truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59865]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want faith, I want knowledge. I do not want hope, I want truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy comes from using your potential. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy comes from using your potential.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methought I say the footsteps of a throne.   - William Wordsworth, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methought I say the footsteps of a throne.   - William Wordsworth,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When great poets sing, Into the night new constellations spring,  With music in the air that dulls the craft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55314]]></link><description><![CDATA[When great poets sing, Into the night new constellations spring,  With music in the air that dulls the craft   Of rhetoric. So when Shakespeare sang or laughed    The world with long, sweet Alpine echoes thrilled     Voiceless to scholars' tongues no muse had filled      With melody divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenesare to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily,enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as afitting climax for the journey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14664]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am never merry when I hear sweet music. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55615]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am never merry when I hear sweet music. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital "T". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46553]]></link><description><![CDATA[When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital "T".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very funny play. The music is just tremendous; it's a comedy with opera mixed in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30815]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very funny play. The music is just tremendous; it's a comedy with opera mixed in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14445]]></link><description><![CDATA[The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A camel is a horse designed by committee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18041]]></link><description><![CDATA[A camel is a horse designed by committee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55264</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[Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4737]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24826]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43340]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bargain like a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bargain like a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are expecting them to go and visit their parole officers so that we can be informed of their presence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40489]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are expecting them to go and visit their parole officers so that we can be informed of their presence in a community. It's outrageous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60112]]></link><description><![CDATA[America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true gentleman does not preach his beliefs until he does so by his actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/540]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true gentleman does not preach his beliefs until he does so by his actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54719]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proximity of the Bay Area's 7 million residents places our local parks under intense pressure from residential development on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39576]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proximity of the Bay Area's 7 million residents places our local parks under intense pressure from residential development on their boundaries. Such development disrupts the natural rhythm of the forest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a sense of self-doubt in India, within itself. People were not exactly as confident as you see them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31474]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a sense of self-doubt in India, within itself. People were not exactly as confident as you see them now. But that did not turn out to be true. Indians have come through unscathed, and they're able to protect their turf ... So now there's the sense that we want to learn from them, rather than that they'll wipe us out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All places are distant from heaven alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19083]]></link><description><![CDATA[All places are distant from heaven alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19579]]></link><description><![CDATA[The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5073]]></link><description><![CDATA[A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The picture of a shadow is a positive thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you? -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23799]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you? -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - and never knowing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29530</guid></item></channel></rss>