<?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 mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9553]]></link><description><![CDATA[One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. - The Zykovs, 1914.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. The umbrella has become the acknowledged ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60005]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. The umbrella has become the acknowledged index of social position. . . . Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilized mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He might have failed against Sri Lanka but we still believe that he has the potential to serve the country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34854]]></link><description><![CDATA[He might have failed against Sri Lanka but we still believe that he has the potential to serve the country in the longer-version game. We are trying to find a solid combination -- that's why we went for the same team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of wonderful candidates out there, and to be selected shocked me. It caught me off guard. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33870]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of wonderful candidates out there, and to be selected shocked me. It caught me off guard. It shows that this award is more than just being a great athlete. It shows you have to work hard in the classroom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace:  No summer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14207]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace:  No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze;   Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past,    But an eternal now shall ever last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We took our time to examine all the alternatives. We tried to make the best deal we could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31648]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took our time to examine all the alternatives. We tried to make the best deal we could.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear. -Thoreau. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25213]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear. -Thoreau.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a number of killed in the action in Nasiriya with the Marines -- I believe that number will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38359]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a number of killed in the action in Nasiriya with the Marines -- I believe that number will remain less than 10 -- and a number of wounded,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45407]]></link><description><![CDATA[I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give a sucker an even break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give a sucker an even break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat. (Death levels sceptre and the law.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat. (Death levels sceptre and the law.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never without a shilling in my purse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never without a shilling in my purse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   Almighty and most merciful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   Almighty and most merciful Father, by Whose providence my life has been prolonged, and Who has granted me now to begin another year of probation, vouchsafe me such assistance of Thy Holy Spirit, that the continuance of my life may not add to the measure of my guilt, but that I may so repent of the days and years passed in neglect of the duties which Thou hast set before me, in vain thoughts, in sloth, and in folly, that I may apply my heart to true wisdom, by diligence redeem the time lost, and by repentance, obtain pardon, for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a high school student and this is from a poem I wrote called Sometimes He Wonders. You may split ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27679]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a high school student and this is from a poem I wrote called Sometimes He Wonders. You may split it into different parts if you'd like - right now I'll put it as Unsorted. And He feels so incredibly weak when he has ferociously quarreled against them since his genuine years and has lost. His hopes for a better understanding dissipate as he grows older, and his mind grows less eager to reach a verdict. Having no sense of direction, he roams here, looking above, asking futile questions, even though the answers may be feared. Good by nature, he has learned his survival skills, which will lead him into the real world, and will someday make him a successful individual. Wishing the pressure did not exist, it is a natural instinct to adapt and not to recluse. He rather is a mindless drone than a lonely Hermit, after all. He has no control over his environment, it is the exact opposite. Molded and shaped by his surroundings, he seeks about for himself and his purpose, while this mold slowly deteriorates organic matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation appears to be muted, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation appears to be muted,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question "Have we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question "Have we anything to eat?" will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66668]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43234]]></link><description><![CDATA[People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is the politeness of kings ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is the politeness of kings]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best ad is a good product. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52663]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best ad is a good product.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50514]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63912]]></link><description><![CDATA[By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest So wonderfully built among the reeds  Of the lagoon, that fences ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60480]]></link><description><![CDATA[White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest So wonderfully built among the reeds  Of the lagoon, that fences thee and feeds,   As sayeth thy old historian and thy guest!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a big deal for us all those corny things kids did in those days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33072]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a big deal for us all those corny things kids did in those days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jeff has fullback toughness and tailback speed. He's an outstanding blocker and is a guy who can get the yards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jeff has fullback toughness and tailback speed. He's an outstanding blocker and is a guy who can get the yards when we need them. He really makes us a tough offense to defend because he's a guy opposing defenses have to pay a lot of attention to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus to the Rose, the Thistle: Why art thou not of thistle-breed?  Of use thou'dst, then, be truly,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus to the Rose, the Thistle: Why art thou not of thistle-breed?  Of use thou'dst, then, be truly,   For asses might upon thee feed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who comes with Summer to this earth And owes to June her day of birth,  With ring of Agate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who comes with Summer to this earth And owes to June her day of birth,  With ring of Agate on her hand,   Can health, wealth, and long life command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24791]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be yourself. The world worships the original. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be yourself. The world worships the original.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are seeking joy and peace in far-off places. Butthe spring of joy is in your heart. The haven of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21182]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are seeking joy and peace in far-off places. Butthe spring of joy is in your heart. The haven of peace is in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Christ, my life, possess me utterly. Take me and make a little Christ of me. If I am anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8103]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Christ, my life, possess me utterly. Take me and make a little Christ of me. If I am anything but thy father's son, 'Tis something not yet from the darkness won. Oh, give me light to live with open eyes. Oh, give me life to hope above all skies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63416]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or falling. By this he meant that when this doctrine is understood, believed, and preached, as it was in New-Testament times, the church stands in the grace of God and is alive; but where it is neglected, overlaid, or denied, ... the church falls from grace and its life drains away, leaving it in a state of darkness and death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He claims a monopoly in friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50443]]></link><description><![CDATA[He claims a monopoly in friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19249]]></link><description><![CDATA[You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discipline is remembering what you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discipline is remembering what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that we are up there with all of the top four ranked teams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30490]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that we are up there with all of the top four ranked teams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11777]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the cave men, "If I have come to destroy you, may the sun be blotted out from the sky." Just then the eclipse would start, and they'd probably try to kill you or something, but then you could explain about the rotation of the moon and all, and everyone would get a good laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13598</guid></item></channel></rss>