<?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[Generally speaking, everyone is more interresting doing nothing than doing anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generally speaking, everyone is more interresting doing nothing than doing anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Figures won't lie, but liars will figure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Figures won't lie, but liars will figure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They don't have nights like that often. But when they do, someone has to step up. I don't think Spencer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38099]]></link><description><![CDATA[They don't have nights like that often. But when they do, someone has to step up. I don't think Spencer was feeling well, so he didn't have his best game. So I was just happy to be able to knock down some shots and contribute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride of the dewy morning, The swain's experienced eye  From thee takes timely warning.   Nor trusts the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride of the dewy morning, The swain's experienced eye  From thee takes timely warning.   Nor trusts the gorgeous sky.   - John Keble,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be, or not to be--that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer  The slings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12760]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be, or not to be--that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer  The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune   Or to take arms against a sea of troubles    And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep--     No more--and by a sleep to say we end      The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks       That flesh is heir to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coach is only as good as his players are, I think. They had a goal and they really have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41775]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coach is only as good as his players are, I think. They had a goal and they really have stuck with it. They deserve to be here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46941]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fewer words the better prayer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fewer words the better prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18922]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain a little, its light goes out, followed by both the others. Stop the heart a minute, and out go all three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centres of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold, and darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than thosewho try to do nothing and succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than thosewho try to do nothing and succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in such a slump that even the ones that are drinking aren't hitting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10703]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in such a slump that even the ones that are drinking aren't hitting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were he now to do so, he would forfeit all credibility. If he now said 'Er, I'm not sure I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were he now to do so, he would forfeit all credibility. If he now said 'Er, I'm not sure I was right to do what I've done,' I think people would turn on him. He's set his hand to this particular plough, he's got to complete the furrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only feel, but want the power to paint. [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45423]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only feel, but want the power to paint. [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played 13 tonight and they all rose to the occasion. We kept working and fighting to make this happen. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39820]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played 13 tonight and they all rose to the occasion. We kept working and fighting to make this happen. I'm proud of these girls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm  In gallant trim ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm  In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes,   Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God made the country, and man made the town. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8764]]></link><description><![CDATA[God made the country, and man made the town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women tend to wear clothes that are too tight, and men tend to wear clothes that are too loose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women tend to wear clothes that are too tight, and men tend to wear clothes that are too loose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who have attained things worth having in this world have workedwhile others have idled, have perservered while others gave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21729]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who have attained things worth having in this world have workedwhile others have idled, have perservered while others gave up in despair,and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial,industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later lifethe success often erroneously attributed to good luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David's had an incredible year on clay and is in spectacular form at the moment, ... I think for him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39054]]></link><description><![CDATA[David's had an incredible year on clay and is in spectacular form at the moment, ... I think for him and the others it is a reward to be selected in the team and this will be a great incentive for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod,  They have left unstained, what there they found,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod,  They have left unstained, what there they found,--   Freedom to worship God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52344]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We bought a real beauty parlor, with dryers and functioning water, and the whole bit. All the other elements, artistically, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35478]]></link><description><![CDATA[We bought a real beauty parlor, with dryers and functioning water, and the whole bit. All the other elements, artistically, bring things into a whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58715]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look at sites like You-Tube and, for that matter, a multitude of other online options as just that ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32681]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look at sites like You-Tube and, for that matter, a multitude of other online options as just that ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â new options that we look to embrace. We look to embrace it but not at the expense of infringing copyright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to save ecosystems has more to do with changing egosystems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15978]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part, sir, of myself, and what remains is bestial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51443]]></link><description><![CDATA[O I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part, sir, of myself, and what remains is bestial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave one integrated into the Church. By this we do not mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7907]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave one integrated into the Church. By this we do not mean any particular part of the Church; what we do mean is that conversion must leave one linked in loving fellowship with one's fellow believers. Conversion is not something simply between a man and Jesus Christ, with no other person involved. True, it may start in that way; but it cannot end in that way. Conversion is not individualistic. It is, in fact, just the opposite. It joins man to his fellow men, and certainly does not separate him from them. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being alone will never cause as much loneliness as the wrong relationship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being alone will never cause as much loneliness as the wrong relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   Frightful this is in a sense, but it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   Frightful this is in a sense, but it is true, and every one who has merely some little knowledge of the human heart can verify it: there is nothing to which a man holds so desperately as to his sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44249]]></link><description><![CDATA[A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4674]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37234]]></link><description><![CDATA[One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36450]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24806]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and am blinded by a bright, whitelight. It's God. No, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and am blinded by a bright, whitelight. It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God. In a booming voice, He says: "THIS IS A SIGN. USE LINUX, THE FREE UNIX SYSTEM FOR THE 386."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65142]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man listens to the voice of the tempter within him, he is inclined to do as others do, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7817]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man listens to the voice of the tempter within him, he is inclined to do as others do, not to resist when temptation seems great. But when he looks into the laws of God, and hears the words of Christ, his natural sense of right and wrong is restored to him, and he becomes elevated, purified, and sanctified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7817</guid></item></channel></rss>