<?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[When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood, God blessed the green island, he saw it was good.  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23043]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood, God blessed the green island, he saw it was good.  The Emerald of Europe, it sparkled and shone   In the ring of this world, the most precious stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fraudsters use current affairs to create legitimacy. The holidays are a great reason to send people email to try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fraudsters use current affairs to create legitimacy. The holidays are a great reason to send people email to try to scam them into giving up their information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is much safer to obey, than to govern. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44731]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is much safer to obey, than to govern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will not be a cause for panic. It will not be a cause for people to stop hunting. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28821]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will not be a cause for panic. It will not be a cause for people to stop hunting. It will not be a cause for people to stop eating poultry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11985]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tim's characters tend to wear darker colors and some, like the corpse bride, are no longer living, but they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tim's characters tend to wear darker colors and some, like the corpse bride, are no longer living, but they have a pluck and a spirit that makes you fall in love with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, definitely. We'll have to see what the defense files, but we plan to bring it back to trial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, definitely. We'll have to see what the defense files, but we plan to bring it back to trial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not aw'd to duty by superior sway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not aw'd to duty by superior sway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't come up and tackle, ... They flat out ran over us and they looked good tonight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30591]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't come up and tackle, ... They flat out ran over us and they looked good tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you truly give up trying to be whole throughothers, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21781]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you truly give up trying to be whole throughothers, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't have any expectations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29591]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't have any expectations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend,  Bids each on other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend,  Bids each on other for assistance call,   Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The variety of all things forms a pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60425]]></link><description><![CDATA[The variety of all things forms a pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24624]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62241]]></link><description><![CDATA[My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned hours.Death never gives his squad a Stand-at-ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, Rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18470]]></link><description><![CDATA[These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, Rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why not be silent, patient, and watchful like a photographer? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why not be silent, patient, and watchful like a photographer?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were devastated, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40069]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were devastated,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mighty stream of tendency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14352]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mighty stream of tendency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice  Of one, who from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4112]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice  Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims   Tidings of good to Zion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9659]]></link><description><![CDATA[The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14505</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[If hard work were really a virtue, then mules would be saints. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18732]]></link><description><![CDATA[If hard work were really a virtue, then mules would be saints.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Best fishing in troubled waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Best fishing in troubled waters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have immediate needs such as fixing radio interoperability problems, repayment of local police for guarding airports, firefighter grants, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39482]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have immediate needs such as fixing radio interoperability problems, repayment of local police for guarding airports, firefighter grants, and other homeland security needs that the Congress and president need to act on, ... Funds for these urgent priorities were cut in the 2002 supplemental spending bill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence their importance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence their importance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That image of the common drunk is a myth. There is a thing called a maintenance drinker which may very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40823]]></link><description><![CDATA[That image of the common drunk is a myth. There is a thing called a maintenance drinker which may very well be a mother of four, a welder or a distinguished business person. These people build up a tolerance and manage to still maintain their daily lifestyles while constantly struggling with this disease, because it is a recognized disease by the American Medical Association.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the looks--not the lips, is the soul reflected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57282]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the looks--not the lips, is the soul reflected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That perfect devoting ourselves to God, from which devotion has its name, requires that we should not only do the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6550]]></link><description><![CDATA[That perfect devoting ourselves to God, from which devotion has its name, requires that we should not only do the will of God, but also that we should do it with love. "He loveth a cheerful giver," and without the heart no obedience is acceptable to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His fear was greater than his haste: For fear, though fleeter than the wind,  Believes 'tis always left behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15501]]></link><description><![CDATA[His fear was greater than his haste: For fear, though fleeter than the wind,  Believes 'tis always left behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't gang up on the post players because they have so many good shooters on the perimeter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35493]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't gang up on the post players because they have so many good shooters on the perimeter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16294]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something made of nothing, tasting very sweet, A most delicious compound, with ingredients complete;  But if as on occasion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something made of nothing, tasting very sweet, A most delicious compound, with ingredients complete;  But if as on occasion the heart and mind are sour,   It has no great significance, it loses half its power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our supply of ice and water is exceeding the demand right now. The ice and water will not be wasted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our supply of ice and water is exceeding the demand right now. The ice and water will not be wasted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,  Whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,  Whose weakness married to thy stronger state   Makes with me thy strength to communicate.    If aught possess thee from me, it is dross,     Usurping ivy, brier, or idle moss;      Who all for want of pruning, with intrusion       Infect thy sap and live on thy confusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An open mind, like an open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56496]]></link><description><![CDATA[An open mind, like an open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56496</guid></item></channel></rss>