<?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 worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore I say again I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul  Refuse you for my judge, whom yet once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore I say again I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul  Refuse you for my judge, whom yet once more   I hold my most malicious for and think not    At all a friend to truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people in Barrow thought we would starve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38895]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people in Barrow thought we would starve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst crime is faking it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst crime is faking it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14779]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search for truth is more precious than its possession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47773]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search for truth is more precious than its possession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must go in, the fog is rising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15241]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must go in, the fog is rising.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16770]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde;  But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe;   The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.   - edited by John Payne Collier,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Widow and Her Little MaidensA widow who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Widow and Her Little MaidensA widow who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow. The maidens, aggravated by such excessive labor, resolved to kill the cock who roused their mistress so early. When they had done this, they found that they had only prepared for themselves greater troubles, for their mistress, no longer hearing the hour from the cock, woke them up to their work in the middle of the night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21717]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we had no reason to go up there to start with there was no weapons of mass destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we had no reason to go up there to start with there was no weapons of mass destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12933]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin;  The thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16174]]></link><description><![CDATA[They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin;  The thing the which is flattered, but a spark   To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing;    Whereas reproof, obedient and in order,     Fits kings as they are men, for they may err.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diamond cuts diamond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diamond cuts diamond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a problem with several media taking only a part of the reality and not the whole picture. Some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28526]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a problem with several media taking only a part of the reality and not the whole picture. Some media in the world are more critical towards what's happening than others. It depends on the journalist, it depends how much information they have about the case and which perspective they are asking you from. All of these things can play a role.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homosexuality, is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homosexuality, is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love-all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream, An', taught by time, I tak' it so--exceptin' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream, An', taught by time, I tak' it so--exceptin' always steam,  From coupler-flange to spindle-guide I see thy Hand, O God--   Predestination in the stride o' yon connectin'-rod.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is now so desparately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is now so desparately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. -Leo Tolstoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. -Leo Tolstoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes men are scared of me. You become a kind of an icon on television, and people are a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes men are scared of me. You become a kind of an icon on television, and people are a little bit unsure, careful. It's funny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcohol was involved, of course, and this is the sort of idea you generally expect will fade as sobriety returns, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcohol was involved, of course, and this is the sort of idea you generally expect will fade as sobriety returns, but the next day we both still loved the idea, ... We knew how much work it would be, but the more we thought about it, the more irresistible it seemed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am blessed to have first been a salesperson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am blessed to have first been a salesperson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The (Christian) "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12620]]></link><description><![CDATA[The (Christian) "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14269]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you command wisely, you\'ll be obeyed cheerfully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66737]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you command wisely, you\'ll be obeyed cheerfully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  God usually answers our prayers so much more according ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  God usually answers our prayers so much more according to the measure of His own magnificence, than of our asking, that we do not recognize His benefits to be those for which we sought Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I from the jaws of a gardener's bitch Snatched this bone and then leapt the ditch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50416]]></link><description><![CDATA[I from the jaws of a gardener's bitch Snatched this bone and then leapt the ditch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I give this heavy weight from off my head And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand,  The pride of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I give this heavy weight from off my head And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand,  The pride of kingly sway from out my heart.   With mine own tears I wash away my balm,    With mine own hands I give away my crown,     With mine own tongue deny my sacred state,      With mine own breath release all duty's rites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55546]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16492]]></link><description><![CDATA[To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God deliver me from the venom of the cobra, the toothof the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47956]]></link><description><![CDATA[God deliver me from the venom of the cobra, the toothof the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   Only by critical questioning can I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   Only by critical questioning can I tell whether I am reading into the text, not only my own presuppositions and questions, but also those of my own generation and even those of my own church and religious tradition. Evangelicals have been too afraid of the word "criticism", when only by critical questioning can I sufficiently disengage myself from my own worldly or religious (even evangelical) tradition to ask: Is this what the Bible is really saying?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Latin America is finishing the year on a very strong tone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Latin America is finishing the year on a very strong tone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can never be any excuse for sacrificing our children’s futures to keep corporate tax loopholes and tax giveaways to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23696]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can never be any excuse for sacrificing our children’s futures to keep corporate tax loopholes and tax giveaways to millionaires. If we can’t put our children first, who can we put first? If we can’t put our kids first, what does it say about our nation?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57971]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a baaaadd man!! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a baaaadd man!!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have informed Sam I am taking up the option on the second year of his contract. There is still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41905]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have informed Sam I am taking up the option on the second year of his contract. There is still a big room for improvement, but he has pace, he has confidence and he will definitely be an asset to the club.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65584]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57436]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They need to be permanent employees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40089]]></link><description><![CDATA[They need to be permanent employees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What exile from his country is able to escape from himself? [Lat., Patriae quis exul se quoque fugit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25963]]></link><description><![CDATA[What exile from his country is able to escape from himself? [Lat., Patriae quis exul se quoque fugit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor ofthinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21258]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor ofthinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21258</guid></item></channel></rss>