<?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[Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26620]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's our most pop album since our first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41402]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's our most pop album since our first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24179]]></link><description><![CDATA[And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13506]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation his defense ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation his defense]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People in the Tug Valley can identify because they've been through hellacious floods. People here are willing to help however ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32975]]></link><description><![CDATA[People in the Tug Valley can identify because they've been through hellacious floods. People here are willing to help however they can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tried to get a broad representation of the student body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37745]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tried to get a broad representation of the student body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas Eve The soft light from a stable door  Lies on the midnight lands; The wise men's star burns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve The soft light from a stable door  Lies on the midnight lands; The wise men's star burns evermore,  Over all the desert sands. Unto all peoples of the earth  A little Child brought light;  And never in the darkest place  Can it be utter night. No flickering torch, no wavering fire,  But Light the Life of men; Whatever clouds may veil the sky,  Never is night again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ankle was going toward the left and my foot was going toward the right. I was shaking, and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39303]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ankle was going toward the left and my foot was going toward the right. I was shaking, and they kept covering my eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61788]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country town;  May I have a warm house, with a stone at my gate,   And a cleanly young girl to rub my bald pate.    May I govern my passions with an absolute sway,     Grow wiser and better as my strength wears away,      Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.   - Walter Pope, The Old Man's Wish,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I think if the devil doesn't exist, then man has created him. He has created him in his own image ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12143]]></link><description><![CDATA["I think if the devil doesn't exist, then man has created him. He has created him in his own image and likeness." "Just as man created God, then?" observed Alyosha.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45514]]></link><description><![CDATA[As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do to foster their open-hearted hopefulness, engage their need to collaborate, be an incentive to utilize their natural competency and compassion...show them ways they can connect, reach out, weave themselves into the web of relationships that is called community. . -Dawna Markova.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our words from loose using have lost their edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63428]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our words from loose using have lost their edge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are excited about this step in the franchise registry project. The registry is a breakthrough effort to cut red ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28542]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are excited about this step in the franchise registry project. The registry is a breakthrough effort to cut red tape, and we believe it will greatly up the approval process on franchise loans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its very activity and gains new strength by its movements; small at first through fear, it soon raises itself aloft and sweeps onward along the earth. Yet its head reaches the clouds. . . . A huge and horrid monster covered with many feathers: and for every plume a sharp eye, for every pinion a biting tongue. Everywhere its voices sound, to everything its ears are open. [Lat., Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes: Fama malum quo non velocius ullum;  Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo;   Parva metu primo; mox sese attollit in auras,    Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubilia condit.     . . . .      Monstrum, horrendum ingens; cui quot sunt corpore plumae       Tot vigiles oculi subter, mirabile dictu,        Tot linquae, totidem ora sonant, tot subrigit aures.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fatigue makes cowards of us all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fatigue makes cowards of us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1094]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20269]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I watched the replay five times and it wasn't a foul. It was a foul on him. I didn't even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I watched the replay five times and it wasn't a foul. It was a foul on him. I didn't even get the charge. He was falling before I even got there. When a rookie ref gets put in that situation -- somebody who weighs 215 going against somebody who weighs 165 -- it's an obvious call to make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no respect for others without humility in one's self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66569]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9059]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Vulcan Neck Pinch is not half as powerful as the Vulcan Groin Kick, but it's more politically correct ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Vulcan Neck Pinch is not half as powerful as the Vulcan Groin Kick, but it's more politically correct]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is not magnetic personality — that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is not magnetic personality — that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people' — that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64964]]></link><description><![CDATA[He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This dance of death which sounds so musically Was sure intended for the corpse de ballet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11020]]></link><description><![CDATA[This dance of death which sounds so musically Was sure intended for the corpse de ballet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  Devotion signifies a life given, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  Devotion signifies a life given, or devoted, to God. He therefore is the devout man, who lives no longer to his own will, or the way and spirit of the world, but to the sole will of God, who considers God in everything, who serves God in everything, who makes all the parts of his common life, parts of piety, by doing everything in the name of God, and under such rules as are conformable to His glory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He won't run if there is more rain. There is no point sending him around on a wet track. He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33216]]></link><description><![CDATA[He won't run if there is more rain. There is no point sending him around on a wet track. He's hopeless in the soft.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment…. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment…. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65925]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11419]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People use not just personal computers, but telephones, televisions, wireless and other devices with this technology so that minutes will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42518]]></link><description><![CDATA[People use not just personal computers, but telephones, televisions, wireless and other devices with this technology so that minutes will migrate over time. We really don't see a mass substitution or a great big cliff ahead of us, but rather that people will use this [Net2Phone applications] in conjunction with activities that they are performing in the Internet portal space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  God has brought us into this time; He, and not ourselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  God has brought us into this time; He, and not ourselves or some dark demon. If we are not fit to cope with that which He has prepared for us, we would have been utterly unfit for any condition that we imagine for ourselves. We are to live and wrestle in this time, and in no other. Let us humbly, tremblingly, manfully look at it, and we shall not wish that the sun could go back its ten degrees, or that we could go back with it. If easy times are departed, it is that the difficult times may make us more in earnest; that they may teach us not to depend on ourselves. If easy belief is impossible, it is that we may learn what belief is, and in whom it is to be placed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never, with important air, In conversation overbear.  . . . .   My tongue within my lips ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10090]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never, with important air, In conversation overbear.  . . . .   My tongue within my lips I rein;    For who talks much must talk in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you done it, it ain't bragging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4824]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you done it, it ain't bragging.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have done it by really knowing their customers better than perhaps probably any other food retailer, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34137]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have done it by really knowing their customers better than perhaps probably any other food retailer,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, And the year smiles as it draws near its death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44897]]></link><description><![CDATA[And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, And the year smiles as it draws near its death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22032</guid></item></channel></rss>