<?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[Taft's encouragement of McKenna's resignation illustrates how effective procedural pressure exerted by a chief justice can be. With the concurrence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taft's encouragement of McKenna's resignation illustrates how effective procedural pressure exerted by a chief justice can be. With the concurrence of his colleagues, Taft was able to steer important opinions away from McKenna until he was able to persuade him to leave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.  You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65358]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware the ides of March. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware the ides of March.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   We are not only to renounce evil, but to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15154]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25085]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, we're letting our fan club pick a third of our set. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, we're letting our fan club pick a third of our set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, And let my liver rather heat with wine  Than my heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27422]]></link><description><![CDATA[With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, And let my liver rather heat with wine  Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25524]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a gentle way, you can shake the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21096]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a gentle way, you can shake the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider  Of dusty and old titles, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61131]]></link><description><![CDATA[O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider  Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood   The earth when it is sick, and curest the world    O' the pleurisy of people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9061]]></link><description><![CDATA[After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land,  Than a successive title, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25958]]></link><description><![CDATA[And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land,  Than a successive title, long and dark,   Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's Ark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The place is all awave with trees, Limes, myrtles, purple-beaded,  Acacias having drunk the lees   Of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59671]]></link><description><![CDATA[The place is all awave with trees, Limes, myrtles, purple-beaded,  Acacias having drunk the lees   Of the night-dew, fain headed,    And wan, grey olive-woods, which seem     The fittest foliage for a dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is too important to be left solely to the educators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were down 16-7 late in the first quarter, and we scored the next 17 points. We were able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32529]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were down 16-7 late in the first quarter, and we scored the next 17 points. We were able to put them in some tough spots and capitalize on their mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush was desperate to keep the Times from running this important story - which the paper had already inexplicably held ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bush was desperate to keep the Times from running this important story - which the paper had already inexplicably held for a year - because he knew that it would reveal him as a law-breaker. He insists he had 'legal authority derived from the Constitution and congressional resolution authorizing force.' But the Constitution explicitly requires the president to obey the law. And the post 9/11 congressional resolution authorizing 'all necessary force' in fighting terrorism was made in clear reference to military intervention. It did not scrap the Constitution and allow the president to do whatever he pleased in any area in the name of fighting terrorism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37724]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are moved by only two things: fear and self-interest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are moved by only two things: fear and self-interest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27773]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing lost or wasted in this life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22772]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing lost or wasted in this life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17582]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's another way, perhaps, of an art poverty; one has to impoverish one's mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30984]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's another way, perhaps, of an art poverty; one has to impoverish one's mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, you are a lunatic. Just because there are a few hundred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44988]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, you are a lunatic. Just because there are a few hundred other people sharing your lunacy with you does not make you any saner. Doomed, eh?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a miracle. Everyone was telling us they were probably dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40943]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a miracle. Everyone was telling us they were probably dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is sorrow's salve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is sorrow's salve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally I feel we've got the cart before the horse. We need to identify: Do we need to move the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally I feel we've got the cart before the horse. We need to identify: Do we need to move the town clerk's office?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The languages, especially the dead, The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,  The arts, at least all such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The languages, especially the dead, The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,  The arts, at least all such as could be said   To be the most remote from common use,    In all these he was much and deeply read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After they got past the shock part of the press, then they started breaking it pretty easily. So we had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39721]]></link><description><![CDATA[After they got past the shock part of the press, then they started breaking it pretty easily. So we had to get out of that for a while. It was as good a start was we wanted for the first five minutes. Then we gave up a foul here and a foul there and put them to the free throw line. The Stinson girl is tough, she was hitting free throws. All of them are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He loved politicians - even Republicans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47022]]></link><description><![CDATA[He loved politicians - even Republicans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beat your wife on the wedding day, and your married life will be happy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beat your wife on the wedding day, and your married life will be happy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We form bonds. It's a very female bonding kind of dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28558]]></link><description><![CDATA[We form bonds. It's a very female bonding kind of dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not too exciting, plain vanilla, with good companies, good financial qualities. That gives you a core. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41562]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not too exciting, plain vanilla, with good companies, good financial qualities. That gives you a core.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How did Jesus show his authority? Not by making vast claims for himself, though such claims were implicit. His authority ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7111]]></link><description><![CDATA[How did Jesus show his authority? Not by making vast claims for himself, though such claims were implicit. His authority seemed to reside in what he was and what he did rather than in what he specifically claimed to be. Especially in Mark's Gospel there is an elusive quality about his authority, the mystery of the hidden Messiah. His authority was at the same time most deeply hidden and most clearly expressed by his servanthood... The more the Church in its life shows forth the character of the Servant, the more will its teaching bear the marks of the authority of the Servant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iraq has several sects, religions and nationalities so this list is the best choice for the Iraqis who realize that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iraq has several sects, religions and nationalities so this list is the best choice for the Iraqis who realize that the voting for Iraq will achieve better security, ... The sectarianism will lead to sectarian fights, which has a beginning but no end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19166]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64755]]></link><description><![CDATA[With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. Youmust want it with an inner exuberance that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21767]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. Youmust want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin andjoins the energy that created the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government of laws, and not of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17970]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government of laws, and not of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53290]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36771]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36771</guid></item></channel></rss>