<?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[Much better to do one's own work even if you have to do it imperfectlythan it is to do somebody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much better to do one's own work even if you have to do it imperfectlythan it is to do somebody elses work perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make allowance for necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48889]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make allowance for necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like we are making a crucial step in helping to preserve the Boulder area, and this very special ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like we are making a crucial step in helping to preserve the Boulder area, and this very special corner of the West.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a very bad time for the arts. I think we're in a tough time in our culture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a very bad time for the arts. I think we're in a tough time in our culture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373   A man's personality actuates and quickens his whole body. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373   A man's personality actuates and quickens his whole body. If anyone said it was unsuitable for the man's power to be in the toe, he would be thought silly, because, while granting that a man penetrates and actuates the whole of his body, he denied his presence in the part. Similarly, no one who admits the presence of the Word of God in the universe as a whole should think it unsuitable for a single human body to be by Him actuated and enlightened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is most tolerable, and not to be endured. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is most tolerable, and not to be endured. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pro-Net gives small companies an edge by providing direct online exposure to contracting officers in charge of the $200 billion-per-year ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pro-Net gives small companies an edge by providing direct online exposure to contracting officers in charge of the $200 billion-per-year federal market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's simply an educational site, then I don't see it as a huge threat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31339]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's simply an educational site, then I don't see it as a huge threat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had my days. I had good support. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37749]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had my days. I had good support.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20460]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51894]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42992]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need every partner we can find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33382]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need every partner we can find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a broad, bold claim. We'll know in a year if they delivered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28979]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's a broad, bold claim. We'll know in a year if they delivered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come inwhen deep down inside they know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come inwhen deep down inside they know it has never left port.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf and the SheepA wolf, sorely wounded and bitten by dogs, lay sick and maimed in his lair. Being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf and the SheepA wolf, sorely wounded and bitten by dogs, lay sick and maimed in his lair. Being in want of food, he called to a Sheep who was passing, and asked him to fetch some water from a stream flowing close beside him. For, he said, if you will bring me drink, I will find means to provide myself with meat. Yes, said the Sheep, if I should bring you the draught, you would doubtless make me provide the meat also. Hypocritical speeches are easily seen through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look upon the world as your enemy because only then the gifts it gives will give you immense pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look upon the world as your enemy because only then the gifts it gives will give you immense pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you drawn forth among a world of men To slay the innocent? What is my offense?  Where is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you drawn forth among a world of men To slay the innocent? What is my offense?  Where is the evidence that doth accuse me?   What lawful quest have given their verdict up    Unto the frowning judge? or who pronounced     The bitter sentence of poor Clarence's death      Before I be convict by course of law?       To threaten me with death is most unlawful:        I charge you, as you hope [to have redemption         By Christ's dear blood shed for our grievous sins,]          That you depart, and lay no hands on me.           The deed you undertake is damnable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18967]]></link><description><![CDATA[When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied. -Herophilus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every Christian, by virtue of membership in the Church, has a vocation to share in the ministry of Christ to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every Christian, by virtue of membership in the Church, has a vocation to share in the ministry of Christ to the world which has been entrusted to the Church. The vocation is answered in the home and office and factory and field. There it is that the People of God bears its witness to the vocation of the People of God, a people with a people's diversity and complex vitality, a people comprising a multiplicity of cultures and histories and colours and tongues, a people and not a collection of individuals, a people bound together in allegiance to one King and in obedience to one purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard the bells on Christmas Day; their old familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the word repeat of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8620]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard the bells on Christmas Day; their old familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the word repeat of peace on earth, good-will to men!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19191]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17536]]></link><description><![CDATA[True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cause a day keeps reality away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22052]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cause a day keeps reality away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure: nor that he was ever less alone than when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57169]]></link><description><![CDATA[That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure: nor that he was ever less alone than when alone. [Lat., Nunquam se minus otiosum esse quam cum otiosus; nec minus solum quam cum solus esset.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59554]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing peace is the measure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing peace is the measure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was kind of sloppy, but we played good. They hit the ball well on us, but we went up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42118]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was kind of sloppy, but we played good. They hit the ball well on us, but we went up big early and kept fighting them off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come. But that night, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come. But that night, I think we knew it was time to let go of what had been, and look ahead to what would be. Other days. New days. Days to come. The thing is, we didn't have to hate each other for getting older. We just had to forgive ourselves... for growing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3275]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice is such a hideous creature, that the more you see of it the better you like it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice is such a hideous creature, that the more you see of it the better you like it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are invited to drink at any man's house more than you think is wholesome, you may say "you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12997]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are invited to drink at any man's house more than you think is wholesome, you may say "you wish you could, but so little makes you both drunk and sick; that you should only be bad company by doing so."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Councell breakes not the head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Councell breakes not the head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the impious; might makes right; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the impious; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law. [Lat., Prosperum ac felix scelus  Virtus vocatur; sontibus patent boni;   Jus est in armis, opprimit leges timor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During all the years with Pete [Sampras], everybody would talk about the finals. I think Pete and I were the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29178]]></link><description><![CDATA[During all the years with Pete [Sampras], everybody would talk about the finals. I think Pete and I were the only two guys not thinking about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And soon Their hushing dances languished to a stand,  Like midnight leaves when, as the Zephyrs swoon,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62664]]></link><description><![CDATA[And soon Their hushing dances languished to a stand,  Like midnight leaves when, as the Zephyrs swoon,   All on their drooping stems they sink unfanned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frugality is one thing, avarice another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frugality is one thing, avarice another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4636]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diego: I'm... sorry I set you up. Sid: Ah, you know me, I'm too lazy to hold a grudge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diego: I'm... sorry I set you up. Sid: Ah, you know me, I'm too lazy to hold a grudge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36680</guid></item></channel></rss>