<?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[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pullit out and strike it, merely to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pullit out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insist upon yourself. Be original. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insist upon yourself. Be original.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell; Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54053]]></link><description><![CDATA[How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell; Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51902]]></link><description><![CDATA[The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? [Fr., Il ne se ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42762]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? [Fr., Il ne se faut jamais moquer des miserables,  Car qui peut s'assurer d'etre toujours heureux?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius without education is like silver in the mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius without education is like silver in the mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of guys who are versatile. That's what keeps you in this league sometimes, and we've just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42406]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of guys who are versatile. That's what keeps you in this league sometimes, and we've just got to show that again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12560]]></link><description><![CDATA[And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the board members examined the options, they decided that putting up a new building with all the latest technology ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33176]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the board members examined the options, they decided that putting up a new building with all the latest technology would make the most sense. In the remodeling scenarios presented to the board, the district would spend a lot of money and still have old buildings that were just retrofitted. This way, it can have a new building by still utilizing the high school site and some of its facilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978   The life of holiness is the life of faith in which the believer, with a deepening knowledge of his own sin and helplessness apart from Christ, increasingly casts himself upon the Lord, and seeks the power of the Spirit and the wisdom and comfort of the Bible to battle against the world, the flesh, and the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58586]]></link><description><![CDATA[All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what youdo. Attitude determines how well you do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what youdo. Attitude determines how well you do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3368]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15053]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58576]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36975]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His nature is too noble for the world. He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,  Or Jove for's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44584]]></link><description><![CDATA[His nature is too noble for the world. He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,  Or Jove for's power to thunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no reply to the ignorant like keeping silence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20380]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no reply to the ignorant like keeping silence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which 'are' there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55121]]></link><description><![CDATA[A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9773]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25238]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter where we play. Our guys love a tough crowd. Hopefully, Lawrence will provide that. I'm sure they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39638]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter where we play. Our guys love a tough crowd. Hopefully, Lawrence will provide that. I'm sure they will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58609]]></link><description><![CDATA[But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14653]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. -Ken Burns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing generally raised on city land is taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to find out what is exactly happening. We have all heard about this then we have to see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35208]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to find out what is exactly happening. We have all heard about this then we have to see if it is confirmed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in doubt, win the trick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12752]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in doubt, win the trick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't imagine being a paramedic going to the scene of a wreck. That's what that was, pretty much, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41862]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't imagine being a paramedic going to the scene of a wreck. That's what that was, pretty much, a wreck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no one subsists by himself alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11922]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no one subsists by himself alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15178]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole thing goes back to the presence of God. You need to be in a state of decorum. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole thing goes back to the presence of God. You need to be in a state of decorum. You must ask yourself: How would God like to see me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27143]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears;  Are they wet   Even yet    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears;  Are they wet   Even yet    With the thought of other years?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19652]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14789]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. -Elizabeth Kübler-Ross.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell him, if a clergyman, he lies! If captains the remark, or critics, make,  Why they lie also--under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26113]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell him, if a clergyman, he lies! If captains the remark, or critics, make,  Why they lie also--under a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My hair is grey, but not with years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48751]]></link><description><![CDATA[My hair is grey, but not with years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to know where kids ages 4, 5 and 6 are on a Saturday, go to Badger Field ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40982]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to know where kids ages 4, 5 and 6 are on a Saturday, go to Badger Field on the east side of town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25165]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25165</guid></item></channel></rss>