<?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[We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47041]]></link><description><![CDATA[We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56838]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew we had 90 minutes to find a goal but the first half was too hectic and we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40194]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew we had 90 minutes to find a goal but the first half was too hectic and we were too nervous,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20693]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is a game of inches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is a game of inches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel  That shall laugh at all disaster,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel  That shall laugh at all disaster,   And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28720]]></link><description><![CDATA[He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the people begin to reason, all is lost ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the people begin to reason, all is lost]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:   A man who is well-grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:   A man who is well-grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55365]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart Must hold both sisters, never seen apart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart Must hold both sisters, never seen apart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance.  Lesse at thine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance.  Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest   Thy person share, and the conceit advance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been blessed with very, very good weather and the wholesale price has gone down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37942]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been blessed with very, very good weather and the wholesale price has gone down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is theend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is theend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878   Come all crosses, welcome, welcome! so I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878   Come all crosses, welcome, welcome! so I may get my heart full of my Lord Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4035]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think any of us would hesitate. I might pack differently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33754]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think any of us would hesitate. I might pack differently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54398]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the streets, on the roads, and in the markets, instructs the ear of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the streets, on the roads, and in the markets, instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously arranged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw it last year, the fans, the crowd, the competition, I knew I wanted to be in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36307]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw it last year, the fans, the crowd, the competition, I knew I wanted to be in the county meet. Now I just want to go out there and have a good showing against the rest of the top guys in the county and just let the best man win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most [people's] minds the thought of victory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most [people's] minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue. [Lat., Quod sequitur, fugio; quod fugit, usque sequor.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48374]]></link><description><![CDATA[What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue. [Lat., Quod sequitur, fugio; quod fugit, usque sequor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this bright future you can't forget your past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63442]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this bright future you can't forget your past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9455]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It changed the momentum. But I don't know that it would have changed the outcome of the game. Last week ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33250]]></link><description><![CDATA[It changed the momentum. But I don't know that it would have changed the outcome of the game. Last week in our section final (against Wayzata) we had two goals that they called off on us, and it didn't change the outcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale;  Look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13221]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale;  Look down with an utter contempt upon butter,   And never touch bread till its toasted--or stale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have some very interesting products. There is more to come in 2007. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35188]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have some very interesting products. There is more to come in 2007.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47928]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother. [Lat., Religio peperit divitias et filia devoravit matrem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother. [Lat., Religio peperit divitias et filia devoravit matrem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,--  So rolls the changing year, and so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,--  So rolls the changing year, and so we change;   Motion so swift, we know not that we move.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the changing months, May stands confest The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the changing months, May stands confest The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2231]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60819]]></link><description><![CDATA[That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10040]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine unlocks the breast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine unlocks the breast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/365</guid></item></channel></rss>