<?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[I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9635]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no peace among equals because equality doesn't exist in this universe. Either one prevails and the other follows, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45580]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no peace among equals because equality doesn't exist in this universe. Either one prevails and the other follows, or both negotiate their differences and create a greater partnership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64583]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very important for us as a team to have this long week of games on the road because when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30489]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very important for us as a team to have this long week of games on the road because when the tournament comes, this will be great preparation for it. We need to learn how to play injured and tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such to me is the new image of aging: growth in self and service for all mankind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such to me is the new image of aging: growth in self and service for all mankind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the former, because they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47474]]></link><description><![CDATA[In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13401]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us -- an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation. Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God...  Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment. Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you...  Prayer is communion. Prayer is a means, but often it is an end in itself. There are times when your own wants and the needs of others drop away and you want just to look on His face and tell Him how much you love Him...  Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19674]]></link><description><![CDATA[The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just felt like what we were doing would be appreciated by someone else. We've enjoyed it, but it's nice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41509]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just felt like what we were doing would be appreciated by someone else. We've enjoyed it, but it's nice to pass it on and not just put it away in a drawer somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentecost  Every time we say, 'I believe in the Holy Spirit,' we mean that we believe that there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentecost  Every time we say, 'I believe in the Holy Spirit,' we mean that we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't know who we are until we see what we can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22406]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those talents which God has bestowed upon us are not our own goods but the free gifts of God; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those talents which God has bestowed upon us are not our own goods but the free gifts of God; and any persons who become proud of them show their ungratefulness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just needed to find a way to win. Our (confidence) was a little shaky. Three weeks ago we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32837]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just needed to find a way to win. Our (confidence) was a little shaky. Three weeks ago we were on a pretty good streak and things just don't change overnight. ... It comes down to believing in each other and finding a way to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our children's children will hear a good story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our children's children will hear a good story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I came here I barely thought I would play as a freshman, ... But some people got hurt and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39065]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I came here I barely thought I would play as a freshman, ... But some people got hurt and luckily I got to go in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I. When I was at home I was in a better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I. When I was at home I was in a better place; but travellers must be content. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57969]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls are like butterflies...pretty to look at, too hard to catch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Girls are like butterflies...pretty to look at, too hard to catch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20024]]></link><description><![CDATA[God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our life's a flying shadow, God's the pole, The index pointing at Him is our soul;  Death the horizon, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life's a flying shadow, God's the pole, The index pointing at Him is our soul;  Death the horizon, when our sun is set,   Which will through Christ a resurrection get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you've walked up the Rue la Paix at Paris, Been to the Louvre and the Tuileries,  And to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45538]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you've walked up the Rue la Paix at Paris, Been to the Louvre and the Tuileries,  And to Versailles, although to go so far is   A thing not quite consistent with your ease,    And--but the mass of objects quite a bar is     To my describing what the traveller sees.      You who have ever been to Paris, know;       And you who have not been to Paris--go!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One through nine in our lineup can hit. They all put the ball in play and get on base, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37473]]></link><description><![CDATA[One through nine in our lineup can hit. They all put the ball in play and get on base, but Betsy is everything a coach could ask for in a hitter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice,  And with that boding cry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice,  And with that boding cry   Along the waves dost thou fly?    Oh! rather, bird, with me     Through this fair land rejoice!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They (Penn-Trafford) did everything perfect until the final three minutes. They really didn't deserve to lose this game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32451]]></link><description><![CDATA[They (Penn-Trafford) did everything perfect until the final three minutes. They really didn't deserve to lose this game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit  Is feather'd oftentimes with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit  Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may batter your way through the thick of the fray, You may sweat, you may swear, you may grunt; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59724]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may batter your way through the thick of the fray, You may sweat, you may swear, you may grunt;  You may be a jack-fool, if you must, but this rule   Should ever be kept at the front;--    Don't fight with your pillow, but lay down your head     And kick every worriment out of the bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reverse side also has a reverse side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reverse side also has a reverse side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence from whom we love is worse than death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence from whom we love is worse than death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow;  Or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53193]]></link><description><![CDATA[For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow;  Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise;   Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14673]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us are crazy in one way or another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21039]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us are crazy in one way or another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware in your prayer, above everything, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware in your prayer, above everything, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chess first of all teaches you to be objective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. [Lat., Res secundae valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48652]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4327]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4327</guid></item></channel></rss>