<?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[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582 O God, grant that today  I may not disappoint any friend; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582 O God, grant that today  I may not disappoint any friend;  I may not grieve any loved one;  I may not fail anyone to whom I have a duty;  I may not shame myself. Grant that today  I may do my work with honesty and fidelity;  I may take my pleasure in happiness and purity. Grant that today  I may lead no one astray;  I may not make goodness and faith harder for anyone. Help me today  to be a help and example to all;  to bring strength and encouragement wherever I am: Through Jesus Christ my Lord, Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51420]]></link><description><![CDATA[How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a cold winter Sunday afternoon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a cold winter Sunday afternoon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16089]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And though you duck them ne'er so long, Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;  On eagles' wings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54749]]></link><description><![CDATA[And though you duck them ne'er so long, Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;  On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,   While virtuous actions are but borne to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our best player was hanging his head. He thought we had already lost. I got four steals and we ended ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our best player was hanging his head. He thought we had already lost. I got four steals and we ended up winning the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26937]]></link><description><![CDATA[But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that was our best game of the year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36150]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that was our best game of the year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm an American before any party preference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41215]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm an American before any party preference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41207]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe this payola scandal may represent the most widespread and flagrant violation of any FCC rules in the history ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe this payola scandal may represent the most widespread and flagrant violation of any FCC rules in the history of American broadcasting. Mr. Spitzer's office has collected a mountain of evidence on the potentially illegal promotion practices of not only Sony BMG, but also other major record companies, independent promoters and several of the largest radio station groups.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many great actions are committed in small struggles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many great actions are committed in small struggles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone desperate enough for suicide...should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone desperate enough for suicide...should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you recall that night in June Upon the Danube River;  We listened to the landler-tune,   We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you recall that night in June Upon the Danube River;  We listened to the landler-tune,   We watched the moonbeams quiver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does seem as if she's gravitated to the more mainstream causes. These are easy, and from a political standpoint, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33043]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does seem as if she's gravitated to the more mainstream causes. These are easy, and from a political standpoint, no-brainers. While the families of people with mental illnesses are voters, many people with mental illnesses are not. That's not the same for people with cancer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All hospitals could achieve it, with a blueprint of how to go about it and the will to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40751]]></link><description><![CDATA[All hospitals could achieve it, with a blueprint of how to go about it and the will to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm excited for Terry (Posey) and those players. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33948]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm excited for Terry (Posey) and those players.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is turning one's worst moments into money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22775</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[The problem with being best man at a wedding is that you never get a chance to prove it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with being best man at a wedding is that you never get a chance to prove it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65509]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Et tu, Brute?--Then fall Caesar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Et tu, Brute?--Then fall Caesar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1685]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what we put up with here. We don't need that type of stuff here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37245]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what we put up with here. We don't need that type of stuff here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61222]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at you. You made a hole-in-one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at you. You made a hole-in-one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Panurge had a flea in his ear. [Fr., Panurge auoyt la pulee en l' oreille.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Panurge had a flea in his ear. [Fr., Panurge auoyt la pulee en l' oreille.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then from the neighboring thicket the mockingbird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then from the neighboring thicket the mockingbird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water.  Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music,   That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there's no doubt that this bill reflects the worst of Washington politics. It's Christmas in August for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there's no doubt that this bill reflects the worst of Washington politics. It's Christmas in August for the big energy companies, and the consumers get lumps of coal. There's really nothing to cheer about by anyone who gets a utility bill or has to fill up a gas tank. The energy lobbyists are the big winners, and the rest of us are left in the dust choking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45697]]></link><description><![CDATA[To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism is the first rough draft of history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism is the first rough draft of history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of today's signings are more than capable of contributing to the success of the team. Zimmerman and Brown provide ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31531]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of today's signings are more than capable of contributing to the success of the team. Zimmerman and Brown provide depth in defense, and Randolph and Ready give us balance on our left flank.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guys didn't even know Wood River's record. I made sure to tell them that Wood River was a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guys didn't even know Wood River's record. I made sure to tell them that Wood River was a good team, a team that is going to come in here and give us a good fight. They beat us in this tournament every year. They seem to have our numbers, so we certainly should not have come in here looking past them for any reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14140]]></link><description><![CDATA[The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their goalie played extremely well. He played like he was standing on his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their goalie played extremely well. He played like he was standing on his head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which offends the ear will not easily gainadmission to the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21320]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which offends the ear will not easily gainadmission to the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  So long as we are full of self, we are shocked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  So long as we are full of self, we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64602]]></link><description><![CDATA[A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome,  A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2787]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome,  A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,   The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead    Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets;     As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,      Disasters in the sun; and the moist star       Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands        Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58632</guid></item></channel></rss>