<?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[You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56815]]></link><description><![CDATA[You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not all those who wander are lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not all those who wander are lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We dug ourselves a big hole tonight. These are good kids and I love these kids and it's not like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38261]]></link><description><![CDATA[We dug ourselves a big hole tonight. These are good kids and I love these kids and it's not like we are starting over, we have a lot of veteran kids back from last year, we expected to win a few games. It's not easy to start 0-2 and starting 0-3 is a lot worse. Praise the Lord we were able to pull this thing off. We were in an absolute funk and I didn't think we were going to stop No. 5 (Curtis) all night long, he was the man out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune. [Lat., Nihil est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5519]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune. [Lat., Nihil est aptius delectationem lectoris quam temporum varietates fortunaeque vicissitudines.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had my labour for my travail. -Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56061]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had my labour for my travail. -Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23674]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr   Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr   Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good model can advance fashion by ten years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15355]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good model can advance fashion by ten years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though throned in highest bliss Equal to God, and equally enjoying  God-like fruition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though throned in highest bliss Equal to God, and equally enjoying  God-like fruition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17731]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688  Here in Pilgrim's Progress there is the ultimate human nostalgia for the City of God, which is the restless heart's true home. And even the cynical, the unbelieving and half-believing reader who goes with Christian to the end of the road must be a little shaken, may tremble to see something like a gate and also some of the glory of the place, and, glimpsing something of the company within the golden gates, may wish himself among them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous  To use it like a giant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57949]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous  To use it like a giant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46961]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hand may first, and then a lip be kiss'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48717]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hand may first, and then a lip be kiss'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will?  For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will?  For if she will, she will, you may depend on't;   And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56736]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47964]]></link><description><![CDATA[We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to be more aggressive on the boards and deny their penetration. We also have to shoot better than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42652]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to be more aggressive on the boards and deny their penetration. We also have to shoot better than we have all season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems like we have a rivalry every week. CU hates us. BYU hates us. Air Force doesn't care for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33099]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems like we have a rivalry every week. CU hates us. BYU hates us. Air Force doesn't care for us and Wyoming really hates us. Every week, we're playing for some sort of trophy or plaque. That's what is unique about college football.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61164]]></link><description><![CDATA[In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52235]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Appearing on CNN's] Reliable Sources, ... I tried to get a deal a year ago. I spoke to Mr. Fitzgerald, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34945]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Appearing on CNN's] Reliable Sources, ... I tried to get a deal a year ago. I spoke to Mr. Fitzgerald, the prosecutor, and he did not agree at that time to something that he later did agree to, which was to limit the scope of the questions he would ask, so as to assure that the only source he would effectively be asking about was Mr. Libby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does one woman see in another than a man cannot see? Tenderness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58947]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does one woman see in another than a man cannot see? Tenderness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To work to change practices, to change some of the policies, so that people's basic human rights and civil rights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37753]]></link><description><![CDATA[To work to change practices, to change some of the policies, so that people's basic human rights and civil rights are protected and upheld.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47044]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head From a flint so unhappily thrown;  I think very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head From a flint so unhappily thrown;  I think very different from thousands; indeed   'Twas a lucky escape for the stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5510]]></link><description><![CDATA[And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59581]]></link><description><![CDATA[To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not endorsing a site. She would be remiss if she didn't listen to what the Jets have to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32448]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not endorsing a site. She would be remiss if she didn't listen to what the Jets have to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strategy is to frustrate the other team by trying to make them play in front of you, by not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strategy is to frustrate the other team by trying to make them play in front of you, by not giving them holes and by being as compact as possible. You have to move the ball even quicker than when you have 11 men because they are going to try and pressure you. There are opportunities to get at them but they did a good job of closing us down. But I think we did an equally good job of holding on to the ball when we did have possession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that ongoing year-over-year improvement in GM North American operations should accelerate as we progress though 2006 and, coupled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39184]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that ongoing year-over-year improvement in GM North American operations should accelerate as we progress though 2006 and, coupled with conclusion of the Delphi labor dispute, lead to a strong positive reaction in the company's stock price over time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod,  They have left unstained, what there they found,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod,  They have left unstained, what there they found,--   Freedom to worship God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  When we say that the Scriptures are plain to all capacities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  When we say that the Scriptures are plain to all capacities in all things necessary, we mean that any man of ordinary capacity, by his own diligence and care, in conjunction with the helps and advantages which God hath appointed, and in the due use of them, may attain to the knowledge of everything necessary to his salvation; and that there is no book in the world more plain and better fitted to teach a man any art or science than the Bible is to direct and instruct men in the way to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife,  When friendship, love, and peace ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61874]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife,  When friendship, love, and peace combine   To stamp the marriage-bond divine?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42493]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  But how shall we rest in God? By giving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  But how shall we rest in God? By giving ourselves wholly to Him. If you give yourself by halves, you cannot find full rest -- there will ever be a lurking disquiet in that half which is withheld... All peace and happiness in this world depend upon unreserved self-oblation to God. If this be hearty and entire, the result will be an unfailing, ever-increasing happiness, which nothing can disturb. There is no real happiness in this life save that which is the result of a peaceful heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59346]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59346</guid></item></channel></rss>