<?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[Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is the longing for repetition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the longing for repetition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is not innocence but sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is not innocence but sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47191]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion to the flag, a leader, a religious faith or political conviction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We told him he could play and we would watch. That was the first time he broke down and said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41214]]></link><description><![CDATA[We told him he could play and we would watch. That was the first time he broke down and said he couldn't and couldn't and couldn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes are the mirror of the soul ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14809]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes are the mirror of the soul]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55203]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are looking for reasons to sell the dollar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28442]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are looking for reasons to sell the dollar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19394]]></link><description><![CDATA[History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the principle of Judo, from the very beginning, is not one of aggression, but of flowing with things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the principle of Judo, from the very beginning, is not one of aggression, but of flowing with things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We pulled it out in the end, but it shouldn't have even got to that point with the kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36548]]></link><description><![CDATA[We pulled it out in the end, but it shouldn't have even got to that point with the kind of lead we had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never force yourself to have space in anyone's life, because if they really know your worth, they will surely create ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never force yourself to have space in anyone's life, because if they really know your worth, they will surely create one for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26478]]></link><description><![CDATA['Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. -Randolph S. Bourne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. -Randolph S. Bourne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale,  The common sun, the air, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45465]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale,  The common sun, the air, the skies,   To him are open paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust;  His soul is with the saints, I trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57144]]></link><description><![CDATA[The knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust;  His soul is with the saints, I trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing they wanted was a shower and a change of clothes. People had been wading through floodwater in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing they wanted was a shower and a change of clothes. People had been wading through floodwater in the clothes they were wearing, and then had to live in them for days at the convention center. They smelled like urine, feces, and death, but they had to wait in line to be processed and then find a bed and then they could take a shower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the earlier Methodist class meetings, members were expected every week to answer some extremely personal questions, such as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7633]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the earlier Methodist class meetings, members were expected every week to answer some extremely personal questions, such as the following: Have you experienced any particular temptations during the past week? How did you react or respond to those temptations ? Is there anything you are trying to keep secret, and, if so, what? At this point, the modern Christian swallows hard! We are often coated with a thick layer of reserve and modesty which covers "a multitude of sins" -- usually our own. Significantly, James 5:16-20, the original context of that phrase, is the passage which urges, "Confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49096]]></link><description><![CDATA[All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three-hundred thousand sportswriters and they're all against me. Every one of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38009]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three-hundred thousand sportswriters and they're all against me. Every one of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23470]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In T-1, our goal was to repeat with the Corvette, and get the Viper and Andrew up there. In T-2 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38188]]></link><description><![CDATA[In T-1, our goal was to repeat with the Corvette, and get the Viper and Andrew up there. In T-2 with the Subaru, we wanted to win division and national championships.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26026]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't know if this will be the shareholders' choice, or a political choice. For the steel industry, this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42677]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't know if this will be the shareholders' choice, or a political choice. For the steel industry, this is Microsoft buying Apple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58808]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the theory that decides what can be observed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59101]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the theory that decides what can be observed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4138]]></link><description><![CDATA[A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. [Lat., Beneficium non in eo quot fit aut datur consistit sed in ipso dantis aut facientis animo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some remedies worse than the disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53782]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some remedies worse than the disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Line after line my gushing eye o'erflow, Led thro' a said variety of woe:  Now warm in love, now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Line after line my gushing eye o'erflow, Led thro' a said variety of woe:  Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom,   Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64110]]></link><description><![CDATA[When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Jewes spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, the Christians in sutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Jewes spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, the Christians in sutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21119]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built upon the labors of my fellowmen, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built upon the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out;  For our bad neighbor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out;  For our bad neighbor makes us early stirrers,   Which is both healthful, and good husbandry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And however are Dennises take offence, A double meaning shows double sense;  And if proverbs tell truth,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23232]]></link><description><![CDATA[And however are Dennises take offence, A double meaning shows double sense;  And if proverbs tell truth,   A double tooth    Is wisdom's adopted dwelling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were solid the whole game on defense. We came out a little slow on offense, but the defense played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36079]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were solid the whole game on defense. We came out a little slow on offense, but the defense played well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those are the things I can help them with. I'm not a golf pro by any means. I can help ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those are the things I can help them with. I'm not a golf pro by any means. I can help some of the beginners, but most of the girls are so advanced. They get their technical help elsewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49696]]></link><description><![CDATA[One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. -Max Frisch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. -Max Frisch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Abrams described a historically significant episode that revealed how the medical establishment -not just the government- has upheld prohibition.] In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33822]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Abrams described a historically significant episode that revealed how the medical establishment -not just the government- has upheld prohibition.] In 1997 after the law was changed in California, Jerome Kassirer, who was Editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, wrote an editorial on medical marijuana called 'federal foolishness,' saying 'We know this drug works, everybody has their anecdotal experience of people who have benefited from it, get over it, reschedule it, make it schedule 2.' Unfortunately, ... he very shortly thereafter became no longer the editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows--  The best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows--  The best I had, a princess wrought it me--   And I did never ask it you again;    And with my hand at midnight held your head,     And like the watchful minutes to the hour,      Still and anon cheered up the heavy time,       Saying, 'What lack you?' and 'Where lies your grief?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer  Than Nature made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer  Than Nature made her; her beauty cost her nothing,   Her virtues were so rare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3847</guid></item></channel></rss>