<?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[The surgery he had last year was the second one he's had and it is just a problem. He is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31714]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surgery he had last year was the second one he's had and it is just a problem. He is no longer playing. He's in school and he'll finish the semester but he just doesn't feel comfortable with the shoulder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are but empty thanks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are but empty thanks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Killing the West Side stadium gave Shelly Silver a new image as a populist defender of his constituency. Bruno is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Killing the West Side stadium gave Shelly Silver a new image as a populist defender of his constituency. Bruno is a winner because he is as strong - if not stronger - than Gov. Pataki with Republicans, because he is going to be around in New York while Pataki is a lame duck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike--for your altars and your fires; Strike--for the green graves of your sires.  God--and your native land! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike--for your altars and your fires; Strike--for the green graves of your sires.  God--and your native land!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For those folks in town, this is a good environment with some good soccer to watch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41724]]></link><description><![CDATA[For those folks in town, this is a good environment with some good soccer to watch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you start getting involved in bond math it gets complicated. (But) if you don't understand how it works you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42197]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you start getting involved in bond math it gets complicated. (But) if you don't understand how it works you should do your homework.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We deplore this terrorist act and vow to get the criminals to justice as soon as possible, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36813]]></link><description><![CDATA[We deplore this terrorist act and vow to get the criminals to justice as soon as possible,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because indeed there was never law, or sect, or opinion, did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They want you to catch every single ball. It's a tough city sometimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30328]]></link><description><![CDATA[They want you to catch every single ball. It's a tough city sometimes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944    If we are traveling heavenward, we are already ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944    If we are traveling heavenward, we are already in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Museums are the cemeteries of the arts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Museums are the cemeteries of the arts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43710]]></link><description><![CDATA[No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a good thing Adam had--when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45308]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a good thing Adam had--when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely considered him a humbug in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55099]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely considered him a humbug in a Pickwickian point of view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a very inferior farmer when he first begun . . . and he is now fast rising from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1969]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a very inferior farmer when he first begun . . . and he is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61413]]></link><description><![CDATA[But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.   - Ik Marvel (pseudonym of Donald G. Mitchell),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white?  By day the sun shall be sentry,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25096]]></link><description><![CDATA[But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white?  By day the sun shall be sentry,   And the moon and the stars by night!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cut Men's throats with whisperings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cut Men's throats with whisperings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are millions of people all over the world, right now, who are looking to the United Nations for protection ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41098]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are millions of people all over the world, right now, who are looking to the United Nations for protection and redress against the violation of their rights and deprivation of their freedoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better… or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said, 'Gosh, Dad, that mean's we're not going to any more bowl games.' (on his 11-year-old son's reaction after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57608]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said, 'Gosh, Dad, that mean's we're not going to any more bowl games.' (on his 11-year-old son's reaction after he took the job with the Boilermakers)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pen became a clarion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pen became a clarion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -William Ellery Channing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -William Ellery Channing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm afraid that it will fail miserably. Somehow, we have to promote this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41005]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm afraid that it will fail miserably. Somehow, we have to promote this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think most historians will agree that the part played by impulses of selfish, individual aggression in the holocausts of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47194]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think most historians will agree that the part played by impulses of selfish, individual aggression in the holocausts of history was small; first and foremost, the slaughter was meant as an offering to the gods, to king and country, or the future happiness of mankind. The crimes of Caligula shrink to insignificance compared to the havoc wrought by Torquemada. The number of victims of robbers, highwaymen, rapists, gangsters and other criminals at any period of history is negligible compared to the massive numbers of those cheerfully slain in the name of the true religion, just policy, or correct ideology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52168]]></link><description><![CDATA[But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Movin' to Montana soon Gonna be a dental floss tycoon ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Movin' to Montana soon Gonna be a dental floss tycoon]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65523]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him! -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56052]]></link><description><![CDATA[So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him! -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[February is merely as long as is needed to pass the time until March. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65702]]></link><description><![CDATA[February is merely as long as is needed to pass the time until March.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And kind as kings upon their coronation day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54463]]></link><description><![CDATA[And kind as kings upon their coronation day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll talk with trainers, doctors, coaches, but I'm looking to play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37352]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll talk with trainers, doctors, coaches, but I'm looking to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world inwhich it is overestimated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world inwhich it is overestimated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27794]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to know what's going on in everyone's lives and how I can relate to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to know what's going on in everyone's lives and how I can relate to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't know how they live, where they go, how many of them there are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39743]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't know how they live, where they go, how many of them there are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very rats Instinctively had quit it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very rats Instinctively had quit it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53877]]></link><description><![CDATA[To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you continue to send out love, the energy returns to you in a regenerating spiral... As love accumulates, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25841]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you continue to send out love, the energy returns to you in a regenerating spiral... As love accumulates, it keeps your system in balance and harmony. Love is the tool, and more love is the end product.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The U.S. case is more important because of the economic implications, ... It [the U.K. ruling] is a nice psychological ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The U.S. case is more important because of the economic implications, ... It [the U.K. ruling] is a nice psychological boost but you can't extrapolate the U.S. ruling from this because of the different legal standards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed while the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed while the curtains of the next are brushed by the shadows of the dance. A wedding party returns from the church and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love that unites us; for the peace accorded us this day; for the hope with which we expect the morrow; for the health, the work, the food, and the bright skies that make our lives delightful; for our friends in all parts of the earth, and our friendly helpers in this foreign isle [Samoa]... Give us courage, gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors. If it may not be, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A joke's a very serious thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23225]]></link><description><![CDATA[A joke's a very serious thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had no problems with the old rules, but I think taking the red line away will hopefully add to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28469]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had no problems with the old rules, but I think taking the red line away will hopefully add to scoring and make the game faster, ... As a defenseman, I look at scoring negatively, but it works both ways. I wonder about the expectations though. I played in Sweden, without a red line, and I don't think the game was faster. On the other hand, I wasn't playing with the best players in the world, as in the NHL. We'll adjust to the new icing rules and in a few years we won't remember what it was like before. There's always calls for new rules, but I just hope the game doesn't change too drastically.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred. [Lat., Prima ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred. [Lat., Prima commendiato proficiscitur a modestia tum pietate in parentes, tum in suos benevolentia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weeding is plant racism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weeding is plant racism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43690</guid></item></channel></rss>