<?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[For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47228]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business. - The American Character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. When you finally get done and get to appreciate what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. When you finally get done and get to appreciate what you have done it is like a part of yourself that you've put together. I think a lot of the people here feel that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching. [On watching Independence Day with President ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching. [On watching Independence Day with President Clinton]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By union the smallest states thrive, by discord the greatest are destroyed. [Lat., Concordia res parvae crescunt, discordia maximae dilabantur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60143]]></link><description><![CDATA[By union the smallest states thrive, by discord the greatest are destroyed. [Lat., Concordia res parvae crescunt, discordia maximae dilabantur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40227]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's possible, if the economics are right, ... When you build a great franchise it can be a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32508]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's possible, if the economics are right, ... When you build a great franchise it can be a lot of fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on Romans 8:   [Of vv. 14-17]   For the Spirit we have received ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on Romans 8:   [Of vv. 14-17]   For the Spirit we have received is the Spirit of the Son of God, and we possessing it are God's sons too, and "that of God in us" leaps out towards the God who is the source of it. The Spirit of Jesus within us moves us to prayer: indeed, prayer is just the moving of God's Son in us towards the Father. Though we are burdened with the greatness of our need, so that our prayers are not even articulate, yet in such "inarticulate sighs" the Spirit "intercedes for us.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26423]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither "property" nor the value of property is a physical thing. Property is a set of defined options...It is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither "property" nor the value of property is a physical thing. Property is a set of defined options...It is that set of options which has economic value...It is the options, and not the physical things, which are the "property" - economically as well as legally...But because the public tends to think of property as tangible, physical things, this opens the way politically for government confiscation of property by forcibly taking away options while leaving the physical objects untouched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  In this age when it seems tacitly assumed that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  In this age when it seems tacitly assumed that the Church is concerned only with another world than this, and in this world with nothing but individual conduct as bearing on prospects in that other world, hardly anyone reads the history of the Church in respect to its exercise of political influence. It is often assumed that the Church exercises little such influence and ought to exercise none; it is further assumed that this assumption is self-evident and has always been made by reasonable men. As a matter of fact the assumption is entirely modern and unjustified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18799]]></link><description><![CDATA[You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46997]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with research is that it tells you what people were thinking about yesterday, not tomorrow. It's like driving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with research is that it tells you what people were thinking about yesterday, not tomorrow. It's like driving a car using a rearview mirror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads  At going out, we think, and enter straight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads  At going out, we think, and enter straight   Another golden chamber of the king's    Larger than this we leave, and lovelier.     And then in shadowy glimpses, disconnect,      The story, flower-like, closes thus its leaves.       The will of God is all in all. He makes,        Destroys, remakes, for His own pleasure, all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration. - My Summer in a Garden, 1871.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I commend the team for staying in the game. Once Diablo put up five, it took the wind out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33633]]></link><description><![CDATA[I commend the team for staying in the game. Once Diablo put up five, it took the wind out of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,--a personage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier, in full military array.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5542]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had hired coach Frank Nails that season and he asked me to speak at the pep rally. I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had hired coach Frank Nails that season and he asked me to speak at the pep rally. I am -- and was then -- 5-foot-3, 138 pounds, and I stood next to 6-foot-6, 240-pound linemen and scolded them, telling them if they hit a little harder we might win a few games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buy at a faire, but sell at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Buy at a faire, but sell at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65758]]></link><description><![CDATA[One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15930]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That rigging slipped down underneath that horse as I came off and I was dragged once and a half times ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38092]]></link><description><![CDATA[That rigging slipped down underneath that horse as I came off and I was dragged once and a half times around the arena. I was looking up at the belly of that horse the whole way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was compelled to go to sea, voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon each other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the appointed end, which, being truth itself, is one -- one for all men and for all occupations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want people to think that this was for nothing. Judy recognizes that the leadership style needs to change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40842]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want people to think that this was for nothing. Judy recognizes that the leadership style needs to change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I feel like a Stepping Stone... I am that kind, young lady that offers a wanderer food 'n drink ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I feel like a Stepping Stone... I am that kind, young lady that offers a wanderer food 'n drink off to the side of the road -- in the middle of nowhere as they journey into the next phase of their life. I am that kind, young lady that will change a stranger's life forever, and be a burned out memory in the back of their mind... I was that lady with the sad green eyes, the kind smile... The one that offered you a helping hand and good conversation while you ate your food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[our day will come is another way of saying you get yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14500]]></link><description><![CDATA[our day will come is another way of saying you get yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would you know what mony is, Go borrow some. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would you know what mony is, Go borrow some.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When every one is in the wrong, every one is in the right. [Fr., Quand tout le monte a tort, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14162]]></link><description><![CDATA[When every one is in the wrong, every one is in the right. [Fr., Quand tout le monte a tort, tout le monde a raison.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition never comes to an end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition never comes to an end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55283]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who would not praise Patrico's high desert, His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart,  His comprehensive head? all interests weigh'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who would not praise Patrico's high desert, His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart,  His comprehensive head? all interests weigh'd,   All Europe sav'd, yet Britain not betray'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45985]]></link><description><![CDATA[But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The team has always had better results in Corsica than in Spain so we're optimistic of a good overall result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The team has always had better results in Corsica than in Spain so we're optimistic of a good overall result.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Run like hell and get the agony over with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Run like hell and get the agony over with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One often calms one's grief by recounting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19058]]></link><description><![CDATA[One often calms one's grief by recounting it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. (from theSufis). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21602]]></link><description><![CDATA[How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. (from theSufis).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free,  And lets us go our unobtrusive way,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free,  And lets us go our unobtrusive way,   Glad of the sun and rain,    Upright, serene, humane,     Contented with the fortune of a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased:  And sure he must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10738]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased:  And sure he must have more than mortal Skill,   Who please one against his Will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mississippi officials have taken some important first steps toward reform, ... Despite some initial progress, we have been unable to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mississippi officials have taken some important first steps toward reform, ... Despite some initial progress, we have been unable to obtain agreement on an in-court settlement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition has no rest! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition has no rest!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2314</guid></item></channel></rss>