<?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 nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58768]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240   We are building may splendid churches in this country, but we are not providing leaders to run them. I would rather have a wooden church with a splendid parson, than a splendid church with a wooden parson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's less of the listen-and-learn type of documentary approach of 20 years ago and more of a live-and-learn approach through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32895]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's less of the listen-and-learn type of documentary approach of 20 years ago and more of a live-and-learn approach through the programming. The viewer learns through their experiences about what they're learning. Yes, it's entertainment, but it's really a program about going into the world of work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way,  He greedily sucks in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16113]]></link><description><![CDATA[When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way,  He greedily sucks in the twining bait,   And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat.    Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line!     How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/574]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boy and the FilbertsA boy put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts. He grasped as many as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boy and the FilbertsA boy put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts. He grasped as many as he could possibly hold, but when he tried to pull out his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the pitcher. Unwilling to lose his filberts, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and bitterly lamented his disappointment. A bystander said to him, Be satisfied with half the quantity, and you will readily draw out your hand. Do not attempt too much at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faire language grates not the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faire language grates not the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy /common clay, if you like /eating, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy /common clay, if you like /eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others /the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am delighted the president has signed this bill, ... Hawaii can now begin to develop alternative sources of water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32560]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am delighted the president has signed this bill, ... Hawaii can now begin to develop alternative sources of water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51751]]></link><description><![CDATA[To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Was it for this the clay grew tall? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Was it for this the clay grew tall?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were able to maintain our current prices in spite of increases in materials and shipping costs, ... In addition, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34746]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were able to maintain our current prices in spite of increases in materials and shipping costs, ... In addition, to meet the demand of strong sales, we were able to quickly increase capacity in our plants without affecting our margins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! that the memories which survive us here Were half so lovely as these wings of thine!  Pure relics ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! that the memories which survive us here Were half so lovely as these wings of thine!  Pure relics of a blameless life, that shine   Now thou art gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship demands the ability to do without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship demands the ability to do without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can advise comfortably from a safe port. [Ger., Vom sichern Port lasst sich's gemachlich rathen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/789]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can advise comfortably from a safe port. [Ger., Vom sichern Port lasst sich's gemachlich rathen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/761]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: "Take two aspirin" and "Keep away from children".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24808]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  It has been well said that no man ever sank under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him and mind the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15691]]></link><description><![CDATA[One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26648]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not ashamed that these reproaches can be cast upon us, and that they can not be repelled. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56132]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not ashamed that these reproaches can be cast upon us, and that they can not be repelled. [Lat., Pudet haec opprobria nobis  Et dici potuisse et non potuisse repelli.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope it will give us several shots a day. We've never had the whole team play well. We've had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36049]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope it will give us several shots a day. We've never had the whole team play well. We've had one (golfer) play well, but when you have three of your five players in the top 10 then usually you're in contention for the title.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66388]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that glisters is not gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2811]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that glisters is not gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You couldn't get mad. You always had to remain calm no matter what, because they wanted you to get mad. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37114]]></link><description><![CDATA[You couldn't get mad. You always had to remain calm no matter what, because they wanted you to get mad. And you had to succeed no matter what.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I truly believe that three minutes is pretty reasonable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36007]]></link><description><![CDATA[I truly believe that three minutes is pretty reasonable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They gave me their name, which was fake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30498]]></link><description><![CDATA[They gave me their name, which was fake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate;  And whatever sky's above ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate;  And whatever sky's above me,   Here's a heart for every fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's definitely an element of pride there. Outside the postseason, if you ask our guys which tournament they would like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30886]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's definitely an element of pride there. Outside the postseason, if you ask our guys which tournament they would like to win, they're probably say this one. I think everyone wants to do well at home and protect the home turf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must adopt loathsome diseases for our familiar associates, or we shall never be thoroughly acquainted with their nature and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38357]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must adopt loathsome diseases for our familiar associates, or we shall never be thoroughly acquainted with their nature and dispositions; we must risk, nay even injure, our own health in order to be able to preserve or restore that of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gamsters and race-horses never last long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gamsters and race-horses never last long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a progressive country change is constant; ... change ... is inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5582]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a progressive country change is constant; ... change ... is inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64652]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somebody could read about Shakespeare and get honors credit, but those kids who not only have to read Shakespeare but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somebody could read about Shakespeare and get honors credit, but those kids who not only have to read Shakespeare but to act it and perform it didn't. That is the perfect illustration of why these students should get honors credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient. [It., Bello e il rossore, ma e incommodo qualche volta.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4380]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient. [It., Bello e il rossore, ma e incommodo qualche volta.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Johannes] Brahms chose his own texts [for his German Requiem] from Luther's Bible to illustrate the Protestant conviction that man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6861]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Johannes] Brahms chose his own texts [for his German Requiem] from Luther's Bible to illustrate the Protestant conviction that man must hear and respond to God's word in man's own language, and that every believer must be free to deal with the Biblical text apart from priestly veto... For the word "German" he would gladly have substituted the word "human" because he was concerned to comment on "the primary text of human existence," finding there, as in the Bible, the universal themes of suffering and joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good preacher should have these qualities and virtues: first, to teach systematically; second, he should have a ready wit; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8325]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good preacher should have these qualities and virtues: first, to teach systematically; second, he should have a ready wit; third, he should be eloquent; fourth, he should have a good voice; fifth, a good memory; sixth, he should know when to make an end; seventh, he should be sure of his doctrine; eighth, he should venture and engage body and blood, wealth and honor, in the world; ninth, he should suffer himself to be mocked and jeered of everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8325</guid></item></channel></rss>