<?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[George Washington, with his right art upraised, sits his iron horse at the lower corner of Union Square. . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44438]]></link><description><![CDATA[George Washington, with his right art upraised, sits his iron horse at the lower corner of Union Square. . . . Should the General raise his left hand as he has raised his right, it would point to a quarter of the city that forms a haven for the oppressed and suppressed of foreign lands. In the cause of national or personal freedom they have found refuge here, and the patriot who made it for them sits his steed, overlooking their district, while he listens through his left ear to vaudeville that caricatures the posterity of the proteges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23534]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know that anyone is going to be bringing Bush into the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know that anyone is going to be bringing Bush into the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first day, a guest; the second, a burden; the third, a pest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first day, a guest; the second, a burden; the third, a pest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair ruins some, presumption many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair ruins some, presumption many.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm saddened that I have to work at some fundamental areas. I feel I'm starting from scratch at times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36305]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm saddened that I have to work at some fundamental areas. I feel I'm starting from scratch at times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Convey a libel in a frown. And wink a reputation down! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Convey a libel in a frown. And wink a reputation down!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A simple "I love you" means more than money... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63074]]></link><description><![CDATA[A simple "I love you" means more than money...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1393]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carlos did really well in the Vuelta and he fully deserves his spot on the podium. He's an all round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carlos did really well in the Vuelta and he fully deserves his spot on the podium. He's an all round rider and it's great to see him prove it with a nice result such as this. It takes a lot to achieve a podium spot in the Vuelta, and I think he's been one of the prominent riders in this race - just as we as a team have been up front in nearly all stages. We took a brilliant stage victory, and with a little luck we could've taken a couple more. On the whole I'm very satisfied with the efforts delivered by everyone. Our aim was to get a good result overall and try for a stage win along the way, and we've achieved both. The team has worked perfectly and everyone down here in and around the team deserve big credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God -- ah, then things must be critical indeed!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60075]]></link><description><![CDATA[FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62729]]></link><description><![CDATA[New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16265]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that’s the way the world is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15685]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that’s the way the world is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know from the bounteous heavens all riches flow; And what man gives, the gods by man bestow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know from the bounteous heavens all riches flow; And what man gives, the gods by man bestow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spheres of influence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spheres of influence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tranquility is the old man's milk ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tranquility is the old man's milk]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56316]]></link><description><![CDATA[These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The monarch drank that happy hour The sweetest, noblest draught of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The monarch drank that happy hour The sweetest, noblest draught of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This yoga is not possible, for the one who eats too much, or who does not eat at all; who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62517]]></link><description><![CDATA[This yoga is not possible, for the one who eats too much, or who does not eat at all; who sleeps too much, or who keeps awake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How long should you try? Until. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46153]]></link><description><![CDATA[How long should you try? Until.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  Devotion signifies a life given, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  Devotion signifies a life given, or devoted, to God. He therefore is the devout man, who lives no longer to his own will, or the way and spirit of the world, but to the sole will of God, who considers God in everything, who serves God in everything, who makes all the parts of his common life, parts of piety, by doing everything in the name of God, and under such rules as are conformable to His glory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens--and then everybody disagrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens--and then everybody disagrees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25378]]></link><description><![CDATA[The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her beads while she numbered, The baby still slumbered,  And smile in her face, as she bended her knee; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her beads while she numbered, The baby still slumbered,  And smile in her face, as she bended her knee;   Oh! bless'd be that warning,    My child, thy sleep adorning,     For I know that the angels are whispering with thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When prayers are done, my Lady is ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50076]]></link><description><![CDATA[When prayers are done, my Lady is ready.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finding parts for these old tractors is a challenge. Many steam engines were scrapped during World War II for scrap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finding parts for these old tractors is a challenge. Many steam engines were scrapped during World War II for scrap metal,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392  The characteristic of our modern Christianity, which correlates it with all apostolic times, is the substitution of loyalty to a person in place of belief in doctrines, as the essence and test of Christian life. This is the simplicity and unity by which the Gospel can become effective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run  With girdled loins our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9123]]></link><description><![CDATA[No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run  With girdled loins our lamplit race,   And each from each takes heart of grace    And spirit till his turn be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63460]]></link><description><![CDATA[As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The T1 addresses this issue as a massively threaded processor that can handle more tasks on a single piece of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34796]]></link><description><![CDATA[The T1 addresses this issue as a massively threaded processor that can handle more tasks on a single piece of silicon. Customers can now do a lot more without adding hardware.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I'm an owl: you're another. Sir Critic, good day." And the barber kept on shaving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10748]]></link><description><![CDATA["I'm an owl: you're another. Sir Critic, good day." And the barber kept on shaving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persevere in virtue and diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persevere in virtue and diligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad. -As You Like It. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55676]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child!  Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54894]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child!  Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,   Land of the mountain and the flood,    Land of my sires! what mortal hand     Can e'er untie the filial band,      That knits me to thy rugged strand!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems almost within reach. A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. De Tocqueville in his researches into the state of society in France before the revolution was struck by the discovery that "in no one of the periods which have followed the Revolution of 1789 has the national prosperity of France augmented more rapidly than it did in the twenty years preceding that event." He is forced to conclude that "the French found their position the more intolerable the better it became.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25341]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5740]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doug Melvin's contract is absolutely being extended. We're just working through the details. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doug Melvin's contract is absolutely being extended. We're just working through the details.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men perish with whispering sins--nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men perish with whispering sins--nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell there shall meet as many men that never thought what was sin, as that spent all their thoughts in the compassing of sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14911]]></link><description><![CDATA[How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself thanin any other way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21521]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself thanin any other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He always told me that he only had two or three. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31843]]></link><description><![CDATA[He always told me that he only had two or three.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31843</guid></item></channel></rss>