<?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[I could create two Lawns over from the applicants who weren't selected and still have a fantastic community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37741]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could create two Lawns over from the applicants who weren't selected and still have a fantastic community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest, Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide,  And tremble to be happy with the rest." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59456]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest, Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide,  And tremble to be happy with the rest."   And I make answer: "I am satisfied;    I dare not ask; I know not what is best;     God hath already said what shall betide."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14939]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64691]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got mass merchants who are expanding their toy space and using it to drive total store volume. These discounters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42482]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got mass merchants who are expanding their toy space and using it to drive total store volume. These discounters are not worried about the margins they make on toys. How can you compete against that?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66807]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone ask me how to become a computer nerds, I said "Start dreaming!"; I'm serious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30138]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone ask me how to become a computer nerds, I said "Start dreaming!"; I'm serious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[an opportunity to prevent further fighting; to reassure the population; and to ensure the peaceful preparation of the upcoming presidential ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37521]]></link><description><![CDATA[an opportunity to prevent further fighting; to reassure the population; and to ensure the peaceful preparation of the upcoming presidential election.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I can do the rock clubs if I have to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41175]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I can do the rock clubs if I have to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can bring you to the door, but you have to walk through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can bring you to the door, but you have to walk through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[until there are some changes in the Senate, that might have to wait a while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31196]]></link><description><![CDATA[until there are some changes in the Senate, that might have to wait a while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One graine fills not a sacke, but helpes his fellowes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49692]]></link><description><![CDATA[One graine fills not a sacke, but helpes his fellowes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world. -B. C. Forbes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24916]]></link><description><![CDATA[The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world. -B. C. Forbes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year was a banner year. Digging probably won't be quite as good this year, but we'll still have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year was a banner year. Digging probably won't be quite as good this year, but we'll still have a lot of clams to harvest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16480]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: "Behold a God or a guardian angel!" [Lat., Intrantis medici facies tres esse videntur  Aegrotanti; hominis, Daemonis, atque Dei.   Cum primum accessit medicus dixitque salutem,    En Deus aut custos angelus, aeger ait.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I woke up this morning -- I was glad it was this morning. When you have a game like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40025]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I woke up this morning -- I was glad it was this morning. When you have a game like that, you just pick up and move on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26389]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   A just pride, a proper and becoming pride, are terms which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   A just pride, a proper and becoming pride, are terms which we daily hear from Christian lips. To possess a high spirit, to behave with proper spirit when used ill -- by which is meant, a quick feeling of injuries, and a promptness in resenting them -- entitles to commendation; and a meek-spirited disposition, the highest Scripture eulogium, expresses ideas of disapprobation and contempt. Vanity and vainglory are suffered without interruption to retain their natural possession of the heart.   ... William Wilberforce, A Practical View  July 31, 2000 Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Jesus used the term abba (which means father or "daddy" in his Aramaic mother tongue), as an address in his prayers to God. There are no other examples of this usage in contemporary Judaism, but Jesus always addressed God in this way. The others perhaps regarded it as child's talk, a form of expression too disrespectful to be so used. But for Jesus, abba expressed the filial intimacy he felt toward his Father. As the divine Son of the Father, Jesus enjoyed a unique relationship with him, and his mission in the world consisted in opening up the blessings of sonship to those who believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36357]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution; neither is it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46987]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The record shows very long lapses of time when there's no movement on the case at all. That is inexcusable. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The record shows very long lapses of time when there's no movement on the case at all. That is inexcusable. Somebody's responsible for that. This is nine years now of a man's life lost by no fault of his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66606]]></link><description><![CDATA[God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can have sex with animals such as sheeps, cows, camels and so on. However, he should kill the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4161]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can have sex with animals such as sheeps, cows, camels and so on. However, he should kill the animal after he has his orgasm. He should not sell the meat to the people in his own village; however, selling the meat to the next door village should be fine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But through the heart Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse,  'Tis then delightful misery no more,   But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23174]]></link><description><![CDATA[But through the heart Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse,  'Tis then delightful misery no more,   But agony unmix'd, incessant gall,    Corroding every thought, and blasting all     Love's paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we desire, leads to easy disillusionment with both what we had thought to be God and what we had thought to be prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mould  The purple oak-leaf falls; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mould  The purple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough   Drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44290]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature vicarye of the Almighty Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature vicarye of the Almighty Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5763]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My circumstances do not make me what I am, they reveal who I havechosen to be. (from James Allen). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21489]]></link><description><![CDATA[My circumstances do not make me what I am, they reveal who I havechosen to be. (from James Allen).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[External nature is only internal nature writ large. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63480]]></link><description><![CDATA[External nature is only internal nature writ large.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some day, some day of days, threading the street With idle, heedless pace,  Unlooking for such grace,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some day, some day of days, threading the street With idle, heedless pace,  Unlooking for such grace,   I shall behold your face!    Some day, some day of days, thus may we meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are violets blue, For our sweetness found  Careless in the mossy shades,   Looking on the ground. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60712]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are violets blue, For our sweetness found  Careless in the mossy shades,   Looking on the ground.    Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,--     Such our breath and blueness is.   - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole word was not sufficient. [Lat., Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non suffecerit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14101]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole word was not sufficient. [Lat., Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non suffecerit orbis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2532]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46982]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46982</guid></item></channel></rss>