<?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[It's a sad state of affairs that we have only one choice (for abortion) right now. But if you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31441]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a sad state of affairs that we have only one choice (for abortion) right now. But if you have to go out of state, the cost of making that trip will be prohibitive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has half the deed done who has made a beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22048]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The years teach much which the days never knew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62800]]></link><description><![CDATA[The years teach much which the days never knew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a bird I love, with its brooding note, And the trembling throb in its mottled throat;  There's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46603]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a bird I love, with its brooding note, And the trembling throb in its mottled throat;  There's a human look in its swelling breast,   And the gentle curve of its lowly crest;    And I often stop with the fear I feel--     He runs so close to the rapid wheel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17830]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[in Just-- spring when the world is mud--  luscious the little   lame balloonman    whistles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57784]]></link><description><![CDATA[in Just-- spring when the world is mud--  luscious the little   lame balloonman    whistles far and wee]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27625]]></link><description><![CDATA[To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can be right or you can be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22351]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can be right or you can be happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20717]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16688]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With thee conversing I forget the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10091]]></link><description><![CDATA[With thee conversing I forget the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60316]]></link><description><![CDATA[If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24246]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with political jokes is they get elected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. [Lat., Ecce spectaculum dignum, ad quod respiciat intentus operi suo Deus. Ecce par Deo dignum, vir fortis cum mala fortuna compositus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55135]]></link><description><![CDATA[When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it had missed the point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a member of the school board I played an integral role in keeping the district's approximately $8 million budget ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33745]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a member of the school board I played an integral role in keeping the district's approximately $8 million budget successfully in the black while building several additions and making many improvements. I also played a key role in negotiating many successful union contracts for the district. This experience will better able me to keep the sheriff's department spending in check, and to work well with the department's employee union.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call no man happy till he is dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call no man happy till he is dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last night the very gods showed me a vision-- I fast and prayed for their intelligence--thus:  I saw Jove's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last night the very gods showed me a vision-- I fast and prayed for their intelligence--thus:  I saw Jove's bird, the Roman eagle, winged   From the spongy south to this part of the west,    There vanished in the sunbeams; which portends,     Unless my sins abuse my divination,      Success to th' Roman host.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benjamin Hardlysee decided to point it out to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benjamin Hardlysee decided to point it out to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the "terror of the Lord" that causes us to "persuade" others, but it is the love of Christ ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7243]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the "terror of the Lord" that causes us to "persuade" others, but it is the love of Christ that constraineth us to live to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who can make hard things easy is the educator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2971]]></link><description><![CDATA[As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47928]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4 a.m. this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41542]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4 a.m. this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are four from among the attackers (who were killed).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do what we must, and call it by the best names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44083]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do what we must, and call it by the best names.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innocence is always unsuspicious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innocence is always unsuspicious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good pay-master starts not at assurances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49030]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good pay-master starts not at assurances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppressed and killed.  You must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppressed and killed.  You must not dare for shame to talk of mercy;   For your own reasons turn into your bosoms    As dogs upon their masters, worrying you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's interesting that astronomy can do this. And it's great that there's this ongoing interest in Ansel. We're planning to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42178]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's interesting that astronomy can do this. And it's great that there's this ongoing interest in Ansel. We're planning to go out and see it for curiosity's sake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48494]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty. [Lat., Semel profecto premere felices deus  Cum coepit, urget; hos habent magna exitus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent ... War will exist until that distant day when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12815]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent ... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the wind is against you then start sailing against it because the wind may never change in your favor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45113]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the wind is against you then start sailing against it because the wind may never change in your favor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63054]]></link><description><![CDATA[The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12148]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5621]]></link><description><![CDATA[People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't understand you. You don't understand me. What else do we have in common? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2005]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't understand you. You don't understand me. What else do we have in common?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting that motel next door as much as anything is the story. Parking expansion is absolutely essential. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Getting that motel next door as much as anything is the story. Parking expansion is absolutely essential.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We spend an awful lot of money training people and developing them in these underperforming schools, but at the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29425]]></link><description><![CDATA[We spend an awful lot of money training people and developing them in these underperforming schools, but at the end of the year, these teachers are taking the training and experience and moving on to better districts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29425</guid></item><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[Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I saw fair Chloris walk alone, The feather'd snow came softly down,  As Jove, descending from his tow'r ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56709]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I saw fair Chloris walk alone, The feather'd snow came softly down,  As Jove, descending from his tow'r   To court her in a silver show'r.    The wanton snow flew to her breast,     As little birds into their nest;      But o'ercome with whiteness there,       For grief dissolv'd into a tear.        Thence falling on her garment hem,         To deck her, froze into a gem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of our guys needed to win a couple of matches. Some guys who were fifth could have been third. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of our guys needed to win a couple of matches. Some guys who were fifth could have been third.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36471</guid></item></channel></rss>