<?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 Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George W. Bush has not stood up and said that he's ready to talk about this issue, an issue that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38160]]></link><description><![CDATA[George W. Bush has not stood up and said that he's ready to talk about this issue, an issue that is truly worthy of debate. It's a call to action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was concerned after those first three games because of the kind of mistakes we were making in one-run losses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31330]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was concerned after those first three games because of the kind of mistakes we were making in one-run losses to tough teams. Either we were trying to do too much, or we were falling asleep. So today I called them in and challenged them (in the middle of the game). I said, ?Apparently we?re headed back in the same direction.? You saw the response.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharon came back very strong. Their first goal was a bit of a wake-up call that we were not finished ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sharon came back very strong. Their first goal was a bit of a wake-up call that we were not finished yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27555]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will answer all things faithfully. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55622]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will answer all things faithfully. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel my fingerprints will be in place on the city of Snellville for many years to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33767]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel my fingerprints will be in place on the city of Snellville for many years to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5717]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had our ups and downs this year like any season. But it ended so perfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37688]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had our ups and downs this year like any season. But it ended so perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For idleness is an appendix to nobility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20329]]></link><description><![CDATA[For idleness is an appendix to nobility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 65 percent solution is the equivalent of a chicken in every pot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37533]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 65 percent solution is the equivalent of a chicken in every pot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18754]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mladic literally said these words: They would kill all the men and throw them in the Drina river to feed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mladic literally said these words: They would kill all the men and throw them in the Drina river to feed fish, and these men would never again kill Serb children in the Serb Drina valley. But they would let the women go so they can suffer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18142]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run  From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;   That is the grasshopper's--he takes the lead    In summer luxury--he has never done     With his delights, for when tired out with fun,      He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["So the Bluebirds have contracted, have they, for a house? And a next is under way for little Mr. Wren?" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4365]]></link><description><![CDATA["So the Bluebirds have contracted, have they, for a house? And a next is under way for little Mr. Wren?"  "Hush, dear, hush! Be quiet, dear! quiet as a mouse.   These are weighty secrets, and we must whisper them."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe we can get to the final. Paradoxically losing 1-0 in the first leg will help us play with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31003]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe we can get to the final. Paradoxically losing 1-0 in the first leg will help us play with greater freedom and relaxation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination. -John Schaar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyse your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyse your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65788]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poetry of the earth is never dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poetry of the earth is never dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2093]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man that would expect to train lobsters to fly in a year is called a lunatic; but a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56834]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man that would expect to train lobsters to fly in a year is called a lunatic; but a man that thinks men can be turned into angels by an election is a reformer and remains at large.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will have to be resolved internally. There is a view in Iran that if you give him enough rope, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28946]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will have to be resolved internally. There is a view in Iran that if you give him enough rope, he'll hang himself. But how much rope will it take?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44858]]></link><description><![CDATA[By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy sum of duty let two words contain, (O may they graven in thy heart remain!)  Be humble and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy sum of duty let two words contain, (O may they graven in thy heart remain!)  Be humble and be just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even [Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani] does not want a quote-unquote Islamic State, ... He wants a state that respects the place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even [Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani] does not want a quote-unquote Islamic State, ... He wants a state that respects the place of Islam in public life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57321]]></link><description><![CDATA[It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fra Lippo, we have learned from thee A lesson of humanity:  To every mother's heart forlorn,   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fra Lippo, we have learned from thee A lesson of humanity:  To every mother's heart forlorn,   In every house the Christ is born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinkingand believing. As individuals think and believe, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinkingand believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53990]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age--I missed it coming and going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt can only be removed by action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt can only be removed by action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the hood of the horses shakes the crumbling field as they run. [Lat., Quadrupedumque putrem cursu quatit ungula campum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19848]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the hood of the horses shakes the crumbling field as they run. [Lat., Quadrupedumque putrem cursu quatit ungula campum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The demographics are ideal, obviously, for sponsorship groups. And you're starting to see some of these companies realizing what the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The demographics are ideal, obviously, for sponsorship groups. And you're starting to see some of these companies realizing what the market is and getting involved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We refused to assume - one of the central obligations of parenthood: to make ourselves the final authority on good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44752]]></link><description><![CDATA[We refused to assume - one of the central obligations of parenthood: to make ourselves the final authority on good and bad, right and wrong, and to take the consequences of what might turn out to be a lifetime battle]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Equality of the general rules of law and conduct, however, is the only kind of equality conducive to liberty and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Equality of the general rules of law and conduct, however, is the only kind of equality conducive to liberty and the only equality which we can secure without destroying liberty. Not only has liberty nothing to do with any other sort of equality, but it is even bound to produce inequality in many respects. This is the necessary result and part of the justification of individual liberty: if the result of individual liberty did not demonstrate that some manners of living are more successful than others, much of the case for it would vanish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10619]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[One such item was an early 1900s royal scepter of England's King Edward VII. The lot opened with a minimum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33929]]></link><description><![CDATA[[One such item was an early 1900s royal scepter of England's King Edward VII. The lot opened with a minimum of $1,000. Thirty-five bids later, it sold for $40,100.] Any time an item sells for 40 times its opening bid, you've got to give it the credit it deserves, ... This auction has gone a long way to establishing the standards for many collectibles that to this point did not have benchmarks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may be on land, yet not in a garden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50134]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may be on land, yet not in a garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  And what might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  And what might this noble Lord do of more worship and joy to me than to show me (that am so simple) this marvelous homeliness [i.e., naturalness and simplicity]? Thus it fareth with our Lord Jesus and with us. For truly it is the most joy that may be that He that is highest and mightiest, noblest and worthiest, is lowest and meekest, homeliest and most courteous: and truly this marvelous joy shall be shewn us all when we see Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue,  Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58796]]></link><description><![CDATA[What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue,  Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58796</guid></item></channel></rss>