<?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[If he's incompetent, which he is, then everything is put on hold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39134]]></link><description><![CDATA[If he's incompetent, which he is, then everything is put on hold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24719]]></link><description><![CDATA[For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tigard and Canby should be good as well. We will be right in the thick of it though. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tigard and Canby should be good as well. We will be right in the thick of it though.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man. [Lat., Nil homine terra pejus ingrato creat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man. [Lat., Nil homine terra pejus ingrato creat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[McClellan (4-0) threw a great game. He settled down and got us out of a couple of tense innings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31316]]></link><description><![CDATA[McClellan (4-0) threw a great game. He settled down and got us out of a couple of tense innings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've waited long enough. I just hope we have better luck this time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29201]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've waited long enough. I just hope we have better luck this time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22791]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. Thanks to Ellen Fletcher -Albert Schweitzer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself--and how little I deserve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44958]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself--and how little I deserve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26415]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a kid doesn't live up to it, you could have a problem with him losing confidence, and then it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39978]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a kid doesn't live up to it, you could have a problem with him losing confidence, and then it's up to the veterans and the pitching coach to step in and not let that happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29766]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solv.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19010]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned that you'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40178]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned that you'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63755]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are used as they use others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are used as they use others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The march of the human mind is slow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The march of the human mind is slow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice  Of one, who from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4112]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice  Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims   Tidings of good to Zion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of mixed emotions. But that was 48 hours. After that 48 hours, I was able to reflect back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32838]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of mixed emotions. But that was 48 hours. After that 48 hours, I was able to reflect back on 23 years. So I'm not going to let 48 hours spoil my fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16320]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23698]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good, and the very gentle, and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most employees view base salary as a barometer of their worth, so thinking about a steady decrease in the amount ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most employees view base salary as a barometer of their worth, so thinking about a steady decrease in the amount of money being provided to them has had a psychological impact. That's why organizations looked to variable pay as a way to counteract that -- until recently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deafe gaines the injury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deafe gaines the injury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53607]]></link><description><![CDATA[O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For he that once is good, is ever great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18262]]></link><description><![CDATA[For he that once is good, is ever great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66781]]></link><description><![CDATA[The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56594]]></link><description><![CDATA[In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59285]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5440]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth may sometimes hurt but delusion harms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth may sometimes hurt but delusion harms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought Melissa pitched well enough to keep us in the game. I was disappointed in how discouraged our girls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39830]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought Melissa pitched well enough to keep us in the game. I was disappointed in how discouraged our girls became when the Hawks' victory seemed imminent. The game became too emotional for our side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're fine to use. Just be sensible about the volume and amount of time you listen. If the person next ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31791]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're fine to use. Just be sensible about the volume and amount of time you listen. If the person next to you can hear your music, it's too loud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4846]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57479]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The circumstances changed when I heard the other proposals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The circumstances changed when I heard the other proposals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Christ and His work and His sacrifice do not result in Christlikeness in you and me, then for us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7486]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Christ and His work and His sacrifice do not result in Christlikeness in you and me, then for us it is quite valueless, and has entirely failed; and, insofar as you and I are concerned, Christ was thrown away in vain. How, then, is it with you and me? Be very sure that upon Calvary it was no strange, immoral favouritism that came into operation, whereby -- because of some beliefs that remain mere dead letters, that produce no change whatever in their characters -- some people living the same kind of life as others and following the same selfish ends and interests as they, are given a destiny entirely different. That is the vainest of vain dreams. Rather is this the supreme revelation of a new way of living life; and only those who -- blunderingly, it may be, but yet honestly -- seek to adopt and imitate it can be counted really Christian folk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like as a feareful partridge, that is fledd From the sharpe hauke which her attacked neare,  And falls to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like as a feareful partridge, that is fledd From the sharpe hauke which her attacked neare,  And falls to ground to seeke for succor theare,   Whereas the hungry spaniells she does spye,    With greedy jawes her ready for to teare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55823]]></link><description><![CDATA[And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are all changing, and Jo is resisting, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41683]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are all changing, and Jo is resisting,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities -- that's huge progress. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42524]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities -- that's huge progress. We sit now right on the cusp of losing that if we're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   What is the Christian? Everywhere the man who, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   What is the Christian? Everywhere the man who, so far as he comprehends Jesus Christ, so far as he can get any knowledge of Him, is His servant -- the man who makes Christ a teacher of his intelligence and the guide of his soul -- the man who obeys Christ as far as he has been able to understand him... I would know any man as a Christian, would rejoice to know any man as a Christian, whom Jesus would recognize as a Christian; and Jesus Christ, I am sure, in these old days recognized His followers even if they came after Him with the blindest sight, with the most imperfect recognition and acknowledgment of what He was and of what He could do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada is abandoning its 40- to 50-year traditional diplomatic approach in how to deal with the dangers of nuclear weapons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Canada is abandoning its 40- to 50-year traditional diplomatic approach in how to deal with the dangers of nuclear weapons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62579]]></link><description><![CDATA[What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62579</guid></item></channel></rss>