<?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[That's the way I play. I played that way in college. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29241]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the way I play. I played that way in college.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one rejoices more in revenge than woman. [Lat., Vindicta  Nemo magis gaudet quam foemina.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54088]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one rejoices more in revenge than woman. [Lat., Vindicta  Nemo magis gaudet quam foemina.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither rhyme nor reason. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither rhyme nor reason. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21508]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever she wants to do, we'll always agree with her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever she wants to do, we'll always agree with her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23179]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56023]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public business: "we do much for posterity; I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public business: "we do much for posterity; I would fain see them do something for us."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14908]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased ÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¹ being out of town and having these discussions (of retirement) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37445]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased ÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¹ being out of town and having these discussions (of retirement) going on ÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¹ to see all these good things that the company and my team did without me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5951]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21339]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8960]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are not more than five primary colors (blue, yellow, red, white, and black), yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384   The gist of what Wycliffe has to say on every point is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384   The gist of what Wycliffe has to say on every point is practically this, that where the Church and the Bible do not agree, we must prefer the Bible; that where authority and conscience appear to be rival guides, we shall be much safer in following conscience; and that where the letter and the spirit seem to be in conflict, the spirit is above the letter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are moms who choose not to work outside the home, but they aren't polishing silver; they're playing with their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34385]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are moms who choose not to work outside the home, but they aren't polishing silver; they're playing with their kids -- (or) home schooling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played 13 tonight and they all rose to the occasion. We kept working and fighting to make this happen. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39820]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played 13 tonight and they all rose to the occasion. We kept working and fighting to make this happen. I'm proud of these girls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. -King Henry V. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55964]]></link><description><![CDATA[But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A brother is a friend provided by nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15168]]></link><description><![CDATA[A brother is a friend provided by nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40159]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EEYORE: I'm not saying there won't be an Accident now, mind you. They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/311]]></link><description><![CDATA[EEYORE: I'm not saying there won't be an Accident now, mind you. They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14269]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63659]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689  We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689  We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iran is striving to take a dominant position in the region, and its nuclear program is the most suitable means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iran is striving to take a dominant position in the region, and its nuclear program is the most suitable means of achieving this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52342]]></link><description><![CDATA[We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries greater weight than our self-interest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18138]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12337]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All flesh is not venison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49101]]></link><description><![CDATA[All flesh is not venison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  Many a congregation when it assembles in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  Many a congregation when it assembles in church must look to the angels like a muddy, puddly shore at low tide; littered with every kind of rubbish and odds and ends --a distressing sort of spectacle. And then the tide of worship comes in, and it's all gone: the dead sea-urchins and jelly-fish, the paper and the empty cans and the nameless bits of rubbish. The cleansing sea flows over the whole lot. So we are released from a narrow, selfish outlook on the universe by a common act of worship. Our little human affairs are reduced to their proper proportion when seen over against the spaceless Majesty and Beauty of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[we fork ourselves to death with the tines with which wespear the muscles of innocent animals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2649]]></link><description><![CDATA[we fork ourselves to death with the tines with which wespear the muscles of innocent animals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came here. There was all kinds of people out back, bringing guns in upstairs. And they said grab 'em, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31523]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came here. There was all kinds of people out back, bringing guns in upstairs. And they said grab 'em, and took 'em upstairs, walked out and there was police.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No nation has friends only interests ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43726]]></link><description><![CDATA[No nation has friends only interests]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The plethora of special effects -- some dazzling, some clumsy -- make "Harry Potter" at times resemble a generic Hollywood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33114]]></link><description><![CDATA[The plethora of special effects -- some dazzling, some clumsy -- make "Harry Potter" at times resemble a generic Hollywood horror movie. That three-headed dog that stands guard over a treasure was better left to the imagination. . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9170]]></link><description><![CDATA[The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,  This many summers in a sea of glory, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48210]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,  This many summers in a sea of glory,   But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride    At length broke under me, and now has left me,     Weary and old with service, to the mercy      Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are observing the increase of our cropland and may become important suppliers, as Brazil imports over 50% of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28247]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are observing the increase of our cropland and may become important suppliers, as Brazil imports over 50% of its needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,  But, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,  But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.   These laid the world away: poured out the red    Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be     Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene      That men call age, and those who would have been       Their sons, they gave their immortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's our heart and soul. The kids look to her for floor leadership. Even for a young player, she has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28599]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's our heart and soul. The kids look to her for floor leadership. Even for a young player, she has put this team on her back and hit big shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28599</guid></item></channel></rss>