<?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[Several players who were present acknowledge, however, that they did hire private party dancers and that underage drinking occurred. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Several players who were present acknowledge, however, that they did hire private party dancers and that underage drinking occurred. The judgment of the team members to host and participate in this event is inconsistent with the values of Duke Athletics and Duke University and is unacceptable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57688]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66680]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consumers deserve the option of choosing the combination of services that fits their needs and encouraging greater purchasing flexibility through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consumers deserve the option of choosing the combination of services that fits their needs and encouraging greater purchasing flexibility through standalone DSL furthers this goal,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9126]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This I ever held worse that all certitude,  To know not what the worst ahead might be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60021]]></link><description><![CDATA[This I ever held worse that all certitude,  To know not what the worst ahead might be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19328]]></link><description><![CDATA[History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  This astonishing sense of spiritual attack which, it seems to me, must inevitably follow the continual reading of the four Gospels, without preconception but with an alert mind, is not the sole privilege of the translator. It can happen to anyone who is prepared to abandon proof-texts and a closed attitude of mind, and allow not merely the stories but the quality of the Figure Who exists behind the stories to meet him afresh. Neat snippets of a few verses are of course useful in their way, but the overall sweep and much of the significance of the Gospel narratives are lost to us unless we are prepared to read the Gospels through, not once but several times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe this payola scandal may represent the most widespread and flagrant violation of any FCC rules in the history ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe this payola scandal may represent the most widespread and flagrant violation of any FCC rules in the history of American broadcasting. Mr. Spitzer's office has collected a mountain of evidence on the potentially illegal promotion practices of not only Sony BMG, but also other major record companies, independent promoters and several of the largest radio station groups.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61389]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baloo, baloo, my wee, wee thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baloo, baloo, my wee, wee thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[some people who have same-sex attraction have changedand instead have successfully actualized their heterosexual potential and are now ex-gay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35614]]></link><description><![CDATA[some people who have same-sex attraction have changedand instead have successfully actualized their heterosexual potential and are now ex-gay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56970]]></link><description><![CDATA[If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754   There are... few stronger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754   There are... few stronger indications of ignorance of the power and evil of sin than the confident assertion of our ability to resist and subdue it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As ill-luck would have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26008]]></link><description><![CDATA[As ill-luck would have it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66102]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's fascinating that this is a campaign that is being driven by cheap tricks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's fascinating that this is a campaign that is being driven by cheap tricks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the streets, on the roads, and in the markets, instructs the ear of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the streets, on the roads, and in the markets, instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously arranged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14911]]></link><description><![CDATA[How are the mighty fallen in the midst of battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't listen to people who tell you what to do! Listen to people who encourage you to do what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't listen to people who tell you what to do! Listen to people who encourage you to do what you know is right! Because you have one life to live so live it your way!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14165]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleures.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24655]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11859]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He pitched solid. [Like Newhouse] he used the defense. He gave up four hits. That's good enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31327]]></link><description><![CDATA[He pitched solid. [Like Newhouse] he used the defense. He gave up four hits. That's good enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt we had to stop them on their first possession of the second half and score on our first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30183]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt we had to stop them on their first possession of the second half and score on our first possession. But we gave away scoring opportunities and we didn't even score at all in the third quarter. It was a good season but we ran out of gas tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26893]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17827]]></link><description><![CDATA[May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/629]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are very excited to announce this partnership and to align the event with such a favorable brand as Ford. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31678]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are very excited to announce this partnership and to align the event with such a favorable brand as Ford. The synergies with the communities are already very strong, and we look forward to unveiling our promotional programs that will excite people about the Tour and the Ford brand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -Robert F. Kennedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -Robert F. Kennedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In naked beauty more adorned More lovely than Pandora. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2750]]></link><description><![CDATA[In naked beauty more adorned More lovely than Pandora.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans, American troops, and American's intelligence services, must get out of Iraq now, ... For two years, the Iraqi people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans, American troops, and American's intelligence services, must get out of Iraq now, ... For two years, the Iraqi people have suffered from the aftermath of a horrific war and occupation by America. The world is beginning to speak with one voice. We want that democracy in Iraq to succeed, and we know it cannot succeed so long as she is occupied by a foreign power and that power is America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did that a lot, he worked behind the scenes. He knew who he needed on board to make it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30164]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did that a lot, he worked behind the scenes. He knew who he needed on board to make it happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our faith and our friendships are not shattered by one big act, but by many small neglects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our faith and our friendships are not shattered by one big act, but by many small neglects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune befriends the bold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune befriends the bold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29848]]></link><description><![CDATA[By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that mockes a cripple, ought to be whole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49380]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that mockes a cripple, ought to be whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8411]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aware of God; but if he is more aware of Him because he is in a quiet place, that is his own deficiency and not due to God, Who is alike present in all things and places, and is willing to give Himself everywhere so far as lies in Him... He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23280]]></link><description><![CDATA[If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23280</guid></item></channel></rss>