<?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 been the longest week ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30259]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been the longest week ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56130]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought. [Lat., Nae simul pudere quod non oportet coeperit; quod oportet non pudebit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11073]]></link><description><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8923]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each of these small businesses can offer the opportunity to showcase the value of women in the workplace in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each of these small businesses can offer the opportunity to showcase the value of women in the workplace in a unique way. I encourage small-business owners and their employees to take their daughters to work with them on this special day, as I will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make everything funny, you wouldn't believe the things we laugh at. We're always laughing-people think we're completely mad! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23215]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make everything funny, you wouldn't believe the things we laugh at. We're always laughing-people think we're completely mad!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22214]]></link><description><![CDATA[There isn't any luck that enters into anything, unless it's poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it's work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything that happens is a jolt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything that happens is a jolt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...Some of reports have called for increases of 10,000; others between 20,000 and 40,000. So there are a number of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31976]]></link><description><![CDATA[...Some of reports have called for increases of 10,000; others between 20,000 and 40,000. So there are a number of options on the table to be considered. But we'll work with Congress on that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31976</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/7169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is very fond of him and he still holds a candle for her. You could say that the calls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34824]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is very fond of him and he still holds a candle for her. You could say that the calls were of sexual nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still. . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still. . . must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61537]]></link><description><![CDATA[All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probablythemselves will not be realized. Make big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probablythemselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope andwork. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will notdie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all depend on Sophie to shoot the ball and score. But I wanted the ball. I was feeling it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29050]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all depend on Sophie to shoot the ball and score. But I wanted the ball. I was feeling it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It means a lot to me to have the honor to sing at the School Board meeting. I take it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40480]]></link><description><![CDATA[It means a lot to me to have the honor to sing at the School Board meeting. I take it pretty seriously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61548]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw the chair in design magazines. It was also in Child Magazine. The designers really thought about who their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw the chair in design magazines. It was also in Child Magazine. The designers really thought about who their user was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no secret, we took a lot of sh-- for Ang Lee's 'Hulk,' for all the wrong reasons, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29742]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no secret, we took a lot of sh-- for Ang Lee's 'Hulk,' for all the wrong reasons,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are everywhere and still watching as well ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30134]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are everywhere and still watching as well]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To write beautifully, is to inscribe thoughts on paper in a flowing, imaginative way. With aspirations to intrigue and inform; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62396]]></link><description><![CDATA[To write beautifully, is to inscribe thoughts on paper in a flowing, imaginative way. With aspirations to intrigue and inform; its truly an art on paper, filled with emotion and thought in a smooth aesthetically brilliant way...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend in power is a friend lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36469]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend in power is a friend lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people-not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two things can happen. We can make the playoffs and beat our cross-town rivals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two things can happen. We can make the playoffs and beat our cross-town rivals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47442]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted, we must abandon the notion that democratic government can be the direct expression of the will of the people. We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilizations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern. We must say that the popular will does not direct continuously but that it intervenes occasionally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60672]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The final results won't be ready and ratified until a few days into next January after completing the investigation into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34837]]></link><description><![CDATA[The final results won't be ready and ratified until a few days into next January after completing the investigation into all complaints.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   A just pride, a proper and becoming pride, are terms which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   A just pride, a proper and becoming pride, are terms which we daily hear from Christian lips. To possess a high spirit, to behave with proper spirit when used ill -- by which is meant, a quick feeling of injuries, and a promptness in resenting them -- entitles to commendation; and a meek-spirited disposition, the highest Scripture eulogium, expresses ideas of disapprobation and contempt. Vanity and vainglory are suffered without interruption to retain their natural possession of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. [Lat., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos  Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In years past, we've won one or two [district] games per year. We've known that we've had talent every year. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28210]]></link><description><![CDATA[In years past, we've won one or two [district] games per year. We've known that we've had talent every year. We've just never been able to put it together and play as a team. This year we've played as a team. Everybody's so excited about going to the playoffs. We just want to keep that hope alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44565]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45274]]></link><description><![CDATA[A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. Now he would have given all he had or ever might have to hold her warm in his arms, both of them wrapped in one blanket, and sleep. All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  I desire to exercise my faith in the most difficult ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  I desire to exercise my faith in the most difficult point, for to credit ordinary and visible objects is not faith, but persuasion. Some believe the better for seeing Christ's Sepulchre, and when they have seen the Red Sea, doubt not the miracle. Now contrarily I bless myself, and am thankful that I lived not in the days of miracles, that I never saw Christ nor His Disciples; I would not have been one of those Israelites that passed the Red Sea, nor one of Christ's patients, on whom He wrought His wonders; then had my faith been thrust upon me, nor should I enjoy that greater blessing pronounced to all that believe and saw not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged--the former by their tongues, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged--the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears. [Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina,  Si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant,   Gestores linguis, auditores auribus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's too bad to see a teammate go down and a good friend like that. It's unfortunate, but I'm just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28809]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's too bad to see a teammate go down and a good friend like that. It's unfortunate, but I'm just going to do the things I've been doing, that's working hard and working on preparation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61970]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61970</guid></item></channel></rss>