<?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[And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43695]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizend of the world: ask not what American will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My teammates' play behind me helped. Every time I start, I get stronger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30849]]></link><description><![CDATA[My teammates' play behind me helped. Every time I start, I get stronger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A boy is a magical creature - you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4799]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boy is a magical creature - you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. And you can do it when things are tough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  One can believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  One can believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and feel no personal loyalty to Him at all -- indeed, pay no attention whatever to His commandments and His will for one's life. One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For angling-rod he took a sturdy oak; For line, a cable that in storm ne'er broke;  His hook was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16107]]></link><description><![CDATA[For angling-rod he took a sturdy oak; For line, a cable that in storm ne'er broke;  His hook was such as heads the end of pole   To pluck down house ere fire consumes it whole;    This hook was bated with a dragon's tail,--     And then on rock he stood to bob for whale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HBO is, and will continue to be, the most profitable network in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31568]]></link><description><![CDATA[HBO is, and will continue to be, the most profitable network in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is clear, though, that the Genesis experience bolsters the previous conclusion that an MSR entry vehicle must be designed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41705]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is clear, though, that the Genesis experience bolsters the previous conclusion that an MSR entry vehicle must be designed to maintain containment of the samples in the event that a parachute or any other entry, descent, and landing deployment or actuation fails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is a wall of brass; You shall not pass! You shall not pass!  Spring up like Summer grass, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61133]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is a wall of brass; You shall not pass! You shall not pass!  Spring up like Summer grass,   Surge at her, mass on mass,    Still shall you break like glass,     Splinter and break like shivered glass,      But pass?       You shall not pass!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57769]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24496]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better… or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trial is totally meaningless. It's a political issue, not a legal issue. The procedures and the outcome were decided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28220]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trial is totally meaningless. It's a political issue, not a legal issue. The procedures and the outcome were decided a long time ago. The people behind this want a lynching; they don't want justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is to be along; this, this is solitude! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57164]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is to be along; this, this is solitude!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is encouraging to see a kid come up and do what he doing. He's got five home runs. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35269]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is encouraging to see a kid come up and do what he doing. He's got five home runs. That's more than the starting eight combined. You watch him in batting practice, and you know he is a special kind of hitter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's still interesting times, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38789]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's still interesting times,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black, Cutting through the jungle with a golden track. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black, Cutting through the jungle with a golden track.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you,  Without a thought disloyal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you,  Without a thought disloyal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I’ll tell you, few things make me more angry than some out of touch Washington politician saying that Head ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61230]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I’ll tell you, few things make me more angry than some out of touch Washington politician saying that Head Start doesn’t work. That’s a flat out lie and it’s disrespectful to you and the tens of thousands of Americans who make this program work for children every single day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43220]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57198]]></link><description><![CDATA[If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[luck is what happens , when the preparation meets the opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/397]]></link><description><![CDATA[luck is what happens , when the preparation meets the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it;  Turn in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62085]]></link><description><![CDATA[With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it;  Turn in the little seed, brown and dry,   Turn out the golden millet.    Work, and your house shall be duly fed:     Work, and rest shall be won;      I hold that a man had better be dead       Than alive when his work is done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the revision last year, I think from the political point of view the commission and the ministers have learned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37999]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the revision last year, I think from the political point of view the commission and the ministers have learned a lot about the importance of establishing good dialogue channels to avoid these kinds of conflicts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found;  And 'tis joy that moves the pinion  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found;  And 'tis joy that moves the pinion   When the wheel of time goes round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After that first goal, they came pretty quick. We just had some trouble getting going, but once we did, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30554]]></link><description><![CDATA[After that first goal, they came pretty quick. We just had some trouble getting going, but once we did, we played well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clean and wholesome side of the '80s we've already explored. Now we're going to the more rock-inspired, more decadent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36164]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clean and wholesome side of the '80s we've already explored. Now we're going to the more rock-inspired, more decadent - that whole new-wave look.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He makes a July's day short as December, And with his varying childness cures in me  Thoughts that would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5846]]></link><description><![CDATA[He makes a July's day short as December, And with his varying childness cures in me  Thoughts that would thick my blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11800]]></link><description><![CDATA[When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very uniqueness of the Resurrection as a historical event always causes problems when we try to describe it, just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very uniqueness of the Resurrection as a historical event always causes problems when we try to describe it, just as it did for the original writers. Nevertheless, the background to the New Testament is one of expectation of resurrection, and only the historical rising-again of Jesus makes sense of the narrative in this context.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1145]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such a Saint, such an offering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such a Saint, such an offering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no life that does not contribute to history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no life that does not contribute to history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think they're all really, really coming around beautifully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40066]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think they're all really, really coming around beautifully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55795]]></link><description><![CDATA[To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46409]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows he has enough is rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21545]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows he has enough is rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21545</guid></item></channel></rss>