<?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[We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/98]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/98</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're all equipped with multi-purpose rooms and gymnasiums, ... If we had to utilize all the schools, we could hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28170]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're all equipped with multi-purpose rooms and gymnasiums, ... If we had to utilize all the schools, we could hold 25,000 to 30,000 temporarily. That's the worst-case scenario.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very rugged country, and the weather can turn rapidly. Sometimes you can see the storms coming, and sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28690]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very rugged country, and the weather can turn rapidly. Sometimes you can see the storms coming, and sometimes you can't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47399]]></link><description><![CDATA[A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20700]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon our society than the others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring,  Met we on hill, in dale, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58274]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring,  Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead,   By paved fountain or by rushy brook,    Or in the beached margent of the sea,     To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind,      But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I gave Emmitt a hug after his last game [with Dallas] and told him I was proud to have played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40546]]></link><description><![CDATA[I gave Emmitt a hug after his last game [with Dallas] and told him I was proud to have played against him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he feels the door has been opened, and he's getting some shoves from behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he feels the door has been opened, and he's getting some shoves from behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity is the first path to truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity is the first path to truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no condition wherein a man does not depend on many others, wherein he is not more obliged to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8307]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no condition wherein a man does not depend on many others, wherein he is not more obliged to follow their fancies than his own. All the commerce of life is a perpetual constraint to the laws of good breeding, and the necessity of humoring others; and besides, our own passions are the worst tyrants: if you obey them but by halves, a perpetual strife and contest exists within; and if you entirely give up yourself to them, it is horrid to think to what extremities they will lead. May God preserve us from that fatal slavery, which the mad presumption of man calls liberty! Liberty is to be found only in Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She (his wife) is the wind beneath my wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61888]]></link><description><![CDATA[She (his wife) is the wind beneath my wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To counsel others, and to disregard one's own safety, is folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50850]]></link><description><![CDATA[To counsel others, and to disregard one's own safety, is folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to corral him, keep him in the pocket and make him beat us with his arm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38184]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to corral him, keep him in the pocket and make him beat us with his arm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21903]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45579]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Christians], at their best, know that often they don't know. They do not have all the answers. They do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7694]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Christians], at their best, know that often they don't know. They do not have all the answers. They do not have God in their pocket. We cannot answer every question that any bright boy in the back row might ask. We have only light enough to walk by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're thrilled. To have Charles Schwab take the bold step of being one of our original dual-listed companies and to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30800]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're thrilled. To have Charles Schwab take the bold step of being one of our original dual-listed companies and to evaluate both markets on their merits and choose to list solely on Nasdaq is a major validation of the Nasdaq market model.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;  Though every prospect pleases,   And only man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62308]]></link><description><![CDATA[What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;  Though every prospect pleases,   And only man is vile;    In vain with lavish kindness     The gifts of God are strown;      The heathen in his blindness       Bows down to wood and stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46234]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with Papua is: who has the legitimacy to negotiate on behalf of Papuans with the government? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with Papua is: who has the legitimacy to negotiate on behalf of Papuans with the government?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. -Mignon McLaughlin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. -Mignon McLaughlin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61129]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smile when it hurts most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smile when it hurts most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26310]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing is always thinking of titles for records, with some reason behind them, and she just came out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing is always thinking of titles for records, with some reason behind them, and she just came out with the word, which she thought was a good word, a hard word, and since then we've sort of attached loads of meaning to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are not perfect (except when they smile). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65744]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are not perfect (except when they smile).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52869]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First thoughts are not always the best. [It., Sempre il miglior non e il parer primiero.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59190]]></link><description><![CDATA[First thoughts are not always the best. [It., Sempre il miglior non e il parer primiero.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5491]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is more bearable than nothingness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is more bearable than nothingness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work thou for pleasure--paint or sing or carve The thing thou lovest, though the body starve--  Who works for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work thou for pleasure--paint or sing or carve The thing thou lovest, though the body starve--  Who works for glory misses oft the goal;   Who works for money coins his very soul.    Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be     That these things shall be added unto thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to wear out than to rust out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to wear out than to rust out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a fearful thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a fearful thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is like the relation between hand and eyes;it is like when the hand get hurt,eye cries; and when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is like the relation between hand and eyes;it is like when the hand get hurt,eye cries; and when the eye cries, the hand wipes .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57574]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everything about his job except its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57059]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57059</guid></item></channel></rss>