<?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[Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4170]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word "Witch" carries so many negative connotations that many people wonder why we use the word at all. Yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word "Witch" carries so many negative connotations that many people wonder why we use the word at all. Yet to reclaim the word "Witch" is to reclaim our right, as women, to be powerful; as men, to know the feminine within as divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When (negotiations) broke last night, everybody made sure everyone had everyone's phone numbers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38974]]></link><description><![CDATA[When (negotiations) broke last night, everybody made sure everyone had everyone's phone numbers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd then  Her Beauty and her Chivalry, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15589]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd then  Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright   The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17458]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that ongoing year-over-year improvement in GM North American operations should accelerate as we progress though 2006 and, coupled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39184]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that ongoing year-over-year improvement in GM North American operations should accelerate as we progress though 2006 and, coupled with conclusion of the Delphi labor dispute, lead to a strong positive reaction in the company's stock price over time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success always comes when preparation meets opportunity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success always comes when preparation meets opportunity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That 's a perilous shot out of an elder-gun. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55961]]></link><description><![CDATA[That 's a perilous shot out of an elder-gun. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a warningheart attack inhis 30'safter a mealof macaroni and cheeseand big mac'sand macaroons.. but Godgave him a 2nd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17586]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a warningheart attack inhis 30'safter a mealof macaroni and cheeseand big mac'sand macaroons.. but Godgave him a 2nd chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd have a hard time finding a major publishing company that has not begun to reduce its page size. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33013]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd have a hard time finding a major publishing company that has not begun to reduce its page size.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe anything is possible.Research into quantum physicsproves that a system changessimply by someone observing it.Therefore, all you have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31802]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe anything is possible.Research into quantum physicsproves that a system changessimply by someone observing it.Therefore, all you have to do is beawake and aware of your environment,and that enables you totransform everything around you.It sounds like hocus pocus, butscientists are coming to realize thatjust thinking about something canmake it happen. Turns out maybefaith can move mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure is the exultation of the possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure is the exultation of the possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65377</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[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Wherever the missionary character of the doctrine of election is forgotten; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Wherever the missionary character of the doctrine of election is forgotten; wherever it is forgotten that we are chosen in order to be sent; wherever the minds of believers are concerned more to probe backwards from their election into the reasons for it in the secret counsel of God, than to press forward from their election to the purpose of it, ... that they should be Christ's ambassadors and witnesses to the ends of the earth, wherever men think that the purpose of election is their own salvation rather than the salvation of the world: then God's people have betrayed their trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were looking to improve on last week's conference game and work on some things at this tournament, ... If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37505]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were looking to improve on last week's conference game and work on some things at this tournament, ... If the kids improve their defense and passing, they can compete with any team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are words the heart can't express ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are words the heart can't express]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Sp., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19774]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Sp., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness--has ever been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness--has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if you can be merry then, I'll say A man may weep upon his wedding day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27416]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if you can be merry then, I'll say A man may weep upon his wedding day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64716]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51451]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next World War will be fought with stones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next World War will be fought with stones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most peaceable way for you if you do take a thief, is to let him show himself what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most peaceable way for you if you do take a thief, is to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is only a good thing when your jealous of me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is only a good thing when your jealous of me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palm Sunday  In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Palm Sunday  In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its vast comprehensiveness and truth, and makes us hide ourselves from its dread sanctity, is brought down into the life of a brother, ... and we see it illustrated and ratified in human action, we see righteousness that makes us feel more bitterly our sin, that makes us look more disparagingly upon our own efforts, yet leaves in us a longing to be like Him, as if we ought to be as He is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will not become a saint through other people's sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52424]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will not become a saint through other people's sins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote a letter to my dad, I was going to write 'I really enjoyed being here', but I accidentally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24635]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrote a letter to my dad, I was going to write 'I really enjoyed being here', but I accidentally wrote 'rarely' instead of 'really'. But I wanted to use it, I didn't want to cross it out, so I wrote 'I rarely drive steamboats, Dad. There's a lot of sh*t you don't know about me. Quit trying to act like I'm a steamboat operator.' I know this letter took a harsh turn right away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although they are at different skill levels, working with a traumatized and bereaved population was new for all of them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although they are at different skill levels, working with a traumatized and bereaved population was new for all of them, ... And despite the fact that many had no formal training, the degree of caring and thoughtfulness these volunteers have is amazing. And most of all, their hearts are broken for the community, for what was versus what is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great unwashed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great unwashed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22868]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His kindled duty kindled her mistrust, That two red fires in both faces blazed.  She thought he blushed as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4392]]></link><description><![CDATA[His kindled duty kindled her mistrust, That two red fires in both faces blazed.  She thought he blushed as knowing Tarquin's lust,   And, blushing with him, wistly on him gazed;    Her earnest eye did make him more amazed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64542]]></link><description><![CDATA[For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26937]]></link><description><![CDATA[But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are one of the best things that's ever happened to me. You're my love and my best friend. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4160]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are one of the best things that's ever happened to me. You're my love and my best friend. And every day that goes by, it seems like I discover something new about you to love. It's incredible to me how one person can make such a big difference in my life. You touch my heart in a way I never knew before. I discover something new about you to love. It's incredible to me how one person can make such a big difference in my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second disasterous. -Margot Fonteyn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4205]]></link><description><![CDATA[You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18552]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4753]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the thickets and the meadows Piped the bluebird, the Owaissa.  On the summit of the lodges   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4366]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the thickets and the meadows Piped the bluebird, the Owaissa.  On the summit of the lodges   Sang the robin, the Opechee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64984</guid></item></channel></rss>