<?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[That relationship saved him. He was devastated with the injuries and no one could've helped him more than Dave Davis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32436]]></link><description><![CDATA[That relationship saved him. He was devastated with the injuries and no one could've helped him more than Dave Davis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell you that which you yourselves do know, Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62367]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell you that which you yourselves do know, Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,  And bid them speak for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Page regrets having uttered an obscenity in open court. Sixty days to serve in jail is disproportionately severe relative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Page regrets having uttered an obscenity in open court. Sixty days to serve in jail is disproportionately severe relative to the transgression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8696]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wept when I was borne, and every day shewes why. [I wept when I was born and every day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49504]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wept when I was borne, and every day shewes why. [I wept when I was born and every day explains why.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an attempt to mitigate, and litigate the problem, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37769]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an attempt to mitigate, and litigate the problem,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13144]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom is the great guide to human life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom is the great guide to human life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61943]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29691]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's so much more need for experienced managers, it's become clear to us that we can't accept the kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37767]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's so much more need for experienced managers, it's become clear to us that we can't accept the kind of turnover we used to have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the mercy of God is so great that He can instruct us, to our salvation, even when He hides ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7544]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the mercy of God is so great that He can instruct us, to our salvation, even when He hides Himself, what a brilliance of light we must expect when He reveals Himself!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11465]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60292]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goodness speaks in a whisper, evil shouts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make necessity a virtue (a virtue of necessity). [Lat., Necessitatem in virtutem commutarum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44048]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make necessity a virtue (a virtue of necessity). [Lat., Necessitatem in virtutem commutarum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56752]]></link><description><![CDATA[A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest weariness comes from work not done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12425]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest weariness comes from work not done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or no.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We could have and should have beaten them. I think we'll give them a run for their money. Our kids ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36102]]></link><description><![CDATA[We could have and should have beaten them. I think we'll give them a run for their money. Our kids have a lot of heart, and our goalkeeper (Patch Skinner) is playing with a lot of heart at the goal. He's going to give it his all if the players in front of him do. We have just one shot to shock the Silver Division, and we want to do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just from watching Louisville on TV, they seem like a physical team. We have to be tough and strong with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just from watching Louisville on TV, they seem like a physical team. We have to be tough and strong with the ball. Going on the road, that's a big emphasis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   O God, Who hast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   O God, Who hast ordained that whatever is to be desired, should be sought by labor, and Who, by Thy blessing, bringest honest labor to good effect; look with mercy upon my studies and endeavors. Grant me, O Lord, to design only what is lawful and right, and afford me calmness of mind, and steadiness of purpose, that I may so do Thy will in this short life, as to obtain happiness in the world to come, for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51648]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3058]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 INSCRIPTION FOR A PULPIT "The hungry sheep look up, and are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 INSCRIPTION FOR A PULPIT "The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed." The hungry sheep, that crave the living Bread. Grow few, and lean, and feeble as can be, When fed not Gospel, but philosophy; Not Love's eternal story, no, not this, But apt allusion, keen analysis. Discourse well framed -- forgot as soon as heard -- Man's thin dilution of the living Word. O Preacher, leave the rhetorician's arts; Preach Christ, the Food of hungry human hearts; Hold fast to science, history, or creed, But preach the Answer to our human need, That in this place, at least, it may be said No hungry sheep looks up and is not fed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[what power had I before I learned to yield? Shatter me Great Wind! I shall possess the field!from the poem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58380]]></link><description><![CDATA[what power had I before I learned to yield? Shatter me Great Wind! I shall possess the field!from the poem To A Milkweed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray Him to give you what the Scriptures call "an honest and good heart," or "a perfect heart;" and, without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray Him to give you what the Scriptures call "an honest and good heart," or "a perfect heart;" and, without waiting, begin at once to obey Him with the best heart you have. Any obedience is better than none. You have to seek His face; obedience is the only way of seeing Him. All your duties are obediences. To do what He bids is to obey Him, and to obey Him is to approach Him. Every act of obedience is an approach -- an approach to Him who is not far off, though He seems so, but close behind this visible screen of things hiding Him from us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still in the early stages (of recovery). The market is still suffering from excess capacity on the North Atlantic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31739]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still in the early stages (of recovery). The market is still suffering from excess capacity on the North Atlantic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great house is full of saucy servants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great house is full of saucy servants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53132]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a disease no one talks about, ... But it changes your life. I never got to play football; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31521]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a disease no one talks about, ... But it changes your life. I never got to play football; I had to quit baseball because I was too sick; and when I got to college, I missed a quarter of my sophomore year and had to live with a feeding tube for a while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful relay. You play ball like that you're going to win a bunch of games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful relay. You play ball like that you're going to win a bunch of games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In both fees and commissions, they're in good shape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36838]]></link><description><![CDATA[In both fees and commissions, they're in good shape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51363]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51363</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[Her prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses O! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses O!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19696]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4988</guid></item></channel></rss>