<?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[Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small number of IT vendors are at the moment putting customers at risk of unwittingly running illegal software. Microsoft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42595]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small number of IT vendors are at the moment putting customers at risk of unwittingly running illegal software. Microsoft will not tolerate illegal copies of its software being sold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you good men and true? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you good men and true? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not allow the money to drive the train. Do not allow deadlines to drive the train. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not allow the money to drive the train. Do not allow deadlines to drive the train.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50285]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44307]]></link><description><![CDATA[It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't, this is it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40173]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't, this is it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Kingdom of the LionTHE beasts of the field and forest had a Lion as their king. He was neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Kingdom of the LionTHE beasts of the field and forest had a Lion as their king. He was neither wrathful, cruel, nor tyrannical, but just and gentle as a king could be. During his reign he made a royal proclamation for a general assembly of all the birds and beasts, and drew up conditions for a universal league, in which the Wolf and the Lamb, the Panther and the Kid, the Tiger and the Stag, the Dog and the Hare, should live together in perfect peace and amity. The Hare said, Oh, how I have longed to see this day, in which the weak shall take their place with impunity by the side of the strong. And after the Hare said this, he ran for his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goblin was a new band and this was their first major work. The oldest of them was only 18. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goblin was a new band and this was their first major work. The oldest of them was only 18. They were very talented and I wanted to give them a break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22576]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain we call old notions fudge And bend our conscience to our dealing.  The Ten Commandments will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59131]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain we call old notions fudge And bend our conscience to our dealing.  The Ten Commandments will not budge   And stealing will continue stealing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can never understand how we have been able to follow these worn-out tracks, which have been laid down by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can never understand how we have been able to follow these worn-out tracks, which have been laid down by panic in the face of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural inducement. The less of one, the more of the others. The degree of freedom that is possible is therefore tied to the extent to which people respond to persuasion or inducement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her plates are scarred by the sun, dear lass, And her ropes are taut with the dew,  For we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her plates are scarred by the sun, dear lass, And her ropes are taut with the dew,  For we're booming down on the old trail, our own trail, the out trail,   We're sagging south on the Long Trail, the trail that is always new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I agree with that. I think you will see us recasting some of our thinking to look at longer term ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I agree with that. I think you will see us recasting some of our thinking to look at longer term things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lost a friend, almost a person. He has helped make the track as popular as he is -- not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40659]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lost a friend, almost a person. He has helped make the track as popular as he is -- not only in Louisiana, but Texas people, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Mississippi. We want to name a race after him and we want to bury him on the track.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've now got the music book ready, Do sit up and sing like a lady  A recitative from Tancredi, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3693]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've now got the music book ready, Do sit up and sing like a lady  A recitative from Tancredi,   And something from "Palpiti!"    Sing forte when first you begin it,     Piano the very next minute,      They'll cry "What expression there's in it!"       Don't sing English ballads to me!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The circumstances changed when I heard the other proposals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The circumstances changed when I heard the other proposals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16646]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They plainly saw the writing on the wall. They saw that the way they [crafted] the settlement would not withstand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37841]]></link><description><![CDATA[They plainly saw the writing on the wall. They saw that the way they [crafted] the settlement would not withstand the court's review. So they retreated, making it a private handshake deal between the two of them. As a result, it won't be enforceable in the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ascension  Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788  The grand reason why the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ascension  Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788  The grand reason why the miraclous gifts were so soon withdrawn was not only that faith and holiness were well-nigh lost, but that dry, formal, orthodox men began then to ridicule whatever gifts they had not themselves and to cry them all [down] as evil madness or imposture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59965]]></link><description><![CDATA[I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surgery he had last year was the second one he's had and it is just a problem. He is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31714]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surgery he had last year was the second one he's had and it is just a problem. He is no longer playing. He's in school and he'll finish the semester but he just doesn't feel comfortable with the shoulder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do our own private protection for our own cell phones. The reality is everything is available to you if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40118]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do our own private protection for our own cell phones. The reality is everything is available to you if you connive enough. It doesn't surprise me you can get other people's cell phone bills for a fee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9323]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10918]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels    Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels    Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Willie's done a great job. He's got his degree. He's already got a job lined up at a bank. He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Willie's done a great job. He's got his degree. He's already got a job lined up at a bank. He's going to be a loan officer. I'm real proud of him and what he's done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tornado came through here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33335]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tornado came through here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each,  Even to the meanest; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each,  Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all   Where pity is, for pity makes the world    Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is [sic] two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4274]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is [sic] two things in life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is--twins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We couldn't pull a few out but they were all close games and during each one of those losses we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39632]]></link><description><![CDATA[We couldn't pull a few out but they were all close games and during each one of those losses we felt that we could have won the game. Knowing that is a great sign because we can make some small adjustments and hopefully change it for the next game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea is to bring a higher quality, better-looking product to the consumer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33464]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea is to bring a higher quality, better-looking product to the consumer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful what you wear to bed at night, you never know who you'll meet in your dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful what you wear to bed at night, you never know who you'll meet in your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The country and the Congress were misled into war. I regret that we were not given the truth; as I said more than a year ago, knowing what we know now, I would not have gone to war in Iraq. And knowing now the full measure of the Bush Administration’s duplicity and incompetence, I doubt there are many members of Congress who would give them the authority they abused so badly. I know I would not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer  Than Nature made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer  Than Nature made her; her beauty cost her nothing,   Her virtues were so rare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a slap in the face to the County Commission and to all the people that you misinformed. ... Whoever decided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30908]]></link><description><![CDATA[a slap in the face to the County Commission and to all the people that you misinformed. ... Whoever decided on that was absolutely out of line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there had anywhere appeared in space   Another place of refuge where to flee,  Our hearts had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7867]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there had anywhere appeared in space   Another place of refuge where to flee,  Our hearts had taken refuge from that place,   And not with Thee. For we against creation's bars had beat   Like prisoned eagles, through great worlds had sought Though but a foot of ground to plant our feet,   Where Thou wert not. And only when we found in earth and air,   In heaven or hell, that such might nowhere be That we could not flee from Thee anywhere,   We fled to Thee.  ... Richard Chevenix Trench  April 8, 2000 Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  It is the recognition of this divine necessity -- not to forgive, but to forgive in a way which shows that God is irreconcilable to evil, and can never treat it as other or less than it is -- it is the recognition of this divine necessity, or the failure to recognise it, which ultimately divides interpreters of Christianity into evangelical and non-evangelical, those who are true to the New Testament and those who cannot digest it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7867</guid></item></channel></rss>