<?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[Not only have there been recent cases of prisoners being tortured in detention, but to hold this huge number of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only have there been recent cases of prisoners being tortured in detention, but to hold this huge number of people without basic legal safeguards is a gross dereliction of responsibility on the part of both the U.S. and UK forces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never seek your value from your father's accomplishments, your real value lies in what you achieve. That's what defines you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never seek your value from your father's accomplishments, your real value lies in what you achieve. That's what defines you and that's what you will be remembered by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a huge play for me because I really owe a lot to the team by accepting me coming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29724]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a huge play for me because I really owe a lot to the team by accepting me coming straight from junior college and just looking at me as a leader.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40219]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sick now? droop now? This sickness doth infect The very lifeblood of our enterprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sick now? droop now? This sickness doth infect The very lifeblood of our enterprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely nice. It's kind of like home-court advantage because I played here two years in high school and then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29067]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely nice. It's kind of like home-court advantage because I played here two years in high school and then a bunch of times in college. I'm real familiar with the gym and the baskets have nice shooting rims. I'm glad we're back in Denver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55662]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5427]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to set boundaries and say no. The biggest challenge with part-time work is that the work creeps to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37764]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to set boundaries and say no. The biggest challenge with part-time work is that the work creeps to full time. Nobody else is going to manage that for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From hyperborean skies Embodied dark, what clouds of vandals rise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56518]]></link><description><![CDATA[From hyperborean skies Embodied dark, what clouds of vandals rise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From little spark may burst a mighty flame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54045]]></link><description><![CDATA[From little spark may burst a mighty flame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[VAT is levied according to national laws, so the nine countries would have to amend their legislation accordingly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41586]]></link><description><![CDATA[VAT is levied according to national laws, so the nine countries would have to amend their legislation accordingly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They made it pretty clear where their priorities were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28466]]></link><description><![CDATA[They made it pretty clear where their priorities were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our initial reaction is that the shares are likely to tread water during what is likely to be a difficult ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our initial reaction is that the shares are likely to tread water during what is likely to be a difficult transition in its attempt to outsource 100 percent of its handset production and as its networks operator's division goes through temporary growing pains, which are likely to weigh on margins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus   For some years now I have read through the Bible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus   For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5345]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49879]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5535]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one who is not communist till the age of 25 doesn't have heart and the one who is communist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1410]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one who is not communist till the age of 25 doesn't have heart and the one who is communist after 25 doesn't have brain !.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1207]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10877]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3284]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37199]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy the fridge!' `Make Jell-O!', all that horrible nutrition that came up because of instant pudding, Jell-O, fish sticks, TV dinners, all of that that I had before dismissed as the death of our culture -- I realized that housewives wanted these things, because they wanted time back, ... A washing machine gave them time to do something else. It gave them time to read a book. ... A woman didn't want to cook all day. These things that were sold to Americans were actually a gift, in a very strange way. I really enjoyed having to blow that notion out of my head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my case, Sunday, I didn't know that a tornado was coming because I was watching Spanish TV. The only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31263]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my case, Sunday, I didn't know that a tornado was coming because I was watching Spanish TV. The only reason I learned that we had a tornado was because a friend warned me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He jests at scars that never felt a wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51470]]></link><description><![CDATA[He jests at scars that never felt a wound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11635]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11097]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is no honour, there is no griefe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is no honour, there is no griefe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15040]]></link><description><![CDATA[When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8735]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The NCAA is an exceptional meet. We're excited to be competing in the national championships and look forward to gaining ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32751]]></link><description><![CDATA[The NCAA is an exceptional meet. We're excited to be competing in the national championships and look forward to gaining some success while we're there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45512]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. -Hodding Carter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59588]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65619]]></link><description><![CDATA[I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know why I'm going where I'm going and I'm already focused on that special place where I find my peace and solitude. Running, to me, is more than just a physical exercise... it's a consistent reward for victory!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; friendships formed without prayer; the daily act of prayer itself hurried over, or gone through without heart: these are the kind of downward steps by which many a Christian descends to a condition of spiritual palsy, or reaches the point where God allows them to have a tremendous fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just, Stoop'd down serene and wrote them on the dust,  Trod ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just, Stoop'd down serene and wrote them on the dust,  Trod under foot, the sport of every wind,   Swept from the earth and blotted from his mind,    There, secret in the grave, he bade them lie,     And grieved they could not 'scape the Almighty eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet the answer Echo makes To music at night,  When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13297]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet the answer Echo makes To music at night,  When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes,   And far away, o'er lawns and lakes,    Goes answering light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We find comfort among those who agree with us-growthamong those who don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22396]]></link><description><![CDATA[We find comfort among those who agree with us-growthamong those who don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14422]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Asians are the original Conservatives because for thousands of years we have believed in free enterprise… you have just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15765]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Asians are the original Conservatives because for thousands of years we have believed in free enterprise… you have just stolen our philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15765</guid></item></channel></rss>