<?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[Outreach and recruitment is something we're beginning to work on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Outreach and recruitment is something we're beginning to work on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,--  Are but the solemn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44877]]></link><description><![CDATA[That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,--  Are but the solemn decorations all   Of the great tomb of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, for one hour of blind old Dandolo, Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, for one hour of blind old Dandolo, Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a few problems at the start, but that is usual. This team has never played together before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40201]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a few problems at the start, but that is usual. This team has never played together before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/830]]></link><description><![CDATA[The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defense. Our defense has been the key for us this year. When teams put the ball in play against, these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defense. Our defense has been the key for us this year. When teams put the ball in play against, these girls just attack the ball. Whether it's in the air or on the ground, they go get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. [Fr., Il y a du merite sans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27388]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. [Fr., Il y a du merite sans elevation mais il n'y a point d'elevation sans quelque merite.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55323]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee; but before  Mayst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee; but before  Mayst rule it, as thou list: and pour the shame,   Which it would pour on thee, upon the floor.    It is most just to throw that on the ground,     Which would throw me there, if I keep the round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not improbable that a man may receive more solid satisfaction from pudding while he is alive than from praise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51002]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not improbable that a man may receive more solid satisfaction from pudding while he is alive than from praise after he is dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can Her heart inform her tongue--the swan's down-feather  That stands upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can Her heart inform her tongue--the swan's down-feather  That stands upon the swell at full of tide,   And neither way inclines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27883]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the environment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on education:   The devout student is the best of all students. There are too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on education:   The devout student is the best of all students. There are too many who are devout, but not students. They will not accept the discipline of study and of learning, and they even look with suspicion upon the further knowledge which study brings to men. There are equally too many who are students, but not devout. They are interested too much in intellectual knowledge, and too little in the life of prayer and in the life of service of their fellow men. A man would do well to aim at being not only a student, and not only devout, but at being a devout student.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another. [Lat., Semper enim ex aliis alia proseminat usus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another. [Lat., Semper enim ex aliis alia proseminat usus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have not given you any set rules, I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12618]]></link><description><![CDATA[My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have not given you any set rules, I have not given you a system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was 6 years old, I had a little fur coat, but that was it. That's the only time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31783]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was 6 years old, I had a little fur coat, but that was it. That's the only time I've ever had any in my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just looked a lot worse than it was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just looked a lot worse than it was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consumers, with higher energy prices and higher interest rates, are going to have cut back somewhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consumers, with higher energy prices and higher interest rates, are going to have cut back somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  If ever we intend to take one step towards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  If ever we intend to take one step towards any agreement or unity, it must be by fixing this principle in the minds of all men -- that it is of no advantage to any man whatever church or way in Christian religion he be of, unless he personally believe the promises, and live in obedience unto all the precepts of Christ; and that for him who doth so, it is a trampling of the whole gospel under foot to say that his salvation could be endangered by his not being of this or that church or way, especially considering how much of the world hath inmixed itself into all the known ways that are in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730   I have held many things in my hands, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730   I have held many things in my hands, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two ill meales make the third a glutton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two ill meales make the third a glutton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which  I find no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9807]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which  I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum  Caliginosa nocte premit deus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17092]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum  Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twere sweet to sink in death for Truth and Freedom! Yes, who would hesitate, for who could bear  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45800]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twere sweet to sink in death for Truth and Freedom! Yes, who would hesitate, for who could bear  The living degradation we may know   If we do dread death for a sacred cause?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to get as far as we did (in 2004). I don't like being the only one upset after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32608]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to get as far as we did (in 2004). I don't like being the only one upset after a loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25700]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that it's important for the college environment and for the students to be exposed to the issues and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that it's important for the college environment and for the students to be exposed to the issues and opportunities the world has to offer. We could all stand to be educated and learn about different cultures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23712]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With winsome cruelty she refuses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50397]]></link><description><![CDATA[With winsome cruelty she refuses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64585]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cult of the jellyfish is no less an imposition of a religious movementthan is the cult of the dinosaur. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cult of the jellyfish is no less an imposition of a religious movementthan is the cult of the dinosaur. When designing a methodology it isundoubtedly far easier to construct a system that discourages individualdifferences, than it is to construct a system that that leverages andencourages them, but that does not mean that a methodology designed foran array of idealized entities will be the most productive, successful,or rewarding one. Choosing a cult methodology to be applied to a professionalclass is often an economic one, treating individuality as undesirable reducesthe professional to the proletariat, seen as less expensive and readilyreplaceable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yeah, definitely. I've never been in a playoff. I believe that these type of games, where you have to play ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yeah, definitely. I've never been in a playoff. I believe that these type of games, where you have to play every game to make it to the next step, I'll definitely take something out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24302]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4893]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13337]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of the person. I will study more how to give a good account of my little, than how to make it more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53664]]></link><description><![CDATA[A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle -- pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253   Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this, or that; He knows best what is good for us. If your boy should ask you [for] a suit of clothes, and give you reasons, would you endure it? You know his needs better than he: let him ask a suit of clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matt Dillon was the kind of guy who's low-key but stands for what is right. And he goes about seeing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matt Dillon was the kind of guy who's low-key but stands for what is right. And he goes about seeing that things turn out that way -- with, of course, a lot of people suffering along the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60309]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears off almost at once, and we are revealed in our true personalities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every burden is a blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every burden is a blessing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll take donations of any amount. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35646]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll take donations of any amount.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53865</guid></item></channel></rss>