<?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[Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought girls would be impressed because I had read a big dictionary. I guess I thought it would get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought girls would be impressed because I had read a big dictionary. I guess I thought it would get their attention when I told them I was sesquipedalian. One look down at my feet usually dispelled the deception though.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune, now see, now proudly Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look,  Look what thou hast brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune, now see, now proudly Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look,  Look what thou hast brought this land to!--]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23754]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50272]]></link><description><![CDATA[In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us do not consciously look at movies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us do not consciously look at movies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She that fails to command her thoughts will soon lose command of her actions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59151]]></link><description><![CDATA[She that fails to command her thoughts will soon lose command of her actions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a lot of kids that had to change roles. There were growing pains. This season is about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32643]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a lot of kids that had to change roles. There were growing pains. This season is about the growth of the kids that do the right things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65735]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard him yell at [All-America first baseman Aaron] Bates the other day. Not many people yell at Aaron Bates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34469]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard him yell at [All-America first baseman Aaron] Bates the other day. Not many people yell at Aaron Bates . That's when I knew Caleb Mangum had arrived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/126]]></link><description><![CDATA[No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In years past, we've won one or two [district] games per year. We've known that we've had talent every year. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28210]]></link><description><![CDATA[In years past, we've won one or two [district] games per year. We've known that we've had talent every year. We've just never been able to put it together and play as a team. This year we've played as a team. Everybody's so excited about going to the playoffs. We just want to keep that hope alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be that contented person who looks beyond circumstances and see better days rather than the discontented who looks at circumstances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be that contented person who looks beyond circumstances and see better days rather than the discontented who looks at circumstances and see no other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can make whatever you want out of your life, but first you have to not be afraid to try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63077]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can make whatever you want out of your life, but first you have to not be afraid to try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23670]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The living need charity more than the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The living need charity more than the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure would be nice to have some school officials here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure would be nice to have some school officials here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. -H.L. Mencken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   The purpose of religion -- at any rate, the Christian religion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   The purpose of religion -- at any rate, the Christian religion -- is not to get you into heaven, but to get heaven into you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People generally quarrel because they can't argue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52705]]></link><description><![CDATA[People generally quarrel because they can't argue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross    Teach me. O God, to use all the circumstances of my life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross    Teach me. O God, to use all the circumstances of my life to-day that they may bring forth in me the fruits of holiness rather than the fruits of sin.   Let me use disappointment as material for patience:   Let me use success as material for thankfulness:   Let me use suspence as material for perseverance:   Let me use danger as material for courage:   Let me use reproach as material for longsuffering:   Let me use praise as material for humility:   Let me use pleasures as material for temperance:   Let me use pains as material for endurance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Squinting upon the lustre Of the rich Rings which on his fingers glistre;  And, snuffing with a wrythed nose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Squinting upon the lustre Of the rich Rings which on his fingers glistre;  And, snuffing with a wrythed nose the Amber,   The Musk and Civet that perfum'd the chamber.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tortoise and the EagleA tortoise, lazily basking in the sun, complained to the sea-birds of her hard fate, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Tortoise and the EagleA tortoise, lazily basking in the sun, complained to the sea-birds of her hard fate, that no one would teach her to fly. An Eagle, hovering near, heard her lamentation and demanded what reward she would give him if he would take her aloft and float her in the air. I will give you, she said, all the riches of the Red Sea. I will teach you to fly then, said the Eagle; and taking her up in his talons he carried her almost to the clouds suddenly he let her go, and she fell on a lofty mountain, dashing her shell to pieces. The Tortoise exclaimed in the moment of death: I have deserved my present fate; for what had I to do with wings and clouds, who can with difficulty move about on the earth?' If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55585]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends;  White are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends;  White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud   Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud:    Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears;     And instant death on every wave appears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53755]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The modesty's a candle to thy merit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The modesty's a candle to thy merit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is the glory of expression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is the glory of expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Paul Richter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Paul Richter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56306]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a chance to get a joint document of principles tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28843]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a chance to get a joint document of principles tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a time early on in the days of Danni's Hard Drive that we were within the top 10 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32617]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a time early on in the days of Danni's Hard Drive that we were within the top 10 Web sites in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the technology Ascend has acquired gives them the lead over existing data networking companies in offering full-featured SS7 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31757]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the technology Ascend has acquired gives them the lead over existing data networking companies in offering full-featured SS7 technology. Stratus offers SS7 technology on a high-end computer platform, whereas Cisco offers more low-end signaling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60353]]></link><description><![CDATA[People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is all about giving people time back and improving their quality of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32064]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is all about giving people time back and improving their quality of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32064</guid></item></channel></rss>