<?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[I told them not to give the game away. I told them that if they wanted to win, go out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40566]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told them not to give the game away. I told them that if they wanted to win, go out and take and not give anything away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19007]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When the stakes are belt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60354]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When the stakes are belt buckles he becomes hesitant, and if the stakes are pure gold he becomes nervous and confused. There is no difference as to his skil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are no Republicans; there are no Democrats; there are only Americans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearly all of the majors have really been pretty merciless with their partners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nearly all of the majors have really been pretty merciless with their partners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poor man, while he apes the wealthy, effects his own ruin. [The fable of frog and the cow.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50846]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor man, while he apes the wealthy, effects his own ruin. [The fable of frog and the cow.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman;  Though they may gang a' kennin' wrang   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman;  Though they may gang a' kennin' wrang   To step aside is human.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy sum of duty let two words contain, (O may they graven in thy heart remain!)  Be humble and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy sum of duty let two words contain, (O may they graven in thy heart remain!)  Be humble and be just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45293]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm OK. This time of year everyone has some bumps and bruises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33874]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm OK. This time of year everyone has some bumps and bruises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45816</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[Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's a great leader. She's a bundle of energy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38143]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's a great leader. She's a bundle of energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915  Every man has in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915  Every man has in his own experience some knowledge of the perplexing uncertainty of this whirligig of time. Yet with his best thought, and largest opportunity, and the application of his highest ability, he cannot penetrate far. But the Christ of God unfolds both its meaning, and its order. He shows that the goal is freedom, and the guidance love. In this way Christ appears direct to the spirit of man, not by its special acquirements, or special ability, but through its common needs and common tasks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/455]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49353]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is politics, raw and urgent, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36896]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is politics, raw and urgent,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The second quarter was the difference. Our second unit gave us great energy to open the second quarter. When this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The second quarter was the difference. Our second unit gave us great energy to open the second quarter. When this team gets in sync quick and we're locking down on defense, it creates a lot more opportunities on the other end for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like summer seas that lave with silent tides a lonely shore, like whispering winds that stir the tops of forest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like summer seas that lave with silent tides a lonely shore, like whispering winds that stir the tops of forest trees, like a still, small voice that calls us in the watches of the night, like a child's hand that feels about a fast-closed door;  gentle, unnoticed, and oft in vain:  so is Thy coming unto us, O God. Like ships storm-driven into port, like starving souls that seek the bread they once despised, like wanderers begging refuge from the whelming night, like prodigals that seek the father's home when all is spent;  yet welcomed at the open door, arms outstretched and kisses for our shame;  so is our coming unto Thee, 0 God. Like flowers uplifted to the sun, like trees that bend before the storm, like sleeping seas that mirror cloudless skies, like a harp to the hand, like an echo to a cry, like a song to the heart;  for all our stubbornness, our failure, and our sin:  so would we have been to Thee, O God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5304]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's happening in England, it's happening in Sweden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36586]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's happening in England, it's happening in Sweden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They don't have nights like that often. But when they do, someone has to step up. I don't think Spencer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38099]]></link><description><![CDATA[They don't have nights like that often. But when they do, someone has to step up. I don't think Spencer was feeling well, so he didn't have his best game. So I was just happy to be able to knock down some shots and contribute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66131]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18904]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8807]]></link><description><![CDATA[All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27918]]></link><description><![CDATA[If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46295]]></link><description><![CDATA[It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance spells disaster, and to whom unlimited energy means unlimited power for war and destruction, there is an ominous cloud in the distance though at present it be no bigger than a man's hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impatience is the mark of independence not of bondage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impatience is the mark of independence not of bondage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You reach a point where you don't work for money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64820]]></link><description><![CDATA[You reach a point where you don't work for money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drugs are bad because if you do drugs you're a hippie and hippies suck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drugs are bad because if you do drugs you're a hippie and hippies suck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy  To inlay heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy  To inlay heaven with stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! -Miguel de Cervantes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters to what lies within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63226]]></link><description><![CDATA[What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters to what lies within us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unbelief is blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unbelief is blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation is a game of circles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation is a game of circles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32736]]></link><description><![CDATA[As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14334]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27317]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People from the area have told me that they are pleased to see the pupils wearing uniform and it makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34774]]></link><description><![CDATA[People from the area have told me that they are pleased to see the pupils wearing uniform and it makes them proud to come from Niddrie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the bleakest times, there are gifts to be discovered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the bleakest times, there are gifts to be discovered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage;  And if I chance to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45234]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd scarce expect one of my age To speak in public on the stage;  And if I chance to fall below   Demosthenes or Cicero,    Don't view me with a critic's eye,     But pass my imperfections by.      Large streams from little fountains flow,       Tall oaks from little acorns grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48042</guid></item></channel></rss>