<?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[Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave,  I was a king in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave,  I was a king in Babylon   And you were a Christian slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65355]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's going to be vital to us. She kept us in games last year, and she should have had more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40957]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's going to be vital to us. She kept us in games last year, and she should have had more wins. But we just couldn't give it to her. Our problem was that we couldn't put the nail in the coffin because we couldn't score enough runs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I'm in the South. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I'm in the South.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54210]]></link><description><![CDATA[That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is a circus--always packing up and moving away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is a circus--always packing up and moving away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When danger approaches, sing to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29551]]></link><description><![CDATA[When danger approaches, sing to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got some shots on goal, not a lot of quality chances. It's one of those games where the team ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32835]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got some shots on goal, not a lot of quality chances. It's one of those games where the team hangs in there. Their goaltender gives them a chance to win the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that gives thee a Capon, give him the leg and the wing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49342]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that gives thee a Capon, give him the leg and the wing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frieth in his own grease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frieth in his own grease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2259]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have some magazines that have added thousands of international subscribers with nearly no marketing effort from us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35849]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have some magazines that have added thousands of international subscribers with nearly no marketing effort from us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25664]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember seeing those boats training and thinking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29997]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember seeing those boats training and thinking]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patrons from around the world have always been gearing together for benefits--it's the serendipity effect, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patrons from around the world have always been gearing together for benefits--it's the serendipity effect,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54019]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I call him the unpolished diamond. We polished him off today and he was really shining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I call him the unpolished diamond. We polished him off today and he was really shining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  Jesus calls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  Jesus calls us not only to repentance, to the "letting go" of the false gods we come to him with; but he goes one more difficult step farther: he also calls us to believe in him alone as the decisive, absolutely unique, once and for all, full revelation of God to man. This is extremely difficult for us, because Jesus was careful to give men no external guarantee that he was, in fact, God in the flesh. Otherwise, he realized, we would not be worshipping him, but would only be worshipping or trusting in the guarantee, whatever it might be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe we can and should have it all. Lower deficits but higher spending. More peace with a bigger military ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32245]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe we can and should have it all. Lower deficits but higher spending. More peace with a bigger military that goes off and kills terrorists and whatnot. A cleaner environment without forcing SUVs off the road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then I heard this young veteran on TV speaking about the war. It was John Kerry. He put everything I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then I heard this young veteran on TV speaking about the war. It was John Kerry. He put everything I was feeling into words. Tonight, I'd like to let you know, that even before I met John Kerry, he was my brother. Even before I knew John Kerry, he was my friend. Even before I spoke with John Kerry, he gave me hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48063]]></link><description><![CDATA[To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1100]]></link><description><![CDATA[During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much easier is it to be generous than just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17267]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much easier is it to be generous than just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything great and intelligent is in the minority ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything great and intelligent is in the minority]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing to cling to the patterns you know inhibits your ability to discover what you don't know ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing to cling to the patterns you know inhibits your ability to discover what you don't know]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished; but that part which soars toward heaven, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished; but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16547]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. -Alden Nowlan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you wouldn't want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28079]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you wouldn't want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such pains they take to look pretty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such pains they take to look pretty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17174]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3150]]></link><description><![CDATA[The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a campus setting, it's more of a secluded feel, as opposed to a high-rise. Plus, there's room for other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42208]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a campus setting, it's more of a secluded feel, as opposed to a high-rise. Plus, there's room for other facilities and amenities, such as more parking or a soccer field. When groups are working together, they don't have to get on a bus and drive to another building, they can just walk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep.  Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56161]]></link><description><![CDATA[She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep.  Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white;   She guards them from the steep.    She feeds them on the fragrant height,     And folds them in for sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wasn't him; it must have been some forces behind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29905]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wasn't him; it must have been some forces behind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These guys are not young anymore. They have eight games under their and it will be interesting to see how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41954]]></link><description><![CDATA[These guys are not young anymore. They have eight games under their and it will be interesting to see how we respond in a big game at this point in the season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, Clifford, tell me, didst thou never hear, That things ill got had ever bad success? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51322]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, Clifford, tell me, didst thou never hear, That things ill got had ever bad success?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very uniqueness of the Resurrection as a historical event always causes problems when we try to describe it, just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very uniqueness of the Resurrection as a historical event always causes problems when we try to describe it, just as it did for the original writers. Nevertheless, the background to the New Testament is one of expectation of resurrection, and only the historical rising-again of Jesus makes sense of the narrative in this context.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These arrests make absolutely clear the presence throughout Europe and in Spain of members or collaborators of radical Islamic terrorist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29318]]></link><description><![CDATA[These arrests make absolutely clear the presence throughout Europe and in Spain of members or collaborators of radical Islamic terrorist organizations, and that is a cause for continuing concern,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61438]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fellow that hath had losses, and one that hath two gowns and every thing handsome about him. -Much Ado ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55459]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fellow that hath had losses, and one that hath two gowns and every thing handsome about him. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45912]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/315]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never; it is the units, the single individuals, that are the power and the might.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never find yourself until you face the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2072]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never find yourself until you face the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27680]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27680</guid></item></channel></rss>