<?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[My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37977]]></link><description><![CDATA[My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search for someone to blame is always successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search for someone to blame is always successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59237]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27466]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23000]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24535]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen! O, listen! Here come the hum the golden bees  Underneath full blossomed trees,   At once with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen! O, listen! Here come the hum the golden bees  Underneath full blossomed trees,   At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way,  That private reason 'tis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12633]]></link><description><![CDATA[And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way,  That private reason 'tis more just to curb,   Than by disputes the public peace disturb;    For points obscure are of small use to learn,     But common quiet is mankind's concern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By all means, slow down. The roads are either wet, snow- covered or slushy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31865]]></link><description><![CDATA[By all means, slow down. The roads are either wet, snow- covered or slushy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I can do the rock clubs if I have to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41175]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I can do the rock clubs if I have to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make make trading much easier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14242]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make make trading much easier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist, it's absolutely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9166]]></link><description><![CDATA[For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist, it's absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart -- then no problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Princes have no way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Princes have no way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of ink and paper and leather. The Voice of God, however, is alive and free as the sovereign God is free. "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life." The life is in the speaking words. God's word in the Bible can have power only because it corresponds to God's word in the universe. It is the present Voice which makes the written Word all-powerful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a good joke but we do it much better in England. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23236]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's a good joke but we do it much better in England.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22721]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is too short to stuff a mushroom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life...When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other...and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom. ...Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet facinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way. -Brenda Ueland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very surprised to receive the award. As a coach, you're only as good as your players. I've been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40308]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very surprised to receive the award. As a coach, you're only as good as your players. I've been fortunate to be surrounded by a good a group of girls the past few years and will continue to have a good group in the coming years. All of the credit goes to the girls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the last ten years we have come to realize humans are more like worms than we ever imagined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30741]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the last ten years we have come to realize humans are more like worms than we ever imagined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53256]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60942]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What wound did ever heal but my degrees? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62369]]></link><description><![CDATA[What wound did ever heal but my degrees?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just me and Cindy in the room - yelling, ... They banged on our door and asked, 'Could you please ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just me and Cindy in the room - yelling, ... They banged on our door and asked, 'Could you please quiet down?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43195]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was very relaxing. We talked about what made me smoke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29198]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was very relaxing. We talked about what made me smoke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft its techniques were practiced within a context of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft its techniques were practiced within a context of community and connection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35764]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is still a risk that more dikes will fall as pressure remains very high with water two meters (six ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34378]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is still a risk that more dikes will fall as pressure remains very high with water two meters (six ft) above flooding levels at some places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They stay in their homes, ... There is a lot of suspicion. Fifty percent of the children that were held ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40838]]></link><description><![CDATA[They stay in their homes, ... There is a lot of suspicion. Fifty percent of the children that were held hostage did not return to school after the attack. Parents and children are fearful and mistrustful about school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are treasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are treasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mladic literally said these words: They would kill all the men and throw them in the Drina river to feed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mladic literally said these words: They would kill all the men and throw them in the Drina river to feed fish, and these men would never again kill Serb children in the Serb Drina valley. But they would let the women go so they can suffer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye  Could reach, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25451]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye  Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping   In sight, then lost amidst the forestry    Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping     On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy;      A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown       On a fool's head--and there is London Town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That Raven on yon left-hand oak (Curse on his ill-betiding croak)  Bodes me no good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52979]]></link><description><![CDATA[That Raven on yon left-hand oak (Curse on his ill-betiding croak)  Bodes me no good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only react when there is a threat to the aircraft, passengers or crew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32758]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only react when there is a threat to the aircraft, passengers or crew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He liked those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books;  And ruin half an author's graces  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46649]]></link><description><![CDATA[He liked those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books;  And ruin half an author's graces   By plucking bon-mots from their places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46649</guid></item></channel></rss>