<?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[They didn't play that convincingly, but they were there when it counted. By comparison, we looked inexperienced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40186]]></link><description><![CDATA[They didn't play that convincingly, but they were there when it counted. By comparison, we looked inexperienced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time rolls on, and we grow old with silent years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time rolls on, and we grow old with silent years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martha had a very good time, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martha had a very good time,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog--keeps him from broodin' over bein' a bog, mebbe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27795]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog--keeps him from broodin' over bein' a bog, mebbe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order;  Bleak blows the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order;  Bleak blows the blast--your hat has got a hole in it.   So have your breeches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr    There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr    There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52659]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharon came back very strong. Their first goal was a bit of a wake-up call that we were not finished ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sharon came back very strong. Their first goal was a bit of a wake-up call that we were not finished yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48478]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong, they simply happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things don't go wrong, they simply happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She stands on tiptoe to be kissed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50483]]></link><description><![CDATA[She stands on tiptoe to be kissed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy--onless ye know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48458]]></link><description><![CDATA[My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy--onless ye know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car. [Lat., Fulgente trahit constrictos Gloria curru  Non minus ignotos generosis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget those things that aren't worth remembering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This line of defense does come with a price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32965]]></link><description><![CDATA[This line of defense does come with a price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11186]]></link><description><![CDATA[To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40233]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you get free costs too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63455]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you get free costs too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people not only lose the benefit, but are even the worse for their mortifications [i.e., sacrifices, abstensions], ... because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people not only lose the benefit, but are even the worse for their mortifications [i.e., sacrifices, abstensions], ... because they mistake the whole nature and worth of them: they practice them for their own sakes, as things good in themselves, they think them to be real parts of holiness, and so rest in them and look no further, but grow full of a self-esteem and self-admiration for their own progress in them. This makes them self-sufficient, morose, severe judges of all those that fall short of their mortifications. And thus their self-denials do only that for them which indulgences do for other people: they withstand and hinder the operation of God upon their souls, and instead of being really self-denials, they strengthen and keep up the kingdom of self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59804]]></link><description><![CDATA[God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The De Beers brand will be at the heart of our growing jewelry activities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30094]]></link><description><![CDATA[The De Beers brand will be at the heart of our growing jewelry activities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a couple of conversations (Monday) but there's nothing to report. At this point, I can't read the situation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35906]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a couple of conversations (Monday) but there's nothing to report. At this point, I can't read the situation at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain;  But the Lord is risen to-day, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13146]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain;  But the Lord is risen to-day,   Christ hath brought us life again,    Wherefore let us all rejoice,     Singing loud, with cheerful voice,      Hallelujah!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, infidel, I have you on the hip! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lysander when handing over the command of the fleet to Callicratidas, the Spartan, said to him, "I deliver you a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lysander when handing over the command of the fleet to Callicratidas, the Spartan, said to him, "I deliver you a fleet that is mistress of the seas."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three weeks into the NFL season, it's hard to say which team is the best in the business, ... So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three weeks into the NFL season, it's hard to say which team is the best in the business, ... So far, I've got it narrowed down to Tampa Bay, Cincinnati and [the University of Southern California].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know when you’re in a movie and you don’t know anybody else in the theater and the most beautiful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13731]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know when you’re in a movie and you don’t know anybody else in the theater and the most beautiful thing happens on the screen? Everybody there feels this overwhelming sense of whatever that emotion is? You’re surrounded by strangers but you’re all feeling the same thing. The feeling is intensified because it’s being shared by three hundred people all at the same instant. That’s what we try to do, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48243]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17261]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead--these the living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16202]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead--these the living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a caldron, and at some point it's just going to boil over. We're at the edge, and this administration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31860]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a caldron, and at some point it's just going to boil over. We're at the edge, and this administration and this Legislature need to do something before we lose (control of) a prison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53698]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from hardening our position, ... I think it's fair to say we have been flexible and forthcoming in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from hardening our position, ... I think it's fair to say we have been flexible and forthcoming in our negotiating stance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/563]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realized that ritual will always mean throwing away something; Destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53477]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realized that ritual will always mean throwing away something; Destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20605]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without better use of the interactive marketing capabilities enabled by the Internet, financial institutions are missing the principal opportunity presented ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without better use of the interactive marketing capabilities enabled by the Internet, financial institutions are missing the principal opportunity presented by the Web. As this occurs, sales opportunities will be squandered. But more importantly, customer relationships will be lost to more aggressive firms with highly developed Internet marketing capabilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had scarcely gone a short league, when Fortune, that was conducting his affairs from good to better, discovered to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20987]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had scarcely gone a short league, when Fortune, that was conducting his affairs from good to better, discovered to him the road, where he also espied an Inn. Sancho positively maintained it was an Inn, and his master that it was a castle; and the dispute lasted so long that they arrived there before it was determined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These evils I deserve, and more . . . .  Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16511]]></link><description><![CDATA[These evils I deserve, and more . . . .  Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon,   Whose ear is ever open, and his eye    Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53349]]></link><description><![CDATA[My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53349</guid></item></channel></rss>