<?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 have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17679]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm  The meanest hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17768]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm  The meanest hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27121]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the president's focus is on defending America it seems New York's junior senator remains dedicated to her political aspirations. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30944]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the president's focus is on defending America it seems New York's junior senator remains dedicated to her political aspirations. For someone that claims to be solely concerned with serving her constituents, Sen. Clinton spends an inordinate amount of time and energy attacking Republicans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is difficult to those who have the will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is difficult to those who have the will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Farmer and the SnakeOne winter a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold. He had compassion on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Farmer and the SnakeOne winter a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold. He had compassion on it, and taking it up, placed it in his bosom. The Snake was quickly revived by the warmth, and resuming its natural instincts, bit its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal wound. Oh, cried the Farmer with his last breath, I am rightly served for pitying a scoundrel. The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672  God is always present and always working towards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672  God is always present and always working towards the life of the soul and its deliverance from captivity under flesh and blood. But this inward work of God, though never ceasing or altering, is yet always and only hindered by the activity of our own nature and faculties, by bad men through their obedience to earthly passions and by good men through their striving to be good in their own way, by their natural strength and a multiplicity of holy labours and contrivances. Both these sorts of people obstruct the work of God upon their souls. For we can cooperate with God no other way than by submitting to the work of God, and seeking, and leaving ourselves to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[said Adams. ''We're really going to miss Matt, but we're lucky we gained someone young like Neal who is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30160]]></link><description><![CDATA[said Adams. ''We're really going to miss Matt, but we're lucky we gained someone young like Neal who is a great teacher and person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A couple of hours talking to travel agents can save you a lot of headaches down the road. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37087]]></link><description><![CDATA[A couple of hours talking to travel agents can save you a lot of headaches down the road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;  An' what he thought 'e ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46641]]></link><description><![CDATA[When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;  An' what he thought 'e might require,   'E went an' took--the same as me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On offense, it's important for us to have good cuts and a lot of movement off the ball. Once we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39640]]></link><description><![CDATA[On offense, it's important for us to have good cuts and a lot of movement off the ball. Once we catch the ball, we have to be very strong with it. Quick guys usually have quick hands and step in the passing lanes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need to create waist definition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36165]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need to create waist definition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think he ever had a real good feel for his mechanics and release point. Whether it was related ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30468]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think he ever had a real good feel for his mechanics and release point. Whether it was related to the ball hitting him in the knee or not, I don't know. He always battles you, whether he has his best stuff or not. He has an ability to focus even when he's in pain. It was just a day when the Cardinals were better than us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The achievements speak for themselves, all too eloquently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The achievements speak for themselves, all too eloquently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43596]]></link><description><![CDATA[All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony. [Lat., Ridiculum acri fortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony. [Lat., Ridiculum acri fortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow your dreams, for as you dream you shall become. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow your dreams, for as you dream you shall become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen.  All manners take a tincture from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen.  All manners take a tincture from our own;   Or come discolor'd through out passions shown;    Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies,     Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch. [Fr., L'on ne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54216]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch. [Fr., L'on ne saurait mieux faire voir que le magnifique et le ridicule sont si voisins qu'ils se touchent.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27242]]></link><description><![CDATA[No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good is god, but better carries it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good is god, but better carries it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will have to defend very well and take half-chances. It will come down to who takes the half-chances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35970]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will have to defend very well and take half-chances. It will come down to who takes the half-chances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9088]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his copper and pocket a shilling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heav'd on Olympus tottering Ossa stood; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heav'd on Olympus tottering Ossa stood; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. [Fr., Ce qui nous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60381]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. [Fr., Ce qui nous rend la vanite des autres insupportable, c'est qu'elle blesse la notre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60808]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59107]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43722]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour? [Lat., Quis scit, an adjiciant hodiernae crastina summae ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour? [Lat., Quis scit, an adjiciant hodiernae crastina summae  Tempora di superi?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10247]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41469]]></link><description><![CDATA[At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14787]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think in my heart of hearts that had a big bearing on it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think in my heart of hearts that had a big bearing on it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have circled, and they are now closing in. It's not looking good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28954]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have circled, and they are now closing in. It's not looking good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65007]]></link><description><![CDATA[I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is a country where, thanks to Congress, there are 40 million laws to enforce 10 commandments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24272]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is a country where, thanks to Congress, there are 40 million laws to enforce 10 commandments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime. [Fr., En general, le ridicule touche au sublime.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime. [Fr., En general, le ridicule touche au sublime.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think a tax cut would be a good thing if he has those larger ambitions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41735]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think a tax cut would be a good thing if he has those larger ambitions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46348</guid></item></channel></rss>