<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65738]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54262]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4519]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had a thousand major shareholders that I know would be selling stock because of portfolio diversification, I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37826]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had a thousand major shareholders that I know would be selling stock because of portfolio diversification, I would rather do a secondary offering than have them sell in dribs and drabs. It makes a lot of sense to do it in one fell swoop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gets through too late who goes too fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18789]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gets through too late who goes too fast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of schools are looking at open source ? budgets come into play here. Microsoft licensing takes a big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42417]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of schools are looking at open source ? budgets come into play here. Microsoft licensing takes a big chunk out of schools budgets. The biggest issue is cost, basically.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3126]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's scary, but we're holding our own right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35409]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's scary, but we're holding our own right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He Just Can't Quit Her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35338]]></link><description><![CDATA[He Just Can't Quit Her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want this guy to go walking. We really want justice to take place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34916]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want this guy to go walking. We really want justice to take place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle   "Why was I born?" "Why am I here?" Theology answers, "You are here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle   "Why was I born?" "Why am I here?" Theology answers, "You are here to grow, to grow up in every way unto the full stature of a man newborn in Christ.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meanwhile, there is dancing in yonder green bower, A swarm of young midges, they dance high and low;  'Tis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, there is dancing in yonder green bower, A swarm of young midges, they dance high and low;  'Tis a sweet little species that lives but one hour,   And the eldest was born half an hour ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13162]]></link><description><![CDATA[And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see not our own backs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48807]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see not our own backs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We went into the game with the plan to pressure their guards as much as anyone we played all year. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37574]]></link><description><![CDATA[We went into the game with the plan to pressure their guards as much as anyone we played all year. We did that, and then on offense, our size took over. We got an eight-point lead and got into our half-court stuff and ran our offense through our big guys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12916]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62808]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is the best medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is the best medicine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ocean asks for nothing but thosewho stand by her shoresgradually attune themselves to her rhythmCharles Dickens in David Copperfield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ocean asks for nothing but thosewho stand by her shoresgradually attune themselves to her rhythmCharles Dickens in David Copperfield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. - Points of View. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. - Points of View.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every county gets money under this plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every county gets money under this plan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17183]]></link><description><![CDATA[I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had a good opinion of advice, Like all who give and eke receive it gratis,  For which small ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/775]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had a good opinion of advice, Like all who give and eke receive it gratis,  For which small thanks are still the market price,   Even where the article at highest rate is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53265]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy within your heart.Then in living - I have made my mark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morgan does that basically every game. We put her on their point guard and we tell her to pressure without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morgan does that basically every game. We put her on their point guard and we tell her to pressure without fouling, play good defense. When she does that, it puts the ball in someone else's hands that's possibly not used to bringing it up and it kind of throws their momentum off. She does a great job. Without her, we wouldn't be the team we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue of childhood is extremely complicated, the issue of comics is extremely complicated. And the intersection of the two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue of childhood is extremely complicated, the issue of comics is extremely complicated. And the intersection of the two is extremely, extremely complicated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finally, by ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: Not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finally, by ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no more seditious rallies going on now, and many of the coup plotters have been arrested, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35871]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no more seditious rallies going on now, and many of the coup plotters have been arrested,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, what ecstasy setting fires brings to my body! What power I feel at the thought of fire!...Oh, what pleasure, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, what ecstasy setting fires brings to my body! What power I feel at the thought of fire!...Oh, what pleasure, what heavenly pleasure!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But one thing is needful: and Math hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6051]]></link><description><![CDATA[But one thing is needful: and Math hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6143]]></link><description><![CDATA[His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade  And keeps that palace of the soul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade  And keeps that palace of the soul serene.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an opportunity for citizens who care about issues to communicate with lawmakers about what's happening in their communities. Without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33566]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an opportunity for citizens who care about issues to communicate with lawmakers about what's happening in their communities. Without that input, lawmakers might not be able to make informed decisions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as tourists, (Worcester County) can't be beat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40016]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as tourists, (Worcester County) can't be beat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179   (Peter) Waldo, a business-man in Lyons, France, in about A.D. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179   (Peter) Waldo, a business-man in Lyons, France, in about A.D. 1170 became intensely curious as to the content of the Scriptures. But he could not read Latin, and so the Scriptures were a closed book to him. However, he hired two money-minded priests, who, in violation of strict regulations, translated the Bible for him into Provençal, the language of southern France. The content of the Word of God made such an impression upon this earnest man that he gave up his business, took upon himself a vow of poverty, and dedicated himself to the simple preaching of the contents of God's Word.  The Latin of the Church only mystified its hearers [but] Waldo's humble preaching edified the souls of men. His words were not spectacular but powerful, as he pleaded with them to repent. Much of his preaching and that of his followers consisted in reciting long passages of Scripture in the vernacular. Many of them could not afford an expensive handwritten copy of the Bible, and the ecclesiastical authorities could too easily rob them of such a book; but they could not erase the words which were treasured in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For violent fires soon burn out themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51501]]></link><description><![CDATA[For violent fires soon burn out themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. ------ and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8730]]></link><description><![CDATA[F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. ------ and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he has no control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe God has a plan. God has a direction for me. He may put me on a few detours, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe God has a plan. God has a direction for me. He may put me on a few detours, but the path with ultimately reveal itself. My job is to be a decent human being no matter how rocky the road gets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we do at such times, I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44630]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we do at such times, I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44630</guid></item></channel></rss>