<?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[Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elgin's game was an incredible performance, also. I don't think there's any comparison. Elgin did it without three-point lines. His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elgin's game was an incredible performance, also. I don't think there's any comparison. Elgin did it without three-point lines. His game was attacking the hoop and hitting jumpers inside 20 feet. Kobe's range is unreal, and he does it his way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll therefore relish with content, Whate'er kind providence has sent,  Nor aim beyond our pow'r;   For, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9942]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll therefore relish with content, Whate'er kind providence has sent,  Nor aim beyond our pow'r;   For, if our stock be very small,    'Tis prudent to enjoy it all,     Nor lose the present hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54127]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray if thou canst with hope; but ever pray Though hope be weak, or sick with long delay. Whatever is good to wish, ask that of heaven; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is a private and costly luxury ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is a private and costly luxury]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10516]]></link><description><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action is the foundational key to all success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action is the foundational key to all success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warwick, peace, Proud setter up and puller down of kings! -King Henry VI. Part III. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warwick, peace, Proud setter up and puller down of kings! -King Henry VI. Part III. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel strongly that Regis has been a great neighbor for a very long time. The idea is great; the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31349]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel strongly that Regis has been a great neighbor for a very long time. The idea is great; the town needs more elderly housing. We are in favor of that. It's just the scope of this project we can't accept.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53258]]></link><description><![CDATA[In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some you wish you never had to think about again. But you do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't make a decision right now. I'm going to wait until next Monday. I want to know how I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41172]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't make a decision right now. I'm going to wait until next Monday. I want to know how I feel tomorrow. I don't feel any pain or anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies, To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies, To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Must I give way and room to your rash choler? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Must I give way and room to your rash choler?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  Use yourself then by degrees thus to worship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  Use yourself then by degrees thus to worship Him, to beg His grace, to offer Him your heart from time to time, in the midst of your business, even every moment if you can. Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion; but act with a general confidence in God, with love and humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope your dreams take you... to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18111]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope your dreams take you... to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19865]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3366]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing I have the most problem with is consistency. We saw it already. The equipment isn't consistent from brand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing I have the most problem with is consistency. We saw it already. The equipment isn't consistent from brand to brand and from goaltender to goaltender. I would like to see that changed. Some pads were wider than others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed. [Lat., In ipsa dubitatione facinus inest, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed. [Lat., In ipsa dubitatione facinus inest, etiamsi ad id non pervererint.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great catch is like watching girls go by the last one you see is always the prettiest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17477]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great catch is like watching girls go by the last one you see is always the prettiest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trodden path is the safest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1118]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trodden path is the safest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64774]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19141]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's recovering a little bit abroad (today). But, the outlook is for more U.S. losses ... so we have space ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35001]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's recovering a little bit abroad (today). But, the outlook is for more U.S. losses ... so we have space to fall further.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63604]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worker is being treated at the hospital for non-life threatening injuries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worker is being treated at the hospital for non-life threatening injuries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Ben Adams, founder and director of the program, was pleased with the turnout.] We estimated 1,000 people but we had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29965]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Ben Adams, founder and director of the program, was pleased with the turnout.] We estimated 1,000 people but we had about 2 or 3 thousand come today, ... Everybody can come out, have a good time and listen to music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. -James F. Byrnes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. -James F. Byrnes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fringed curtains of thine eye advance. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fringed curtains of thine eye advance. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would that I were low laid in my grave. I am not worth this coil that's made for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62338]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would that I were low laid in my grave. I am not worth this coil that's made for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42327]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All religious politics are restricted to support for the Russian Orthodox Church as opposed to other religious confessions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41250]]></link><description><![CDATA[All religious politics are restricted to support for the Russian Orthodox Church as opposed to other religious confessions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't;  Thrice I guessed wrong,   And I kept my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't;  Thrice I guessed wrong,   And I kept my credit on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of them made the ultimate sacrifice for their country and we must never forget what they have given to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of them made the ultimate sacrifice for their country and we must never forget what they have given to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If errors must be tolerated, say some, then men may do what they please, without control. No means, it seems, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7334]]></link><description><![CDATA[If errors must be tolerated, say some, then men may do what they please, without control. No means, it seems, must be used to reclaim them. But is gospel conviction no means? Hath the sword of discipline no edge? Is there no means of instruction in the New Testament established, but a prison and a halter?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding -- that existence is a struggle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can be born of nothing, nothing can be resolved into nothing. [Lat., Gigni  De nihilo nihil, in nihilum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can be born of nothing, nothing can be resolved into nothing. [Lat., Gigni  De nihilo nihil, in nihilum nil posse reverti.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is such a thing as taking ourselves and the world too seriously, or at any rate too anxiously. Half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7647]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is such a thing as taking ourselves and the world too seriously, or at any rate too anxiously. Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain idea that every man is bound to be a critic of life, and to let no day pass without finding some fault with the general order of things, or projecting some plan for its general improvement. And the other half comes from the greedy notion that a man's life does consist, after all, in the abundance of things that he possesseth, and that it is, somehow or other, more respectable and pious to be always at work trying to make a larger living, than it is to lie on your back in the green pastures and beside the still waters, and thank God that you are alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What loss feels he that wots not what he loses? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48679]]></link><description><![CDATA[What loss feels he that wots not what he loses?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4705]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart is forever making the head its fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19018]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart is forever making the head its fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On fair Britania's isle, bright bird, A legend strange is told of thee,--  'Tis said thy blithesome song was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54340]]></link><description><![CDATA[On fair Britania's isle, bright bird, A legend strange is told of thee,--  'Tis said thy blithesome song was hushed   While Christ toiled up Mount Calvary,    Bowed 'neath the sins of all mankind;     And humbled to the very dust      By the vile cross, while viler men       Mocked with a crown of thorns the Just.        Pierced by our sorrows, and weighed down         By our transgressions,--faint and weak,          Crushed by an angry Judge's frown,           And agonies no word can speak,--            'Twas then, dear bird, the legend says             That thou, from out His crown, didst tear              The thorns, to lighten the distress               And ease the pain that he must bear,                While pendant from thy tiny beak                 The gory points thy bosom pressed,                  And crimsoned with thy Saviour's blood                   The sober brownness of thy breast!                    Since which proud hour for thee and thine.                     As an especial sign of grace                      God pours like sacramental wine                       Red signs of favor o'er thy race!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness isn't a static thing; it's the quest for happiness that allows us to think we're happy, while we continue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness isn't a static thing; it's the quest for happiness that allows us to think we're happy, while we continue to search for more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57648]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66043</guid></item></channel></rss>