<?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[Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a team they know that they can finish high and be in contention in tournaments. It means that much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30428]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a team they know that they can finish high and be in contention in tournaments. It means that much more to them out there on the course. We're not there yet. We need to continue to improve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who praises everybody, praises nobody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48025]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who praises everybody, praises nobody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every play was like watching a highlight film. He had a great game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every play was like watching a highlight film. He had a great game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1276]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles  The heart of man is revealed in temptation. Man knows his sin, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles  The heart of man is revealed in temptation. Man knows his sin, which without temptation he could never have known; for in temptation man knows on what he has set his heart. The coming to light of sin is the work of the accuser, who thereby thinks to have won the victory. But it is sin which is become manifest which can be known, and therefore forgiven. Thus the manifestation of sin belongs to the salvation plan of God with man, and Satan must serve this plan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14998]]></link><description><![CDATA[A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that what matters most is not narrow appeals masquerading as values, but the shared values that show the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2382]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that what matters most is not narrow appeals masquerading as values, but the shared values that show the true face of America; not narrow values that divide us, but the shared values that unite us: family, faith, hard work, opportunity and responsibility for all, so that every child, every adult, every parent, every worker in America has an equal shot at living up to their God-given potential. That is the American dream and the American value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tide sent into the cleft of rock Neptune's polyfingered hand ofwelcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1639]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tide sent into the cleft of rock Neptune's polyfingered hand ofwelcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. - Up from Slavery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The King turned a deaf ear to friendly countries' calls for rapprochement with political parties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41280]]></link><description><![CDATA[The King turned a deaf ear to friendly countries' calls for rapprochement with political parties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45032]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Savage bears agree with one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Savage bears agree with one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65046]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With vollies of eternal babble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58605]]></link><description><![CDATA[With vollies of eternal babble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60333]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the hardest things to forecast. So, get used to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32210]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the hardest things to forecast. So, get used to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen everyone on our staff shed some tears. We loved Ames and loved the people here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32365]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen everyone on our staff shed some tears. We loved Ames and loved the people here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55002]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We asked who our surveyed companies thought were leaders in SOA technology. IBM was mentioned most often, leading other providers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34614]]></link><description><![CDATA[We asked who our surveyed companies thought were leaders in SOA technology. IBM was mentioned most often, leading other providers nearly three to one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597 Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 1. the ministry of holding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597 Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 1. the ministry of holding one's tongue   Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words... Thus it must be a decisive rule of every Christian fellowship that each individual is prohibited from saying much that occurs to him. This prohibition does not include the personal word of advice and guidance. But to speak about a brother is forbidden, even under the cloak of help and goodwill; for it is precisely in this guise that the spirit of hatred among brothers creeps in when it is seeking to create mischief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26913]]></link><description><![CDATA[A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to have a big bruise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36315]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to have a big bruise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48502]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53739]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17159]]></link><description><![CDATA[In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27144]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the learned and authentic fellows. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55723]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the learned and authentic fellows. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55723</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[The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremelywell, without attending to appearance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremelywell, without attending to appearance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has at least been put off for the time being, but one is not sure for how long. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36734]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has at least been put off for the time being, but one is not sure for how long. All that has been resolved is the venue. What both sides have done is buy time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state, we must be doing something to be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state, we must be doing something to be happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19264]]></link><description><![CDATA[What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes -- ah, they have all the necessary leisure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible tells me that no greater love has a man than to lay down his life for his friends. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible tells me that no greater love has a man than to lay down his life for his friends. John Kerry's fellow crewmates -- the men I am honored to share the stage with -- are living testimony to his leadership, his courage under fire, and his willingness to risk his life for his fellow Americans. There is no greater act of patriotism than that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Czar has a cold all Russia coughs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12515]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Czar has a cold all Russia coughs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fish, to taste right, must swim 3 times -- in water, in butter and in wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fish, to taste right, must swim 3 times -- in water, in butter and in wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act iv. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55995]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act iv. Sc. 8.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I listened hard but could not see. Life tempo change out and inside me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38961]]></link><description><![CDATA[I listened hard but could not see. Life tempo change out and inside me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57936]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57063]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57063</guid></item></channel></rss>