<?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[Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23888]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr   Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr   Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4687]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all lean towards the koa because that's what Hawaii is known for. But it's tough to work with, especially ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33742]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all lean towards the koa because that's what Hawaii is known for. But it's tough to work with, especially when you get the curly koa. Because of the complexity of the grain, it's a very challenging wood. Mango is a fabulous wood and it's underrated. For some reason, it doesn't carry the influence that koa does. Mango is some beautiful wood. I work some 30 varieties, generally, because I love the variety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Before the officers were sworn to their new ranks, several residents spoke publicly at the meeting about the promotions.] I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31149]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Before the officers were sworn to their new ranks, several residents spoke publicly at the meeting about the promotions.] I stand here to say thank you, ... You earned your due. I'm very, very proud of my Police Department in Neptune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37022]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and upon the world around,...Looking upon the lives of men and women, he will perceive how the hasty word, the bitter retort, the act of deception, the blind prejudice and foolish resentment bring wretchedness and even ruin in their train.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65676]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And have you been to Borderland? Its country lies on either hand  Beyond the river I-forget.   One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16487]]></link><description><![CDATA[And have you been to Borderland? Its country lies on either hand  Beyond the river I-forget.   One crosses by a single stone    So narrow one must pass alone,     And all about its waters fret--      The laughing river I-forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9251]]></link><description><![CDATA[A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61598]]></link><description><![CDATA[All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have the French for friends, but not for neighbors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have the French for friends, but not for neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11073]]></link><description><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17614]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individuality is freedom lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individuality is freedom lived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43734]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is laughing behind your back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is laughing behind your back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44570]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will?  For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will?  For if she will, she will, you may depend on't;   And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Past lives o'er again, In its effects, and to the guilty spirit  The ever-frowning Present is its image. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Past lives o'er again, In its effects, and to the guilty spirit  The ever-frowning Present is its image.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderate Muslims have been given a giant task. The world is watching how they respond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderate Muslims have been given a giant task. The world is watching how they respond.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought (Scottsbluff) was getting used to the zone and we thought we could pressure their guards into turning it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32373]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought (Scottsbluff) was getting used to the zone and we thought we could pressure their guards into turning it over a little bit. We forced them to take some poor shots in the third quarter. That gave us an opportunity to get up the floor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9044]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soundtrack to Indecent Exposure is a romantic mix of music that I know most women love to hear, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soundtrack to Indecent Exposure is a romantic mix of music that I know most women love to hear, so I never keep it far from me when women are nearby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to makethem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to makethem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is something of a surprise just because the backlash was so strong last year to reinstate full funding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32180]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is something of a surprise just because the backlash was so strong last year to reinstate full funding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can, you won't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1722]]></link><description><![CDATA[By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64782]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9902]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you argue the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, then you argue the Constitution]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though they rushed back and forth across the country on the slightest pretext, gathering kicks along the way, the real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though they rushed back and forth across the country on the slightest pretext, gathering kicks along the way, the real journey was inward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured. [Lat., Aurea nunc vere sunt saecula; plurimus auto  Venit honos; auro concilatur amor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the 1000 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the 1000 small uncaring ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At first, we're learning for ourselves, ... We're looking for things that we'll work on for the classroom. We're piggybacking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39460]]></link><description><![CDATA[At first, we're learning for ourselves, ... We're looking for things that we'll work on for the classroom. We're piggybacking on what other people have already done, and then we will serve as a resource to other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63913</guid></item></channel></rss>