<?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[Each time a student fails, the district is required to notify the parents and provide the student accelerated instruction in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each time a student fails, the district is required to notify the parents and provide the student accelerated instruction in a setting of not more than 10 students to one teacher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52099]]></link><description><![CDATA[As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. - Aphorisms and Reflections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou givest life and love for Greece and Right: I will stand by thee lest thou shouldst be weak,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou givest life and love for Greece and Right: I will stand by thee lest thou shouldst be weak,  Not weak of soul.--I will but hold in sight   Thy marvelous beauty.--Here is    She you seek!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48147]]></link><description><![CDATA[No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honesty to reporting.Thus, if a legend told of a notable hero that all men spoke of his prowess any bard who valued his life would hastily add except for a couple of people in his home village who thought he was a loony, and quite a lot of other people who had never really heard of him. Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like: His mighty steed was fast as the wind, on a fairly calm day, say about Force Three, any loose talk about a beloved having a face that could launch a thousand ships would have to be backed by evidence that the object of desire did indeed own a very large seaport. Patrician Olaf II was eventually killed during an experiment conducted in the palace grounds to prove the disputed accuracy of the proverb The Pen is mightier than the Sword.In his memory it was decided that the proverb would from now on include the phrase: only if the Sword is very small and the Pen very sharp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61202]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63759]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She got off easy. Nobody's lost one since. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34660]]></link><description><![CDATA[She got off easy. Nobody's lost one since.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arabs usually participate in fairs in Brazil, where we also make contacts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arabs usually participate in fairs in Brazil, where we also make contacts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43556]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little wind that hardly shook The silver of the sleeping brook  Blew the gold hair about her eyes,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little wind that hardly shook The silver of the sleeping brook  Blew the gold hair about her eyes,--   A mystery of mysteries.    So he must often pause, and stoop,     An all the wanton ringlets loop      Behind her dainty ear--emprise       Of slow event and many sighs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66172]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53194]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!  Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!  Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the x-rays, there doesn't seem to be any major (fracture) but we are waiting for a full report on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34717]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the x-rays, there doesn't seem to be any major (fracture) but we are waiting for a full report on that. Every ankle injury is different but I think we are faced with a (serious) tear of the lateral ligament and there is associated bone bruising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8996]]></link><description><![CDATA[What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly wronged. It nowhere lays claim to be regarded as the Word, the Way, the Truth. The Bible leads us to Jesus, the inexhaustible, the ever-unfolding Revelation of God. It is Christ "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge", not the Bible, save as leading to Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overall, you have a very technical market pushing us to historical highs because once people got a feel for these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overall, you have a very technical market pushing us to historical highs because once people got a feel for these higher levels, it has been an easy push to the upside and has been helped by lack of liquidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to abstain from writing satire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50460]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to abstain from writing satire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47401]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding the state to promulgate any values at all. If the state can espouse some value that we love, it can, with equal justice, espouse others we do not love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3150]]></link><description><![CDATA[The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14754]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45491]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21110]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8737]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5006]]></link><description><![CDATA[To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christ says that not alone in the Church is there forgiveness of sins, but that where two or three are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christ says that not alone in the Church is there forgiveness of sins, but that where two or three are gathered together in His name they shall have the right to promise to each other comfort and the forgiveness of sins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tools of the trade ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tools of the trade]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emotional effects after Hurricane Katrina had started to dissipate. Then along came Rita. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38957]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emotional effects after Hurricane Katrina had started to dissipate. Then along came Rita.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the cobbler stick to his last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the cobbler stick to his last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30917]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64524]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be cautious as to what you say of men, and to whom you speak it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be cautious as to what you say of men, and to whom you speak it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Autumn wood the aster knows, The empty nest, the wind that grieves,  The sunlight breaking thro' the shade, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3386]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Autumn wood the aster knows, The empty nest, the wind that grieves,  The sunlight breaking thro' the shade,   The squirrel chattering overhead,    The timid rabbits lighter tread     Among the rustling leaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't open a shop unless you like to smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582 O God, grant that today  I may not disappoint any friend; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582 O God, grant that today  I may not disappoint any friend;  I may not grieve any loved one;  I may not fail anyone to whom I have a duty;  I may not shame myself. Grant that today  I may do my work with honesty and fidelity;  I may take my pleasure in happiness and purity. Grant that today  I may lead no one astray;  I may not make goodness and faith harder for anyone. Help me today  to be a help and example to all;  to bring strength and encouragement wherever I am: Through Jesus Christ my Lord, Amen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the persons house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of it's head with a note that says "You." After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never lie to someone who trusts you, and never trust someone who lies to you!! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never lie to someone who trusts you, and never trust someone who lies to you!!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It speaks to the fact that today's Democratic Party is so out of the mainstream, it has moved so far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40655]]></link><description><![CDATA[It speaks to the fact that today's Democratic Party is so out of the mainstream, it has moved so far left, that a senator who just 12 years ago supported a then-centrist Democrat -- Bill Clinton -- is unable to support today's Democratic nominee. It also speaks to the strength of the president.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40655</guid></item></channel></rss>