<?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[The new statements will have in them a person's earnings over their lifetime, from that very first job they ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39879]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new statements will have in them a person's earnings over their lifetime, from that very first job they ever had, all through their lives,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39879</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[There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2952]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2952</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[What a man does by the agency of another is his own act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50558]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a man does by the agency of another is his own act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51097]]></link><description><![CDATA[No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in live. Now does he feel his title  Hang loose about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in live. Now does he feel his title  Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe   Upon a dwarfish thief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those running East Stirlingshire need to be up front about what their plans are for the club. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those running East Stirlingshire need to be up front about what their plans are for the club.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to make things happen. Hit-and-run, steals, we wanted to put pressure on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to make things happen. Hit-and-run, steals, we wanted to put pressure on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jupiter and the MonkeyJupiter issued a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest and promised a royal reward to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jupiter and the MonkeyJupiter issued a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest and promised a royal reward to the one whose offspring should be deemed the handsomest. The Monkey came with the rest and presented, with all a mother's tenderness, a flat-nosed, hairless, ill-featured young Monkey as a candidate for the promised reward. A general laugh saluted her on the presentation of her son. She resolutely said, I know not whether Jupiter will allot the prize to my son, but this I do know, that he is at least in the eyes of me his mother, the dearest, handsomest, and most beautiful of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47138]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13497]]></link><description><![CDATA[All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13497</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[Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And still the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting  On the pallid bust of Pallas  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52982]]></link><description><![CDATA[And still the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting  On the pallid bust of Pallas   Just above my chamber door;    And his eyes have all the seeming     Of a demon's that is dreaming,      And the lamplight o'er him streaming       Throws his shadow on the floor,        And my soul from out that shadow,         That lies floating on the floor,          Shall be lifted--nevermore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20443]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path. [Psalm 119:105]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path. [Psalm 119:105].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we say it's time for batting practice, they say, 'Oh, let's go!' When it's time for fielding practice, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40570]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we say it's time for batting practice, they say, 'Oh, let's go!' When it's time for fielding practice, they start moaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bodily disease may be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12506]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bodily disease may be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3376]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to repay almost $3,000 to groups and people who had given us money thinking it was deductible, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38117]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to repay almost $3,000 to groups and people who had given us money thinking it was deductible, and I figure we've lost maybe another $4,000 in donations we would have gotten since this came up. So we're hurting. We need some help to pay the bills and keep our programs going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58498]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd. [Lat., Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises,  . . . Epicuri de grege porcum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did a good job from the foul line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34440]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did a good job from the foul line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we tried to stop them, they started pelting us with stones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41364]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we tried to stop them, they started pelting us with stones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old mayor climbed the belfry tower, The ringers ran by two, by three;  "Pull, if ye never pulled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old mayor climbed the belfry tower, The ringers ran by two, by three;  "Pull, if ye never pulled before;   Good ringers, pull your best," quoth he.    "Play uppe, play uppe, O Boston bells!     Ply all your changes, all your swells,      Play uppe The Brides of Enderby."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36822]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. - "Letter to his son", April 30, 1750. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2855]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. - "Letter to his son", April 30, 1750.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apes do it. Scorpions do it. Fireflies do it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apes do it. Scorpions do it. Fireflies do it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really proud of what we've done ? and I say we because it's been the coaches and the community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38239]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really proud of what we've done ? and I say we because it's been the coaches and the community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were simply outsized. We were able to dump it inside to Sara and she would either make the shot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38851]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were simply outsized. We were able to dump it inside to Sara and she would either make the shot or draw a foul, and she did terrific at the line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4486]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences of his own folly. With a little wisdom and foresight, surely it is not yet necessary to forsake life in the fresh air and in the warmth of the sunlight. What a paradox if our own cleverness in science should force us to live underground with the moles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though he was rough, he was kindly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though he was rough, he was kindly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff. There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They made a lot of spirited plays. We left our men at times in the first half and they made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35473]]></link><description><![CDATA[They made a lot of spirited plays. We left our men at times in the first half and they made shots and then they started earning them, but they deserve a lot of credit for their effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53750]]></link><description><![CDATA[And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13429]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mike assumed the role, with a young team, that he had to assume. He was sensational on both ends. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mike assumed the role, with a young team, that he had to assume. He was sensational on both ends. I think some of these younger kids will play better Saturday night after getting a taste of playoff action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13201]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17065]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941  As the Christian life in the individual is the work of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941  As the Christian life in the individual is the work of the Spirit, it follows that the corporate realization of that life, in the Church built upon the foundation of apostles and prophets, is also His creation... The great creative acts and significant turning-points were recognized, either by the Church or by its historian, as determined by the Spirit. The Spirit confirmed and preserved the community from the outset, by the descent at Pentecost (Acts 2:4). The extension of the Gospel beyond Judea and the first mission to the Gentiles were commanded and approved by the Spirit (Acts 8:29, 10:19, 44, 13:2, 4). Paul, on his journeys, was led by the Spirit (Acts 16:6, 7). He himself was especially conscious that his whole ministry was inspired by the Holy Ghost (Rom. 15:18,19). All the apostles were conspicuously men of the Spirit. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop worrying. Hollywood won’t turn your daughter into a nymphomaniac or get her hooked on drugs... I will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop worrying. Hollywood won’t turn your daughter into a nymphomaniac or get her hooked on drugs... I will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7383]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as a means of redeeming your time and of fitting your spirit for prayer, you would find mighty advantages from it. This method, though it seem such a small circumstance of life, would in all probability be a means [toward] great piety. It would keep it constantly in your head that softness and idleness were to be avoided and that self-denial was a part of Christianity... It would teach you to exercise power over yourself, and make you able by degrees to renounce other pleasures and tempers that war against the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has many years of experience in this field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28967]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has many years of experience in this field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kings are like stars--they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kings are like stars--they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52477</guid></item></channel></rss>