<?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[It is a system that is broken, ... Men, women and children are getting hurt with that current law, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31194]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a system that is broken, ... Men, women and children are getting hurt with that current law, with revolving door marriages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13724]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will not be a cause for panic. It will not be a cause for people to stop hunting. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28821]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will not be a cause for panic. It will not be a cause for people to stop hunting. It will not be a cause for people to stop eating poultry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18109]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own.And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11547]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two noblest of things"--as Swift . . . most happily calls them in his Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and light."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not found in the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not found in the market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. -Anthony J. D'Angelo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59493]]></link><description><![CDATA[A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you get into a rhythm it doesn't matter what heat you're bowling in - you just keep going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you get into a rhythm it doesn't matter what heat you're bowling in - you just keep going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot imagine a much greater misfortune for a man (not to say a clergyman) than not to know, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8214]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot imagine a much greater misfortune for a man (not to say a clergyman) than not to know, or knowing, not to minister to, any of the poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That 's a perilous shot out of an elder-gun. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55961]]></link><description><![CDATA[That 's a perilous shot out of an elder-gun. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is blood all over him and I'm scared they'll come for him here. If he doesn't get urgent treatment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36780]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is blood all over him and I'm scared they'll come for him here. If he doesn't get urgent treatment he will die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23057]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, tarry a moment, my charming girl; Here is a jewel of gold and pearl;  A beautiful cross it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, tarry a moment, my charming girl; Here is a jewel of gold and pearl;  A beautiful cross it is I ween   As ever on beauty's breast was seen;    There's nothing at all but love to pay;     Take it and wear it, but only stay!      Ah! Sir Hunter, what excellent taste!       I'm not--in such--particular--haste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One doctor described it as 18th-century medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36333]]></link><description><![CDATA[One doctor described it as 18th-century medicine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was scary when the ball was in the air. He almost made it. We got lucky. Virginia has a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34530]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was scary when the ball was in the air. He almost made it. We got lucky. Virginia has a great team, but we found a way to win the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the best, the most skillful, the most devious and the most cunning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30126]]></link><description><![CDATA[the best, the most skillful, the most devious and the most cunning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simplewe couldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22468]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simplewe couldn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2944]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congresswoman Johnson recognizes the economic impact that D/FW Airport has in the North Texas region and the hundreds of thousands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congresswoman Johnson recognizes the economic impact that D/FW Airport has in the North Texas region and the hundreds of thousands of jobs that are associated with it, ... The employees of American Airlines and American Eagle applaud and support her actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the show in Virginia, they laid all the food out and it covered the entire floor. That makes you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30446]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the show in Virginia, they laid all the food out and it covered the entire floor. That makes you proud right there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Tuesday last A falcon, now tow'ring in her pride of place,  Was by a mousing owl hawked at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15057]]></link><description><![CDATA[On Tuesday last A falcon, now tow'ring in her pride of place,  Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God helps those who persevere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19187]]></link><description><![CDATA[God helps those who persevere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision looks inward and becomes duty.Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.Vision looks upward and becomes faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision looks inward and becomes duty.Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.Vision looks upward and becomes faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think she'll [Venus Williams] be around for a very long time. I doubt it will be a long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58960]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think she'll [Venus Williams] be around for a very long time. I doubt it will be a long career for her. She can make a lot more money out of (tennis) rather than in tennis."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As so I penned It down, until at last it came to be,  For length and breadth, the bigness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3515]]></link><description><![CDATA[As so I penned It down, until at last it came to be,  For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum,  And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on,   While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to find a language to communicate with the folks who sign our checks to help them understand that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39847]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to find a language to communicate with the folks who sign our checks to help them understand that they will not be able to build a valuable journalistic brand without good journalism, which is expensive. This creates a chasm between us that admittedly will be very hard to bridge ... Our job is not to give the public what they think they want because what they want changes or is wrong. Look at how it changed after 9/11. Before 9/11 the public was less interested, according to every survey, in Islam or international news. After 9/11, they asked, 'How come you didn't tell us more about Islam and what was going on?' What the public wants is more about Brad and Angelina.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will keep looking for problems now, so that when we finish this plant it will be safe and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31435]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will keep looking for problems now, so that when we finish this plant it will be safe and it will operate as designed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every guilty person is his own hangman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every guilty person is his own hangman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is bad to awaken a sleeping dog. [It., Il fait mal eveiller le chien qu dort.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is bad to awaken a sleeping dog. [It., Il fait mal eveiller le chien qu dort.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709  The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine is in order to wine: things are precious before they are contributory. It is a false piety that walks through creation looking only for lessons which can be applied somewhere else. To be sure, God remains the greatest good; but, for all that, the world is still good in itself. Indeed, since He does not need it, its whole reason for being must lie in its own natural goodness; He has no use for it, only delight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got 200 e-mails (about it). Lots of people had the same reaction. They were assigned to read it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40286]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got 200 e-mails (about it). Lots of people had the same reaction. They were assigned to read it in school and didn't. We try to take things that sometimes people turn off of because they're introduced to them too early or for some other reason, and try to make them entertaining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is action, not position. -Donald H. McGannon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is action, not position. -Donald H. McGannon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art;  And in a low expiring strain,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art;  And in a low expiring strain,   Play all the comfort o'er again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18961]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. thanks to Alan Bennett -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A malignant sore throat is a danger, a malignant throat not sore is worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29084]]></link><description><![CDATA[A malignant sore throat is a danger, a malignant throat not sore is worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13987]]></link><description><![CDATA[We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit but us? Who can change it, anytime we wish, but us?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr    There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr    There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Pentecost  From his baptism until his return to Galilee, Jesus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Pentecost  From his baptism until his return to Galilee, Jesus lived in the company of the disciples of the Baptist. It was there that he received the first public witness of his Messianic role and found his first followers. The gospel was to be rooted in John's teaching of asceticism and regeneration. But we see from the start that the gospel of Jesus was to be quite different. To the baptism of water would be added the baptism of the Spirit, and the new message was to be addressed to all. The widening of the circle of hearers and converts, which had preoccupied John, was to expand still further with the gospel of Jesus. Of the hundreds of thousands of Jews, the Essenes only regarded as saved a few thousand elect. Jesus was soon to offer the Covenant of God to all men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was no great disparity of years, Though much in temper; but they never clash'd,  They moved like stars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26559]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was no great disparity of years, Though much in temper; but they never clash'd,  They moved like stars united in their spheres,   Or like the Rhone by Leman's waters wash'd,    Where mingled and yet separate appears     The river from the lake, all bluely dash'd      Through the serene and placid glassy deep,       Which fain would lull its river-child to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58709]]></link><description><![CDATA[A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11074]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know all about his (no-show) reputation and his temper. But I'm pretty darn confident he'll be here. I talked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know all about his (no-show) reputation and his temper. But I'm pretty darn confident he'll be here. I talked with him personally, and then with his agent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41020</guid></item></channel></rss>