<?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[Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in Thy peace and wake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in Thy peace and wake in Thy glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14539]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17726]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22290]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's true, it's our responsibility because we are the only ones here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33549]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's true, it's our responsibility because we are the only ones here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4221]]></link><description><![CDATA[But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have identified 30 service personnel 29 men and one woman who could use our services. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36428]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have identified 30 service personnel 29 men and one woman who could use our services.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Thy good word informs my soul How I may climb to heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54919]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Thy good word informs my soul How I may climb to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12067]]></link><description><![CDATA[All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8858]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not going to bypass them because of a small inconvenience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32925]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not going to bypass them because of a small inconvenience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to allcreative endeavors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to allcreative endeavors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mind your P's and Q's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mind your P's and Q's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a cottage I live, and the cot of content, Where a few little rooms for ambition too low,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9941]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a cottage I live, and the cot of content, Where a few little rooms for ambition too low,  Are furnish'd as plain as a patriarch's tent,   With all for convenience, but nothing for show:    Like Robinson Crusoe's, both peaceful and pleasant,     By industry stor'd, like the hive of a bee;      And the peer who looks down with contempt on a peasant.       Can ne'er be look'd up to with envy by me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drugs are a bet with your mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drugs are a bet with your mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56662]]></link><description><![CDATA[A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63610]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57678]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir Beatle is inviting 300 people. They are all sworn to secrecy, lest this get in the papers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir Beatle is inviting 300 people. They are all sworn to secrecy, lest this get in the papers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist Beginning a short series about the early church:   Now if all these things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist Beginning a short series about the early church:   Now if all these things should come to pass, the determined expectation of which caused the Jews to reject Christ -- if he should actually appear, with miraculous splendor, as the restorer of the Jewish nation, and city, and Temple, reigning over the whole world as a great earthly sovereign, and reserving peculiar privileges for his own nation -- if, I say, all these expectations should be fulfilled, to which the Jews have so long and so obstinately clung, surely this would not be so much a conversion of the Jews to Christianity as a conversion of Christians to Judaism; it would not be bringing the Jews to the gospel by overcoming their national prejudices, but rather carrying back the gospel to meet the Jewish prejudices; it would be destroying the spiritual character of our religion, and establishing those erroneous views which have hitherto caused the Jews to reject it. We may conclude, then, that all the promises and predictions in Scripture relative to the future glories of the Jews and of Jerusalem, are to be understood of the Christian church, of which the Jewish church was a figure; and all that is said of feasting, and splendor, and wealth, and worldly greatness and enjoyment, is to be interpreted spiritually of the inward comfort and peace of mind, and "joy of the Holy Ghost", which is promised to sincere Christians in this life, and of the unspeakable happiness prepared for them after death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an important event because it's part of the ongoing initiative to clean up Marshalltown and present a better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39817]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an important event because it's part of the ongoing initiative to clean up Marshalltown and present a better image and appearance. Our community betterment task force has done a great job over the last eight months of starting these initiatives and really making a difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is the sum of the expansive impulses of a being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is the sum of the expansive impulses of a being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56015]]></link><description><![CDATA[An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the 1960s and 1970s, the mine had already played out and several companies used it as a place to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40431]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the 1960s and 1970s, the mine had already played out and several companies used it as a place to put hazardous waste materials.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's clear that we've seen some pass-through of raw materials costs to producer prices, but retail inflation is still restrained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36354]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's clear that we've seen some pass-through of raw materials costs to producer prices, but retail inflation is still restrained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger. [Fr., On ne peut repondre de son ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10290]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger. [Fr., On ne peut repondre de son courage quand on n'a jamais ete dans le peril.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He passed it onto his sister who is my wife and now it's in my house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39952]]></link><description><![CDATA[He passed it onto his sister who is my wife and now it's in my house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Refuse to wave the flagRefuse to move the missiles from the warehouseto the dock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Refuse to wave the flagRefuse to move the missiles from the warehouseto the dock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played great the last 15 minutes [against Syracuse]. If we put that to 40 minutes, I'm sure another team ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37591]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played great the last 15 minutes [against Syracuse]. If we put that to 40 minutes, I'm sure another team will get worn down and eventually fold. I'm pretty sure the four guys who have been through [the road to the Final Four] know how hard it is. They need to push me, Rudy, Marcus Williams, because they've been there. It's going to be a tough road, but I think we can do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.'' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58189]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.'']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Them Book the Four Seasons, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Them Book the Four Seasons,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wanted to be a Buccaneer, and we want him to be a Buccaneer. In just a few days of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30755]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wanted to be a Buccaneer, and we want him to be a Buccaneer. In just a few days of conversations, we were able to reach an agreement with him, and it cleared up room so that we can sign some of our own players back and go out into free agency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Two DogsA man had two dogs: a Hound, trained to assist him in his sports, and a Housedog, taught ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Two DogsA man had two dogs: a Hound, trained to assist him in his sports, and a Housedog, taught to watch the house. When he returned home after a good day's sport, he always gave the Housedog a large share of his spoil. The Hound, feeling much aggrieved at this, reproached his companion, saying, It is very hard to have all this labor, while you, who do not assist in the chase, luxuriate on the fruits of my exertions. The Housedog replied, Do not blame me, my friend, but find fault with the master, who has not taught me to labor, but to depend for subsistence on the labor of others. Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fifty-acre parcels are generally not that available in Silicon Valley. You can't buy 50 acres, you have to piece it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fifty-acre parcels are generally not that available in Silicon Valley. You can't buy 50 acres, you have to piece it together. So if you're Apple and you're going to go through the trouble of putting it together, you might as well pick an area you want to stay in, as opposed to one further away where you might save money but it will be just as difficult to assemble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1880]]></link><description><![CDATA[To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An average first half and we pull it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36366]]></link><description><![CDATA[An average first half and we pull it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58185</guid></item></channel></rss>