<?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[Death is a law and not a punishment. Three things ought to console us for giving up life; the friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a law and not a punishment. Three things ought to console us for giving up life; the friends whom we have lost, the few persons worth of being loved whom we leave behind us, and finally the memory of our stupidities and the assurance that they are now going to stop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right after Jen [Jennifer McNamara] got hurt and we came back and won the tournament [Ryan Kickoff Classic], that was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right after Jen [Jennifer McNamara] got hurt and we came back and won the tournament [Ryan Kickoff Classic], that was amazing. That showed us that we can win if we play as a team, no matter who's out there on the court. We've really switched people around ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â everybody plays everywhere at different times. We've just been able to really pull together as a team because we have a common goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62869]]></link><description><![CDATA[If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God Almighty hates a quitter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10368]]></link><description><![CDATA[God Almighty hates a quitter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was in bed for two days. Today is the first day I've actually eaten or done anything. I felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37139]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was in bed for two days. Today is the first day I've actually eaten or done anything. I felt pretty good on the ice, but I don't have much energy. Hopefully tomorrow I'll feel better and get a good skate in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29577]]></link><description><![CDATA[These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that tells a secret is anothers servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49403]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that tells a secret is anothers servant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgotten is forgiven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgotten is forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that envy others are their inferiors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14049]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that envy others are their inferiors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to know you can first. How comes later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66858]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to know you can first. How comes later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime,  And, departing, leave us behind  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime,  And, departing, leave us behind   Footprints on the sands of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55690]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5698]]></link><description><![CDATA[True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When health, affrighted, spreads her rosy wing, And flies with every changing gale of spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18915]]></link><description><![CDATA[When health, affrighted, spreads her rosy wing, And flies with every changing gale of spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22851]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/248]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40641]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish he had started a dialogue with scientists before going public with his theories, ... There is some evidence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37041]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish he had started a dialogue with scientists before going public with his theories, ... There is some evidence, under the current administration, that it is 'policy first, science second.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother. [Lat., Religio peperit divitias et filia devoravit matrem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother. [Lat., Religio peperit divitias et filia devoravit matrem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It feels good to know you've got this time to know you're going to be in the top 20. We're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35235]]></link><description><![CDATA[It feels good to know you've got this time to know you're going to be in the top 20. We're going to have to work hard in (winter) mat drills, things like that, to hopefully keep it there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:  His rash fierce blaze of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:  His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,   For violent fires soon burn out themselves;    Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short;     He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;      With eager feeding doth choke the feeder;       Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,        Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just an hour with you, and I understand why we had to meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just an hour with you, and I understand why we had to meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public opinion is no more than this: What people think that other people think ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public opinion is no more than this: What people think that other people think]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A weak Invention of the Enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13846]]></link><description><![CDATA[A weak Invention of the Enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26353]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44903]]></link><description><![CDATA[And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373   Both from the confession of the evil spirits and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373   Both from the confession of the evil spirits and from the daily witness of His works, it is manifest, then, and let none presume to doubt it, that the Savior has raised His own body, and that He is very Son of God, having His being from God as from a Father, Whose Word and Wisdom and Whose Power He is. He it is Who in these latter days assumed a body for the salvation of us all, and taught the world concerning the Father. He it is Who has destroyed death and freely graced us all with incorruption through the promise of the resurrection, having raised His own body as its first-fruits, and displayed it by the sign of the cross as the monument to His victory over death and its corruption.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos - they're rebellious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos - they're rebellious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished; but that part which soars toward heaven, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished; but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry because you have drank with the king, And the king hath so graciously pledged you,  You shall no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry because you have drank with the king, And the king hath so graciously pledged you,  You shall no more be called shoemakers.   But you and yours to the world's end    Shall be called the trade of the gentle craft.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is not knowing but doing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is not knowing but doing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25338]]></link><description><![CDATA[We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A golden key can open any door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50958]]></link><description><![CDATA[A golden key can open any door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1669]]></link><description><![CDATA[As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life -- the terror of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life -- the terror of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't think he would play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38026]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't think he would play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11079]]></link><description><![CDATA[In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steroids are bad for sports, bad for players, bad for the young people who hold athletes up as role models. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steroids are bad for sports, bad for players, bad for the young people who hold athletes up as role models.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the "ready-aim-aim-aim syndrome." You must be willing to fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1403</guid></item></channel></rss>