<?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 most important thing here is that the government will stick to its policy of no ransom payments, ... There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34269]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing here is that the government will stick to its policy of no ransom payments, ... There will be no negotiation or ransom with these kidnappers. By doing that we believe we will stop their motivation from some groups there in the south to do the same thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This initiative is being financed by Californians who want to try it in Colorado instead of their own backyard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39623]]></link><description><![CDATA[This initiative is being financed by Californians who want to try it in Colorado instead of their own backyard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don't like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51990]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don't like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the bullpen did a great job and my teammates helped me out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30848]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the bullpen did a great job and my teammates helped me out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cricket is a game that owes much of its unique appeal to the fact that it should be played not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cricket is a game that owes much of its unique appeal to the fact that it should be played not only within its Laws but also within the Spirit of the Game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist    It is good to follow the path of duty, though in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist    It is good to follow the path of duty, though in the midst of darkness and discouragement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. [Lat., Beneficium accipere, libertatem est vendere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15482]]></link><description><![CDATA[To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. [Lat., Beneficium accipere, libertatem est vendere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - "The Arnold Bennett Calendar". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - "The Arnold Bennett Calendar".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They work their way down the line and everything is made to the customer's specifications. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31676]]></link><description><![CDATA[They work their way down the line and everything is made to the customer's specifications.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For everything seemed resting on his nod, As they could read in all eyes. Now to them,  Who were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45999]]></link><description><![CDATA[For everything seemed resting on his nod, As they could read in all eyes. Now to them,  Who were accustomed, as a sort of god,   To see the sultan, rich in many a gem,    Like an imperial peacock stalk abroad     (That royal bird, whose tail's a diadem,)      With all the pomp of power, it was a doubt       How power could condescend to do without.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves  In drops of sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23437]]></link><description><![CDATA[My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves  In drops of sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy. -Troilus and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy. -Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very large hurricane, a very powerful hurricane. Wherever you have the eye of this system, you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40857]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very large hurricane, a very powerful hurricane. Wherever you have the eye of this system, you are going to have a potentially catastrophic disaster there. This is the worst-case scenario for a hurricane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology in general, instead of acting as a beacon-light to guide the people of God, the laity, as they confront ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology in general, instead of acting as a beacon-light to guide the people of God, the laity, as they confront the problems of living for Christ in the world, has for generations been taking refuge in an ever more minute study of Christian origins. Theology is less and less about God and God's world, and more and more a department of ancient history, absorbed in minute details of historical and literary criticism. The whole business is wildly out of proportion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard him moaning and groaning. It was really sad to see a guy be in that much pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40667]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard him moaning and groaning. It was really sad to see a guy be in that much pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59222]]></link><description><![CDATA[We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole thing goes back to the presence of God, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole thing goes back to the presence of God,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59005]]></link><description><![CDATA[In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To learn and never be filled, is wisdom; to teach and never be weary, is love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58723]]></link><description><![CDATA[To learn and never be filled, is wisdom; to teach and never be weary, is love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History repeats itself; historians repeat each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19342]]></link><description><![CDATA[History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The LSE is the crown jewel of European exchanges. It's the only brand strong enough to get listing revenues from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The LSE is the crown jewel of European exchanges. It's the only brand strong enough to get listing revenues from companies...The only way for someone to own U.K. stock trading is to own the LSE.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61153]]></link><description><![CDATA[If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future industry will replenish it. If war desiccate and lay waste our fields, under new cultivation they will grow green again and ripen to future harvest. If the walls of yonder Capitol should fall and its decorations be covered by the dust of battle, all these can be rebuilt. But who shall reconstruct the fabric of a demolished government; who shall dwell in the well-proportioned columns of constitutional liberty; who shall frame together the skillful architecture which unites sovereignty with state's rights, individual security with prosperity?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13774]]></link><description><![CDATA[That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11256]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What more would you have? He has invented history. [Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l'histoire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19325]]></link><description><![CDATA[What more would you have? He has invented history. [Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l'histoire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19149]]></link><description><![CDATA[To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52940]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63583]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a bull moose, walking right through town. I had been to Alaska before, and I've seen moose, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32844]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a bull moose, walking right through town. I had been to Alaska before, and I've seen moose, but that was a hell of a deal. That's not something you see on your average recruiting trip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  Belief in God through Christ is the most important of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  Belief in God through Christ is the most important of all aids to the following of Christ, but (let us never forget) the following is the great thing. To those who, by whatever means they are attracted to Him, really seek to do God's will as He revealed it, Christ will prove a Saviour -- a Saviour from sin, a Saviour from the power of sin here, and from the misery which sin brings with it here and hereafter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And, because we fail ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44795]]></link><description><![CDATA[The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And, because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how our failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The celebrated Galen said that employment was nature's physician. It is indeed so important to happiness that indolence is justly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18711]]></link><description><![CDATA[The celebrated Galen said that employment was nature's physician. It is indeed so important to happiness that indolence is justly considered the parent of misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once I got there, I noticed that smoke was everywhere, and we noticed that someone had tried to kick one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once I got there, I noticed that smoke was everywhere, and we noticed that someone had tried to kick one of the side doors in to get in the church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38911</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[God cannot alter the past, though historians can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19550]]></link><description><![CDATA[God cannot alter the past, though historians can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look forward to seeing (the festival) with great enthusiasm and with fingers crossed that it can really make a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look forward to seeing (the festival) with great enthusiasm and with fingers crossed that it can really make a positive difference here by bringing people into a greater awareness that all different kinds of theater can be made and presented here,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was harder racing the track today than it was the competition. The heat was a factor and it had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30347]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was harder racing the track today than it was the competition. The heat was a factor and it had an effect on the racing. It's hard to sit there and run lap after lap without any relief. And today, there wasn't any relief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12230]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12230</guid></item></channel></rss>