<?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[If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4214]]></link><description><![CDATA[If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bless God, America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bless God, America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we have an opportunity to play the larger schools, they see the difference is just not there. Basketball is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32542]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we have an opportunity to play the larger schools, they see the difference is just not there. Basketball is a home-and-road sport and, traditionally, the big schools have always played at home. Now when the smaller schools get them on a neutral court, the gap is not what the public perceives it to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  God generally gives spiritual blessings and deliverances as He does temporal ones; that is, by the mediation of an active and vigorous industry. The fruits of the earth are the gift of God, and we pray for them as such; but yet we plant, and we sow, and we plough, for all that; and the hands which are sometimes lift up in prayer must at other times be put to the plough, or the husbandman must expect no crop. Everything must be effected in the way proper to its nature, with the concurrent influence of the divine grace, not to supersede the means, but to prosper and make them effectual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust  That what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17838]]></link><description><![CDATA[What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust  That what will come, and must come, shall come well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's wonderful. He's really inspiring me, because he's reaching out to people. This message is meant for us. It's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36406]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's wonderful. He's really inspiring me, because he's reaching out to people. This message is meant for us. It's not a mistake God sent him here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63128]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly, like a millionaire intent on going broke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The infields are dangerous. They are extremely hard last night's game showed it. They need to be replaced or somebody's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35601]]></link><description><![CDATA[The infields are dangerous. They are extremely hard last night's game showed it. They need to be replaced or somebody's going to get hurt. It's like sliding on cement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45660]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two great days in a person\'s life - the day we are born and the day we discover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66780]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two great days in a person\'s life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63124]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To meditate an injury is to commit one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51204]]></link><description><![CDATA[To meditate an injury is to commit one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that lives well is learned enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that lives well is learned enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61484]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. [Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus doux des ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62154]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. [Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus doux des plaisirs.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3044]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36444]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes deeds ill done! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58905]]></link><description><![CDATA[How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes deeds ill done!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24752]]></link><description><![CDATA[The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True nobility is exempt from fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44563]]></link><description><![CDATA[True nobility is exempt from fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air;  Beyond my heart I need not reach  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58256]]></link><description><![CDATA[I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air;  Beyond my heart I need not reach   When all is summer there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told him it was a great idea and he has taken on that commitment, ... That is a commitment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told him it was a great idea and he has taken on that commitment, ... That is a commitment not just to this community but a commitment to the American spirit. This is what living in America is all about and why we live here. And I want to tell you that will be just as important as any assistance we get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is such an advocate for us in his everyday job and life. And he does that daily, continuously and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30381]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is such an advocate for us in his everyday job and life. And he does that daily, continuously and with enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear the old coat and buy the new book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear the old coat and buy the new book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35824]]></link><description><![CDATA[I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is this thus? What is the reason of this thusness? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is this thus? What is the reason of this thusness?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11863]]></link><description><![CDATA[A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61192]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14848]]></link><description><![CDATA[A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started one year ago, and have had four drives since then. At the first drive we had 33 donations, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36040]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started one year ago, and have had four drives since then. At the first drive we had 33 donations, and at the last one in July we had 99. It's amazing. This year we are hoping to have between 75-80 donations because it's the hardest time for the people who need blood to get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be rather than to seem. [Lat., Esse quam videri.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2803]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be rather than to seem. [Lat., Esse quam videri.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18709]]></link><description><![CDATA[If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2300]]></link><description><![CDATA[ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2300</guid></item></channel></rss>