<?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 will be a challenge; he's very versatile. But we've faced a lot of good players this year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28584]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be a challenge; he's very versatile. But we've faced a lot of good players this year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11411]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!" [Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34749]]></link><description><![CDATA["Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!" [Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you", quoted in Saturday Review, April 5, 1958]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is a game of inches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is a game of inches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England . . . Ireland is not a geographical fragment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England . . . Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 And have the bright immensities received our risen Lord Where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 And have the bright immensities received our risen Lord Where light-years frame the Pleiades and point Orion's sword? Do flaming suns his footsteps trace through corridors sublime, The Lord of interstellar space and Conqueror of time? The heaven that hides Him from our sight knows neither near nor far: An altar candle sheds its light as surely as a star; And where His loving people meet to share the gift divine, There stands He with unhurrying feet, and Heaven's splendors shine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come from good old Boston, The home of the bean and the cod,  Where Cabots speak only to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59381]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come from good old Boston, The home of the bean and the cod,  Where Cabots speak only to Lowells,   And the Lowells speak only to God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just weren't playing together. I think we used too much emotion in an exciting game on Friday and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39439]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just weren't playing together. I think we used too much emotion in an exciting game on Friday and we the next game we just burned out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;  Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,   Gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;  Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,   Gives genius a better discerning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang,  The apple into blossom burst,   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44545]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang,  The apple into blossom burst,   To life the grass and violets sprang.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is room left also for several to bring their friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50366]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is room left also for several to bring their friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53346]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/550]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is like an endless sea. We can't know everything in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is like an endless sea. We can't know everything in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/618]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44590]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is in custody and is getting no special treatment. She will go to the court on Thursday to enter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31748]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is in custody and is getting no special treatment. She will go to the court on Thursday to enter a plea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have even lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. -Henry David Thoreau.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23783]]></link><description><![CDATA[My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have that right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33773]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have that right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16716]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility--I welcome it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you, what star do you live on? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32120]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you, what star do you live on?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death to all fanatics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death to all fanatics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535   We sometimes come to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535   We sometimes come to God, not because we love Him best, but because we love our possessions best; we ask Christ to "save Western civilization", without asking ourselves whether it is entirely a civilization that Christ could want to save. We pray, too often, not to do God's will, but to enlist God's assistance in maintaining our "continually increasing consumption". And yet, though Christ promised that God would feed us, he never promised that God would stuff us to bursting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How a farmer controls corn rootworm in Indiana really depends on what sort of pest pressure they face. In southern ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32133]]></link><description><![CDATA[How a farmer controls corn rootworm in Indiana really depends on what sort of pest pressure they face. In southern Indiana, most farmers wouldn't treat for it at all because there are very few corn rootworm larvae in that part of the state. In the moderate region in northeast and central Indiana, farmers may use soil insecticides or seed treatments for control. In the high pressure northwest corner of Indiana, most farmers use soil insecticides and some use seed treatments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65977]]></link><description><![CDATA[A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter: that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter: that when he speaks, The air, a chartered libertine, is still. -King Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38535]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10653]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the electronics that have been added, the farmer can put a black box in the tractor or combine and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28700]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the electronics that have been added, the farmer can put a black box in the tractor or combine and just push a button telling all that stuff how to react to the different sensors. The ability to do some of the creative things with our planters, like variable speeds and guidance systems, all came from electro-hydraulics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3552]]></link><description><![CDATA[All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Aziz's patrol continues on past one of the two main mosques in Karmah. Over the past few days, the Iraqi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40055]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Aziz's patrol continues on past one of the two main mosques in Karmah. Over the past few days, the Iraqi soldiers have told the Marines what the imams have blasted over loudspeakersÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âcalls to rise up and attack the Americans. But, under strict orders, the Marines may not enter mosques or schools. They don't like it.] What I'd give to be able to look in there, ... You know they're hiding something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.  [Ger., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.  [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte,   Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should all endure our own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48890]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should all endure our own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He runs a 4.9 in the 40, bench-presses 450 pounds and squats and dead-lifts over 600, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30641]]></link><description><![CDATA[He runs a 4.9 in the 40, bench-presses 450 pounds and squats and dead-lifts over 600,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25384]]></link><description><![CDATA[A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56745]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though sympathizing with the revolutionaries' analysis of what was wrong with society and in fact being mistaken for a revolutionary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though sympathizing with the revolutionaries' analysis of what was wrong with society and in fact being mistaken for a revolutionary himself by the political authorities of his day, nevertheless Jesus did not advocate a new political regime to be established by force through revolutionary action. He called for the love of our enemies, not their destruction; ... for readiness to suffer instead of using force; for forgiveness instead of hate and revenge. One might even say [that] Jesus was more revolutionary than the revolutionaries, or revolutionary in a very different way. The revolution he had in mind was a radical change of heart on the part of mankind, involving conversion away from selfishness and toward the willing service of God and of people in general.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12904]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43869]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43869</guid></item></channel></rss>