<?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[Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man,  And bitter shame ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man,  And bitter shame hath spoiled the sweet world's taste,   That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a confused heap of facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19449]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a confused heap of facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis and talk too much of Prosperpina and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down. Aye, and Ben Jonson too. O that B.J. is a pestilent fellow, he brought up Horace giving poets a pill, but our fellow, Shakespeare, hath given him a purge that made him beray his credit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be honest with you, I have no idea about the other teams in the district. And I can't worry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42117]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be honest with you, I have no idea about the other teams in the district. And I can't worry about them because we are trying to improve here every day. We have the athletes to compete with anyone at this level. I really believe that. This team is not going to give up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The declines will be very modest, however, because mills did a good job of cutting output to defend existing prices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The declines will be very modest, however, because mills did a good job of cutting output to defend existing prices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music helps not the toothache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music helps not the toothache.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I try to control too much, the flow is gone. With our sport, you have to let things flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40774]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I try to control too much, the flow is gone. With our sport, you have to let things flow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61150]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature's first great title--mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature's first great title--mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bee's favorite couplet: a sunup brimming buttercuplet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bee's favorite couplet: a sunup brimming buttercuplet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60029]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is also to be found in a day's work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is also to be found in a day's work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a great tournament for us. We are a much stronger team the way we played this week. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38652]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a great tournament for us. We are a much stronger team the way we played this week. It looks like we are going to keep this lineup.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through thick and thin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through thick and thin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[They have] bright management, they are cost conscious, they're lowering the costs all the time. They want to be able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28650]]></link><description><![CDATA[[They have] bright management, they are cost conscious, they're lowering the costs all the time. They want to be able to survive in between cycles. They're in what would be a very significant well, could be a billion barrel prospect within the next couple of months. My feeling is that the company will do much better as Wall Street gets to know it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aske much to have a little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aske much to have a little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1490]]></link><description><![CDATA[For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started doing stand-up in college. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31016]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started doing stand-up in college.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've sold my records outta shopping carts on the street. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've sold my records outta shopping carts on the street.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begging a courtesy is selling liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begging a courtesy is selling liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10201]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cankers of a calm world and a long peace. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55891]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cankers of a calm world and a long peace. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls usually have a paper mâché face on their wedding day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Girls usually have a paper mâché face on their wedding day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute laws which the people have made and within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute laws which the people have made and within the limits of a constitution which they have established.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906   The problem of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906   The problem of how an unholy concourse of sinful men and women can be in truth the body of Christ is the same as the problem of how a sinful man can at the same time be accepted as a child of God... Our present situation arises precisely from the fact that this fundamental insight, which the Reformers applied to the position of the Christian man, was not followed through in its application to the nature of the Christian church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54491]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42474]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different....I'd rather be completely fucking mental. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54670]]></link><description><![CDATA[If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different....I'd rather be completely fucking mental.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle   "Why was I born?" "Why am I here?" Theology answers, "You are here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle   "Why was I born?" "Why am I here?" Theology answers, "You are here to grow, to grow up in every way unto the full stature of a man newborn in Christ.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is a simple way of saying complicated things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is a simple way of saying complicated things]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To all proportioned terms he must dispense And make the sound a picture of the sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57296]]></link><description><![CDATA[To all proportioned terms he must dispense And make the sound a picture of the sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we had more energy than them throughout the night, ... I think they're in a bit of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32577]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we had more energy than them throughout the night, ... I think they're in a bit of a funk now. But I think once they get going, they're going to be one of the top teams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a trip to Mexico [in 1984]... I fell ill... The illness was protracted... I suffered a mild depression... When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8413]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a trip to Mexico [in 1984]... I fell ill... The illness was protracted... I suffered a mild depression... When [an episcopal priest] prayed for my recovery, I choked up and wept. The only prayer I knew word for word was the Pater Noster. On that day and in the days after it, I found myself repeating the Lord's Prayer, again and again, and meaning every word of it. Quite suddenly, when I was awake one night, a light dawned on me, and I realized what had happened... After many years of affirming God's existence and trying to give adequate reasons for that affirmation, I found myself believing in God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11283]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57745]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, 'Oh, well, there's another Saturday.' The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew this was a young team coming in and there was a lot of butterflies and jitters before the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38259]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew this was a young team coming in and there was a lot of butterflies and jitters before the game. One game does not make a season and we will bounce back and get ready to play Bronson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But they that are above Have ends in everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51914]]></link><description><![CDATA[But they that are above Have ends in everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14656]]></link><description><![CDATA["Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14656</guid></item></channel></rss>