<?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 finest eloquence is that which gets things done: the worst is that which delays them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest eloquence is that which gets things done: the worst is that which delays them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence do you derive the power and privilege of a parent, when you, though an old man, do worse things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence do you derive the power and privilege of a parent, when you, though an old man, do worse things (than your child)? [Lat., Unde tibi frontem libertatemque parentis,  Cum facias pejora senex?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[it's strange to think of yourself as an only child and then suddenly find yourself with three siblings. Does Adie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39530]]></link><description><![CDATA[[it's strange to think of yourself as an only child and then suddenly find yourself with three siblings. Does Adie ever feel like an outsider when the rest share a history that she doesn't?] Curiously, I went to a wedding quite near the start, and when we got to the church this charming man came up and said, 'Bride or groom?' ... Groom! You're with the groom!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character matters; leadership descends from character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character matters; leadership descends from character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16544]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note--torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told [GM] Roland Hemond to go out and get me a big name pitcher. He said, 'Dave Wehrmeister's got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told [GM] Roland Hemond to go out and get me a big name pitcher. He said, 'Dave Wehrmeister's got 11 letters. Is that a big enough name for you ?' (White Sox owner)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11831]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the first time in three years we saw an increase in domestic same-store rental revenues and we believe that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38635]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first time in three years we saw an increase in domestic same-store rental revenues and we believe that our combined in-store and online rental offering will allow us to further increase our market share and outperform the domestic rental industry in 2006.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253   Holy Orders is a vocation from God; it is not a profession which we enter expecting an advance, or some sort of recognition as a right after so many years of work. But it is rather the giving up of self into the hands of God, without stint and without reserve, and letting Him set the work. It is the recognition of the fact that God has many kinds of work to be done, and that the best paid are not always the most honourable. To enter or exercise the ministry with a view to preferment is like marrying for money and not for love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a hug that said you're not alone. It was a hug that, just when I thought all my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53753]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a hug that said you're not alone. It was a hug that, just when I thought all my strength was used up, and I couldn't go on, renewed me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just saw a big sign with the F-word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32093]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just saw a big sign with the F-word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that population growth guarantees a better life - financially or otherwise - is a myth that only those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47724]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that population growth guarantees a better life - financially or otherwise - is a myth that only those who sell diapers, baby carriages and the like have any right to believe]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61321]]></link><description><![CDATA[OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a big surprise. I jumped on my assistant coach who scouted (Ball State), 'Tell me about this guy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32301]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a big surprise. I jumped on my assistant coach who scouted (Ball State), 'Tell me about this guy. Who's he?' Everybody has their day in the sun, and he had his today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do they rate a movie "R" for "adult language?" The only people I hear using that language are teenagers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do they rate a movie "R" for "adult language?" The only people I hear using that language are teenagers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If but a dozen French Were there in arms, they would be as a call  To train ten thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56718]]></link><description><![CDATA[If but a dozen French Were there in arms, they would be as a call  To train ten thousand English to their side,   Or as a little snow, tumbled about,    Anon becomes a mountain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue,  Like to the wall that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19132]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue,  Like to the wall that circles it about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not born for ourselves alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48887]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not born for ourselves alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the cobbler stick to his last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the cobbler stick to his last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the ref called charging than it's a charge. I have no arguments with that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40720]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the ref called charging than it's a charge. I have no arguments with that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like feather-bed betwixt a wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like feather-bed betwixt a wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  Therefore Adam could have stood if he wished, seeing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  Therefore Adam could have stood if he wished, seeing that he fell solely by his own will. But it was because his will was capable of being bent to one side or the other, and was not given the constancy to persevere, that he fell so easily. Yet his choice of good and evil was free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I underestimated the A- League when I put my squad together. I put my hand up for that one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I underestimated the A- League when I put my squad together. I put my hand up for that one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  One can believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  One can believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and feel no personal loyalty to Him at all -- indeed, pay no attention whatever to His commandments and His will for one's life. One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It?s definitely a bonus having Ed back. It?s not only me that?s a vet now. He knows what goes in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37432]]></link><description><![CDATA[It?s definitely a bonus having Ed back. It?s not only me that?s a vet now. He knows what goes in on in the D-line room and what (defensive line) coach (Larry) Johnson expects from us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22868]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance is a nickname for Providence. [Fr., Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance is a nickname for Providence. [Fr., Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I got in here, there was a lot that needed to be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37444]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I got in here, there was a lot that needed to be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government cannot but judge extremely severely such criticisms, which are even more unacceptable coming from someone who holds an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35814]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government cannot but judge extremely severely such criticisms, which are even more unacceptable coming from someone who holds an official position in another European Union country,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19603]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9076]]></link><description><![CDATA[News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class publication and not news.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has at least been put off for the time being, but one is not sure for how long. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36734]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has at least been put off for the time being, but one is not sure for how long. All that has been resolved is the venue. What both sides have done is buy time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a very bad crash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34834]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a very bad crash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are slow to believe that which, if true, would grieve us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50799]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are slow to believe that which, if true, would grieve us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53284]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53284</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[And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5510]]></link><description><![CDATA[And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard;  My lips are now forbid to speak  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard;  My lips are now forbid to speak   That once familiar word.   - Thomas Haynes Bayly,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22882]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you when I forget about me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16465]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you when I forget about me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16465</guid></item></channel></rss>