<?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 English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. I had been on the road with Johnny and working gigs and playing a lot of the organ clubs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.  . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61309]]></link><description><![CDATA[How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.  . . . .   The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,    The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The covetous are always in want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50337]]></link><description><![CDATA[The covetous are always in want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44861]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Athletics should reduce stress, not increase it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Athletics should reduce stress, not increase it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is no vision a people perish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is no vision a people perish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sing the Poppy! The frail snowy weed! The flower of Mercy! that within its heart  Doth keep "a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47681]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sing the Poppy! The frail snowy weed! The flower of Mercy! that within its heart  Doth keep "a drop serene" for human need,   A drowsy balm for every bitter smart.    For happy hours the Rose will idly blow--     The Poppy hath a charm for pain and woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5101]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51954]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They couldn't adapt to our demands in catering to Hispanics and trying to be much more bilingual, ... The show ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35222]]></link><description><![CDATA[They couldn't adapt to our demands in catering to Hispanics and trying to be much more bilingual, ... The show will be in Spanish, so that makes a huge difference. I'm pretty sure the audience will define and determine very much the way we put the music to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So here hath been dawning Another blue day;  Think, wilt thou let it   Slip useless away?  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11132]]></link><description><![CDATA[So here hath been dawning Another blue day;  Think, wilt thou let it   Slip useless away?    Out of eternity     This new day is born,      Into eternity       At night will return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're making the best use of the space we have. We're able to adjust the programs and activities to meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31110]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're making the best use of the space we have. We're able to adjust the programs and activities to meet needs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 Continuing a short series on authenticity: For the preacher's merit or demerit, It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 Continuing a short series on authenticity: For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, Which lies as safe in a golden ewer; But the main thing is, does it hold good measure? Heaven soon sets right all other matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issues of redistricting using the 2000 Census doesn't seem likely to me to be successful. The political gerrymandering is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42504]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issues of redistricting using the 2000 Census doesn't seem likely to me to be successful. The political gerrymandering is going to be the primary issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's our job -- to come in the game, bring energy and change the tempo of the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31054]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's our job -- to come in the game, bring energy and change the tempo of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this, that his company is an everlasting pleasure to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frieth in his own grease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frieth in his own grease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, 'What a lovely sermon!' but 'I will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48059]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, 'What a lovely sermon!' but 'I will do something.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither rhyme nor reason. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither rhyme nor reason. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That relationship saved him. He was devastated with the injuries and no one could've helped him more than Dave Davis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32436]]></link><description><![CDATA[That relationship saved him. He was devastated with the injuries and no one could've helped him more than Dave Davis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15627]]></link><description><![CDATA[So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff--it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff--it is a palliative rather than a remedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/308]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our end is, to say the least, unsatisfactory. To the question, "How did it all begin?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." To the question, "How will it all end?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." And to many people, the accidental life is not worth living. Moreover, the science-god has no answer to the question, "Why are we here?" and, to the question, "What moral instructions do you give us?", the science-god maintains silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10230]]></link><description><![CDATA[My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night was our friend, our leader was Despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night was our friend, our leader was Despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the flowers no perfume is like mine; That which is best in me comes from within.  So those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the flowers no perfume is like mine; That which is best in me comes from within.  So those in this world who would rise and shine   Should seek internal excellence to win.    And though 'tis true that falsehood and despair     Meet in my name, yet bear it still in mind      That where they meet they perish. All is fair       When they are gone and nought remains behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every play was like watching a highlight film. He had a great game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every play was like watching a highlight film. He had a great game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wish is the father of the deed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11659]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wish is the father of the deed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Short History of Myth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39491]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Short History of Myth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A longer campaign would tend to attract more candidates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32986]]></link><description><![CDATA[A longer campaign would tend to attract more candidates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played even after falling behind, ... We started slow, and Dripping Springs had a server that served nine straight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29374]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played even after falling behind, ... We started slow, and Dripping Springs had a server that served nine straight to start both games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again she plunges! hark! a second shock Bilges the splitting vessel on the rock;  Down on the vale of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again she plunges! hark! a second shock Bilges the splitting vessel on the rock;  Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries,   The fated victims shuddering cast their eyes    In wild despair; while yet another stroke     With strong convulsion rends the solid oak:      Ah Heaven!--behold her crashing ribs divide!       She loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the tide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44372]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that only 17 points were scored in round three is testament to both teams. There was not much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32585]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that only 17 points were scored in round three is testament to both teams. There was not much between us. It was fairly physical and fairly brutal. There was a lot of errors but that was due to pressure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits,  Or any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27382]]></link><description><![CDATA[It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits,  Or any merit that which he obtains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26048</guid></item></channel></rss>