<?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[A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48013]]></link><description><![CDATA[A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[until there are some changes in the Senate, that might have to wait a while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31196]]></link><description><![CDATA[until there are some changes in the Senate, that might have to wait a while.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25350]]></link><description><![CDATA[And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. - Isaiah 2:4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51583]]></link><description><![CDATA[All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26947]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But given the initiatives we've committed ourselves to, it's going to be very difficult, even if we get more money ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38475]]></link><description><![CDATA[But given the initiatives we've committed ourselves to, it's going to be very difficult, even if we get more money than the county initially earmarked. The initial signs show we are getting a positive response. We'll see what the upshot is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is definitely an embarrassment for the Turkish Government ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37210]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is definitely an embarrassment for the Turkish Government]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The governor certainly takes pride in Pittsburgh's accomplishments and would be more than willing to participate in a friendly wager. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31893]]></link><description><![CDATA[The governor certainly takes pride in Pittsburgh's accomplishments and would be more than willing to participate in a friendly wager.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism: The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism: The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't even know what the odds are for one kid or one team to make it here. Obviously, being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38813]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't even know what the odds are for one kid or one team to make it here. Obviously, being from Canada this is their Stanley Cup - they made it. It's hard enough to get here and it's hard enough to advance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am born for God only. Christ is nearer to me than father, or mother, or sister -- a near ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6855]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am born for God only. Christ is nearer to me than father, or mother, or sister -- a near relation, a more affectionate Friend; and I rejoice to follow Him, and to love Him. Blessed Jesus! Thou art all I want -- a forerunner to me in all I ever shall go through as a Christian, a minister, or a missionary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6855</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/8406]]></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/8406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her parthenogenetic birth from Adam's body makes Eve his daughter so that the Judeo-Christian tradition rests on a primal father-daughter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her parthenogenetic birth from Adam's body makes Eve his daughter so that the Judeo-Christian tradition rests on a primal father-daughter incest motif]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really don't believe there's a lot of people that have heard of me. In the past few seasons, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29722]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really don't believe there's a lot of people that have heard of me. In the past few seasons, we haven't been doing too well, but I'm pretty confident that as the season goes on, people will be looking me up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods. [Lat., Nihil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47950]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods. [Lat., Nihil est quod credere de se  Non possit, quum laudatur dis aequa potestas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28374]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46135]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools. -- 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43608]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generally, what we try to do if we have a game where we have to play for 32 minutes is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generally, what we try to do if we have a game where we have to play for 32 minutes is try to wear them down by playing full court. But if we get ahead by a good margin, then we'll call off the dogs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/852]]></link><description><![CDATA[To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't discuss anything anyway. Unless it appears on Patrick's official breakfast-time agenda. And that consists mainly of food. Minutes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28721]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't discuss anything anyway. Unless it appears on Patrick's official breakfast-time agenda. And that consists mainly of food. Minutes of the last meal and proposals for the next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody is going to the negotiations with a certain degree of optimism, hoping that in the long run it will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody is going to the negotiations with a certain degree of optimism, hoping that in the long run it will be possible to settle all the remaining problems]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sin is the result of a collaboration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sin is the result of a collaboration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45487]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis true no lover has that pow'r T' enforce a desperate amour,  As he that has two strings t' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51960]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis true no lover has that pow'r T' enforce a desperate amour,  As he that has two strings t' his bow,   And burns for love and money too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was in good shape when I came here, but it (boxing) whooped me. It is way more physically demanding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29154]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was in good shape when I came here, but it (boxing) whooped me. It is way more physically demanding than any other sport.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole team looks good and we didn't give them any chances, O'Connor and Murray were our best players. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole team looks good and we didn't give them any chances, O'Connor and Murray were our best players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9235]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15687]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was trying not to play her a lot. I thought we were in pretty good shape at 12-4. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35489]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was trying not to play her a lot. I thought we were in pretty good shape at 12-4. I didn't realize that was the highlight of the first half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wiped our eyes Of drops that sacred pity hath engender'd. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55656]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wiped our eyes Of drops that sacred pity hath engender'd. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself. [Lat., Ipsa se fraus, etiamsi initio cautior fuerit, detegit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself. [Lat., Ipsa se fraus, etiamsi initio cautior fuerit, detegit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this time it's a personnel issue. We'll make a decision whether there will be any consequences when the report ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40119]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this time it's a personnel issue. We'll make a decision whether there will be any consequences when the report is complete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. -Doug Larson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. -Doug Larson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64410]]></link><description><![CDATA[A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26137]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63934]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63934</guid></item></channel></rss>