<?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[In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends;  While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/708]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends;  While Nature, kindly bent to ease us,   Points out some circumstance to please us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[MISSING MARKO: Backup OT Marko Cavka underwent surgery yesterday to insert a metal plate in his fractured left forearm, according ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38371]]></link><description><![CDATA[[MISSING MARKO: Backup OT Marko Cavka underwent surgery yesterday to insert a metal plate in his fractured left forearm, according to a source. It wasn't a fractured wrist, as first reported by the team. He will miss eight to 10 weeks. ... Abraham, in his latest comments about his franchise tag/contract dispute, reacted coolly toward the front office.] I came back strictly for my teammates, not for the people upstairs, ... I feel like I've proved myself, but that's not proof for them. I have to work with what they're doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here With my beer  I sit,   While golden moments flit:    Alas!    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here With my beer  I sit,   While golden moments flit:    Alas!     They pass      Unheeded by:       And as they fly,        I,         Being dry,          Sit, idly sipping here           My beer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43231]]></link><description><![CDATA[All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect  God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore   Only among ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect  God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore   Only among the crowd and under roofs    That our frail hands have raised?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59285]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet like candy to my soul ~~ Sweet you rock and sweet you roll ~~ Lost for you I’m so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet like candy to my soul ~~ Sweet you rock and sweet you roll ~~ Lost for you I’m so lost for you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28296]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself  In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13101]]></link><description><![CDATA[My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself  In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice   Infects one comma in the course I hold,    But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on,     Leaving no tract behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An empire is an immense egotism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13677]]></link><description><![CDATA[An empire is an immense egotism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15455]]></link><description><![CDATA[His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They found holes everywhere. Actually, they didn't have to find holes, because they hit the ball right to us and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35405]]></link><description><![CDATA[They found holes everywhere. Actually, they didn't have to find holes, because they hit the ball right to us and we still missed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played good defense (all game) and ran our offense (in the second half). When we do that, we can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30608]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played good defense (all game) and ran our offense (in the second half). When we do that, we can win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jake is a 100-yard threat running the ball, he's a good thrower and he has a great understanding of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jake is a 100-yard threat running the ball, he's a good thrower and he has a great understanding of our offense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sound of a kiss is much softer than that of a cannon - but it's echo lasts a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23842]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sound of a kiss is much softer than that of a cannon - but it's echo lasts a great deal longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We voted on it, but that doesn't mean it went through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41153]]></link><description><![CDATA[We voted on it, but that doesn't mean it went through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66084]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14808]]></link><description><![CDATA[My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have absolutely no evidence that shows that the China safeguards have had any beneficial impact on the U.S. textile ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34649]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have absolutely no evidence that shows that the China safeguards have had any beneficial impact on the U.S. textile industry in terms of increasing orders and production.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where tempests never beat nor billows roar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where tempests never beat nor billows roar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13592]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709   When we inculcate that faith ought to be certain and secure, we conceive not of a certainty attended with no doubt, or of a security interrupted by no anxiety; but we rather affirm, that believers have a perpetual conflict with their own diffidence, and are far from placing their consciences in a placid calm never disturbed by any storms. Yet, on the other hand, we deny, however they may be afflicted, that they ever fall and depart from that certain confidence which they have conceived in the divine mercy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very beadle to a humorous sigh. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55486]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very beadle to a humorous sigh. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/88]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/88</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66683]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885   In our Ashrams of East ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885   In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open Heart", in which we tell our needs... We give four or five hours to this catharsis. The reaction of one member, who listened to it for the first time, was: "Good gracious, have we all the disrupted people in the country here?" My reply was: "No, you have a cross section of the church life honestly revealed." In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47179]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. -The Merchant of Venice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55544]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think that it will be legitimate and it will be a free and democratic election. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34811]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think that it will be legitimate and it will be a free and democratic election.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58068]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them, the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them, the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She bears a duke's revenues on her back, And in her heart she scorns our poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48209]]></link><description><![CDATA[She bears a duke's revenues on her back, And in her heart she scorns our poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cunning livery of hell. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55390]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cunning livery of hell. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams....pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1478]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams....pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build bigger and better dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63213]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Penny wise, pound foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Penny wise, pound foolish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friends stab you in the front. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65656]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friends stab you in the front.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44945]]></link><description><![CDATA[One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16365]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43476]]></link><description><![CDATA[After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When women go wrong, men go right after them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27127]]></link><description><![CDATA[When women go wrong, men go right after them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an authority so high [as Scripture], admit but one officious lie, and there will not remain a single passage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8446]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an authority so high [as Scripture], admit but one officious lie, and there will not remain a single passage of those apparently difficult to practice or to believe, which on the same most pernicious rule may not be explained as a lie uttered by the author willfully to serve a purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8446</guid></item></channel></rss>