<?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 greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -R. G. Ingersoll. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10397]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -R. G. Ingersoll.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32564]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20089]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When anyone tells me I can't do anything. I'm just not listening any more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20666]]></link><description><![CDATA[When anyone tells me I can't do anything. I'm just not listening any more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees ofyour trousers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees ofyour trousers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. We own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. We own this shit. Basketball, baseball, football, golf, tennis, and as soon as they make a heated hockey rink we'll take that shit too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution; neither is it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46987]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14244]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always strive for that which is forbidden, and desire that which is denied us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50798]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always strive for that which is forbidden, and desire that which is denied us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is at ease seekes dainties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49363]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is at ease seekes dainties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though this may be play to you, 'Tis death to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though this may be play to you, 'Tis death to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then he danced;--all foreigners excel The serious Angles in the eloquence  Of pantomime;--he danced, I say right well, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11025]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then he danced;--all foreigners excel The serious Angles in the eloquence  Of pantomime;--he danced, I say right well,   With emphasis, and also with good sense--    A thing in footing indispensable:     He danced without theatrical pretence,      Not like a ballet-master in the van       Of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12034]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to this folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48667]]></link><description><![CDATA[As dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to this folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still!  But they have left an aching void  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26933]]></link><description><![CDATA[What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still!  But they have left an aching void   The world can never fill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is too much reality for a Friday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53044]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is too much reality for a Friday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36924]]></link><description><![CDATA[For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have to have sufficient detail in their plan to both satisfy the court and get the funds they need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42414]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have to have sufficient detail in their plan to both satisfy the court and get the funds they need to exit bankruptcy. They need to show that they have a plan that will function properly for the longer term.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49316]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  Devotion signifies a life given, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  Devotion signifies a life given, or devoted, to God. He therefore is the devout man, who lives no longer to his own will, or the way and spirit of the world, but to the sole will of God, who considers God in everything, who serves God in everything, who makes all the parts of his common life, parts of piety, by doing everything in the name of God, and under such rules as are conformable to His glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11866]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So liv'd our sires, ere doctors learn'd to kill, And multiplied with theirs the weekly bill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26690]]></link><description><![CDATA[So liv'd our sires, ere doctors learn'd to kill, And multiplied with theirs the weekly bill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And rolling far along the gloomy shores The voice of days of old and days to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60926]]></link><description><![CDATA[And rolling far along the gloomy shores The voice of days of old and days to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60926</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/60751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20643]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really looking forward to getting some of this rust off of me, getting back into game shape and playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really looking forward to getting some of this rust off of me, getting back into game shape and playing the game, and honestly just being back for my teammates,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7085]]></link><description><![CDATA[God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking His words and causing the power of them to persist across the years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4866]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An accountant is a man who watches the battle from the safety of the hills and then comes down to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48329]]></link><description><![CDATA[An accountant is a man who watches the battle from the safety of the hills and then comes down to bayonet the wounded]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earnings have been good, but what you're starting to see is a return to the attitude about earnings that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earnings have been good, but what you're starting to see is a return to the attitude about earnings that we saw in the late 1990's, where you're seeing more talk about whisper numbers, higher expectations, and a more punitive reaction to numbers that disappoint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's actually fairly critical that we have a definitive time frame, because as we move into the Christmas season, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38727]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's actually fairly critical that we have a definitive time frame, because as we move into the Christmas season, a number of hotels have reservations and bookings. It may become more challenging for us to find accommodations,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had been following (the power points) and figured this had a chance of happening. The thing I told her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41931]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had been following (the power points) and figured this had a chance of happening. The thing I told her (Barbee) is that I know it will be emotional, but she needs to keep playing the way she has and not let it consume her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody saw anyone being handcuffed. Officer Gant was moving into a position of cover. He was coming around a planter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody saw anyone being handcuffed. Officer Gant was moving into a position of cover. He was coming around a planter with a tree in it. His view was partially obstructed when the shot was fired. Sgt. Reed was in the arrest process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, "Who could have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19920]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, "Who could have done this? we have no enemies.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not satisfied at all with this and I hope in court it all comes out. Right now, I can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not satisfied at all with this and I hope in court it all comes out. Right now, I can't believe what's happening to my baby girl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48290]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great or small, is to open the heart and lay bare its suggestion, likings, and dislikings before some spiritual adviser; for, ... the first condition which the Evil One makes with a soul, when he wants to entrap it, is silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A joy that's shared is a joy made double. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23439]]></link><description><![CDATA[A joy that's shared is a joy made double.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39185]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39185</guid></item></channel></rss>