<?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[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280  Our own curiosity often hindereth us in the reading of holy writings, when we seek to understand and discuss, where we should pass simply on. If thou wouldst profit by thy reading, read humbly, simply, honestly, and not desiring to win a character [i.e., reputation] for learning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife that shall be my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50624]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife that shall be my master.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18257]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.   - William Hazlitt,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, they're selling the foundation to pay for the mortgage. These lands really belong to future generations and shouldn't be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, they're selling the foundation to pay for the mortgage. These lands really belong to future generations and shouldn't be sold to the highest bidder. There's no reason why the world's biggest economic power needs to sell parkland to make ends meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust, but verify. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust, but verify.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always find that democracy is very unpredictable. What is clear is that members vote very much not on trends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always find that democracy is very unpredictable. What is clear is that members vote very much not on trends but on whatever they feel is worthy, without any external influence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35221</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[Justice delayed is justice denied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice delayed is justice denied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very ancient and fish-like smell. -The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56095]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very ancient and fish-like smell. -The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a huge conference game for us. We needed that bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32716]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a huge conference game for us. We needed that bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No creature smarts so little as a fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50941]]></link><description><![CDATA[No creature smarts so little as a fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cold case will be brought back to full light. It'll be tough to prosecute but the Crown will succeed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32095]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cold case will be brought back to full light. It'll be tough to prosecute but the Crown will succeed by March 12. It involves someone found in a forest, and it feels like the person is coming up on more than one charge. There's going to be lots of public controversy around this case.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27240]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384   [John] Wycliffe's doctrine of "dominion founded in grace" was a peculiar feature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384   [John] Wycliffe's doctrine of "dominion founded in grace" was a peculiar feature of his system. He taught that God, as the great feudal superior of the universe, allotted to all earthly authorities their rule in fief as subject to Himself. The priesthood was not an office of dominion, but of service, and its prerogatives ceased when service was not rendered. Dominion was not granted to one person as God's Vicar on earth, but the King was as much God's Vicar as the Pope; nay, every Christian held his rights immediately of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win,  By fearing to attempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win,  By fearing to attempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62395]]></link><description><![CDATA[A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just needed help with learning how to care for children with special needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40967]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just needed help with learning how to care for children with special needs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is one hard team to guard. If you come out and guard them, they go to the basket, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28727]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is one hard team to guard. If you come out and guard them, they go to the basket, and if you don't come out and guard them, they are going to shoot 3s. We really struggled defensively, and honestly, that's the first time we've struggled defensively this year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,  The ploughman homeward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,  The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,   And leaves the world to darkness and to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought Pat (Connolly) threw well for us, but you can't win games fielding the way we did. This one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32499]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought Pat (Connolly) threw well for us, but you can't win games fielding the way we did. This one is tough to accept. But the kids never quit. The kids hung in there and we battled back-and-forth, back-and-forth. It was a wild high school baseball game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. •E. Joseph Cossman  Each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. •E. Joseph Cossman  Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58828]]></link><description><![CDATA[And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was perhaps inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54569]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's become much more difficult to win asylum and if an immigration officer issues a mistaken decision, it's highly unlikely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34368]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's become much more difficult to win asylum and if an immigration officer issues a mistaken decision, it's highly unlikely the asylum seeker can reverse it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34368</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[Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing on earth divine except humanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19980]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just really excited about it, and I think it needs to be started in the early grades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37252]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just really excited about it, and I think it needs to be started in the early grades.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47504]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think you have to give all the credit to Lower. He (Holden) is a fantastic coach. His team came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35463]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think you have to give all the credit to Lower. He (Holden) is a fantastic coach. His team came ready to play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.-- This grave shall have a living monument.  An hour of quiet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.-- This grave shall have a living monument.  An hour of quiet shortly shall we see;   Till then in patience our proceeding be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47789]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tortoise and the EagleA tortoise, lazily basking in the sun, complained to the sea-birds of her hard fate, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Tortoise and the EagleA tortoise, lazily basking in the sun, complained to the sea-birds of her hard fate, that no one would teach her to fly. An Eagle, hovering near, heard her lamentation and demanded what reward she would give him if he would take her aloft and float her in the air. I will give you, she said, all the riches of the Red Sea. I will teach you to fly then, said the Eagle; and taking her up in his talons he carried her almost to the clouds suddenly he let her go, and she fell on a lofty mountain, dashing her shell to pieces. The Tortoise exclaimed in the moment of death: I have deserved my present fate; for what had I to do with wings and clouds, who can with difficulty move about on the earth?' If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35191]]></link><description><![CDATA[A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are the governments in charge or is Ian Paisley in charge? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are the governments in charge or is Ian Paisley in charge?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So our lives In acts exemplarie, not only winne  Ourselves good Names, but doth to others give   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11676]]></link><description><![CDATA[So our lives In acts exemplarie, not only winne  Ourselves good Names, but doth to others give   Matter for virtuous Deedes, by which wee live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4319]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had our chances too, because we got to the foul line, but didn't convert. That makes it pretty tough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38276]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had our chances too, because we got to the foul line, but didn't convert. That makes it pretty tough because we have lost some tough games this season. It's an area I hope we can solve by the time we begin region play because that is when it counts the most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ill deede cannot bring honour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49122]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ill deede cannot bring honour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49122</guid></item></channel></rss>