<?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[That's the way it's been all year. Every game, we find new ways to win. We're always finding something new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33395]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the way it's been all year. Every game, we find new ways to win. We're always finding something new and different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even before the turn of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54064]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most barracks ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.  And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What an alteration of honour has Desperate want made! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51373]]></link><description><![CDATA[What an alteration of honour has Desperate want made!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's been a lot of interest in the subject, ... It certainly is an issue right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31555]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's been a lot of interest in the subject, ... It certainly is an issue right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  If the true revelation of God is in Christ, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  If the true revelation of God is in Christ, the Bible is not properly a revelation, but the History of a Revelation. This is not only a Fact but a necessity, for a Person cannot be revealed in a Book, but must find revelation, if at all, in a Person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not even the gods can withstand necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not even the gods can withstand necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figured, if they're going to do that, ... I'd throw in a surge, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figured, if they're going to do that, ... I'd throw in a surge, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether they find a life there or not, I think Jupiter should be called an enemy planet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether they find a life there or not, I think Jupiter should be called an enemy planet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  And what might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  And what might this noble Lord do of more worship and joy to me than to show me (that am so simple) this marvelous homeliness [i.e., naturalness and simplicity]? Thus it fareth with our Lord Jesus and with us. For truly it is the most joy that may be that He that is highest and mightiest, noblest and worthiest, is lowest and meekest, homeliest and most courteous: and truly this marvelous joy shall be shewn us all when we see Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3128]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The interpretation of dreams is a great art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The interpretation of dreams is a great art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13144]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was going to go I think to the Kansas vs. Texas game, but I don't know. My head coach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32710]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was going to go I think to the Kansas vs. Texas game, but I don't know. My head coach and AAU coach need to work that out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Democrats think Republicans are stealing elections. The Republicans think Democrats are stealing elections. And those of us independent of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11902]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Democrats think Republicans are stealing elections. The Republicans think Democrats are stealing elections. And those of us independent of the two old parties know they are both right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31752]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men play the game; women know the score ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men play the game; women know the score]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  We must not encourage in ourselves or others any tendency ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  We must not encourage in ourselves or others any tendency to work up a subjective state which, if we succeeded, we should describe as "faith", with the idea that this will somehow ensure the granting of our prayer. We have probably all done this as children. But the state of mind which desperate desire working on a strong imagination can manufacture is not faith in the Christian sense. It is a feat of psychological gymnastics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest about thirty years after date. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48920]]></link><description><![CDATA[The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest about thirty years after date.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if it's hatred. I know it's a sickness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38912]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if it's hatred. I know it's a sickness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22730]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the Squirrel skin Marcosset Made some mittens for our hero.  Mittens with the fur-side inside,   With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44615]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the Squirrel skin Marcosset Made some mittens for our hero.  Mittens with the fur-side inside,   With the fur-side next his fingers    So's to keep the hand warm inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in holiday humor and like enough to consent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in holiday humor and like enough to consent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't long for the unripe grape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't long for the unripe grape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25369]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young Apollo, golden haired, Stands dreaming on the verge of strife,  Magnificently unprepared   For the long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62571]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young Apollo, golden haired, Stands dreaming on the verge of strife,  Magnificently unprepared   For the long littleness of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People like port because it's got a really interesting flavour - it's rich. There are quite a lot of liqueurs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39990]]></link><description><![CDATA[People like port because it's got a really interesting flavour - it's rich. There are quite a lot of liqueurs with fruit flavours but nothing quite like port.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who would not praise Patrico's high desert, His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart,  His comprehensive head? all interests weigh'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who would not praise Patrico's high desert, His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart,  His comprehensive head? all interests weigh'd,   All Europe sav'd, yet Britain not betray'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christina never called me names, which was very sweet. She said I was the only person there to support her, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christina never called me names, which was very sweet. She said I was the only person there to support her, so she didn't want to alienate me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never seek your value from your father's accomplishments, your real value lies in what you achieve. That's what defines you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never seek your value from your father's accomplishments, your real value lies in what you achieve. That's what defines you and that's what you will be remembered by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11427]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63649]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's really no secret menu. Our motto is to give the customer what they want. If they want extra tomato, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33303]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's really no secret menu. Our motto is to give the customer what they want. If they want extra tomato, more sauce, pickles, whatever - we'll do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus' moral teaching does not consist of a universal scheme of ethics, a series of precepts which would be universally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus' moral teaching does not consist of a universal scheme of ethics, a series of precepts which would be universally valid, by whomever they had been spoken. They are to be heard as His word, spoken by Him, with the impact of His person behind them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are back in business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33758]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are back in business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing's more dull and negligent Than an old, lazy government,  That knows no interest of state,   But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing's more dull and negligent Than an old, lazy government,  That knows no interest of state,   But such as serves a present strait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wasn't leaving a lot of stuff over the plate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31538]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wasn't leaving a lot of stuff over the plate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49014]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Families of the 'disappeared' deserve answers immediately to their repeated demands for information about the fate of their loved ones. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Families of the 'disappeared' deserve answers immediately to their repeated demands for information about the fate of their loved ones. Above all they deserve justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to show respect for the sword for the audience to believe it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37374]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to show respect for the sword for the audience to believe it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him! -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56052]]></link><description><![CDATA[So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him! -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who labours, prays. [Lat., Qui laborat, orat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23918]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who labours, prays. [Lat., Qui laborat, orat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23918</guid></item></channel></rss>