<?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[Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The family is the nucleus of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27077]]></link><description><![CDATA[The family is the nucleus of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13109]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die. [It., Spesso e da forte,  Piu che ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die. [It., Spesso e da forte,  Piu che il morire, il vivere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's really important is the emergence of a political class that would agree on the rules of the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34952]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's really important is the emergence of a political class that would agree on the rules of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring your own boots, work gloves and dress for cold weather. It is going to get dirty out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring your own boots, work gloves and dress for cold weather. It is going to get dirty out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string,  Make bracelets to adorn the wife   Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string,  Make bracelets to adorn the wife   Of the eternal, glorious King.    On Sunday heaven's gates stand ope;     Blessings are plentiful and rife.      More plentiful than hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can come to a decision that positively impacts all three of those then you've made the best decision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33917]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can come to a decision that positively impacts all three of those then you've made the best decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to have wings then hornes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49561]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to have wings then hornes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first three weeks were bitterly cold, but the last week was pretty darn warm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37833]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first three weeks were bitterly cold, but the last week was pretty darn warm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17618]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, and you don't branch out, you don't try-you don't take the risk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IBM believes a common standards-based approach, like the XMCL Initiative, is an important step forward for content owners, retailers, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33655]]></link><description><![CDATA[IBM believes a common standards-based approach, like the XMCL Initiative, is an important step forward for content owners, retailers, and distributors, and ultimately for consumers. The initiative announced today will help evolve the digital distribution of content over the Internet to create new e-commerce opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535  Sorrow for sin and sorrow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535  Sorrow for sin and sorrow for suffering are ofttimes so twisted and interwoven in the same person -- yea, in the same sigh and groan -- that sometimes it is impossible for the party himself so to separate and divide them in his own sense and feeling, as to know which proceeds from the one and which from the other. Only the all-seeing eye of an infinite God is able to discern and distinguish them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an excellent choice ... for an organization that does extremely good work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41943]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an excellent choice ... for an organization that does extremely good work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, when guests have gone, the host remembers Sweet courteous things unsaid.  We two have talked our hearts out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, when guests have gone, the host remembers Sweet courteous things unsaid.  We two have talked our hearts out to the embers,   And now go hand in hand down to the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the seathe sun aborningNot adorned butall adorningwith his awesome lightof morningsays to youCome! My Mavoorning! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the seathe sun aborningNot adorned butall adorningwith his awesome lightof morningsays to youCome! My Mavoorning!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. TheLos Angeles riots were caused by rioters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. TheLos Angeles riots were caused by rioters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10899]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am persuaded that some have scarce any better or more forcible argument to satisfy their own minds that they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7235]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am persuaded that some have scarce any better or more forcible argument to satisfy their own minds that they are in the right in religion than the inclination they find in themselves to hate and persecute them whom they suppose to be in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20055]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year, the offense, we weren't able to put up that many points. This year we have weapons like Derrick ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year, the offense, we weren't able to put up that many points. This year we have weapons like Derrick Williams, Justin King, Michael Robinson at quarterback. I'm anxious to see how that turns out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2641]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good pay-master starts not at assurances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49030]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good pay-master starts not at assurances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had an opportunity and it just didn't happen. We were in good shape in overtime, it just didn't go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34131]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had an opportunity and it just didn't happen. We were in good shape in overtime, it just didn't go our way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that the addition of the 12th regular-season game would make any playoff even more difficult. I find little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42400]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that the addition of the 12th regular-season game would make any playoff even more difficult. I find little support for a playoff among presidents of major universities, and I believe some voted for the 12th game in lieu of that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauty of success lies not solely in your happiness. But also in ensuring that you stop to help those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62913]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauty of success lies not solely in your happiness. But also in ensuring that you stop to help those along your life's path become champions in their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pets are more sensitive to the needs of humansthan vice versa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pets are more sensitive to the needs of humansthan vice versa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stolen kisses are always sweeter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stolen kisses are always sweeter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52118]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important for them to know; and we may be certain that they are determined to remain invincibly ignorant if they once come to consider it as axiomatic that there are no absolute principles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and coordination of these scattered fragments of knowledge is one of the basic problems- perhaps the basic problem- of any society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I’ve been offered a lot but I want to stay away from romance, comedies and fluffy work. I met Stephen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I’ve been offered a lot but I want to stay away from romance, comedies and fluffy work. I met Stephen Spielberg at a breast cancer benefit and he explained that he’d seen me on Saturday Night Live and thought I was ready for a movie. He said, ‘You go to the ledge and are unafraid to jump off.’ That was the biggest compliment to me because he was saying I was free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to give Midland a lot of credit. They were prepared for all our sets and they came ready ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41690]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to give Midland a lot of credit. They were prepared for all our sets and they came ready to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A farewell is necessary before we can meet again, and meeting again, after moments or a lifetime is certain for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15311]]></link><description><![CDATA[A farewell is necessary before we can meet again, and meeting again, after moments or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46639]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52501]]></link><description><![CDATA[All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26726]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944    If Christianity has never frightened us, we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944    If Christianity has never frightened us, we have not yet learnt what it is.   ... Abp. William Temple  November 7, 2001 Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739   The social gospel is not an addendum to the gospel; it is the gospel. If we read the Gospels, it becomes clear that it was not what Jesus said about God that got him into trouble (but) his treatment of men and women, his way of being friendly with outcasts with whom no respectable Jew would have anything to do. It has always been fairly safe to talk about God; it is when we start to talk about men that the trouble starts. And yet the fact remains that there is no conceivable way of proving that we love God other than by loving men. And there is no conceivable way of proving that we love men than by doing something for those who most need help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to take us three or four weeks to learn how to play under pressure. Even if you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39945]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to take us three or four weeks to learn how to play under pressure. Even if you have to wait till the last few minutes if you keep passing it around and don't give it away to easily then things will finally open up. When you start to relax and keep possession and wait for your opportunities goals will come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19834]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimski; for he driveth furiously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56852]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and beget action; they kill and revive, corrupt and cure. The "men-of-words"- priests, prophets, intellectuals- have played a more decisive role in history than military leaders, statesmen, and businessmen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man owns land, the land owns him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23978]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man owns land, the land owns him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23978</guid></item></channel></rss>