<?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[I follow my law and fulfil it all duly--and look! when your doubt runneth high-- North points to the needle! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12768]]></link><description><![CDATA[I follow my law and fulfil it all duly--and look! when your doubt runneth high-- North points to the needle!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My steps have pressed the flowers, That to the Muses' bowers  The eternal dews of Helicon have given:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44054]]></link><description><![CDATA[My steps have pressed the flowers, That to the Muses' bowers  The eternal dews of Helicon have given:   And trod the mountain height,    Where Science, young and bright,     Scans with poetic gaze the midnight-heaven.      Yet have I found no power to vie       With thine, severe necessity!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very hard to shave an egge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49565]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very hard to shave an egge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10433]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we get rain, things could really perk up and look good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40172]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we get rain, things could really perk up and look good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I am concerned with here is not to write a new life of Jesus, but to set down my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7658]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I am concerned with here is not to write a new life of Jesus, but to set down my witness to the continued shocks which his words and deeds gave me as I approached the Gospels uninsulated by the familiar cover of beautiful language. The figure who emerged is quite unlike the Jesus of conventional piety, and even more unlike that imagined hero whom members of various causes claim as their champion. What we are so often confronted with today is a "processed" Jesus. Every element that we feel is not consonant with our "image" of him is removed, and the result is more insipid and unsatisfying than the worst of processed food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am very excited to be the head women's basketball coach at Beloit College, ... This is a great opportunity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33735]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am very excited to be the head women's basketball coach at Beloit College, ... This is a great opportunity for me. I am looking forward to putting my stamp on the program. I am confident that I can and will be successful here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been thesystematic organization of hatreds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been thesystematic organization of hatreds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is by far the best team we've seen. Their posts are quick so it's hard for posts to match ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32107]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is by far the best team we've seen. Their posts are quick so it's hard for posts to match up with them when you try to jump up into a zone. When you try to match up man-to-man, you have those back-door cuts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This may truly be a teachable moment about the impact of poverty and race on health, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33213]]></link><description><![CDATA[This may truly be a teachable moment about the impact of poverty and race on health,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word. Thus he dangles before man's fantasy a kingdom of faith, of power, and of peace, into which only he can enter who consents to the temptations; and he conceals from men that he, as the devil, is the most unfortunate and unhappy of beings, since he is finally and eternally rejected by God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O well for him whose will is strong, He suffers, but he will not suffer long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51708]]></link><description><![CDATA[O well for him whose will is strong, He suffers, but he will not suffer long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Annuit coepis. [He (God) approves our undertakings.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Annuit coepis. [He (God) approves our undertakings.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A report to the Security Council initiates a chain of events... that breed tension and add volatility to an already ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35726]]></link><description><![CDATA[A report to the Security Council initiates a chain of events... that breed tension and add volatility to an already vulnerable political situation in the region.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a great ride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38342]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a great ride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48363]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action.If there's no action, you haven't truly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21407]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action.If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not really worried about it. I just tried to be a peacemaker... Sometimes it don't pay to be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39660]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not really worried about it. I just tried to be a peacemaker... Sometimes it don't pay to be the good guy, ... I just take it with a grain of salt and move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that in the next 15 days we can have a new government and present it to parliament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37419]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that in the next 15 days we can have a new government and present it to parliament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pension never inriched young man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pension never inriched young man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking and is voting for the other guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foreign workers' remittances boosted local manufacturers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foreign workers' remittances boosted local manufacturers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.  The sun insists on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.  The sun insists on gladness; but at night,   When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. - Talking to Myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43526]]></link><description><![CDATA[To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. - Talking to Myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22640]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At that point, we'd stop recycling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36400]]></link><description><![CDATA[At that point, we'd stop recycling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46531]]></link><description><![CDATA[No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide. - Spinster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every woman there is a Queen. Speak to the Queen and the Queen will answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52708]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every woman there is a Queen. Speak to the Queen and the Queen will answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35818]]></link><description><![CDATA[I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read but o'er the Stories Of men most fam'd for courage or for counsaile  And you shall find that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read but o'er the Stories Of men most fam'd for courage or for counsaile  And you shall find that the desire of glory   Was the last frailty wise men put of;    Be they presidents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything we do in emergency services is a calculated risk, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything we do in emergency services is a calculated risk,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20608]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11533]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We competed better in the second half, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30662]]></link><description><![CDATA[We competed better in the second half,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one stretcheth his legges according to his coverlet. [Every one stretches his legs according to his coverlet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one stretcheth his legges according to his coverlet. [Every one stretches his legs according to his coverlet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is fear that has said its prayers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After it's all said and done, we usually have a couple thousand left, and we donate that to the Anacortes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37671]]></link><description><![CDATA[After it's all said and done, we usually have a couple thousand left, and we donate that to the Anacortes Boys and Girls Club.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58430]]></link><description><![CDATA[The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21535]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail to the King of Bethlehem, Who weareth in his diadem  The yellow crocus for the gem   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail to the King of Bethlehem, Who weareth in his diadem  The yellow crocus for the gem   Of his authority!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the gift that keeps on giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33751]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the gift that keeps on giving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5219]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting lice in half with their teeth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's recovering a little bit abroad (today). But, the outlook is for more U.S. losses ... so we have space ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35001]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's recovering a little bit abroad (today). But, the outlook is for more U.S. losses ... so we have space to fall further.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35001</guid></item></channel></rss>