<?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[This is the only lighthouse we've ever read about or heard about that has tide pools designed for the handicapped, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42390]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the only lighthouse we've ever read about or heard about that has tide pools designed for the handicapped, where you can actually take a wheelchair, go down ramps and go into the Pacific Ocean and touch the urchins and the starfish. That really impressed us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is grievous to be caught. [Lat., Deprendi miserum est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10660]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is grievous to be caught. [Lat., Deprendi miserum est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain withi its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43965]]></link><description><![CDATA[All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain withi its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man,-- A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57969]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59044]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Garner came out not real strong. But he pitched well throughout. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Garner came out not real strong. But he pitched well throughout.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. -King Henry IV. Part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55876]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2844]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by "vanity" only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're doing fundraising, providing food, housing clothing, whatever she needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30379]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're doing fundraising, providing food, housing clothing, whatever she needs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9312]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5760]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  If the wounds of millions are to be healed, what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  If the wounds of millions are to be healed, what other way is there except through forgiveness? Jesus, at least, leaves us no alternative. The command is stern. The terms are set: "But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being named outstanding wrestler talks about his character as well as his wrestling skills. When coaches talk about David, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being named outstanding wrestler talks about his character as well as his wrestling skills. When coaches talk about David, they always talk about what a great person he is first and that means more to me than anything because that's what will take him a long way in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity makes even the timid brave. [Lat., Necessitas etiam timidos fortes facit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity makes even the timid brave. [Lat., Necessitas etiam timidos fortes facit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the most part, I think they've been pretty good. The crew we had the first and second nights were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41140]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the most part, I think they've been pretty good. The crew we had the first and second nights were professional-looking. There were a few ball-strike calls I didn't like, but that's going to happen in the big leagues or anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[City outreach teams have been working aggressively to convince these individuals to accept services. There's no question that we're dealing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37031]]></link><description><![CDATA[City outreach teams have been working aggressively to convince these individuals to accept services. There's no question that we're dealing with a population that is difficult to engage, but we're making some headway and some of them are accepting services.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Larger U.S. retailers have recognized for a number of years that the domestic market is mature. In order to grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Larger U.S. retailers have recognized for a number of years that the domestic market is mature. In order to grow sales, they have to look outside of the U.S.. China, however, is a big emerging opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The volume has been extraordinary, ... We've seen a great deal of money coming into the market place early in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The volume has been extraordinary, ... We've seen a great deal of money coming into the market place early in the year, and they need to find a home in a hurry. We're also seeing increased interest in our market on the part of foreign investors. The U.S. is a great market with wonderful liquidity and a terrific upside bias.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iran's defiance of the international ban on executing child offenders is a growing concern and calls into question its willingness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iran's defiance of the international ban on executing child offenders is a growing concern and calls into question its willingness to abide by international human rights standards,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12977]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,— One foot in sea and one on shore, To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,— One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let each man have according to his deserts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let each man have according to his deserts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The lines that most pleased Anderson as composer are in the second verse:] Show the rainbow of your promise/There will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32437]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The lines that most pleased Anderson as composer are in the second verse:] Show the rainbow of your promise/There will be a brighter day. ... I wanted to write something that would convey a spirit of hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and a cough cannot be hid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and a cough cannot be hid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43668]]></link><description><![CDATA[One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The side played sensationally. Wherever that leaves us in the table, we can be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The side played sensationally. Wherever that leaves us in the table, we can be happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43716]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of it is the seat-of-your-pants-type thing and a lot of faith and trust in people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38511]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of it is the seat-of-your-pants-type thing and a lot of faith and trust in people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46414]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22240]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the destructive dice-box has pleasures for the father, the son will be a gambler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50454]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the destructive dice-box has pleasures for the father, the son will be a gambler.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Visa Waiver Program is one that we've been working on even prior to the bombings in London, taking more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37276]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Visa Waiver Program is one that we've been working on even prior to the bombings in London, taking more precautions as far as making sure there are secured documents for all these people coming through the Visa Waiver Program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man dies - Not every man really lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man dies - Not every man really lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933  [Christ] tells us plainly, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933  [Christ] tells us plainly, and without any qualifications, that we are involved in a war in which there is no room for neutrals. Yet people attempt to evade His statement. Generally speaking, these are the very people who are the quickest in laying the blame upon God for all the sorrow and sin in the world. They argue that He could prevent it. They excuse their own do-nothing attitude by making of evil's apparent predominance a ground for doubt of His loving kindness. It never seems to occur to them to look for the cause in mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has always been a mixed bag, being the spouse of a political figure. Just as it is true that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30994]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has always been a mixed bag, being the spouse of a political figure. Just as it is true that you and your family life come second, you also get great privilege and access to power, and power just on your own. They've known that, and we've known that, and that's a reason they haven't complained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30994</guid></item></channel></rss>