<?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[Trafficking in persons for sexual purposes is a debased and degrading practice which must be stopped, ... The department is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trafficking in persons for sexual purposes is a debased and degrading practice which must be stopped, ... The department is committed to eradicating this evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a strange injury. When he came off in the first innings he noticed a slight swelling under his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42693]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a strange injury. When he came off in the first innings he noticed a slight swelling under his knee. There was no pain but we thought we'd have it scanned and it came back with something to do with the ligament pulling away from the hamstring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22277]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62446]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy and sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The craving for sympathy is the common boundary-line between joy and sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12381]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The face the index of a feeling mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14857]]></link><description><![CDATA[The face the index of a feeling mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We couldn't pull a few out but they were all close games and during each one of those losses we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39632]]></link><description><![CDATA[We couldn't pull a few out but they were all close games and during each one of those losses we felt that we could have won the game. Knowing that is a great sign because we can make some small adjustments and hopefully change it for the next game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50447]]></link><description><![CDATA[He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come,  And do not spread the compost on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come,  And do not spread the compost on the weeds   To make them ranker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart. . -John Welwood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3502]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The starting line of the New York City marathon is kind of a giant time bomb behind you about to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The starting line of the New York City marathon is kind of a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ring flies a long way because it's so thin, ... It's sailed as far as 1,333 feet, a Guinness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ring flies a long way because it's so thin, ... It's sailed as far as 1,333 feet, a Guinness world record.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. -Fran Lebowitz. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. -Fran Lebowitz.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They make a desert and they call it peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51671]]></link><description><![CDATA[They make a desert and they call it peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  God gave the prophecies, not to gratify men's curiosity by enabling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  God gave the prophecies, not to gratify men's curiosity by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and His own providence, not the interpreter's, be thereby manifested to the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slackers are waiting for their ship to come in, but the haven't wandered down to the docks to meet it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slackers are waiting for their ship to come in, but the haven't wandered down to the docks to meet it. Most times their ship doesn't travel by water anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4564]]></link><description><![CDATA[A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came up with a pretty unique scheme that we think the tourism people were impressed with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33936]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came up with a pretty unique scheme that we think the tourism people were impressed with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55648]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on prayer:  Wherever... thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on prayer:  Wherever... thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there; thy temple is there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65075]]></link><description><![CDATA[However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some groups that are resistant to vaccination because of the belief that influenza shot causes the flu. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32278]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some groups that are resistant to vaccination because of the belief that influenza shot causes the flu. It doesn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's definitely a threat with his legs. He can move pretty well and I believe that he's a big guy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38187]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's definitely a threat with his legs. He can move pretty well and I believe that he's a big guy (6-foot-4, 222 pounds), so we'll have to get after him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   [Leaders of the anarchist movement in Amsterdam] call their public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   [Leaders of the anarchist movement in Amsterdam] call their public demonstrations "Happenings". These paintings, these poems, and these demonstrations... are the expression of men who are struggling with their appalling lostness. Dare we laugh at such things? Dare we feel superior when we view their tortured expressions in their art? Christians should stop laughing and take such men seriously. Then we shall have the right to speak again to our generation. These men are dying while they live, yet where is our compassion for them? There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or without compassion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When love once pleads admission to our hearts, (In spite of all the virtue we can boast),  The woman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25610]]></link><description><![CDATA[When love once pleads admission to our hearts, (In spite of all the virtue we can boast),  The woman that deliberates is lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys don't make passes at female smart-asses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys don't make passes at female smart-asses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Isaiah 551 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Isaiah 551 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. 3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. 4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. 5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee. 6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. 10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. 12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. 13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17966]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas whispered in Heaven, 'twas muttered in hell And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell.  On the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19092]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas whispered in Heaven, 'twas muttered in hell And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell.  On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest,   And the depths of the ocean its presence confessed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54058]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a number of killed in the action in Nasiriya with the Marines -- I believe that number will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38359]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a number of killed in the action in Nasiriya with the Marines -- I believe that number will remain less than 10 -- and a number of wounded,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. -M. Scott Peck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As, then, a consummate master teaches both by example and by precept, so Christ taught the obedience, which good men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6915]]></link><description><![CDATA[As, then, a consummate master teaches both by example and by precept, so Christ taught the obedience, which good men are to render even at the cost of death, by Himself first dying in rendering it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When sense runs out, one shall follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22997]]></link><description><![CDATA[When sense runs out, one shall follow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just did not take care of our business. We missed too many shots, made too many mistakes, and played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40168]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just did not take care of our business. We missed too many shots, made too many mistakes, and played non-aggressive. I sincerely believe we have three of the best players in the greater Houston area, yet all three of them struggled tonight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doe what thou oughtest, and come what come can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doe what thou oughtest, and come what come can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28017]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our kids are playing at or above any level of expectations that anyone has outside of Deep Run. Our boys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our kids are playing at or above any level of expectations that anyone has outside of Deep Run. Our boys believe in themselves, they believe in each other; the coaches believe in them; and they don't think they are out of any game, no matter what the score is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let your loins be girded about, and your light burning; And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let your loins be girded about, and your light burning; And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61078]]></link><description><![CDATA[I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61078</guid></item></channel></rss>