<?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[Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Multitudinous echoes awoke and died in the distance. . . . .  And, when the echoes had ceased, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Multitudinous echoes awoke and died in the distance. . . . .  And, when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62139]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of things we're seeing right now are very familiar pieces, but they're done in a new fabric or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of things we're seeing right now are very familiar pieces, but they're done in a new fabric or color. It's about juxtaposition - denim with velvet. That makes it easy to get a lot of use out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause I'm like that a lot. You think everything's ok, and it is . . . 'till it's not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Heifer and the Ox A heifer saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plow, and tormented him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1586]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Heifer and the Ox A heifer saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plow, and tormented him with reflections on his unhappy fate in being compelled to labor. Shortly afterwards, at the harvest festival, the owner released the Ox from his yoke, but bound the Heifer with cords and led him away to the altar to be slain in honor of the occasion. The Ox saw what was being done, and said with a smile to the Heifer: For this you were allowed to live in idleness, because you were presently to be sacrificed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1697]]></link><description><![CDATA[The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joking set aside. [Lat., Omissis jocis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joking set aside. [Lat., Omissis jocis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present condition of fame is merely fashion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present condition of fame is merely fashion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. -King John. Act v. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55805]]></link><description><![CDATA[This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times when a battle decides everything, and there are times when the most insignificant thing can decide the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11596]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times when a battle decides everything, and there are times when the most insignificant thing can decide the outcome of a battle]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. -Goethe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. -Goethe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57434]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Around, around in ceaseless circles wheeling With clangs of wings and scream, the Eagle sailed  Incessantly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Around, around in ceaseless circles wheeling With clangs of wings and scream, the Eagle sailed  Incessantly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity is the first path to truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity is the first path to truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15572]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're moving sound closer and closer. It's really increasing pressure on the ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31794]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're moving sound closer and closer. It's really increasing pressure on the ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The traditional worship setting is both the inspiration for faith and fellowship, and the barrier to it. Due only to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The traditional worship setting is both the inspiration for faith and fellowship, and the barrier to it. Due only to Word and Sacrament -- God's ideas -- is there any faith to be shared or truth to articulate. However, the very setting in which this is received instills the fear of expressing it informally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nitrate doesn't appear to be present at levels of concern in groundwater deeper than about 150 feet. In general, elevated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nitrate doesn't appear to be present at levels of concern in groundwater deeper than about 150 feet. In general, elevated nitrate levels were found in shallow wells and not in deep wells.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not going to be easy, but I think things were encouraging. It's better than what it was last Sunday, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not going to be easy, but I think things were encouraging. It's better than what it was last Sunday, by far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm more nervous about doing this than anything I've ever done before, because it is so prestigious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42534]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm more nervous about doing this than anything I've ever done before, because it is so prestigious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The Log Cabin Republicans'] rhetoric is disingenuous, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31197]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The Log Cabin Republicans'] rhetoric is disingenuous,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational. [Ger., Est giebt Menschen die gar nicht irren, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14159]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational. [Ger., Est giebt Menschen die gar nicht irren, weil sie sich nichts Vernunftiges vorsetzen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60015]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never raise your hand to your children ð it leaves your midsection unprotected ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never raise your hand to your children ð it leaves your midsection unprotected]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you judge people you have no time to love them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25653]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you judge people you have no time to love them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For ever and a day. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55682]]></link><description><![CDATA[For ever and a day. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The envious only hate the excellence they cannot reach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52440]]></link><description><![CDATA[The envious only hate the excellence they cannot reach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is any result over 90 percent it is better to investigate those again. We are reviewing all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34844]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is any result over 90 percent it is better to investigate those again. We are reviewing all the numbers, yes and no.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money, which is of very uncertain value, and sometimes has no value at all and even less. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money, which is of very uncertain value, and sometimes has no value at all and even less.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Killing no murder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Killing no murder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know it's silly to say it, but I love 29th Street and I love Jack Ruby. Moonstruck I liked, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32622]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know it's silly to say it, but I love 29th Street and I love Jack Ruby. Moonstruck I liked, but my character was troublesome to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wasn't a pretty win. It was probably more of the kind of win we needed for a team that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37177]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wasn't a pretty win. It was probably more of the kind of win we needed for a team that has been struggling the last few games for an identity. I think we found it tonight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14775]]></link><description><![CDATA[An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amongst good men two men suffice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amongst good men two men suffice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just disappointed in the whole match. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32185]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just disappointed in the whole match.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12652]]></link><description><![CDATA[And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't look back, they might be gaining on you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't look back, they might be gaining on you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19282</guid></item></channel></rss>