<?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[[B.C. Health Minister George Abbott praised the initiative.] The province commends the Lois Fish Palliative Society for creating a source ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35511]]></link><description><![CDATA[[B.C. Health Minister George Abbott praised the initiative.] The province commends the Lois Fish Palliative Society for creating a source of comprehensive information on palliative resources in B.C., ... By January 2006, we are hopeful this resource will link directly with B.C. NurseLine and further enhance the ability of the nurses to provide greater assistance to British Columbians with end-of-life care, service providers and organizations in their communities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16035]]></link><description><![CDATA[When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43729]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others by force that it is right]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44249]]></link><description><![CDATA[A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is no burden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is no burden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This report confirms everything we've ever said about why the Byrd Amendment should be overturned, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34656]]></link><description><![CDATA[This report confirms everything we've ever said about why the Byrd Amendment should be overturned,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15947]]></link><description><![CDATA[High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out. And that's wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, now and then- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.This is known as "bad luck.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22062]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -Charles Caleb Colton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16984]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -Charles Caleb Colton.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9502]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's history being made. More than that, I don't think you can send 140,000 soldiers out there, young guys from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37213]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's history being made. More than that, I don't think you can send 140,000 soldiers out there, young guys from Kansas and Alabama and all over the place, and not take some of the same risks that you're asking them to take.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will identify most things that are truly dangerous. It will not find nail clippers or box cutters, but those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will identify most things that are truly dangerous. It will not find nail clippers or box cutters, but those are legal. The 9/11 (terrorist attack) was not about box cutters, it was about (pilot) doors people could open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Current condition of the BYU football program? I think it's in good shape. We've got some good young players. We've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Current condition of the BYU football program? I think it's in good shape. We've got some good young players. We've had two or three pretty good recruiting years. We lost some players, obviously, that hurt us, but you always have turnover in college through attrition (graduation, transfers). That's the nature of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people are fee to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45305]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people are fee to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government of Chinahas become likeUK and US a pirateof innocent kidnappedpharmaceutically abused primates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government of Chinahas become likeUK and US a pirateof innocent kidnappedpharmaceutically abused primates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We deem this action representative of a market that has lost the flurry of last week's panic buying and instead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32937]]></link><description><![CDATA[We deem this action representative of a market that has lost the flurry of last week's panic buying and instead is rethinking its view as to the near-term motivation of the Fed and the impact of Katrina.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Of all my field goals), I'm proudest of that kick today. I can honestly say that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32976]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Of all my field goals), I'm proudest of that kick today. I can honestly say that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no glory in outstripping donkeys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15890]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11470]]></link><description><![CDATA[After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582 O God, grant that today  I may not disappoint any friend; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582 O God, grant that today  I may not disappoint any friend;  I may not grieve any loved one;  I may not fail anyone to whom I have a duty;  I may not shame myself. Grant that today  I may do my work with honesty and fidelity;  I may take my pleasure in happiness and purity. Grant that today  I may lead no one astray;  I may not make goodness and faith harder for anyone. Help me today  to be a help and example to all;  to bring strength and encouragement wherever I am: Through Jesus Christ my Lord, Amen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23670]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big thing for her was that she rebounded well. She scored and hit the big shots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big thing for her was that she rebounded well. She scored and hit the big shots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At early dawn when the air is crisp And you're standing knee deep in a beautiful rip  You see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16284]]></link><description><![CDATA[At early dawn when the air is crisp And you're standing knee deep in a beautiful rip  You see a trout rise to an unknown fly   Then your heart starts to thump and you wonder why    You're a neophyte fly fisherman.     You can measure the cast and study the lie      Then lengthen the line to make your first try       As you check the rod to get a good presentation        You hold your breath in solemn anticipation         You must be a fly fisherman!          The fly floats gently on its way to the trout           You know it will "take it" without a doubt.            You're all charged up and ready to strike             But the fly floats by because something's not right              You are still a fly fisherman.               You open your fly box and select a new fly                Then lengthen the tippet before the next try                 Change your position to help with the cast                  And hope you have made the right decision at last                   Now you are a doubtful fly fisherman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet;  Should the big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet;  Should the big last extend the shoe too wide,   Each stone will wrench the unwary step aside;    The sudden turn may stretch the swelling vein,     The cracking joint unhinge, or ankle sprain;      And when too short the modish shoes are worn,       You'll judge the seasons by your shooting corn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be pointed out with the finger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53888]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be pointed out with the finger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57279]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great is the Tailor, but not the greatest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is the Tailor, but not the greatest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call;  For what is worth, in anything, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62323]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call;  For what is worth, in anything,   But so much money as 't will bring?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With something that's more emotionally based, you can't sort of screw the line up a little bit and adlib and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37945]]></link><description><![CDATA[With something that's more emotionally based, you can't sort of screw the line up a little bit and adlib and something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had one preseason game. The seeding is done according to the number of power points. You can have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34504]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had one preseason game. The seeding is done according to the number of power points. You can have a team with 22 games and they're still getting more points for losing games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47535]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is sweeter than life itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is sweeter than life itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47552]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47552</guid></item></channel></rss>