<?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[If you kayak down Yucca Pen, it looks fine. The problem is its drainage area has been platted for development, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28176]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you kayak down Yucca Pen, it looks fine. The problem is its drainage area has been platted for development, so it drains a much larger upland area.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see things and you say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60870]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see things and you say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen it on every line, on almost every train. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29236]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen it on every line, on almost every train.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hereditary bondsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15431]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11256]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think  The nightingale, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think  The nightingale, if she should sing by day   When every goose is cackling, would be thought    No better a musician than the wren.     How many thing by season seasoned are      To their right praise and true perfection!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27144]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2866]]></link><description><![CDATA[You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64191]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the Lapdog A man had an Ass, and a Maltese Lapdog, a very great beauty. The Ass ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1545]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Lapdog A man had an Ass, and a Maltese Lapdog, a very great beauty. The Ass was left in a stable and had plenty of oats and hay to eat, just as any other Ass would. The Lapdog knew many tricks and was a great favorite with his master, who often fondled him and seldom went out to dine without bringing him home some tidbit to eat. The Ass, on the contrary, had much work to do in grinding the corn-mill and in carrying wood from the forest or burdens from the farm. He often lamented his own hard fate and contrasted it with the luxury and idleness of the Lapdog, till at last one day he broke his cords and halter, and galloped into his master's house, kicking up his heels without measure, and frisking and fawning as well as he could. He next tried to jump about his master as he had seen the Lapdog do, but he broke the table and smashed all the dishes upon it to atoms. He then attempted to lick his master, and jumped upon his back. The servants, hearing the strange hubbub and perceiving the danger of their master, quickly relieved him, and drove out the Ass to his stable with kicks and clubs and cuffs. The Ass, as he returned to his stall beaten nearly to death, thus lamented: I have brought it all on myself! Why could I not have been contented to labor with my companions, and not wish to be idle all the day like that useless little Lapdog!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage thatcounts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage thatcounts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fair face may hide a foul heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50955]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fair face may hide a foul heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 7. the ministry of authority   Jesus made authority in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 7. the ministry of authority   Jesus made authority in the fellowship dependent upon brotherly service (Mark 10:43). Genuine spiritual authority is to be found only where the ministry of hearing, helping, bearing, and proclaiming is carried out. Every cult of personality that emphasizes the distinguished qualities, virtues, and talents of another person, even though these be of an altogether spiritual nature, is worldly and has no place in the Christian community; indeed, it poisons the Christian community...   Genuine authority realizes that it can exist only in the service of Him who alone has authority... The Church does not need brilliant personalities but faithful servants of Jesus and the brethren...   Pastoral authority can be attained only by the servant of Jesus who seeks no power of his own, who himself is a brother among brothers to the authority of the Word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19414]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path you had chosen, may not be the right time for you. There may be something else which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62931]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path you had chosen, may not be the right time for you. There may be something else which is undone and God wants you to focus on it before travelling on your desired path. Everything has its own time. Follow your conscience and don't forget your priorities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always been suspicious of collective truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always been suspicious of collective truths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If things were to be done twice, all would be wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49518]]></link><description><![CDATA[If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was just such a funny guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29477]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was just such a funny guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O little Force that in your agony Stood fast while England girt her armour on,  Held high our honour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57131]]></link><description><![CDATA[O little Force that in your agony Stood fast while England girt her armour on,  Held high our honour in your wounded hands,   Carried our honour safe with bleeding feet--    We have no glory great enough for you,     The very soul of Britain keeps your day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It occurred to me that I have spent almost every working day of the past ten years living in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31750]]></link><description><![CDATA[It occurred to me that I have spent almost every working day of the past ten years living in a state of repressed fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226   Where there is fear of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226   Where there is fear of God to keep the house, the enemy can find no way to enter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have called my material surroundings a stage set. In this I can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have called my material surroundings a stage set. In this I can act. And you may well say "act". For what I call "myself" (for all practical, everyday purposes) is also a dramatic construction; memories, glimpses in the shavinglass, and snatches of the very fallible activity called "introspection", are the principal ingredients. Normally I call this construction "me"' and the stage set "the real world". Now the moment of prayer is for me -- or involves for me as its condition -- the awareness, the reawakened awareness, that this "real world" and "real self" are very far from being rock-bottom realities. I cannot, in the flesh, leave the stage, either to go behind the scenes or to take my seat in the pit; but I can remember that these regions exist. And I also remember that my apparent self -- this clown or hero or super -- under his grease-paint is a real person with an off-stage life. The dramatic person could not tread the stage unless he concealed a real person: unless the real and unknown I existed, I would not even make mistakes about the imagined me. And in prayer this real I struggles to speak, for once, from his real being, and to address, for once, not the other actors, but -- what shall I call Him? The Author, for He invented us all? The Producer, for He controls all? Or the Audience, for He watches, and will judge, the performance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Skype team's thinking is they don't need help. They've got the best product and the market will come to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Skype team's thinking is they don't need help. They've got the best product and the market will come to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45619]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41200]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a ball hog, plain and simple. He could probably be our best player on offense, but we need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33446]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a ball hog, plain and simple. He could probably be our best player on offense, but we need him over there on defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27128]]></link><description><![CDATA[All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33687]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martin Luther King said America had given a badcheck to black people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martin Luther King said America had given a badcheck to black people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gold Cup is the biggest headache on the schedule. We want to be respectful of the confederation championship and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30786]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Gold Cup is the biggest headache on the schedule. We want to be respectful of the confederation championship and put our best team out there and try to win it. However, our focus has to be on World Cup qualifying. Those 10 games are the most important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those [Anti-Cubans] who attack us [Cubans] don't represent more than a fraction of 1 percent. ... You [the foreign news ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those [Anti-Cubans] who attack us [Cubans] don't represent more than a fraction of 1 percent. ... You [the foreign news media] have helped create them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that shakes falles not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49107]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that shakes falles not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with research is that it tells you what people were thinking about yesterday, not tomorrow. It's like driving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with research is that it tells you what people were thinking about yesterday, not tomorrow. It's like driving a car using a rearview mirror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble. [It., Ove son leggi,  Tremar non ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble. [It., Ove son leggi,  Tremar non dee chi leggi non infranse.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never fall behind the curve. We lead the curve and we spread the gospel to other communities so we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42290]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never fall behind the curve. We lead the curve and we spread the gospel to other communities so we can, as a nation, step into the bright light of democracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53654]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the first time we've heard about this proposal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38203]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first time we've heard about this proposal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We faced one of the best pitchers in the country today, a tremendous competitor and a class act, and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34467]]></link><description><![CDATA[We faced one of the best pitchers in the country today, a tremendous competitor and a class act, and he was magnificent. It was a great college baseball game. We made it interesting in the ninth, but we were just too far in the hole at that point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54844]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writes in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52883]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writes in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27692]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47378</guid></item></channel></rss>