<?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[Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. [Lat., Et genus et virtus, nisi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. [Lat., Et genus et virtus, nisi cum re, vilior alga est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only so many people who will watch, or take up the game. Even if he won 10 Masters, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38619]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only so many people who will watch, or take up the game. Even if he won 10 Masters, you're not going to see a 30 percent increase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16675]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64011]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43094]]></link><description><![CDATA["Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48969]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were clearly underdogs before the series and people thought it was a two horse race (between Australia and South ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41971]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were clearly underdogs before the series and people thought it was a two horse race (between Australia and South Africa) but here we are. We believe in ourselves and back ourselves and we played almost as well as we can today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future starts today, not tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66585]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future starts today, not tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60899]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not really worried about it. I just tried to be a peacemaker... Sometimes it don't pay to be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39660]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not really worried about it. I just tried to be a peacemaker... Sometimes it don't pay to be the good guy, ... I just take it with a grain of salt and move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise. [Fr., Le silence est l'esprit des ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise. [Fr., Le silence est l'esprit des sots, et l'une des vertus du sage.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  Having made man in His own image, a rational being, He meant him to be lord only over irrational beings: not man set over man, but man set over beasts. The first cause of servitude is sin, by which man is subjected to man by the bonds of his condition... But by that nature in which God formerly created man, nobody is slave either to man or to sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43970]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's dirty, he's dirty, he's dirty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40969]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's dirty, he's dirty, he's dirty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have written to them and asked them for statements. If I need to call them (to testify), I will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38436]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have written to them and asked them for statements. If I need to call them (to testify), I will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64048]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19557]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor; and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there's room in the decision for an appeal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29215]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there's room in the decision for an appeal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53352]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've played with a lot of these guys. They know I've had my struggles over there. They say if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35268]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've played with a lot of these guys. They know I've had my struggles over there. They say if you keep pushing forward, working hard, plays like that are the reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was concerned after those first three games because of the kind of mistakes we were making in one-run losses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31330]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was concerned after those first three games because of the kind of mistakes we were making in one-run losses to tough teams. Either we were trying to do too much, or we were falling asleep. So today I called them in and challenged them (in the middle of the game). I said, ?Apparently we?re headed back in the same direction.? You saw the response.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that they'll learn to put different meanings with certain words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39242]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that they'll learn to put different meanings with certain words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66136]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58741]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a long time in the hot seat and I was hopeful that I might hold on, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40266]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a long time in the hot seat and I was hopeful that I might hold on,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 Continuing a short series on authenticity: For the preacher's merit or demerit, It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 Continuing a short series on authenticity: For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, Which lies as safe in a golden ewer; But the main thing is, does it hold good measure? Heaven soon sets right all other matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60936]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quick as a humming bird is my love, Dipping into the hearts of flowers--  She darts so eagerly, swiftly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quick as a humming bird is my love, Dipping into the hearts of flowers--  She darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly   Dipping into the flowers of my heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66091]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dark as pitch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dark as pitch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It'd be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22854]]></link><description><![CDATA[It'd be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24715]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. [Fr., La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. [Fr., La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot wait to tell Captain America's story. It's a doozy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29748]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot wait to tell Captain America's story. It's a doozy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My steps have pressed the flowers, That to the Muses' bowers  The eternal dews of Helicon have given:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44054]]></link><description><![CDATA[My steps have pressed the flowers, That to the Muses' bowers  The eternal dews of Helicon have given:   And trod the mountain height,    Where Science, young and bright,     Scans with poetic gaze the midnight-heaven.      Yet have I found no power to vie       With thine, severe necessity!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought;  Souls to souls can never teach   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought;  Souls to souls can never teach   What unto themselves was taught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that a vessel was willing to come in here in advance of that September 30th date, I think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33757]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that a vessel was willing to come in here in advance of that September 30th date, I think is a tremendous tribute to the faith that our customers, our users, and our service providers have in South Mississippi.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're an open country with long-standing democratic traditions, and I think the Israelis will pretty much vote on who do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32601]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're an open country with long-standing democratic traditions, and I think the Israelis will pretty much vote on who do they trust on the way to move forward. The legacy of Sharon will live on, irrespective of who succeeds him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep. [Fr., Dieu mesure le froid a la brebis tondue.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51924]]></link><description><![CDATA[God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep. [Fr., Dieu mesure le froid a la brebis tondue.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55121]]></link><description><![CDATA[A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[George Washington, with his right art upraised, sits his iron horse at the lower corner of Union Square. . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44438]]></link><description><![CDATA[George Washington, with his right art upraised, sits his iron horse at the lower corner of Union Square. . . . Should the General raise his left hand as he has raised his right, it would point to a quarter of the city that forms a haven for the oppressed and suppressed of foreign lands. In the cause of national or personal freedom they have found refuge here, and the patriot who made it for them sits his steed, overlooking their district, while he listens through his left ear to vaudeville that caricatures the posterity of the proteges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15960]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15960</guid></item></channel></rss>