<?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[We have 140 sergeant positions, ... That's a lot. In a city such as Elk Grove, they'll have perhaps 18. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35554]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have 140 sergeant positions, ... That's a lot. In a city such as Elk Grove, they'll have perhaps 18.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51379]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Steal immortal blessings from her lips; who,even in pure and vestal modesty, still blush, as thinking their own kisses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23847]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Steal immortal blessings from her lips; who,even in pure and vestal modesty, still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47093]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was kind of sloppy, but we played good. They hit the ball well on us, but we went up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42118]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was kind of sloppy, but we played good. They hit the ball well on us, but we went up big early and kept fighting them off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest form of television. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is the sincerest form of television.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46826]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we could know which of us, darling, would be the first to go, who would be first to breast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4157]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we could know which of us, darling, would be the first to go, who would be first to breast the swelling tide and step alone upon the other side -- if we could know!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Third act of the eternal play! In poster-like emblazonries  "Autumn once more begins today"--   'Tis written all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Third act of the eternal play! In poster-like emblazonries  "Autumn once more begins today"--   'Tis written all across the trees    In yellow like Chinese.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14698]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer opens the understanding to the brightness of Divine Light, and the will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer opens the understanding to the brightness of Divine Light, and the will to the warmth of Heavenly Love -- nothing can so effectually purify the mind from its many ignorances, or the will from its perverse affections. It is as a healing water which causes the roots of our good desires to send forth fresh shoots, which washes away the soul's imperfections, and allays the thirst of passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56355]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. -Thomas More.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gives twice who gives quickly. [Lat., Bis dat qui cito dat.]   - credited to Publius Syrus Mimus, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17451]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gives twice who gives quickly. [Lat., Bis dat qui cito dat.]   - credited to Publius Syrus Mimus,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13415]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion follows close on mistrust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion follows close on mistrust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66565]]></link><description><![CDATA[We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25781]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41536]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate is such a luxurious emotion, it can only be spent on one we love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate is such a luxurious emotion, it can only be spent on one we love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are going to set up a committee of three members from the Land and Development Committee and three from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are going to set up a committee of three members from the Land and Development Committee and three from the speedway to sit down to try to work out some of the issues. That's where we're at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a has-been. I am a will be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64922]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a has-been. I am a will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the king found was that not all agencies were in line with his program, ... One arm was working ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40147]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the king found was that not all agencies were in line with his program, ... One arm was working against the other. People were confused. The king decided to bring in a team that was reformist and worked in tandem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are beaten to earth?/ Well, well, what's that?/ Come up with a smilingface,/ It's nothing against you to fall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21646]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are beaten to earth?/ Well, well, what's that?/ Come up with a smilingface,/ It's nothing against you to fall down flat/ But to lie there-that'sa disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Life needs for life is possible to will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61609]]></link><description><![CDATA[All Life needs for life is possible to will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our growth has been quite measured. It's never been our intent to impose a lot of restaurants on the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our growth has been quite measured. It's never been our intent to impose a lot of restaurants on the world but rather to keep pace with the demand for our food. We've very methodically entered new markets and built in our existing markets based on the demand and what our opportunity has been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desperate maladies require desperate remedies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was good to see Tara and Anya step up and close that out, because it could have gone either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38647]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was good to see Tara and Anya step up and close that out, because it could have gone either way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63753]]></link><description><![CDATA[To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody could believe that somebody would steal pocket change and break into the library to do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody could believe that somebody would steal pocket change and break into the library to do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See and to be seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56254]]></link><description><![CDATA[See and to be seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kabira wept when he beheld the millstone roll, Of that which passes 'twixt the stones, nought goes forth whole.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kabira wept when he beheld the millstone roll, Of that which passes 'twixt the stones, nought goes forth whole.   - Edward B. Eastwick,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loe here the precious dust is layd; Whose purely-temper'd clay was made  So fine that it the guest betray'd. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loe here the precious dust is layd; Whose purely-temper'd clay was made  So fine that it the guest betray'd.   Else the soule grew so fast within,    It broke the outward shall of sinne     And so was hatch'd a cherubin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62977]]></link><description><![CDATA[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66377]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to have a lion at the head of an army od sheep, than a sheep at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24486]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to have a lion at the head of an army od sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect and I don't live to be. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect and I don't live to be. But, before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30320</guid></item></channel></rss>