<?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[That was motivation for us to win the region title on their home floor. It would have been nice to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38280]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was motivation for us to win the region title on their home floor. It would have been nice to have won it at home, but to win it there was special, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lively Shadow-World of Song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57229]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lively Shadow-World of Song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the hope of all firefighters that there are people still in there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41000]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the hope of all firefighters that there are people still in there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16166]]></link><description><![CDATA[By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't get a lot of pub. We're not in the media, we're not in the papers, so people figure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28590]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't get a lot of pub. We're not in the media, we're not in the papers, so people figure we're just sneaking by, getting lucky and winning games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we came here we didn't know anybody, and when we wanted to do something we had no idea where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28870]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we came here we didn't know anybody, and when we wanted to do something we had no idea where to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know not if the dark or bright Shall be by lot;  If that wherein my hopes delight  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24829]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know not if the dark or bright Shall be by lot;  If that wherein my hopes delight   Be best or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56560]]></link><description><![CDATA[A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym and out there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269   The offertory is the first essential action of the Liturgy, because in it we make the costly and solemn oblation, under tokens, of our very selves and all our substance, that they may be transformed, quickened, and devoted to the interests of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9265]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26734]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great that he's with us for the semi-final after missing the last two matches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41647]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great that he's with us for the semi-final after missing the last two matches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60183]]></link><description><![CDATA[In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw the bags and I said to myself that somebody is dumping trash here. Then I saw what was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39050]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw the bags and I said to myself that somebody is dumping trash here. Then I saw what was inside. I saw the deer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've learned more about the book this way than we would by just reading it. We can better understand the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29331]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've learned more about the book this way than we would by just reading it. We can better understand the book and each character by actually becoming the characters. It's made the lesson a lot more fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Days are scrolls: Write on them only what you wantremembered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Days are scrolls: Write on them only what you wantremembered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass.  . . . .   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59417]]></link><description><![CDATA[A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass.  . . . .   As much to the lively grey    'Tis as good i' th' night as day:     . . . .      She's a savour to the glass,       And excuse to make it pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we think there are privacy and equal protection issues at stake here that we just have to have cleared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30964]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we think there are privacy and equal protection issues at stake here that we just have to have cleared up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one use of the Bible is to make us look at Jesus, that through Him we might know His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8121]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one use of the Bible is to make us look at Jesus, that through Him we might know His Father and our Father, His God and our God. Till we thus know Him, let us hold the Bible dear as the moon of our darkness, by which we travel toward the east; not dear as the sun whence her light cometh, and towards which we haste, that, walking in the sun himself, we may no more need the mirror that reflected his absent brightness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65866]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19486]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems like an innocent act -- trying to start a vehicle -- but by not being properly positioned, you've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31665]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems like an innocent act -- trying to start a vehicle -- but by not being properly positioned, you've got a fatal injury. It's a horrible tragedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no economy where there is no efficiency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13345]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much.  The French ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5020]]></link><description><![CDATA[In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much.  The French are with equal advantage content--   So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20 per cent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance of base ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing I have the most problem with is consistency. We saw it already. The equipment isn't consistent from brand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing I have the most problem with is consistency. We saw it already. The equipment isn't consistent from brand to brand and from goaltender to goaltender. I would like to see that changed. Some pads were wider than others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospitality should have no other nature than love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hospitality should have no other nature than love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quicker-than-expected recovery in capital expenditure spending will probably be the biggest catalyst, if one occurs at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28349]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quicker-than-expected recovery in capital expenditure spending will probably be the biggest catalyst, if one occurs at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not in the position where we need to sell anyone here, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32831]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not in the position where we need to sell anyone here,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty and War have no excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty and War have no excuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the world's enjoyments That ever valued were,  There's none of our employments   With fishing can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the world's enjoyments That ever valued were,  There's none of our employments   With fishing can compare.   - Thomas Durfee (or D'Urfey),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1441]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1166]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It?s interesting that astronomy can do this. And it?s great that there?s this ongoing interest in Ansel. We?re planning to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42179]]></link><description><![CDATA[It?s interesting that astronomy can do this. And it?s great that there?s this ongoing interest in Ansel. We?re planning to go out and see it for curiosity?s sake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature knows best, and she says, roar! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature knows best, and she says, roar!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20509]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre or catching Hares with Tabers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16776]]></link><description><![CDATA[... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had the devil come to our first parents personally and unmasked, they would have more easily seen the deception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had the devil come to our first parents personally and unmasked, they would have more easily seen the deception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's clear Israel has suspended the peace process, despite the so-called moderation of the Arab world, because it has no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36240]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's clear Israel has suspended the peace process, despite the so-called moderation of the Arab world, because it has no interest in peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware  Necessity doth front the universe   With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45711]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware  Necessity doth front the universe   With an invincible gesture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the first half we were a little sloppy in different parts of the field, but I think in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30785]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the first half we were a little sloppy in different parts of the field, but I think in the second half we were much more solid. Obviously, we could have scored more goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30785</guid></item></channel></rss>