<?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 bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread,  And range an Indian waste ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59998]]></link><description><![CDATA[We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread,  And range an Indian waste without a tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no accounting for taste and no taste for accounting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58634]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no accounting for taste and no taste for accounting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27701]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although prayer has been defined as communion with God, aspiration after the highest things, Stopford Brooke [Irish clergyman, 1832-1916] is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although prayer has been defined as communion with God, aspiration after the highest things, Stopford Brooke [Irish clergyman, 1832-1916] is right when he insists that prayer, in its plainest meaning, is a petition addressed to God. When Jesus laid the duty of petition upon his disciples, He went on to assert the reasonableness of man's asking and God's answering. Jesus argues along the line of reason that, if an earthly parent does the best in his power for his children, ... the Almighty and All-Wise Love, of which human love is only the shadow, will do better still for His great family; and therefore our Master teaches that men ought everywhere to pray, without fear, with hope, and without doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This means a lot. We've been in (District 12-AAA) with Franklin, Centennial and Brentwood for the last five years. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28820]]></link><description><![CDATA[This means a lot. We've been in (District 12-AAA) with Franklin, Centennial and Brentwood for the last five years. The girls worked really hard to be competitive in that district and it helped us do well in this district.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self - praise is no recommendation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self - praise is no recommendation]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field  That is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13905]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field  That is forever England. There shall be   In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;    A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,     Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,      A body of England's, breathing English air,       Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When 100+ CEOs from top companies from around the world are on the wait list, that is 'stress!' So anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57986]]></link><description><![CDATA[When 100+ CEOs from top companies from around the world are on the wait list, that is 'stress!' So anything a manager can do to help one's colleagues is a must to survive. Paul J. Rosch, M.D., F.A.C.P., President of the American Institute of Stress, and Clinical Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, New York Medical College -Wolfgang Hultner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those only deserve a monument who do not need one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, I got eight hours of sleep, but the guys stayed up since yesterday and never slept. They're incredible. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, I got eight hours of sleep, but the guys stayed up since yesterday and never slept. They're incredible. I think it took 12 hours to completely redo the car. I think we started the engine for the first time at eight o'clock this morning and in the warm-up, everything was fantastic. I have to say that today's car was even better than yesterday's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the great winds shoreward blow, / Now the salt tides seaward flow; / Now the wild white horses play, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the great winds shoreward blow, / Now the salt tides seaward flow; / Now the wild white horses play, / Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15758]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the irresistable desire to be desired irresistably. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the irresistable desire to be desired irresistably.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958  The progress of mankind has always depended upon those who, seemingly isolated and powerless in their own day, have seen their vision and remained true to it. In the darkening corridors of time, they preserved integral their vision of the daylight at the end. This is a matter not of calculation but of faith. Our work may be small and its results invisible to us. But we may rest assured it will come to fruition in God's good time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of kings is unsearchable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48666]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of kings is unsearchable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1083]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is the final achievement.  After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is the final achievement.  After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slight are the outward signs of evil thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slight are the outward signs of evil thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is. . -C.G. Jung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear if forced to flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear if forced to flow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4359]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a blast doing it. We went and knocked it out and came on home for the rest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30450]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a blast doing it. We went and knocked it out and came on home for the rest of the holidays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to burn out, then to fade away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to burn out, then to fade away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buy the rumor and sell the fact ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Buy the rumor and sell the fact]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I say to Caesar What you require of him? For he partly begs  To be desired to give. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I say to Caesar What you require of him? For he partly begs  To be desired to give. It much would please him   That of his fortunes you should make a staff    To lean upon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on rowThat mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62240]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on rowThat mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders fields.Take up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands we throwThe torch; be yours to hold it high.If ye break faith with us who dieWe shall not sleep, though poppies growIn Flanders fields.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54264]]></link><description><![CDATA[They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The yeare doth nothing else but open and shut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The yeare doth nothing else but open and shut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60262]]></link><description><![CDATA[As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir, my circumstances, Being so near the truth as I will make them,  Must first induce you to believe; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir, my circumstances, Being so near the truth as I will make them,  Must first induce you to believe; whose strength   I will confirm with oath, which I doubt not    You'll give me leave to spare when you shall find     You need it not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So on he fares, and to the border comes, Of Eden, where delicious Paradise,  Now nearer, crowns with her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45470]]></link><description><![CDATA[So on he fares, and to the border comes, Of Eden, where delicious Paradise,  Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green,   As with a rural mound, the champain head    Of a steep wilderness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54156]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of my favorite clothing patterns is camouflage. Because when you're in the woods it makes you blend in. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20178]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of my favorite clothing patterns is camouflage. Because when you're in the woods it makes you blend in. But when you're not it does just the opposite. It's like "hey, there's an asshole."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivalry of scholars advances wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rivalry of scholars advances wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people bring something up, I'll remember it. But I'll remember more things like how I used to love our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34336]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people bring something up, I'll remember it. But I'll remember more things like how I used to love our pasta dinners we had as a team and other social events. I remember that we did well as a team. We were usually among the top three teams in the league, with Westford usually at the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is virtue's opportunity. [Lat., Calamitas virtutis occasio est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is virtue's opportunity. [Lat., Calamitas virtutis occasio est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Financial services are not excluded; they are simply not yet included. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Financial services are not excluded; they are simply not yet included.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this spacious isle I think there is not one But he hath heard some talk of Hood and Little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57915]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this spacious isle I think there is not one But he hath heard some talk of Hood and Little John,  Of Tuck, the merry friar, which many a sermon made   In praise of Robin Hood, his outlaws, and their trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tree is known by his fruit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48585]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tree is known by his fruit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely nice. It's kind of like home-court advantage because I played here two years in high school and then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29067]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely nice. It's kind of like home-court advantage because I played here two years in high school and then a bunch of times in college. I'm real familiar with the gym and the baskets have nice shooting rims. I'm glad we're back in Denver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15243]]></link><description><![CDATA[This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. -- Western Union internal memo, 1876.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15243</guid></item></channel></rss>