<?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[Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.  [Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.  [Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,   Das ist der rechte Mann.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to know exactly what is happening and what we're talking about, and I pledge my full transparency [and] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35210]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to know exactly what is happening and what we're talking about, and I pledge my full transparency [and] coming back to you as soon as we know more of this information to inform you of that and any possible -- if necessary -- steps the European Commission would need to take,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iran is fully committed to its NPT ((non-proliferation treaty) responsibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iran is fully committed to its NPT ((non-proliferation treaty) responsibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think our girls were in awe of their pitcher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39834]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think our girls were in awe of their pitcher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Barnabas the Apostle Let songs of praises fill the sky!  Christ, our ascended Lord, Sends down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Barnabas the Apostle Let songs of praises fill the sky!  Christ, our ascended Lord, Sends down his Spirit from on high,  According to his word. The Spirit by his heavenly breath,  New life creates within: He quickens sinners from the death  Of trespasses and sin. The things of Christ the Spirit takes,  And shows them unto men; The fallen soul his temple makes,  God's image stamps again Come, Holy Spirit, from above,  With thy celestial fire: Come, and with flames of zeal and love  Our hearts and tongues inspire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44118]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. -Clarence Budinton Kelland. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45501]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. -Clarence Budinton Kelland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy?  What are the blessings of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy?  What are the blessings of the sight?   Oh, tell your poor blind boy!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21565]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The least strength suffices to break what is bruised. [Lat., Minimae vires frangere quassa valent.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57944]]></link><description><![CDATA[The least strength suffices to break what is bruised. [Lat., Minimae vires frangere quassa valent.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live with them is far less sweet, Than to remember thee! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50687]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live with them is far less sweet, Than to remember thee!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She told me immediately, 'He did not survive the storm and neither did his wife Susan and we've known for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34365]]></link><description><![CDATA[She told me immediately, 'He did not survive the storm and neither did his wife Susan and we've known for over two months but couldn't find any of his family members. So they didn't check. They didn't talk with FEMA, FEMA didn't talk with them and the Red Cross didn't talk to either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders. [Lat., Incisa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders. [Lat., Incisa notis marmora publicis,  Per quae spiritus et vita redit bonis   Post mortem ducibus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt, The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt,  The Douglas in red herrings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt, The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt,  The Douglas in red herrings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Markets were primed for worrying about risk - equities, bonds and currencies too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Markets were primed for worrying about risk - equities, bonds and currencies too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not necessarily a slut, but I could be if I wanted to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29204]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not necessarily a slut, but I could be if I wanted to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Didn't the lion of Islam, the Mujahid Shaykh Osama bin Laden, may Allah protect him, offer you a truce so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Didn't the lion of Islam, the Mujahid Shaykh Osama bin Laden, may Allah protect him, offer you a truce so that you might depart from the Islamic lands? But you were obstinate and were led by arrogance to more crime and your foreign secretary, Jack Straw, said these proposals deserve to be met with contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8013]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'll be better because he'll understand the other position. Plus it's helped depth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42689]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'll be better because he'll understand the other position. Plus it's helped depth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude  Towards her deserved children is enrolled   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude  Towards her deserved children is enrolled   In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam    Should now eat up her own!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The technology is in a very early stage in general, so it may in the future provide breakthroughs but in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The technology is in a very early stage in general, so it may in the future provide breakthroughs but in the short-term it is certainly going to take time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's special from the fact Sarah stuck with basketball, knowing she is not going to play a lot. I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41806]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's special from the fact Sarah stuck with basketball, knowing she is not going to play a lot. I have a lot of admiration for her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the little guy, it's getting harder and harder to compete with the big boys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42434]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the little guy, it's getting harder and harder to compete with the big boys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ant and the GrasshopperIn a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about,chirping and singing to its heart's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ant and the GrasshopperIn a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about,chirping and singing to its heart's content. An Ant passed by,bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to thenest.Why not come and chat with me, said the Grasshopper,instead of toiling and moiling in that way?I am helping to lay up food for the winter, said the Ant,and recommend you to do the same.Why bother about winter? said the Grasshopper; we have gotplenty of food at present. But the Ant went on its way andcontinued its toil. When the winter came the Grasshopper had nofood and found itself dying of hunger, while it saw the antsdistributing every day corn and grain from the stores they hadcollected in the summer. Then the Grasshopper knew:It is best to prepare for the days of necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is the gift of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is the gift of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44786]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past five years most of the manuals shipped with software products have actually been copies of Stephen King's The Stand with new covers pasted on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25345]]></link><description><![CDATA[University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet Spring, full of sweet dayes and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie,  My musick shows ye have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet Spring, full of sweet dayes and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie,  My musick shows ye have your closes,   And all must die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11475]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I'm running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can't reduce (the debt) any more]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not one person's award. This is a reflection of all the coaches, management and players who made it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38254]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not one person's award. This is a reflection of all the coaches, management and players who made it possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  Love is careful of little things, of circumstances and measures, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  Love is careful of little things, of circumstances and measures, and of little accidents; not allowing to itself any infirmity which it strives not to master, aiming at what it cannot yet reach, desiring to be of an angelic purity, and of a perfect innocence, and a seraphical fervor, and fears every image of offense; is as much afflicted at an idle word as some at an act of adultery, and will not allow to itself so much anger as will disturb a child, nor endure the impurity of a dream. And this is the curiosity and niceness of divine love: this is the fear of God, and is the daughter and production of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the queen -- I worked for her for seven years -- enjoys her work. But even if she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31383]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the queen -- I worked for her for seven years -- enjoys her work. But even if she didn't enjoy it, she would gauze it as her duty to do what she vowed to do,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13655]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the sheriff to come in and enforce the law, enforce speeds, it has to be legally posted, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37732]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the sheriff to come in and enforce the law, enforce speeds, it has to be legally posted, and the rules have to be met.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62840]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They talk about a woman's sphere, as though it had a limit. There's not a place in earth or heaven. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27195]]></link><description><![CDATA[They talk about a woman's sphere, as though it had a limit. There's not a place in earth or heaven. There's not a task to mankind given... without a woman in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be;  Her loveliness I never knew   Until ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3849]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be;  Her loveliness I never knew   Until she smiled on me:    Oh! then I saw her eye was bright,     A well of love, a spring of light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long, that there is no wit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long, that there is no wit for so much room.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977  We shall benefit very much from the Sacrament if this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977  We shall benefit very much from the Sacrament if this thought has been impressed and engraved upon our minds that none of the brethren can be injured, despised, rejected, abused, or in any way offended by us, without [our] injuring, despising, and abusing Christ by the wrongs we do; that we cannot disagree with our brethren without at the same time disagreeing with Christ; that we cannot love Christ without loving Him in the brethren; that we ought to take the same care of our brethren's bodies as we take of our own; for they are members of our body; and that, as no part of our body is touched by any feeling of pain which is not spread among all the rest, so we ought not to allow a brother to be affected by any evil, without being touched with compassion for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across  The gray-green oaks; and catching,   By its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58281]]></link><description><![CDATA[See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across  The gray-green oaks; and catching,   By its soft brown beard, the moss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58281</guid></item></channel></rss>