<?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[For African American ideals, ""The Promised Land"" is not a land to be ""reclaimed"" after hundreds, or even thousands, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39187]]></link><description><![CDATA[For African American ideals, ""The Promised Land"" is not a land to be ""reclaimed"" after hundreds, or even thousands, of years, citing God as the real estate agent. The Promised Land doesn't echo the injustices of the past by, in part, replicating them upon others. The Promised Land is the creation of a just society with an appreciation for the diversity of all humanity and equality for all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's Agamemnon, an honest fellow enough, and one that loves quails, but he has not so much brain as ear-wax; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's Agamemnon, an honest fellow enough, and one that loves quails, but he has not so much brain as ear-wax; and the goodly transformation of Jupiter there, his brother, the bull, the primitive statue and oblique memorial of cockolds; a thrifty shoeing-horn in a chain, hanging at his brother's leg, to what form but that he is should wit larded with malice and malice forced with wit turn him to? To an ass, were nothing; he is both ass and ox: to an ox, were nothing; he is both ox and ass. To be a dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchew, a toad, a lizard, an owl, a puttock, or a herring without roe, I would not care; but to be Memelaus! I would conspire against destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy shoots at others and wounds itself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy shoots at others and wounds itself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56605]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3544]]></link><description><![CDATA[If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa E ducation is bitter but the fruit is sweet. -Lord Chesterfield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Pentecost  From his baptism until his return to Galilee, Jesus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Pentecost  From his baptism until his return to Galilee, Jesus lived in the company of the disciples of the Baptist. It was there that he received the first public witness of his Messianic role and found his first followers. The gospel was to be rooted in John's teaching of asceticism and regeneration. But we see from the start that the gospel of Jesus was to be quite different. To the baptism of water would be added the baptism of the Spirit, and the new message was to be addressed to all. The widening of the circle of hearers and converts, which had preoccupied John, was to expand still further with the gospel of Jesus. Of the hundreds of thousands of Jews, the Essenes only regarded as saved a few thousand elect. Jesus was soon to offer the Covenant of God to all men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1735]]></link><description><![CDATA[In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told you, sir, they were redhot with drinking; So full of valor that they smote the air  For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told you, sir, they were redhot with drinking; So full of valor that they smote the air  For breathing in their faces, beat the ground,   For kissing of their feet; yet always bending    Towards their project.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till taught by pain, Men really know not what good water's worth;  If you had been in Turkey or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till taught by pain, Men really know not what good water's worth;  If you had been in Turkey or in Spain,   Or with a famish'd boat's-crew had your berth,    Or in the desert heard the camel's bell,     You'd wish yourself where Truth is--in a well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If anyone is involved in the trade of selling and buying firearms, they have to obtain a federal firearms license. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29265]]></link><description><![CDATA[If anyone is involved in the trade of selling and buying firearms, they have to obtain a federal firearms license. That is the law of the land today, so to say that there's a loophole is disingenuous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46237]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19498]]></link><description><![CDATA[90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44107]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63929]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had our chance. We were up by two games with three to play ? that's all you can ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39823]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had our chance. We were up by two games with three to play ? that's all you can ask for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water is the only drink for a wise man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water is the only drink for a wise man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59574]]></link><description><![CDATA[A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is mainly going to alleviate overcrowding at Double Churches. We're going to let fifth-graders who get assigned from those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37754]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is mainly going to alleviate overcrowding at Double Churches. We're going to let fifth-graders who get assigned from those two schools to North Columbus remain at their schools, if their parents want them to continue there and they apply for a hardship. Students in the other grades can apply for a hardship, but we will look at space available.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been thinking about this for the last four years. After 34 years, it's just time to do something else. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40446]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been thinking about this for the last four years. After 34 years, it's just time to do something else. It's lasted about 30 years longer than I expected it to. But it's all worked out pretty well and I'm glad I decided to stay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16716]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility--I welcome it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every failure, obstacle or hardship is an opportunity in disguise. Success in many cases is failure turned inside out. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every failure, obstacle or hardship is an opportunity in disguise. Success in many cases is failure turned inside out. The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace 'if I can, I hope, maybe' with 'I can, I will, I must.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since starting this business, I have always wanted to design bed and bath products. The talent and experience at London ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since starting this business, I have always wanted to design bed and bath products. The talent and experience at London Fog/Homestead has been the ideal partnership for us. We have worked closely with them from start to finish on this program and we are thrilled with the results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool boasts of those who fear him; a wise man's pride is those who respect him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15521]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool boasts of those who fear him; a wise man's pride is those who respect him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reflect on Sept. 11 and the tragedy of that day, one of the things that came out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39887]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reflect on Sept. 11 and the tragedy of that day, one of the things that came out of that was the goodness of humanity,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every valuable thing that has been added to the store of man's possessions has been derided by them when it was new, and destroyed by them when they had the power. They have fought every new truth ever heard of, and they have killed every truth-seeker who got into their hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man does his best, what else is there? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65627]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man does his best, what else is there?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It allows us to go out and sweep the city at a much faster pace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31122]]></link><description><![CDATA[It allows us to go out and sweep the city at a much faster pace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He looked like he was walking off the streets in Iraq, ... He had a bandanna on. He was very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30035]]></link><description><![CDATA[He looked like he was walking off the streets in Iraq, ... He had a bandanna on. He was very intense and serious. He laid out these wild posters across our conference room, covering most of the floor. It was an editor's dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392  Why all this strife and zeal about opinions? Death and life go on their own way, carry on their own work, and stay for no opinions... What a delusion it is therefore to grow gray-headed in balancing ancient and modern opinions; to waste the precious uncertain fire of life in critical zeal and verbal animosities; when nothing but the kindling of our working will into a faith that overcometh the world, into a steadfast hope, and ever-burning love and desire of the divine life, can hinder us from falling into eternal death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made. [Lat., In omnibus negotiis prius quam aggrediare, adhibenda est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3949]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made. [Lat., In omnibus negotiis prius quam aggrediare, adhibenda est praeparatio diligens.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63802]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14653]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58759]]></link><description><![CDATA[The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50248]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will continue martyrdom operations throughout Palestine until the occupation leaves. The barriers of shame and disgrace set up by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28621]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will continue martyrdom operations throughout Palestine until the occupation leaves. The barriers of shame and disgrace set up by the Zionists shall face more blows,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin;  And when eyes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin;  And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such,   That, spider like, we feel the tenderest touch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish th' approaches of the last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish th' approaches of the last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catch Me ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Catch Me]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24911]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24911</guid></item></channel></rss>