<?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[Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Benigno Aguirre, of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, has been watching and reading about looters in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30044]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Benigno Aguirre, of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, has been watching and reading about looters in Louisiana.] It may look from the outside as if they are stealing or breaking the law, ... when in fact some of them are trying to survive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breaking his oath and resolution, like A twist of rotten silk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breaking his oath and resolution, like A twist of rotten silk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an accomplishment for all Iraqis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34847]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an accomplishment for all Iraqis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5560]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. -Marilyn Ferguson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6565]]></link><description><![CDATA[When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising determination to lift themselves and their children our of hunger and disease and misery, up to a higher level. Jesus started a fire upon the earth, and it is burning hot today, the fire of a new hope in the hearts of the hungry multitudes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman, Who came of decent people;  He built a church in Dublin town,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman, Who came of decent people;  He built a church in Dublin town,   And on it put a steeple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity the man who has a character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity the man who has a character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5858]]></link><description><![CDATA[My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7395]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because they come off the bench doesn't mean they're not really good. We're a team and everyone gets an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because they come off the bench doesn't mean they're not really good. We're a team and everyone gets an opportunity. We use different kinds of combinations for different reasons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25237]]></link><description><![CDATA[We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the justice that examines all offenders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the justice that examines all offenders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's been a little wear and tear from the travel. The 15-, 16- and 17-year-olds on the team definitely recover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39037]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's been a little wear and tear from the travel. The 15-, 16- and 17-year-olds on the team definitely recover quicker than us coaches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No steps backward. [Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2327]]></link><description><![CDATA[No steps backward. [Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14596]]></link><description><![CDATA[For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in the. [Ephesians 2:10].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam was a development project. He had never raced before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adam was a development project. He had never raced before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11698]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day. It turned out he was right. After forty years, the volcano petered out. Everybody left town, and the hardware store went broke. Finally he decided to collect gold nuggets too, but there weren't many left by then. Plus, he broke his leg and the doctor's bills were real high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. -M. Scott Peck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, Staretz, 1833   The fool for Christ holds a prophetic role in Christianity, from the early church to Russian Orthodox "pilgrims" and such later fools as Luther, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky, who were seekers after the true, the good, the holy, the beautiful. They were insane -- not in a clinical sense, but in the madness of the Holy, an insanity which ordinary sanity refuses to admit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many Iraqis believe that psychologists treat crazy people. For this reason, they don?t bring their children in for treatment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many Iraqis believe that psychologists treat crazy people. For this reason, they don?t bring their children in for treatment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41958</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[You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9764]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situation is only getting worse. We started to notice it in July when imports really started to increase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situation is only getting worse. We started to notice it in July when imports really started to increase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really a robust mission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32596]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really a robust mission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can advise comfortably from a safe port. [Ger., Vom sichern Port lasst sich's gemachlich rathen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/789]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can advise comfortably from a safe port. [Ger., Vom sichern Port lasst sich's gemachlich rathen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1870]]></link><description><![CDATA[It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in a small way. -Edith Wharton.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19796]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66842]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are proud to play even a small part in helping our industries provide emergency shelter for the victims of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40602]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are proud to play even a small part in helping our industries provide emergency shelter for the victims of this tragedy. It appears that most of the shelters ordered by FEMA have now been produced, but we do expect to see some carryover into 2006. In addition, industry sales in 2006 may increase due both to the need to replenish dealer lots that were depleted while manufacturers diverted their production capabilities to filling FEMA orders, and the permanent rebuilding of the hurricane-stricken areas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the protesters left after conducting a tribal ceremony. There is no more blockade and all access to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29537]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the protesters left after conducting a tribal ceremony. There is no more blockade and all access to the mine is normal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember Hallie became the second town in Wisconsin to become a five-person board, and that's something Zeal fought real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31859]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember Hallie became the second town in Wisconsin to become a five-person board, and that's something Zeal fought real hard for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the situation has changed, we have been taking gradual steps towards the closure of the missions and submissions, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29815]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the situation has changed, we have been taking gradual steps towards the closure of the missions and submissions,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64697]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23010]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of people's jobs and lives and economic well-being depending on moving water through the delta in an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31904]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of people's jobs and lives and economic well-being depending on moving water through the delta in an ecologically sound manner. It's hard to imagine a more important issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess when your heart gets broken you sort of start to see cracks in everything. I'm convinced that tragedy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59531]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess when your heart gets broken you sort of start to see cracks in everything. I'm convinced that tragedy wants to harden us and our mission is never to let it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46434]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The hand that rocks the cradle"--but there is no such hand. It is bad to rock the baby, they would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3632]]></link><description><![CDATA["The hand that rocks the cradle"--but there is no such hand. It is bad to rock the baby, they would have us understand;  So the cradle's but a relic of the former foolish days,   When mothers reared their children in unscientific ways;    When they jounced them and they bounced them, those poor dwarfs of long ago--     The Washingtons and Jeffersons, you know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood. [Ger., Zwar der Tapfere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4841]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood. [Ger., Zwar der Tapfere nennt sich Herr der Lander  Durch sein Eisen, durch sein Blut.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result. [Lat., Tametsi prosperitas simul utilitasque consultorum non obique concordent, quoniam captorum eventus superae sibi vindicant potestates.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58123</guid></item></channel></rss>