<?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[What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15077]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56724]]></link><description><![CDATA[A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can afford to live anywhere else and I choose to stay here, and I am now raising my newborn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can afford to live anywhere else and I choose to stay here, and I am now raising my newborn child here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   Pain is a kindly, hopeful thing, a certain proof of life, a clear assurance that all is not yet over, that there is still a chance. But if your heart has no pain -- well, that may betoken health, as you suppose: but are you certain that it does not mean that your soul is dead?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36792]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/544]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The November meeting is a very crucial one. It is a turning point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35724]]></link><description><![CDATA[The November meeting is a very crucial one. It is a turning point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our goal is to do a larger volume of sales at a lower price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our goal is to do a larger volume of sales at a lower price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373   Both from the confession of the evil spirits and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373   Both from the confession of the evil spirits and from the daily witness of His works, it is manifest, then, and let none presume to doubt it, that the Savior has raised His own body, and that He is very Son of God, having His being from God as from a Father, Whose Word and Wisdom and Whose Power He is. He it is Who in these latter days assumed a body for the salvation of us all, and taught the world concerning the Father. He it is Who has destroyed death and freely graced us all with incorruption through the promise of the resurrection, having raised His own body as its first-fruits, and displayed it by the sign of the cross as the monument to His victory over death and its corruption.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are relatives you make for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suretyship is the precursor of ruin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suretyship is the precursor of ruin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You and I were long friends : you are now my enemy, and I am yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13815]]></link><description><![CDATA[You and I were long friends : you are now my enemy, and I am yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My delivery got out of hand a little. It's frustrating but I won't let it get to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30847]]></link><description><![CDATA[My delivery got out of hand a little. It's frustrating but I won't let it get to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye,  Thy steps I follow with my bosom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye,  Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare,   Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This market is on a roll. As long as we have an environment of slow growth, low inflation, low interest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41881]]></link><description><![CDATA[This market is on a roll. As long as we have an environment of slow growth, low inflation, low interest rates, the market's going to go higher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you find the way/ others will find you./ Passing by on the road/they will be drawn to your door./ ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21270]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you find the way/ others will find you./ Passing by on the road/they will be drawn to your door./ The way that cannot be heard/ will beechoed in your voice./ The way that cannot be seen/ will be reflected inyour eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65973]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20017]]></link><description><![CDATA[We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the people have no tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47258]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the people have no tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;  When the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24161]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;  When the air does laugh with our merry wit,   And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's tough to get a feeling for a team this early in the year but I'm not going to complain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37359]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's tough to get a feeling for a team this early in the year but I'm not going to complain about being 2-0. We had never beaten Milton in Milton before so it was a good win for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One step at a time is good walking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61089]]></link><description><![CDATA[One step at a time is good walking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19580]]></link><description><![CDATA[PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43256]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pro football is like nuclear warfare. there are no winners, only survivors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pro football is like nuclear warfare. there are no winners, only survivors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This case is wholly without merit both factually and legally.(US District Judge in commenting on the Fox network lawsuitagainst Al ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47355]]></link><description><![CDATA[This case is wholly without merit both factually and legally.(US District Judge in commenting on the Fox network lawsuitagainst Al Franken's book).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47355</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[To hate fatigues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18818]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hate fatigues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise learn many things from their enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21081]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise learn many things from their enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15221]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first - an attempted suicide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there are times when patience proves at fault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45712]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there are times when patience proves at fault.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it is a common saying that it is best first to catch the stag, and afterwards, when he has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51958]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it is a common saying that it is best first to catch the stag, and afterwards, when he has been caught, to skin him. [Lat., Et vulgariter dicitur, quod primun oportet cervum capere, et postea, cum captus fuerit, illum excoriare.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We haven't raised our rates since 1992. In that time, the consumer price index has increased by 53 percent; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31118]]></link><description><![CDATA[We haven't raised our rates since 1992. In that time, the consumer price index has increased by 53 percent; but we have kept our rates steady over that time because we have managed costs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good intentions are not good enough.......... ultimately we are measured by our actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good intentions are not good enough.......... ultimately we are measured by our actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't fire weapons in urban areas. It is an urban area. Certainly there are places in Davidson County that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33720]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't fire weapons in urban areas. It is an urban area. Certainly there are places in Davidson County that are extensively wooded. There also are large open fields in Davidson County. I would refer to that area in Bellevue at the movie theater as an urban area.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29752]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow;  But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,   And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood,    Till fell the first from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men,     And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16252</guid></item></channel></rss>