<?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[The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but in children it came from the shock of the new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In any bureaucracy, paper work increases as you spend more and more time reporting on the less and less you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4984]]></link><description><![CDATA[In any bureaucracy, paper work increases as you spend more and more time reporting on the less and less you are doing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9734]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31354]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had one lady ... we had an emergency run and she waited an hour to donate stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32945]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had one lady ... we had an emergency run and she waited an hour to donate stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flow on, forever, in thy glorious robe Of terror and of beauty. Yea, flow on  Unfathomed and resistless. God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flow on, forever, in thy glorious robe Of terror and of beauty. Yea, flow on  Unfathomed and resistless. God hath set   His rainbow on thy forehead: and the cloud    Mantled around thy feet. And He doth give     Thy voice of thunder power to speak of Him      Eternally--bidding the lip of man       Keep silence--and upon thine altar pour        Incense of awe-struck praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle o' the thing, it's th' money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48239]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle o' the thing, it's th' money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60753]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46891]]></link><description><![CDATA[True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62780]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57482]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the semifinals we will need to play diligently in front of Mercer, while playing unbelievably aggressive in front of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42634]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the semifinals we will need to play diligently in front of Mercer, while playing unbelievably aggressive in front of their net minder. This weekend, we will need to score more than two goals on 36 shots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courageunless you're scared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courageunless you're scared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Th' an'am an Dhia, but there it is-- The dawn on the hills of Ireland.  God's angels lifting the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Th' an'am an Dhia, but there it is-- The dawn on the hills of Ireland.  God's angels lifting the night's black veil   From the fair sweet face of my sireland!    O Ireland, isn't it grand, you look     Like a bride in her rich adornin',      And with all the pent up love of my heart       I bid you the top of the morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22793]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. -Sheila Graham.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She (Alonso) wrote checks, gave them to friends, family members, businesses ... they cashed them and gave back cash to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31038]]></link><description><![CDATA[She (Alonso) wrote checks, gave them to friends, family members, businesses ... they cashed them and gave back cash to the tune of $10,000, $18,000, $11,000 in cash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5581]]></link><description><![CDATA[We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Julian would learn something) even if he had one foot in the grave. [Lat., Etsi alterum pedem in sepulchro haberem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18219]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Julian would learn something) even if he had one foot in the grave. [Lat., Etsi alterum pedem in sepulchro haberem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have not been any big blips in inflation (so far this year). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34710]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have not been any big blips in inflation (so far this year).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian cell in a factory or a professional circle, funding its own activities, deciding its own pattern of work, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian cell in a factory or a professional circle, funding its own activities, deciding its own pattern of work, studying the Bible and perhaps celebrating the Lord's supper as an entity on its own, comes very much closer to Independency as Robert Browne saw it than the unholy isolationism of a prosperous suburban church, with 200 members who scarcely know each other by sight. If a sizable proportion of the Free Church ministry were enabled to become itinerant once again -- not necessarily itinerant in the geographical sense, but itinerant in the complex mazes of contemporary society, fathers in God to Christian organisms evolved by the lay men and women who spend their lives in these mazes -- new heart would be put into both ministry and laity, and incidentally, new impetus given to the search for Christian unity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I can feel one of my turns coming on.I feel cold as a razor blade,Tight as a tourniquet,Dry as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15473]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I can feel one of my turns coming on.I feel cold as a razor blade,Tight as a tourniquet,Dry as a funeral drum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had five receivers on the front line and it was a semi-hands team. We had one or at least ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38256]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had five receivers on the front line and it was a semi-hands team. We had one or at least two shots at it. We didn't come up with it. The big play came when we had a big fourth down play. We had a stop and the kid (Perry) scrambled and scored, we have been victimized by that all year long. You live and die by it and I'm still proud of our team and hats off to Brandywine, they made the plays when they had to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No day so clear but hath dark clouds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49649]]></link><description><![CDATA[No day so clear but hath dark clouds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My feet, they haul me Round the House, They hoist me up the Stairs;  I only have to steer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15558]]></link><description><![CDATA[My feet, they haul me Round the House, They hoist me up the Stairs;  I only have to steer them, and   They Ride me Everywheres.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44454]]></link><description><![CDATA[As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I see the representatives of the people, the more I love my dogs. [Fr., Plus je vois des ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12661]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I see the representatives of the people, the more I love my dogs. [Fr., Plus je vois des representants du peuple, plus j'aime mes chiens.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The resolved minde hath no cares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The resolved minde hath no cares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often a seeing a friend in pain outweighs our own pain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often a seeing a friend in pain outweighs our own pain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The financial climate is the worst it's been in 25 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15703]]></link><description><![CDATA[The financial climate is the worst it's been in 25 years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lose that ability to connect with individuals who have that insight and could help us navigate through (government). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42461]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lose that ability to connect with individuals who have that insight and could help us navigate through (government).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[-Falstaff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55941]]></link><description><![CDATA[-Falstaff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change afact, then you are residing on another planet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21487]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change afact, then you are residing on another planet with a different realitysystem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men's magazines). My whole ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men's magazines). My whole notion was the romantic connection between male and female.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/563]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The name of the Slough was Despond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12005]]></link><description><![CDATA[The name of the Slough was Despond.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and Everything . . . [is] Forty-two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and Everything . . . [is] Forty-two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10940]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["If you don't mind me asking," came the bell-like tones of the Golden Diana, "I'd like to know where you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44437]]></link><description><![CDATA["If you don't mind me asking," came the bell-like tones of the Golden Diana, "I'd like to know where you got that City Hall brogue. I did not know that Liberty was necessarily Irish." "If ye'd studied the history of art in its foreign complications, ye'd not need ask," replied Mrs. Liberty, "If ye wasn't so light and giddy ye'd know that I was made by a Dago and presented to the American people on behalf of the French Government for the purpose of welcomin' Irish immigrants into the Dutch city of New York. 'Tis that I've been doing night and day since I was erected."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10379]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I see the move of RFID into universities, it concerns me, ... It is sending a message that not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39568]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I see the move of RFID into universities, it concerns me, ... It is sending a message that not only do we not have to worry about privacy but you can profit from it by a career perspective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58765</guid></item></channel></rss>