<?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[A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well. [Lat., Parvus pumilio, licet in monte constiterit; colossus magnitudinem suam servabit, etiam si steterit in puteo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he walked up to me and he said, 'I just shot and killed two people, and you need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29514]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he walked up to me and he said, 'I just shot and killed two people, and you need to call 911,' and I just thought, OK, whatever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  Prayer is the preface to the book of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the test of the new life sermon; the girding on of armor for battle; the pilgrim's preparation for his journey. It must be supplemented by action or it amounts to nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18797]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373   Although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373   Although it is indisputable that our Lord founded a church, it is an unproved assumption that the church is an aggregation of visible and organized societies. The theory upon which the public worship of the primitive churches proceeded was that each community was complete in itself, and that, in every act of public worship, every element of the community was present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gas situation is a concern. But we'll meet our obligations. If the gas prices remain high, as I said, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38237]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gas situation is a concern. But we'll meet our obligations. If the gas prices remain high, as I said, we may have to look at canceling a trip or cutting the schedule down by a couple of games for next season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53949]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the first if many drug distribution cases we plan to prosecute in Hale County. If you intend to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29257]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first if many drug distribution cases we plan to prosecute in Hale County. If you intend to run drugs, you are going to do time in jail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are the keys of paradise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are the keys of paradise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the state of this country worsens every day, ... It's full of garbage, there's a lot of crime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38487]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the state of this country worsens every day, ... It's full of garbage, there's a lot of crime and a lot of corruption in the government and police. It's all upside down ? everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is made more sacred by adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is made more sacred by adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18754]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined by what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall. A person is defined by what he chooses to do with his life, not by what happens to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47385]]></link><description><![CDATA[It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I think the emotion factor is still there and it is precisely what makes sports sponsorship so powerful. There's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41237]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I think the emotion factor is still there and it is precisely what makes sports sponsorship so powerful. There's nothing that gets people as involved as sport.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vain, froward child of empire, say, Are all thy playthings snatched away? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vain, froward child of empire, say, Are all thy playthings snatched away?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21363]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47174]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is -- and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20524]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They also like being half way between Tampa and Orlando. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30268]]></link><description><![CDATA[They also like being half way between Tampa and Orlando.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's not eligible for the bone marrow transplant until he finishes his chemo courses. [The doctors] have to wipe out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31236]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's not eligible for the bone marrow transplant until he finishes his chemo courses. [The doctors] have to wipe out the bad cells before they can introduce the good ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baby one more time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baby one more time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies, seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48917]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies, seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he already felt, without acknowledging ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36468]]></link><description><![CDATA[In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he already felt, without acknowledging it even to himself, that in war he was likely to enjoy little profit or pleasure on the day when the long, low, black hull of the Yankee privateer, with her tapering, bending spars, her long-range guns, and her sharp-faced captain, should appear on the western horizon, and suddenly, at the sight of heavy-lumbering British merchantman, should fling out her white wings of canvas, and fly down on her prey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot give thee less, to be called grateful. Thou thought'st to help me, and such thanks I give  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot give thee less, to be called grateful. Thou thought'st to help me, and such thanks I give  As one near death to those that wish him live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58990</guid></item><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[You want to understand what the person across the table from you does for a living and how they do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35352]]></link><description><![CDATA[You want to understand what the person across the table from you does for a living and how they do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as the felon condemn'd to die-- With a very natural loathing--  Leaving the sheriff to dream of ropes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as the felon condemn'd to die-- With a very natural loathing--  Leaving the sheriff to dream of ropes,   From his gloomy cell in a vision elopes,    To caper on sunny greens and slopes,     Instead of the dance upon nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is to give light must endure the burning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21940]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is to give light must endure the burning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46916]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kim couldn't have done that routine better. She had a great week at practice and came in very confident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kim couldn't have done that routine better. She had a great week at practice and came in very confident.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails, and most oft there, Where most it promises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails, and most oft there, Where most it promises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6026]]></link><description><![CDATA[They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a vast difference between saying prayers and praying ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48030]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a vast difference between saying prayers and praying]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51164]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51164</guid></item></channel></rss>