<?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[We knew Bentonville would be tough and that it would take those three girls' best efforts for us to win. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40307]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew Bentonville would be tough and that it would take those three girls' best efforts for us to win. Before the match, we talked about how it was important to play each shot as if the championship depended on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The envious only hate the excellence they cannot reach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52440]]></link><description><![CDATA[The envious only hate the excellence they cannot reach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does not destroy me, makes me strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57943]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does not destroy me, makes me strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5995]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we hear oxymoronwe think that thosewho eat oxen become morons.. their brains occludedby animal fat.. cannot receive oxygenWhen we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18358]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we hear oxymoronwe think that thosewho eat oxen become morons.. their brains occludedby animal fat.. cannot receive oxygenWhen we hear Oxfamwe think famine..that those who promoteoxeatingcreate famine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11223]]></link><description><![CDATA[We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63872]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14519]]></link><description><![CDATA[One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57937]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9735]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good model can advance fashion by ten years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15355]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good model can advance fashion by ten years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time rolls his ceaseless course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time rolls his ceaseless course.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's unusual. We don't just miss and miss free throws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39379]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's unusual. We don't just miss and miss free throws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary   Faith is rest, not toil. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary   Faith is rest, not toil. It is the giving up all the former weary efforts to do or feel something good, in order to induce God to love and pardon; and the calm reception of the truth so long rejected, that God is not waiting for any such inducements, but loves and pardons of His own goodwill, and is showing that goodwill to any sinner who will come to Him on such a footing, casting away his own poor performances or goodnesses, and relying implicitly upon the free love of Him who so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like madness is the glory of this life As this pomp shows to a little oil and root. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like madness is the glory of this life As this pomp shows to a little oil and root.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's totally it, ... Some people say, 'Whoa! That was great! Thanks a lot.' Then they go over and sit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33267]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's totally it, ... Some people say, 'Whoa! That was great! Thanks a lot.' Then they go over and sit down right over there. Then there's people like myself who think that it's the greatest thing ever. And you can't get enough of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27646]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As much as we all love the show, we do have to run a business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35283]]></link><description><![CDATA[As much as we all love the show, we do have to run a business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Round-hoofed, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide,  High crest, short ears, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Round-hoofed, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide,  High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong,   Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide:    Look what a horse should have he did not lack,     Save a proud rider on so proud a back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15192]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63601]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew the ball was going in. No question about it. You have to put the ball in the basket ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42283]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew the ball was going in. No question about it. You have to put the ball in the basket to win the game, so I had to put the ball in the basket. And backboard? No! I was trying to find the quickest way to put the ball in the basket, period.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64509]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Managing directors are not paid to be busy, they are paid to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Managing directors are not paid to be busy, they are paid to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13726]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44115]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10545]]></link><description><![CDATA[And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34248]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650   If all you have found [in Christianity] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650   If all you have found [in Christianity] is advantage, whether it is fun or profit or security, then you haven't started following Him yet. His way is the way of the Cross. The world can be very hard on those it hates. If it is not hard on you, perhaps it sees nothing in you to hate. But then it doesn't see Jesus in you, for it hates Jesus with an undying hatred. While your way is still all fun, all easy, all jolly, it is only your way: when you turn from it to follow His way, it will cost. It may cost you everything you have. That is what it cost Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10753]]></link><description><![CDATA[People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no great genius without some touch of madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17295]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no great genius without some touch of madness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little journeys and good cost bring safe home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little journeys and good cost bring safe home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once again the stock market will be the loser, especially as it already had tax disincentives compared to other countries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once again the stock market will be the loser, especially as it already had tax disincentives compared to other countries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything in to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52326]]></link><description><![CDATA[An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything in to an empty head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64716]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64716</guid></item></channel></rss>