<?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[I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth, Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth, Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned on Grecian earth,  The Lindian Cleobulus said, "The mean was still the best";   The Spartan Chilo said, "Know thyself," a heaven-born phrase confessed.    Corinthian Periander taught "Our anger to command,"     "Too much of nothing," Pittacus, from Mitylene's strand;      Athenian Solon this advised, "Look to the end of life,"       And Bias from Priene showed, "Bad men are the most rife";        Milesian Thales uregd that "None should e'er a surety be";         Few were there words, but if you look, you'll much in little see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63852]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials ofknowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials ofknowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11779]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on my plate with just a little piece of meat. And if someone asks me why I didn't get more meat, I'll just say, "Oh, you mean this?" and pull out a big piece of meat from inside the blob of potatoes, where I've hidden it. Good magic trick, huh?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vertex shares are once again challenging our price target and with the stock up 250% over the past year, investors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vertex shares are once again challenging our price target and with the stock up 250% over the past year, investors may be asking what to do with the stock. We would stick with Vertex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to give men and women in the department equal opportunities to appear on stage. With 'Julius Caesar' and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35480]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to give men and women in the department equal opportunities to appear on stage. With 'Julius Caesar' and 'The Rainmaker,' those are great opportunities for men, and we selected the others for the female actors on campus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is self-punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is self-punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact we saw 10 percent of organizations freezing salaries was astronomical. It was a really unusual year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39802]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact we saw 10 percent of organizations freezing salaries was astronomical. It was a really unusual year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect and I don't live to be. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect and I don't live to be. But, before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6041]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dally not with mony or women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dally not with mony or women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May all your labors be in vein. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59400]]></link><description><![CDATA[May all your labors be in vein.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble heart will always capitulate to reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53123]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/505]]></link><description><![CDATA[People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the spot where I am mortal. [Ger., Hier ist die Stelle wo ich sterblich bin.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43175]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the spot where I am mortal. [Ger., Hier ist die Stelle wo ich sterblich bin.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's never really even been off the farm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30744]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's never really even been off the farm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining;  Thy fate is the common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining;  Thy fate is the common fate of all,   Into each life some rain must fall,    Some days must be dark and dreary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24043]]></link><description><![CDATA[If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We try not to make it too difficult for them, ... But their are some good golfers that we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28789]]></link><description><![CDATA[We try not to make it too difficult for them, ... But their are some good golfers that we have to challenge. Finding the balance is difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Veracity is the heart of morality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Veracity is the heart of morality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16794]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it was there, perhaps it dissipated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33721]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it was there, perhaps it dissipated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25014]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. -Fr. Alfred D'Souza.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let anyone persuade you that anything we do in life less than our own best, is a worthy thing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let anyone persuade you that anything we do in life less than our own best, is a worthy thing. You must never compromise with your life. We know when we are doing first-rate things. When we satisfy ourselves with second-rate things, it is the beginning of a long, long death. We die from that minute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65071]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are at Rome, live as Romans live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48602]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50158]]></link><description><![CDATA[For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is nothing but healthy speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going into the match I didn't know he was so good at throwing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going into the match I didn't know he was so good at throwing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work your way up or rust your way out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work your way up or rust your way out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are expecting them to go and visit their parole officers so that we can be informed of their presence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40489]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are expecting them to go and visit their parole officers so that we can be informed of their presence in a community. It's outrageous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got off stage and this guy walked up to me. He's like this ball of energy. His name was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37315]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got off stage and this guy walked up to me. He's like this ball of energy. His name was Lawrence Mathis, a manager. He said. 'I like what you're doing, and I'd like to talk to you. What are your plans? What are you doing?' I said, 'You caught me at a bad time, because I'm probably moving home in a couple of months.' But I met with him that next Monday and told him what was going on. He said, 'Give me a year to work with you.' I said, 'l don't have a year. I've got six months, at best.' He said, 'All right. Six months.' Five weeks later we got offered a deal from Broken Bow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46114]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may conquer with a sword but you are conquered by a kiss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23849]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may conquer with a sword but you are conquered by a kiss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most manufacturers have no idea how bad the environment is out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most manufacturers have no idea how bad the environment is out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  The truth is that every man is in Christ; the condemnation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  The truth is that every man is in Christ; the condemnation of every man is that he will not own the truth, he will not act as if it were true, that except he were joined with Christ, he could not think, breathe, live a single hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Senior Rob Hudson sustained his good form with a 3-under par 33 to earn medalist honors for the varsity boys, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28795]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Senior Rob Hudson sustained his good form with a 3-under par 33 to earn medalist honors for the varsity boys, causing Adams to extoll Hudsons consistency.] Hes really worked hard to make himself a Division I golfer, ... Hes gone from his bad rounds being 38 or 39 to being even par. [FCC] is a short course, but hes been able to put up those numbers at every course weve played on. Im real tickled for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28795</guid></item></channel></rss>