<?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[Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using [it] against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52899]]></link><description><![CDATA['I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using [it] against uncivilised tribes.' **********WinstonChurchill, Secretary of State, British War Office, 1919, authorisinguse of chemical weapons against Iraqis.. in the first of 6invasions of Iraq by agents of Anglo Iranian Oil (BritishPetroleum) in the last 100 years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jordan also believes all final status issues, including borders, refugees, Jerusalem and settlements, should be a matter for the parties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jordan also believes all final status issues, including borders, refugees, Jerusalem and settlements, should be a matter for the parties to decide. I am encouraged by what I've heard from you today, sir, that these issues are not to be prejudiced and should be mutually agreed by the parties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fewer facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fewer facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24891]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happy for everybody that's involved with this. It took me about two years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39052]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happy for everybody that's involved with this. It took me about two years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little I ask; my wants are few; I only wish a hut of stone  (A very plain brown stone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little I ask; my wants are few; I only wish a hut of stone  (A very plain brown stone will do),   That I may call my own;    And close at hand is such a one     In yonder street that fronts the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21154]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people study all their life, and at their death they have learned everything except to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people study all their life, and at their death they have learned everything except to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool. [Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8684]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool. [Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And do these objectors mean to say that, because God has redeemed us from the curse of the law, therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6536]]></link><description><![CDATA[And do these objectors mean to say that, because God has redeemed us from the curse of the law, therefore we owe him nothing, we have no duty now to him? Has not redemption rather made us doubly debtors? We owe him more than ever: we owe his holy law more than ever; more honor, more obedience. Duty has been doubled, not canceled, by our being delivered from the law; and he who says that duty has ceased, because deliverance has come, knows nothing of duty, or law, or deliverance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603   It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35527]]></link><description><![CDATA[For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12032]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the short and the long of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55358]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the short and the long of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride and conceit were the original sins of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5371]]></link><description><![CDATA[The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him laugh, who is on the right side of the hedge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him laugh, who is on the right side of the hedge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. -Alan Watts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm structuring a program that's going to be individualized based on 'X' pitcher. We're going to create an inning threshold, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm structuring a program that's going to be individualized based on 'X' pitcher. We're going to create an inning threshold, a pitch count based on that certain pitcher. There may be some guys that have a 100 pitch count or he may have an 80 or 75 pitch count. It all depends on the person's strength, arm action and mechanics. All of that will play a role in our decision making.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking is heavily endorsed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking is heavily endorsed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17249]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't shoot the ball well. Also, we played the game at Green's pace. We let them dictate the tempo. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32523]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't shoot the ball well. Also, we played the game at Green's pace. We let them dictate the tempo. We weren't aggressive enough, and we didn't take enough shots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In honest plainness thou hast heard me say My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness,  Being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22932]]></link><description><![CDATA[In honest plainness thou hast heard me say My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness,  Being full of supper and distemp'ring draughts,   Upon malicious knavery does thou come    To start my quiet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10843]]></link><description><![CDATA[In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,  When he call'd the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,  When he call'd the flowers, so blue and golden,   Stars that on earth's firmament do shine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weep not that the world changes--did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weep not that the world changes--did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't come out focused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42100]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't come out focused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52099]]></link><description><![CDATA[As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. - Aphorisms and Reflections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Low humidity and high winds allow for a fire to get out of control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Low humidity and high winds allow for a fire to get out of control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is the roadmap of a culture. It tells you where its people came from and where they are going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is the roadmap of a culture. It tells you where its people came from and where they are going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the floor, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22228]]></link><description><![CDATA[I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my feet on the floor, I visualize myself making perfect runs with emphasis on technique, all the way through to what my personal best is in practice.... The more you work with this type of visualization, especially when you do it on a day-to-day basis, you'll actually begin to feel your muscles contracting at the appropriate times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weavethe web of life; he is merely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weavethe web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web,he does to himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when?  On the maps of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when?  On the maps of the world you will find it not;   It was fought by the mothers of men.   - Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is coming back in a very big way, and you need to be prepared for an extended period of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is coming back in a very big way, and you need to be prepared for an extended period of very cold weather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30585]]></link><description><![CDATA[When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least 50 to 60 per cent of the trade is retail and they invest with a very short term ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29911]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least 50 to 60 per cent of the trade is retail and they invest with a very short term view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who runs behind truck is exhausted, he who runs in front of truck is tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46475]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who runs behind truck is exhausted, he who runs in front of truck is tired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ox and the FrogAn ox drinking at a pool trod on a brood of young frogs and crushed one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1581]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ox and the FrogAn ox drinking at a pool trod on a brood of young frogs and crushed one of them to death. The Mother coming up, and missing one of her sons, inquired of his brothers what had become of him. He is dead, dear Mother; for just now a very huge beast with four great feet came to the pool and crushed him to death with his cloven heel. The Frog, puffing herself out, inquired, if the beast was as big as that in size. Cease, Mother, to puff yourself out, said her son, and do not be angry; for you would, I assure you, sooner burst than successfully imitate the hugeness of that monster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17036</guid></item></channel></rss>