<?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[He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47838]]></link><description><![CDATA[He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22514]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept destructive criticism. Without 100 percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We try to spend a lot of time together. Even with athletics and her friends, we always make time for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39316]]></link><description><![CDATA[We try to spend a lot of time together. Even with athletics and her friends, we always make time for each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45247]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness:  Or if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth;   Muffle your false love with some show of blindness:    Let not my sister read it in your eye;     Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator;      Look sweet, spear fair, become disloyalty;       Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger;        Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted;         Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint;          Be secret-false: what need she be acquainted?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17731]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of helping them to help themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much learning does not teach understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much learning does not teach understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Back at home, everybody always thought that David was going to be big time. When he was in Minnesota, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Back at home, everybody always thought that David was going to be big time. When he was in Minnesota, a lot of people thought that he was going to be a productive hitter there. But he's moved on to a bigger market and he's done what he's done, and he deserves everything that he's getting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52321]]></link><description><![CDATA[The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant of others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9177]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's sad because it came back to haunt me this year, ... I came back from a wrist injury and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33831]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's sad because it came back to haunt me this year, ... I came back from a wrist injury and a shoulder injury, so it's hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you could only love enough, you could be the mostpowerful person in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22393]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you could only love enough, you could be the mostpowerful person in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take the first advice of a woman and not the second. [Lat., Primo dede mulieris consilio, secundo noli.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take the first advice of a woman and not the second. [Lat., Primo dede mulieris consilio, secundo noli.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had a pleasant time here, but I don't think we can survive here much longer like this, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29902]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had a pleasant time here, but I don't think we can survive here much longer like this,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64309</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[An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62334]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are ready to face them in court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31009]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are ready to face them in court.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have an imposing front line, and we had a tough time matching up against them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39729]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have an imposing front line, and we had a tough time matching up against them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealists...foolish enough to throw caution to the winds...have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealists...foolish enough to throw caution to the winds...have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23966]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1356]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a good tax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58697]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a good tax.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47426]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you can see just walking around Portland is evidence of what's going on in construction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29640]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you can see just walking around Portland is evidence of what's going on in construction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4065]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  The fundamental doctrines of our evangelical belief are... the full inspiration and ruling authority of Holy Scripture, with its consequences, the Divinity of Christ, the finality of His Atonement, and salvation through faith alone. These basic truths should be studied as set forth in the New Testament, that they may be asserted or defended whenever occasion requires. If this be done in a humble and Christian spirit, we shall in the long run be promoting the cause of Christian unity, which must ultimately find its basis in the truth which God has revealed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Old-Testament doctrine of salvation gives us no encouragement, on strictly hermeneutical grounds, to argue from what was true politically ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6719]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Old-Testament doctrine of salvation gives us no encouragement, on strictly hermeneutical grounds, to argue from what was true politically of Israel to what could or should be true of any modern political state. Even if we were first to grant the presence of a "Christendom" situation [where] Church and State would be virtually coextensive, the nation of Israel would still remain unique. The focus of salvation is on the historical action of God in forming a people for Himself, and there is no indication anywhere in the Bible that God promises political salvation even inside the context of the full salvation of His people, let alone outside it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41625]]></link><description><![CDATA[To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a better option than having to go to Colombia, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35965]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a better option than having to go to Colombia,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're waist deep in the Big Muddyand the big fool says to push onsinging about an incident in whichmarine recruits ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45955]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're waist deep in the Big Muddyand the big fool says to push onsinging about an incident in whichmarine recruits died driven to their deaths by an officer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10599]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year we didn't shave or fully taper until state and we went from being ranked in the low 20s ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year we didn't shave or fully taper until state and we went from being ranked in the low 20s to finishing eighth in the 200 free relay. This year, who knows how much time we can drop. I don't know if Fenwick shaved and tapered for sectionals or not - I have no idea. But we're shooting for No. 1, and I think it's an attainable goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who says "I may be wrong, but--" does not believe there can be any such possibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who says "I may be wrong, but--" does not believe there can be any such possibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be honest, we've had no complaints from people with disabilities about being unable to vote with our current voting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37256]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be honest, we've had no complaints from people with disabilities about being unable to vote with our current voting system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37256</guid></item></channel></rss>