<?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've done lots of research, and we've found sources for everything but the 70-foot poles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32726]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've done lots of research, and we've found sources for everything but the 70-foot poles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A savior of the silver-coasted isle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45820]]></link><description><![CDATA[A savior of the silver-coasted isle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a professional. At the circuit I am calm. At home I am very different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37499]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a professional. At the circuit I am calm. At home I am very different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The learning curve compared to last year, where we installed a new system and a new defense in the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The learning curve compared to last year, where we installed a new system and a new defense in the first three weeks, isn't as steep this season. Now that we've had a year to work with the kids, I think we can build on our success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38583</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/13816]]></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/13816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41203]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66703]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was completely unfair and I was happy to see the dean saw it our way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34893]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was completely unfair and I was happy to see the dean saw it our way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61014]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52781]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16023]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14962]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I have loved them, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be  Borne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44882]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I have loved them, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be  Borne, like shy bubbles, onward; from a boy   I wanton'd with thy breakers.    . . . .     And laid my hand upon thy mane--as I do here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person's worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2239]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person's worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The worth of a person, or a thing, or an idea, is in being, not in doing, not in having.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55509]]></link><description><![CDATA[For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When children stand quiet, they have done some ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50069]]></link><description><![CDATA[When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11081]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11081</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[Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it's everything in between that makes it all worth living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it's everything in between that makes it all worth living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense that we respect his theory that his wife ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53495]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competitions are for horse, not artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competitions are for horse, not artist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just wrestle under the name of 'wrestling' or pick some other creative name. Because as soon as you make it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just wrestle under the name of 'wrestling' or pick some other creative name. Because as soon as you make it about the fact that it's people of short stature wrestling, that's when you're inviting the exploitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew we were quick on defense, but they needed to be game-tested. We needed to see if they'd hit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew we were quick on defense, but they needed to be game-tested. We needed to see if they'd hit somebody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absolutism tempered by assassination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absolutism tempered by assassination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24613]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night. No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance. No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began. A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Tim and I moved back to Illinois in 2003, my little brother started playing on bass. It was nice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34184]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Tim and I moved back to Illinois in 2003, my little brother started playing on bass. It was nice when my brother joined the band. It seemed like things really clicked and came together with him on bass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2512]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't have asked for anything better than the way they've treated me here, especially my teammates. I wasn't worried, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't have asked for anything better than the way they've treated me here, especially my teammates. I wasn't worried, but I was pretty nervous about how I'd be accepted. Ever since Day One it's just been great. There's been no negativity at all, absolutely none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light seeking light doth light of light beguile. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light seeking light doth light of light beguile. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist    Wherever God's Word may be preached, His precepts remain a letter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist    Wherever God's Word may be preached, His precepts remain a letter and dead words so long as they are not received by men with a pure heart; only where they pierce to the soul do they become, so to speak, changed into Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values" to consider. There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are only noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but merely a method of trading off one value against another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64042]]></link><description><![CDATA[To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will have no other master but our caprice -- that is to say, our evil self will have no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6597]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will have no other master but our caprice -- that is to say, our evil self will have no God, and the foundation of our nature is seditious, impious, refractory, opposed to and contemptuous of all that tries to rule it, and therefore contrary to order, ungovernable and negative. It is this foundation which Christianity calls the natural man. But the savage which is within us, and constitutes the primitive stuff of us, must be disciplined and civilized in order to produce a man. And the man must be patiently cultivated to produce a wise man; and the wise man must be tested and tried if he is to become righteous, and the righteous man must have substituted the will of God for his individual will, if he is to become a saint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would that the Roman people had but one neck! [Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would that the Roman people had but one neck! [Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a boyling pot flies comes not. [To a boiling pot flies come not.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16224]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a boyling pot flies comes not. [To a boiling pot flies come not.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bind her, grind her, burn her with fire, Cast her ashes into the sea,--  She shall escape, she shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bind her, grind her, burn her with fire, Cast her ashes into the sea,--  She shall escape, she shall aspire,   She shall arise to make men free;    She shall arise in a sacred scorn,     Lighting the lives that are yet unborn,      Spirit supernal, splendor eternal,       England!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The collective matrix of a science at a given time is determined by a kind of establishment, which includes universities, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56785]]></link><description><![CDATA[The collective matrix of a science at a given time is determined by a kind of establishment, which includes universities, learned societies, and, more recently, the editorial offices of technical journals. Like other establishments, they are consciously or unconsciously bent on preserving the status quo- partly because unorthodox innovations are a threat to their authority, but also because of the deeper fear that their laboriously erected an intellectual edifice might collapse under the impact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25233]]></link><description><![CDATA['That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, what fools these mortals be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, what fools these mortals be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12851]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906   Only those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906   Only those who try to live near God and have formed the habit of faithfulness to Him in the small things of our daily life, can hope in times of need for that special light which shows us our path. To do as well as we can the job immediately before us, is the way to learn what we ought to do next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23286]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan has much more aggressive plans to build plants and facilities in North America than any other country. Plus, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Japan has much more aggressive plans to build plants and facilities in North America than any other country. Plus, we already had two Japanese plants here, so we wanted to capitalize on that relationship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32416</guid></item></channel></rss>