<?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[Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With willing hearts and skillful hands, the difficult we do at once; the impossible takes a bit longer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56506]]></link><description><![CDATA[With willing hearts and skillful hands, the difficult we do at once; the impossible takes a bit longer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61063]]></link><description><![CDATA[No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December, how  In this our pinching cave shall we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11570]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December, how  In this our pinching cave shall we discourse   The freezing hours away?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was pretty neat. At the state tournament, they also got the sportsmanship award, which was the first time ever. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38648]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was pretty neat. At the state tournament, they also got the sportsmanship award, which was the first time ever. They were fun to watch play. When they received that award, they were all dressed up in red and white.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5420]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37970]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since twelve honest men have decided the cause, And were judges of fact, tho' not judges of laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since twelve honest men have decided the cause, And were judges of fact, tho' not judges of laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By selling, you're making an ethical statement. But don't cut off your nose to spite your face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41560]]></link><description><![CDATA[By selling, you're making an ethical statement. But don't cut off your nose to spite your face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/801]]></link><description><![CDATA[If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we can be more efficient in some ways, especially offensively. Wally is such an efficient player, he scores ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32631]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we can be more efficient in some ways, especially offensively. Wally is such an efficient player, he scores with fewer shots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're not using satellite phones. They're using Web sites and posing as teenage girls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38709]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're not using satellite phones. They're using Web sites and posing as teenage girls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be cautious as to what you say of men, and to whom you speak it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be cautious as to what you say of men, and to whom you speak it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweep first before your own door, before you sweep the doorsteps of your neighbors ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweep first before your own door, before you sweep the doorsteps of your neighbors]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sentinel angel sitting high in glory Heard this shrill wail ring out from Purgatory:  "Have mercy, mighty angel, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27338]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sentinel angel sitting high in glory Heard this shrill wail ring out from Purgatory:  "Have mercy, mighty angel, hear my story!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Refugees are given shelter in the country and they should confine themselves to being refugees and should not start any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Refugees are given shelter in the country and they should confine themselves to being refugees and should not start any political agitation,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54100]]></link><description><![CDATA[That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to keep fighting -- you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24898]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to keep fighting -- you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We left a lot of plays on the field, whether it was a bad route, bad throw or dropped pass. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34637]]></link><description><![CDATA[We left a lot of plays on the field, whether it was a bad route, bad throw or dropped pass. I thought we played pretty good, but pretty good isn't enough against Florida.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to dream before your dreams can come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63647]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to dream before your dreams can come true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14549]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget love, I'd rather fall in chocolate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget love, I'd rather fall in chocolate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One enemy is too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49684]]></link><description><![CDATA[One enemy is too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a disease no one talks about, ... But it changes your life. I never got to play football; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31521]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a disease no one talks about, ... But it changes your life. I never got to play football; I had to quit baseball because I was too sick; and when I got to college, I missed a quarter of my sophomore year and had to live with a feeding tube for a while.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He holds him with his glittering eye-- . . . .  And listens like a three years' child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25167]]></link><description><![CDATA[He holds him with his glittering eye-- . . . .  And listens like a three years' child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivalry of scholars advances wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rivalry of scholars advances wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2690</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[The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2698]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a business decision. We just felt this was the right time for me to come in. There's no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38377]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a business decision. We just felt this was the right time for me to come in. There's no love lost, there's no harm. I'm coming in with an open mind and ready to play, no grudges at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13663]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Wherever the missionary character of the doctrine of election is forgotten; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Wherever the missionary character of the doctrine of election is forgotten; wherever it is forgotten that we are chosen in order to be sent; wherever the minds of believers are concerned more to probe backwards from their election into the reasons for it in the secret counsel of God, than to press forward from their election to the purpose of it, ... that they should be Christ's ambassadors and witnesses to the ends of the earth, wherever men think that the purpose of election is their own salvation rather than the salvation of the world: then God's people have betrayed their trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was most annoying to me as I returned as a tourist with my granddaughter is how seriously you all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41615]]></link><description><![CDATA[What was most annoying to me as I returned as a tourist with my granddaughter is how seriously you all take yourselves. Now, I know it is the capital of the free world and a lot of people there have major important jobs but most don't!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As quickly as the ice vanishes when the Father unlooses the frost fetters and unwounds the icy ropes of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57776]]></link><description><![CDATA[As quickly as the ice vanishes when the Father unlooses the frost fetters and unwounds the icy ropes of the torrent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35547]]></link><description><![CDATA[People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tolerate, change, or be grateful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tolerate, change, or be grateful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A generous person forgets what he gives and remembers what he receives. Learn, earn, return. These are the three phases ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63101]]></link><description><![CDATA[A generous person forgets what he gives and remembers what he receives. Learn, earn, return. These are the three phases of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26738]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Etiquette requires us to admire the human race ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Etiquette requires us to admire the human race]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15560]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15560</guid></item></channel></rss>