<?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[This voluntary gesture will create a spiritual bond among Muslims and the Palestinian cause and have a great impact on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29785]]></link><description><![CDATA[This voluntary gesture will create a spiritual bond among Muslims and the Palestinian cause and have a great impact on the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great while ago the world begun, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain;  But that's all one, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51530]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great while ago the world begun, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain;  But that's all one, our play is done,   And we'll strive to please you every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words may lie,but actions will always tell the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words may lie,but actions will always tell the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   All these several artifices, whatever they may be, to unhallow the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833   All these several artifices, whatever they may be, to unhallow the Sunday, and to change its character (it might be almost said, to mitigate its horrors,) prove but too plainly, however we may be glad to take refuge in religion, when driven to it by the loss of every other comfort, and to retain, as it were, a reversionary interest in an asylum, which may receive us when we are forced from the transitory enjoyments of our present state; that in itself wears to us a gloomy and forbidding aspect, and not a face of consolation and joy; that the worship of God is with us a constrained, not a willing, service, which we are glad therefore to abridge, though we dare not omit it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. [Lat., Quod si deficiant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. [Lat., Quod si deficiant vires, audacia certe  Laus erit: in magnis et voluisse sat est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417  Jesus, like all other religious leaders, taught men to pray, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417  Jesus, like all other religious leaders, taught men to pray, that is, He taught them to look away from the world of ordinary sense impressions and to open the heart and spirit to God; yet He is always insistent that religion must be related to life. It is only by contact with God that a better quality of living can be achieved -- and Jesus Himself, as the records show, speent many hours in communion with God -- yet that new quality of life has to be both demonstrated and tested in the ordinary rough-and-tumble of plain living. It is in ordinary human relationships that the validity of a man's communion with God is to be proved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ve released the original, high-resolution artwork under a license that allows anyone to take that art and use it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31292]]></link><description><![CDATA[ve released the original, high-resolution artwork under a license that allows anyone to take that art and use it in their own creations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more haste, ever the worst speed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18773]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more haste, ever the worst speed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18773</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["I can't" isn't a reason to give up, it's a reason to try harder ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53083]]></link><description><![CDATA["I can't" isn't a reason to give up, it's a reason to try harder]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46582]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately, what they're playing on the radio now is not really fair to a lot of great musicians that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, what they're playing on the radio now is not really fair to a lot of great musicians that are out there struggling to be heard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited and the wealth and confusion man has created.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -Hans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -Hans Margolius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65850]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy. [Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy. [Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would to the lip of his mistress. Your diet shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would to the lip of his mistress. Your diet shall be in all places alike; make not a City feast of it, to let the meat cool ere we can agree upon the first place; sit, sit. The gods require our thanks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22906]]></link><description><![CDATA[I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58950]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always remember this: 'A kiss will never miss, and after many kisses a miss becomes a misses'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always remember this: 'A kiss will never miss, and after many kisses a miss becomes a misses'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is merely gossip ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17879]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is merely gossip]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market is somewhat volatile now, so we're passive about getting new stock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market is somewhat volatile now, so we're passive about getting new stock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48074]]></link><description><![CDATA[There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wake Forest is honored to once again host the NCAA Championships. I believe our staff at Wake Forest puts on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wake Forest is honored to once again host the NCAA Championships. I believe our staff at Wake Forest puts on a first class presentation that all four teams will enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11540]]></link><description><![CDATA[False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A warmed-up dinner was never worth much. [Fr., Un diner rechauffe ne valut jamais rien.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13173]]></link><description><![CDATA[A warmed-up dinner was never worth much. [Fr., Un diner rechauffe ne valut jamais rien.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kyle is more mechanical, and Kevin is a smoother player. He has all the shots. Kyle hits the ball much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kyle is more mechanical, and Kevin is a smoother player. He has all the shots. Kyle hits the ball much harder and flatter and has a big serve, but he likes to play at the baseline. Kevin has the more all-around game and likes to go to the net, but he's not nearly as powerful as Kyle. They don't look like they started at the same academy, which in a sense is good. Kids don't all need to be taught the same way because they have different strengths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23620]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66908]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27064]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19506]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, "Makeme feel important." Never forget this message when working withpeople. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, "Makeme feel important." Never forget this message when working withpeople.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9342]]></link><description><![CDATA[People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To discover joy is to return to a state of oneness with the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44910]]></link><description><![CDATA[To discover joy is to return to a state of oneness with the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5539]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52248]]></link><description><![CDATA[You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I was in the middle of a movie and walked out on the wing on takeoff. My body... my liver... okay, my brain... went.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1229]]></link><description><![CDATA[As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. -Mahatma Gandhi.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A journying woman speakes much of all, and all of her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49042]]></link><description><![CDATA[A journying woman speakes much of all, and all of her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,— A stage, where every man must play a part; And mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,— A stage, where every man must play a part; And mine a sad one. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a good feeling about the new cabinet, especially as the reformists are still around. We need some continuity as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29908]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a good feeling about the new cabinet, especially as the reformists are still around. We need some continuity as far as reforms are concerned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've gotten a lot more people involved (since King's injury). Their roles changed. I knew they all had it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40326]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've gotten a lot more people involved (since King's injury). Their roles changed. I knew they all had it in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40326</guid></item></channel></rss>