<?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[O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent;  Long may thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54887]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent;  Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil   Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was an outsider. I was the egghead from academia who got in because the rules had changed. While I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30918]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was an outsider. I was the egghead from academia who got in because the rules had changed. While I looked for validation from my fellow contemporaries, I instead found jealousy and envy. I did not find team spirit. This led to dissatisfaction, an unease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845  Accustom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845  Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation -- speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughed at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obliged by hunger and request of friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obliged by hunger and request of friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3156]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as creeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56544]]></link><description><![CDATA[If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as creeps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never met a man I didn't like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1645]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never met a man I didn't like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our native land attracts us with some mysterious charm, never to be forgotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our native land attracts us with some mysterious charm, never to be forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5044]]></link><description><![CDATA[In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  The idea of "conviction" is complex. It involves the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  The idea of "conviction" is complex. It involves the concepts of authoritative examination, of unquestionable proof, of decisive judgment, of punitive power. Whatever the final issue may be, he who "convicts" another places the truth of the case in dispute in a clear light before him, so that it must be seen and acknowledged as truth. He who then rejects the conclusion which the exposition involves, rejects it with his eyes open and at his peril. Truth seen as truth carries with it condemnation to all who refuse to welcome it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter.  We therefore deemed it meeter   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter.  We therefore deemed it meeter   To carry off the latter.   - Thomas Love Peacock,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46334]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Reverend are ever before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Reverend are ever before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They'd say, 'Thank you, but it's the people on the coast we're most concerned about,' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39163]]></link><description><![CDATA[They'd say, 'Thank you, but it's the people on the coast we're most concerned about,']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most precious things in speech are the pauses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most precious things in speech are the pauses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The race could save one-half its wasted labor Would each reform himself and spare his neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53218]]></link><description><![CDATA[The race could save one-half its wasted labor Would each reform himself and spare his neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Senate race, in particular, brings a lot to bear in terms of the campaigns' organization. It's my sense that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31743]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Senate race, in particular, brings a lot to bear in terms of the campaigns' organization. It's my sense that the main event is the Senate race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can sympathize with everything, except suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This would be one time to take it to a commercial car wash. That way, nobody has to handle it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40429]]></link><description><![CDATA[This would be one time to take it to a commercial car wash. That way, nobody has to handle it and the (dirty water) drains into the sanitary sewer system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints   You have nothing to do but to save souls. Therefore spend and be spent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints   You have nothing to do but to save souls. Therefore spend and be spent in this work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Las Vegas is one of the most dynamic tourist and convention destinations in the United States, providing a high profile ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Las Vegas is one of the most dynamic tourist and convention destinations in the United States, providing a high profile presence for the group in North America that will complement Shangri - La's developments in Miami, Chicago and Vancouver. Guests at the Shangri - La Hotel, Las Vegas will experience a new brand of sophisticated hospitality - warm, distinctively Asian, with highly personalized service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16996]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know. I didn't see it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28518]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know. I didn't see it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65083]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians are talking where they should be listening. But he who can no longer listen to his brother will soon be no longer listening to God, either; he will be doing nothing but prattle in the presence of God, too. This is the beginning of the death of the spiritual life, and in the end there will be nothing left but spiritual chatter and clerical condescension arrayed in pious words ... never really speaking to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's own observation, what he find good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26676]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's own observation, what he find good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27097]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1982]]></link><description><![CDATA[The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her joy in coaching these young women made them believe in themselves and depend on each other. Her guidance not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her joy in coaching these young women made them believe in themselves and depend on each other. Her guidance not only helped them excel here, it will help them become better, more compassionate leaders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eight months out of the year you can play tournaments in Montana. There are tournaments everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eight months out of the year you can play tournaments in Montana. There are tournaments everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan, And then deny him merit if you can.  Where he falls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27381]]></link><description><![CDATA[View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan, And then deny him merit if you can.  Where he falls short, 'tis Nature's fault alone   Where he succeeds, the merit's all his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8745]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65605]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7941]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenacity is a certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenacity is a certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. -Walter Lippmann.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3409</guid></item></channel></rss>