<?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[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[You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64779]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20460]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probablythemselves will not be realized. Make big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probablythemselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope andwork. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will notdie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is truecourage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is truecourage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hast thou not learn'd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old,  That no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hast thou not learn'd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old,  That no success attends on spears and swords   Unblest, and that the battle is the Lord's?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What this system endeavours to do, ... is provide factors which explain the discretion and make it transparent and accountable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28457]]></link><description><![CDATA[What this system endeavours to do, ... is provide factors which explain the discretion and make it transparent and accountable (and) some parameters by which people can follow how they've reached their decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53138]]></link><description><![CDATA[An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752  Consider that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752  Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1745]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can tag yourself into glass. It's a new scourge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29235]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can tag yourself into glass. It's a new scourge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between your mind and your heart: Your mind tells you what is smart and your heart tells you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62962]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between your mind and your heart: Your mind tells you what is smart and your heart tells you what you're going to do anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32309]]></link><description><![CDATA[You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57786]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27999]]></link><description><![CDATA[What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be hard to replace those goals Joel Adeline had. We'll have to play more of a team game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30556]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be hard to replace those goals Joel Adeline had. We'll have to play more of a team game instead of relying on one player.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to visit Paris, the best time to go is during August, when there aren't any French people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19568]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to visit Paris, the best time to go is during August, when there aren't any French people there]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15372]]></link><description><![CDATA[No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. [Lat., Nulla vis humana vel virtus meruisse unquam potuit, ut, quod praescripsit fatalis ordo, non fiat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53686]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19079]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26631]]></link><description><![CDATA[The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if theyre right until the very end, so do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if theyre right until the very end, so do the best you can and hope its right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5945]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will probably not get appropriate numbers of volunteers just looking in largely underserved communities. We have to be creative. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38223]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will probably not get appropriate numbers of volunteers just looking in largely underserved communities. We have to be creative. ... We have to go to suburban units to assist us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stir up the hornets. [Fr., Irriter les freslons.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stir up the hornets. [Fr., Irriter les freslons.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62781]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26043]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16871]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged. [Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitia munus expletum sit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Coach (Augie) Garrido asked me if I could close if he needed me, I was fine with that. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28447]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Coach (Augie) Garrido asked me if I could close if he needed me, I was fine with that. That outing had no effect on me today. My arm felt 100 percent. You're going to have a bad day every now and then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n;  But such plain roofs as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8685]]></link><description><![CDATA[No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n;  But such plain roofs as Piety could raise,   And only vocal with the Maker's praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't take a photograph, you make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3277]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't take a photograph, you make it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took quite a while to get going and to secure some level of funding. To be honest, the early ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32058]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took quite a while to get going and to secure some level of funding. To be honest, the early years I spent with the Commission were a little ad hoc and erratic. We were in our infancy. That's not ideal when you're dealing with the most powerful industry in the world in some eyes - the global movie and television business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61996]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I gazed upon the glorious sky And the green mountains round,  And thought that when I came to lie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18212]]></link><description><![CDATA[I gazed upon the glorious sky And the green mountains round,  And thought that when I came to lie   At rest within the ground,    'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June     When brooks send up a cheerful tune,      And groves a joyous sound,       The sexton's hand, my grave to make,        The rich, green mountain-turf should break.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On net, we'll see some damage and a hit to corporate profits and proprietors' income, but that effect is temporary. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39117]]></link><description><![CDATA[On net, we'll see some damage and a hit to corporate profits and proprietors' income, but that effect is temporary. But in the next quarter, we will get some mild stimulus from the rebuilding. Certainly, it will have no major, permanent effect on the economy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're an unselfish group willing to do whatever it takes to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33680]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're an unselfish group willing to do whatever it takes to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22031]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65071]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And on the balmy zephyrs tranquil rest The silver clouds.   - John Keats, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62665]]></link><description><![CDATA[And on the balmy zephyrs tranquil rest The silver clouds.   - John Keats,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20042</guid></item></channel></rss>