<?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[No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47425]]></link><description><![CDATA[No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one. - "London Times", February 17, 1941.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is well paid that is well satisfied, And I delivering you am satisfied,  And therein do account myself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54732]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is well paid that is well satisfied, And I delivering you am satisfied,  And therein do account myself well paid;   My mind was never yet more mercenary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people leave, they're happy they can check it off their list. They can also see what other programs they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29149]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people leave, they're happy they can check it off their list. They can also see what other programs they qualify for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes people play hard to get to know that the other person's feelings are real ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes people play hard to get to know that the other person's feelings are real]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small leak will sink a great ship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59703]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small leak will sink a great ship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However, after a long pause in talks, which lasted more than a year, it would be too optimistic to expect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28845]]></link><description><![CDATA[However, after a long pause in talks, which lasted more than a year, it would be too optimistic to expect any radical breakthroughs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17248]]></link><description><![CDATA[To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099   Once I knew what it was to rest upon the rock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099   Once I knew what it was to rest upon the rock of God's promises, and it was indeed a precious resting place, but now I rest in His grace. He is teaching me that the bosom of His love is a far sweeter resting-place than even the rock of His promises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Variety is the soul of pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Variety is the soul of pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47661]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64674]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening.... Come up. I'll tell your fortune.... Ah, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43341]]></link><description><![CDATA['Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening.... Come up. I'll tell your fortune.... Ah, you can be had.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palm Sunday  Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Palm Sunday  Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of people's jobs and lives and economic well-being depending on moving water through the delta in an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31904]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of people's jobs and lives and economic well-being depending on moving water through the delta in an ecologically sound manner. It's hard to imagine a more important issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People like me who believe the left can be a moderate forcewe have failed. We are stuck in the medieval ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41122]]></link><description><![CDATA[People like me who believe the left can be a moderate forcewe have failed. We are stuck in the medieval notion that there is an aristocracy and a people, and the people want a piece of what the aristocracy hada life subsidized enough to have a minimum of work and a maximum of pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63783]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3102]]></link><description><![CDATA["Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54058]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to be here because it was a brand new theater and it gave us an opportunity to really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36401]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to be here because it was a brand new theater and it gave us an opportunity to really shine,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109   I hear men praying everywhere for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109   I hear men praying everywhere for more faith, but when I listen to them carefully, and get to the real heart of their prayer, very often it is not more faith at all that they are wanting, but a change from faith to sight. Faith says not, "I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it," but, "God sent it, and so it must be good for me." Faith, walking in the dark with God, only prays Him to clasp its hand more closely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In judging others a man laboureth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7660]]></link><description><![CDATA[In judging others a man laboureth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboureth to good purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5171]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Bach fugue, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27717]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Bach fugue, or any other great work of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48376]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be illegal to apply this proposed definition to any federal contract. The minority small business community is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28540]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be illegal to apply this proposed definition to any federal contract. The minority small business community is not well served by a resolution that flies in the face of existing laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: And the children ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13160]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The unanimous decision upholds legislation passed eight years ago by lawmakers in British Columbia that allowed the province to seek ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35507]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The unanimous decision upholds legislation passed eight years ago by lawmakers in British Columbia that allowed the province to seek restitution for health care costs related to smoking for the last 50 years and for future costs.] We are very appreciative of this opportunity to hold the tobacco industry to account for its destructive products, ... That it was unanimous indicates the power of this ruling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave,  And spread ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave,  And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed   The lofty vault, to gather and roll back    The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood,     Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down      And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks       And supplication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yonkers that have hearts of oak at fourscore yeares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yonkers that have hearts of oak at fourscore yeares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20394]]></link><description><![CDATA[To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In addition to the physical contact, it surprised us to find that these immune cells also have machinery to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35673]]></link><description><![CDATA[In addition to the physical contact, it surprised us to find that these immune cells also have machinery to take up serotonin and to secrete it in an excitatory manner. The point behind this transmission is not entirely clear, but it appears to be an additional way of stimulating a T cell response.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are students who have a lot of potential but don't have people pushing them or showing them how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40503]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are students who have a lot of potential but don't have people pushing them or showing them how to succeed. The AVID elective class teaches them how to be good students n they learn how to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26359]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauty of success lies not solely in your happiness. But also in ensuring that you stop to help those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62913]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauty of success lies not solely in your happiness. But also in ensuring that you stop to help those along your life's path become champions in their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43099]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes. . . . It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their "betters" were derelict.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a.  A merry heart goes all the day, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a.  A merry heart goes all the day,   Your sad tires in a mile-a.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise  By the stairway of surprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise  By the stairway of surprise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5240]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he did a super job. He left the program in much better shape than when he took over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32231]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he did a super job. He left the program in much better shape than when he took over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Local production will make our position even stronger since we can offer our main volume model at a very competitive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Local production will make our position even stronger since we can offer our main volume model at a very competitive price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35189</guid></item></channel></rss>