<?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[To a crazy ship all winds are contrary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49993]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a crazy ship all winds are contrary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10482]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26056]]></link><description><![CDATA[What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tho' we earn our bread, Tom, By the dirty pen,  What we can we will be,   Honest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tho' we earn our bread, Tom, By the dirty pen,  What we can we will be,   Honest Englishmen.    Do the work that's nearest     Though it's dull at whiles,      Helping, when we meet them,       Lame dogs over stiles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a great night, a great Lanthorne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49997]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a great night, a great Lanthorne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since when was genius found respectable? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since when was genius found respectable?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli... don't seem quite enough armor for a world beset with splitting the atoms, urban ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thoughts of Plato and Machiavelli... don't seem quite enough armor for a world beset with splitting the atoms, urban guerrillas, nineteen varieties of psychotherapists, amplified guitars, napalm, computers, astronauts, and an atmosphere polluted simultaneously with auto exhaust and TV commercials.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62906]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My soul to-day Is far away  Sailing the Vesuvian Bay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23101]]></link><description><![CDATA[My soul to-day Is far away  Sailing the Vesuvian Bay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25698]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12244]]></link><description><![CDATA[At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent. -Golda Meir.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You clearly have to keep watching this inflation issue. You do have to have some concern that, based on history, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37131]]></link><description><![CDATA[You clearly have to keep watching this inflation issue. You do have to have some concern that, based on history, the current amount of economic growth should lead to inflation. But if you talk to companies, it's not happening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49951]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65570]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50158]]></link><description><![CDATA[For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62358]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an adventure in forgiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an adventure in forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66704]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then horn for horn they stretch and strive; Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then horn for horn they stretch and strive; Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were able to visualize single nuclear pore complexes. This allowed us not only to watch as single pores formed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32592]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were able to visualize single nuclear pore complexes. This allowed us not only to watch as single pores formed but also to demonstrate that they formed from scratch without the help of already existing pores.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game's tomorrow at high noon. We know they'll be tough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game's tomorrow at high noon. We know they'll be tough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human body is a machine which winds its own springs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4442]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human body is a machine which winds its own springs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52007]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness by identificatory processes of various kinds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush, you must confess that you have been defeated in Iraq and in Afghanistan and you will be in Palestine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bush, you must confess that you have been defeated in Iraq and in Afghanistan and you will be in Palestine soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inseparable gold umbrella which in that country [Burma] as much denotes the grandee as the star or garter does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inseparable gold umbrella which in that country [Burma] as much denotes the grandee as the star or garter does in England.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17434]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be closing...That doesn’t mean you’re always closing the deal, but it does mean that you need to be always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be closing...That doesn’t mean you’re always closing the deal, but it does mean that you need to be always closing on the next step in the process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is daffodil time, so the robins all cry, For the sun's a big daffodil up in the sky,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10973]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is daffodil time, so the robins all cry, For the sun's a big daffodil up in the sky,  And when down the midnight the owl call "to-whoo"!   Why, then the round moon is a daffodil too;    Now sheer to the bough-tops the sap starts to climb,     So, merry my masters, it's daffodil time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess some of this was brought on myself, my stupidity. I don't know if it was naivety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess some of this was brought on myself, my stupidity. I don't know if it was naivety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God loves an idle rainbow, No less than laboring seas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52948]]></link><description><![CDATA[God loves an idle rainbow, No less than laboring seas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54261]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1250]]></link><description><![CDATA[While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47590]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.   - John Ruskin, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48202]]></link><description><![CDATA[In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.   - John Ruskin,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63722]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5206]]></link><description><![CDATA[A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28876]]></link><description><![CDATA[A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In oratory the will must predominate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22226]]></link><description><![CDATA[In oratory the will must predominate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of him as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of him as the object of our scrutiny, but of ourselves as utterly dependent on his saving and merciful knowledge of us. It is in proportion, as we are known to him that we find our real being and identity in Christ. We know him in and through ourselves in so far as his truth is the source of our being and his merciful love is the very heart of our life and existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11376</guid></item></channel></rss>