<?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[Time is the rider that breaks youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the rider that breaks youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do desire we may be better strangers. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55668]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do desire we may be better strangers. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortunately for themselves and for the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortunately for themselves and for the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27981]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, everybody would prefer to play inside, you know, because the conditions are totally different. But what can we do? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, everybody would prefer to play inside, you know, because the conditions are totally different. But what can we do? If the supervisor, they make the schedules, they put you on this court, what can you do?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not a reward; it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment ; it is a result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not a reward; it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment ; it is a result.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46826]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat,  To conquer France, his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat,  To conquer France, his true inheritance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not to hurt our humble brethren in fur, feather or fin, is our first duty to them, but to stop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not to hurt our humble brethren in fur, feather or fin, is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission: to be of service to them whenever they require it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And while the wicket falls behind Her steps, I thought if I could find  A wife I need not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61862]]></link><description><![CDATA[And while the wicket falls behind Her steps, I thought if I could find  A wife I need not blush to show   I've little further now to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been rich and I've been poor; rich is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61433]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been rich and I've been poor; rich is better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65120]]></link><description><![CDATA[It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942   I know there are many who have pitied my beginnings, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942   I know there are many who have pitied my beginnings, thinking it tragic that I had to endure such traumas both as a child and throughout my life, but I confess that I have rather pitied those who have never tasted the bitterness of a trial "too severe." For how is one to appreciate the contrast of light's dawning hope if his soul has never trembled through the dark hours of a nightmare's watch? Or how can one prove God's faithfulness if he never is granted the privilege of wandering through a barren desert, where only pools of Christ's Presence can possibly provide survival? It is a great honor to be apportioned pain. Christ Himself, though God incarnate, learned obedience through what He suffered. Dare we assume that we as His children can be taught by any wiser or kinder instructor than the severity of unwanted pain? We dare not steel ourselves against our trials, running away from the fires where our pruned branches crumble to ashes. For if we escape those flames, we will risk barrenness of soul and will miss out on the beauty that only is born through the ashes of yesterday's grief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem a turned it into an opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a wedding-song all-melting Sings the nightingale, the dear one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a wedding-song all-melting Sings the nightingale, the dear one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48386]]></link><description><![CDATA[the attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19556]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,--no more. They eat your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55214]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,--no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't believe it, ... I started on a Monday and turned in the outline on a Friday. On the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37931]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't believe it, ... I started on a Monday and turned in the outline on a Friday. On the Saturday they called and said, 'OK, we're making it.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt relief is considered to be aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt relief is considered to be aid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matching that level of success is going to be very difficult, but the kids are working hard and hopefully, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matching that level of success is going to be very difficult, but the kids are working hard and hopefully, that pays off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that what women resent is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17510]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that what women resent is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn not in the school, but in life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54768]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn not in the school, but in life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very small operation, there are five of us traveling, and I like working with different audiences, seeing how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29921]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very small operation, there are five of us traveling, and I like working with different audiences, seeing how different it is from one night to the next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66863]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64899]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfectplan executed next week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21236]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfectplan executed next week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have anything against anyone personally. But I think it's important to keep that definition straightforward, and not muddle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have anything against anyone personally. But I think it's important to keep that definition straightforward, and not muddle it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's up to Gary. He's not some spectacle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33388]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's up to Gary. He's not some spectacle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll take donations of any amount. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35646]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll take donations of any amount.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", because I would have liked to stand up in class and tell everybody, "You can make fun of the Cricket Boy if you want to, but to me he's just like everybody else." Then everybody would leave the Cricket Boy alone, and I'd invite him over to spend the night at my house, but after about five minutes of that loud chirping I'd have to kick him out. Maybe later we could get up a petition to get the Cricket Family run out of town. Bye, Cricket Boy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14939]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing is silent poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dancing is silent poetry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60293]]></link><description><![CDATA[On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. Of this he wrote to James Madison: As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62640]]></link><description><![CDATA[A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5890]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64559]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I saw was this black thing, and I couldn't understand what it was. When I hit it, I thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42299]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I saw was this black thing, and I couldn't understand what it was. When I hit it, I thought it should have been bigger because it was big hit. It moved the car, and the steering wheel. I had nothing at the end, and I'm sure Scott pushed it just as hard as me. This race was really tough, but it was for the championship and this was a win we really, really wanted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37165]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making all future fruits of all the pasts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making all future fruits of all the pasts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17075</guid></item></channel></rss>