<?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[Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,--a personage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier, in full military array.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,--  So rolls the changing year, and so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,--  So rolls the changing year, and so we change;   Motion so swift, we know not that we move.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, we are weary pilgrims; to this wilderness we bring A Church without a bishop, a State without a King. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, we are weary pilgrims; to this wilderness we bring A Church without a bishop, a State without a King.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47928]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53875]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're pleased that our first mission for NASA on Atlas V is such an exciting and important project. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41728]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're pleased that our first mission for NASA on Atlas V is such an exciting and important project.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still harping on my daughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still harping on my daughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27083]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   The greatest curse which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   The greatest curse which can be entailed upon mankind is a state of war. All the atrocious crimes committed in years of peace -- all that is spent in peace by the secret corruptions or by the thoughtless extravagances of nations -- are mere trifles compared with the gigantic evils which stalk over the world in a state of war. God is forgotten in war -- every principle of Christian charity is trampled upon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61150]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sky is the limit. Everything is so new that I think we can go as far as we want. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32378]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sky is the limit. Everything is so new that I think we can go as far as we want. We need to go out and compete day in and day out. If we do that, we give ourselves a chance to win everyday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that we are is the result of what we have thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16291]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that we are is the result of what we have thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23746]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly the lesson from the Genesis crash, which was apparently caused by parts incorrectly installed, is that you've got to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly the lesson from the Genesis crash, which was apparently caused by parts incorrectly installed, is that you've got to be meticulous in your engineering. And that's certainly going to be the case for Mars. We are going to have to design any return spacecraft from Mars so that it can handle a hard landing, such as we saw for Genesis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being Queen of this country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being Queen of this country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the sweet voice of a bird, Heard by the lander in a lonely isle,  Moves him to think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51690]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the sweet voice of a bird, Heard by the lander in a lonely isle,  Moves him to think what kind of bird it is,   That sings so delicately clear, and make    Conjecture of the plumage and the form.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees ofyour trousers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees ofyour trousers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's looking for some meaningful penetration into the backline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57664]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's looking for some meaningful penetration into the backline.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This appears to be a very viable solution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33937]]></link><description><![CDATA[This appears to be a very viable solution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66559]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country. [Lat., Servare cives, major ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45813]]></link><description><![CDATA[To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country. [Lat., Servare cives, major est virtus patriae patri.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36859]]></link><description><![CDATA[A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still waters run no mills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still waters run no mills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41963]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's good that we don't play a completely different style, because it helps everybody to know what his role is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32647]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's good that we don't play a completely different style, because it helps everybody to know what his role is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins,  Pity and woe! for such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins,  Pity and woe! for such a mind   Is soft contemplative, and kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put your toong in your purse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put your toong in your purse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace. commerce, and honest friendship with all nations--entangling alliances with none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace. commerce, and honest friendship with all nations--entangling alliances with none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like Canada's punishment from the US is over. They realize they've been choking our economy and with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32094]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like Canada's punishment from the US is over. They realize they've been choking our economy and with the new leader in Canada they're going to cut us some slack. People from the US are going to realize for the first time where Ottawa is and that it's the Capital of Canada.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46617]]></link><description><![CDATA[More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["There is no God," the foolish saith,  But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7439]]></link><description><![CDATA["There is no God," the foolish saith,  But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of faith  In bitter need will borrow: Eyes which the preacher could not school,  By wayside graves are raised; And lips say, "God be pitiful,"  Who ne'er said, "God be praised.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61453]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except we like it and it makes us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16118]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except we like it and it makes us think and feel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best prophet is common sense, our native wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're thrilled to have developed a game that appeals to massively multiplayer players, as well as fans of the original ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37709]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're thrilled to have developed a game that appeals to massively multiplayer players, as well as fans of the original pen-and-paper game. We also want to thank the 300 000 players that registered for the Beta. We could not have done this without their support.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically I am interrested in friendship, sex, and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically I am interrested in friendship, sex, and death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only for the phony is commercialism-the bending of creativity to common utility-a naughty word. To the truly creative, it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only for the phony is commercialism-the bending of creativity to common utility-a naughty word. To the truly creative, it is a bridge to the great audience, a means of sharing rather than debasing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642  We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642  We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces which ought to color everything we do. There may be virtues of a more exalted mold, but... these are the most continually called for in daily life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22119]]></link><description><![CDATA[You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such and so various are the tastes of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such and so various are the tastes of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though I know he loves me, Tonight my heart is sad; His kiss was not so wonderful As all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though I know he loves me, Tonight my heart is sad; His kiss was not so wonderful As all the dreams I had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23540]]></link><description><![CDATA[We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23540</guid></item></channel></rss>