<?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[Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall!  Gloomy was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall!  Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow   He would be coy, and would not love at all;    Swearing no greater mischief could be wrought,     Than love united to a jealous thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take the first advice of a woman and not the second. [Lat., Primo dede mulieris consilio, secundo noli.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take the first advice of a woman and not the second. [Lat., Primo dede mulieris consilio, secundo noli.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24784]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The realist is the man, who having weighed all the visible factors in a given situation and having found that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53074]]></link><description><![CDATA[The realist is the man, who having weighed all the visible factors in a given situation and having found that the odds are against him, decides that fighting is useless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is my vocation, Hal; 't is no sin for a man to labour in his vocation. -King Henry IV. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55838]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is my vocation, Hal; 't is no sin for a man to labour in his vocation. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31992]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4145]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time we got a camera it was gone, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30709]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time we got a camera it was gone,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cotton is king; or slavery in the Light of Political Economy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cotton is king; or slavery in the Light of Political Economy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a thorn to remove a thorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21941]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a thorn to remove a thorn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57380]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as reasonable to suppose it the desire of all Christians to arrive at Christian perfection as to suppose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7119]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as reasonable to suppose it the desire of all Christians to arrive at Christian perfection as to suppose that all sick men desire to be restored to perfect health; yet experience shows us, that nothing wants more to be pressed, repeated, and forced upon our minds, than the plainest rules of Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realize it's hard not to churn your problems and I'm not idealistically saying you shouldn't. Still, you can learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13734]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realize it's hard not to churn your problems and I'm not idealistically saying you shouldn't. Still, you can learn to manage your non-efficient thinking and emotions. Just learn to be as conscious of your *mental and emotional energy expenditures and returns* as you are conscious of your dollar expenditures and returns. Remember the mental and emotional budget sheet. If you *halfway* play with this concept, it can give you a new perspective on energy economy. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dead of midnight is the noon of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13211]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54793]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That Raven on yon left-hand oak (Curse on his ill-betiding croak)  Bodes me no good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52979]]></link><description><![CDATA[That Raven on yon left-hand oak (Curse on his ill-betiding croak)  Bodes me no good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, if was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25133]]></link><description><![CDATA[But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, if was Greek to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. •Jean Pierre Claris De Florian   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. •Jean Pierre Claris De Florian               Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3065]]></link><description><![CDATA[A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of ink and paper and leather. The Voice of God, however, is alive and free as the sovereign God is free. "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life." The life is in the speaking words. God's word in the Bible can have power only because it corresponds to God's word in the universe. It is the present Voice which makes the written Word all-powerful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57749]]></link><description><![CDATA[I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first question was a laundry list explanation of peoples' activities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37743]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first question was a laundry list explanation of peoples' activities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While this is a good alternative, these bullets are not available on the market. We have to be careful how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36129]]></link><description><![CDATA[While this is a good alternative, these bullets are not available on the market. We have to be careful how we approach this. It is a touchy subject and we don't want people to think we are shoving something down their throats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I recover my property wherever I find it. [Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46646]]></link><description><![CDATA[I recover my property wherever I find it. [Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They pay me to practice. Sundays I play for free. (explaining his contractual obligations) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57653]]></link><description><![CDATA[They pay me to practice. Sundays I play for free. (explaining his contractual obligations)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535   Almighty God, have mercy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535   Almighty God, have mercy on N and N and on all that bear me ill will, and would me harm, and on their faults and mine together; and by such easy, tender, merciful means as Thine infinite wisdom best can divine, vouchsafe to amend and redress; and make us saved souls together in heaven where we may ever live and love together with Thee and Thy blessed saints, O glorious Trinity, for the bitter passion of our sweet saviour Christ, amen.   ... ascribed to Sir Thomas More  July 7, 2002   O God, the strength of all those who put their trust in thee; mercifully accept our prayers; and because, through the weakness of our mortal nature, we can do no good thing without thee, grant us the help of thy grace, that in keeping thy commandments we may please thee, both in will and deed; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.   ... Collect for the first Sunday after Trinity, The Book of Common Prayer [1928]  July 8, 2002   Happily for us, the fundamental Christian message concerns not what we ought to do, but what God has done and what God is willing to do. In fellowship with Him and with others who are likewise trying to be like Him, we can be lifted up above our native possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32510]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two sides to every coin ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53184]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two sides to every coin]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52676]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is but one easy place in this world, and that is the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18230]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is but one easy place in this world, and that is the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How freaky is that? If this isn't an omen, I don't know what is. It did remind me 10 years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28407]]></link><description><![CDATA[How freaky is that? If this isn't an omen, I don't know what is. It did remind me 10 years is a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42966]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19455]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This shows that behavior in snakes is more complex than we previously thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35945]]></link><description><![CDATA[This shows that behavior in snakes is more complex than we previously thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15184]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent,  Into the woods my Master came,   Forspent with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent,  Into the woods my Master came,   Forspent with love and shame.    But the olives they were not blind to Him,     The little gray leaves were kind to Him:      The thorn-tree had a mind to Him,       When into the woods He came.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24547]]></link><description><![CDATA[By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have more than enough reason to believe [Jackson] is on the precipice of bankruptcy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35925]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have more than enough reason to believe [Jackson] is on the precipice of bankruptcy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988 I greet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988 I greet Thy sepulchre, salute Thy grave,  That blest enclosure, where the angels gave  The first glad tidings of Thy early light,  And resurrection from the earth and night.  I see that morning in Thy convert's tears,  Fresh as the dew, which but this downing wears.  I smell her spices; and her ointment yields  As rich a scent as the now primrosed fields:  The Day-star smiles, and light, with Thee deceased,  Now shines in all the chambers of the East.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Companies appear to have turned cautious because of the possibility of spikes in crude oil prices, which could hit corporate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Companies appear to have turned cautious because of the possibility of spikes in crude oil prices, which could hit corporate profitability. Oil prices have been stable recently, but are still generally at high levels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39865</guid></item></channel></rss>