<?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[What is important in life is life, and not the result of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46228]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. - The Art of Worldy Wisdom, 1647.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a certain naturalness that was happening in the '60s and '70s that felt more like a happening, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36480]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a certain naturalness that was happening in the '60s and '70s that felt more like a happening, ... Production wasn't as clean and neat as I'm hearing these days. They're not perfect, but they have an honest feeling, which is what I was going for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the mercy of God is so great that He can instruct us, to our salvation, even when He hides ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7544]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the mercy of God is so great that He can instruct us, to our salvation, even when He hides Himself, what a brilliance of light we must expect when He reveals Himself!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To think is to differ. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52245]]></link><description><![CDATA[To think is to differ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17114]]></link><description><![CDATA[We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two thousand sesterces. How is it that you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23509]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two thousand sesterces. How is it that you have sent me only a thousand? "You said nothing," you tell me; "and this cause was lost through you." You ought to give me so much the more, Sextus, as I had to blush for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience,  That neither by hir wordes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience,  That neither by hir wordes ne his face   Biforn the fold, ne eek in her absence,    Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny. [Lat., Pars beneficii est, quod petitur, si cito neges.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23765]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny. [Lat., Pars beneficii est, quod petitur, si cito neges.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never let my school interfere with my education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13367]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never let my school interfere with my education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  It is of no use to say that Christ, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  It is of no use to say that Christ, as exhibited in the Gospels, is not historical, and that we know not how much of what is admirable has been super-added by the tradition of his followers. Who among his disciples or among their proselytes was capable of inventing the sayings of Jesus or of imagining the life and character revealed in the Gospels? Certainly not the fishermen of Galilee; as certainly not St. Paul, whose character and idiosyncrasies were of a totally different sort; still less the early Christian writers, in whom nothing is more evident than that the good which was in them was all derived, as they always professed that it was derived, from the higher source.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Authority is quite degrading ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Authority is quite degrading]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more indicators that are getting better than are getting worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34091]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more indicators that are getting better than are getting worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65398]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're all talented. They're all special, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29017]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're all talented. They're all special,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63367]]></link><description><![CDATA[If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46038]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ego has a voracious appetite, the more you feed it, the hungrier it gets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ego has a voracious appetite, the more you feed it, the hungrier it gets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44439]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness means quiet nerves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness means quiet nerves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very surprising turn of events. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33706]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very surprising turn of events.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60028]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54432]]></link><description><![CDATA[All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are quite close to a common definition of safe harbor principles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32869]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are quite close to a common definition of safe harbor principles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50568]]></link><description><![CDATA[That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have made the Reich by propaganda. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48426]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have made the Reich by propaganda.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The characters attend a lot of balls in the book so this made the book more interesting. It's been the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The characters attend a lot of balls in the book so this made the book more interesting. It's been the most confusing book I've read for a long time. I don't understand the time period or the customs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body more than raiment?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is a good servant but a bad master. [Fr., L'argent est un bon serviteur, mais un mechant maitre." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is a good servant but a bad master. [Fr., L'argent est un bon serviteur, mais un mechant maitre."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said, in regard to a judo expert's level of mental development, that "the arms are an extension ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23557]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said, in regard to a judo expert's level of mental development, that "the arms are an extension of the mind."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've legged you up on winners - do you want me to leg you up now? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33389]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've legged you up on winners - do you want me to leg you up now?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any reports that suggest a strong U.S. economy will re- ignite expectations of further Fed rate increases. That will trigger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any reports that suggest a strong U.S. economy will re- ignite expectations of further Fed rate increases. That will trigger dollar-buying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question "Have we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question "Have we anything to eat?" will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19249]]></link><description><![CDATA[You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49351]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have a player that's decidedly higher-rated, we're going to pick the player that's higher-rated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34686]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have a player that's decidedly higher-rated, we're going to pick the player that's higher-rated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is the last refuge of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is the last refuge of failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15153]]></link><description><![CDATA[The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing your best means never stop trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing your best means never stop trying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gloomy as night he stands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gloomy as night he stands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power wears out those who don't have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power wears out those who don't have it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard;  It is the hour when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14250]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard;  It is the hour when lovers' vows   Seem sweet in every whispered word;    And gentle winds, and waters near,     Make music to the lonely ear.      Each flower the dews have lightly wet,       And in the sky the stars are met,        And on the wave is deeper blue,         And on the leaf a browner hue,          And in the heaven that clear obscure,           So softly dark, and darkly pure.            Which follows the decline of day,             As twilight melts beneath the moon away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65184</guid></item></channel></rss>