<?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[Fly pride, says the peacock: mistress, that you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly pride, says the peacock: mistress, that you know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give them all the credit. We didn't execute on offense, especially in the first half. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give them all the credit. We didn't execute on offense, especially in the first half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13422]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21680]]></link><description><![CDATA[No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47377]]></link><description><![CDATA[As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58388]]></link><description><![CDATA[On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624   Having tried, we must hold fast [to the truth] (I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624   Having tried, we must hold fast [to the truth] (I Thes. 5:21), upon [the penalty of] the loss of a crown (Rev. 3:11); we must not let go for all the fleabitings of the present afflictions, etc. Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world; no, not for the saving of souls, though our own most precious; least of all for the bitter sweetening of a little vanishing pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black, Cutting through the jungle with a golden track. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black, Cutting through the jungle with a golden track.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is a passionate intuition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is a passionate intuition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. [Lat., Quid non ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22923]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. [Lat., Quid non ebrietas designat? Operta recludit;  Spes jubet esse ratas; in praelia trudit inermem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52272]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6008]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5660]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seems like Tokyo stocks hit the short-term bottom on Monday. Now investors are comfortable about buying and giving a positive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seems like Tokyo stocks hit the short-term bottom on Monday. Now investors are comfortable about buying and giving a positive reaction to good corporate earnings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/696]]></link><description><![CDATA[We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is sitting on their hands. No-one wants to play with everyone calling a 25 basis points rate rise on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is sitting on their hands. No-one wants to play with everyone calling a 25 basis points rate rise on Wednesday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be a celebration of his life, because that's what he wanted, a big old party, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35604]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be a celebration of his life, because that's what he wanted, a big old party,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What garlic is to food, insanity is to art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28090]]></link><description><![CDATA[What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012   The centre of trouble is not the turbulent appetites -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012   The centre of trouble is not the turbulent appetites -- though they are troublesome enough. The centre of trouble is in the personality of man as a whole, which is self-centred and can only be wholesome and healthy if it is God-centred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45406]]></link><description><![CDATA[I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have always wished for has finally come to be. You will look back and laugh at what has passed and you will ask yourself... 'How did I get through all of that?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are beaten to earth?/ Well, well, what's that?/ Come up with a smilingface,/ It's nothing against you to fall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21646]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are beaten to earth?/ Well, well, what's that?/ Come up with a smilingface,/ It's nothing against you to fall down flat/ But to lie there-that'sa disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   It belongs to the very nature of the gospel that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6334]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   It belongs to the very nature of the gospel that the Church is built across cultural, social, and racial barriers. There are siren voices (as well as gut reactions) telling Christians that the way to success in evangelism is to follow the natural divisions, and to try to build churches along cultural, social and racial divisions. In doing so, they ignore the "success" in the New Testament in crossing these lines; more importantly, they are in fact stressing success more highly than the truth of the gospel. To buy success at the price of treating the fundamental nature of the gospel as dispensable is to follow a false gospel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The volume has been extraordinary, ... We've seen a great deal of money coming into the market place early in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The volume has been extraordinary, ... We've seen a great deal of money coming into the market place early in the year, and they need to find a home in a hurry. We're also seeing increased interest in our market on the part of foreign investors. The U.S. is a great market with wonderful liquidity and a terrific upside bias.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet you could shoot beer out of you nose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11707]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet you could shoot beer out of you nose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she was a skilful mistress of her art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she was a skilful mistress of her art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, The protest of the weak against the strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, The protest of the weak against the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse. [Fr., Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse. [Fr., Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans un pire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I made a $50 bet -- a lot of money then -- with my coach that I'd win a medal. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I made a $50 bet -- a lot of money then -- with my coach that I'd win a medal. I woke up that morning and thought, 'don't get to the bottom and wish you had a second chance, because in the Olympics, you don't get a second chance.' I was so in the moment; I wanted to feel it, I wanted to be in it -- I've used that metaphor for the rest of my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62067]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He played awesome. This is the year he needs to break out and believe in his game. I believe he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37068]]></link><description><![CDATA[He played awesome. This is the year he needs to break out and believe in his game. I believe he hit a stepping stone in doing so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hide your body in the Big Dipper ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hide your body in the Big Dipper]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ancestor of every action is a thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ancestor of every action is a thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. The umbrella has become the acknowledged ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60005]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. The umbrella has become the acknowledged index of social position. . . . Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilized mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vote for the man who promises least--he'll be the least disappointing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vote for the man who promises least--he'll be the least disappointing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our goal with College Goal Sunday is to help break down some of the barriers that keep students and families ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our goal with College Goal Sunday is to help break down some of the barriers that keep students and families from filling out the form. College today, of course, is the passport to the American dream for so many students.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13122]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it will work out to our advantage more so than worrying about who's going to play. Now we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28693]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it will work out to our advantage more so than worrying about who's going to play. Now we can go four minutes all out, 100 percent, whereas in years past we had to give a little bit here, a little bit there because we didn't have as many guys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A live dog is better than a dead lion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50960]]></link><description><![CDATA[A live dog is better than a dead lion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24607]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56571]]></link><description><![CDATA[In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46899]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power tires only those who do not have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power tires only those who do not have it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35819</guid></item></channel></rss>