<?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[He who gets the better of an irascible temperament conquers his worst enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51608]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who gets the better of an irascible temperament conquers his worst enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get money, money still! And then let virtue follow, if she will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get money, money still! And then let virtue follow, if she will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45215]]></link><description><![CDATA[So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no riches but my thoughts Yet these are wealth enough for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61443]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no riches but my thoughts Yet these are wealth enough for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biography is one of the new terrors of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Biography is one of the new terrors of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9395]]></link><description><![CDATA[May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery. -Patrick Blackett.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek peace, and pursue it. Proverbs 34:14 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek peace, and pursue it. Proverbs 34:14]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13582]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52627]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's God--I'd have known Him by Blake's picture anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17719]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's God--I'd have known Him by Blake's picture anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heede of an oxe before, of an horse behind, of a monke on all sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heede of an oxe before, of an horse behind, of a monke on all sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54209]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He challenged the church to rethink its own mission in the radically secular world of the twentieth century... The nonbelieving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6516]]></link><description><![CDATA[He challenged the church to rethink its own mission in the radically secular world of the twentieth century... The nonbelieving brave men he met in the anti-Nazi underground, the stark realities of prison life, and his disappointment in the professional churchmen of Germany, all may have influenced Bonhoeffer to see real Christianity as "non-religious" and "worldly"... The opposition between sacred and secular, supernatural and natural, seemed unreal to him -- the apparent opposites are united in Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Foxe preacheth, beware geese. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50077]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Foxe preacheth, beware geese.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14523]]></link><description><![CDATA[We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52653]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so never ending, But always descending. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61306]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so never ending, But always descending.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The play bill which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The play bill which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[sex is simple, love stings afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55259]]></link><description><![CDATA[sex is simple, love stings afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miser is as much in want of what he has, as of what he has not. [Lat., Tam deest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42746]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miser is as much in want of what he has, as of what he has not. [Lat., Tam deest avaro quod habet, quam quod non habet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry! It's not loaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry! It's not loaded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air;  And though the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air;  And though the sound had parted thence,   Still left an echo in the sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5617]]></link><description><![CDATA[To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were afraid this would set a precedent and end up nibbling away at our coastline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34474]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were afraid this would set a precedent and end up nibbling away at our coastline.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it caught them by surprise, and they didn't have an answer for it. It got the tempo up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28593]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it caught them by surprise, and they didn't have an answer for it. It got the tempo up to where we wanted it. We forced them to hurry up their offense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother says to her daughter: Daughter bid thy daughter, to her daughter, that her daughter's daughter is crying. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother says to her daughter: Daughter bid thy daughter, to her daughter, that her daughter's daughter is crying. [Lat., Mater ait natae die natae filia natum  Ut moneat natae plangere filiolam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58808]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thee is a skeleton on every house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thee is a skeleton on every house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was messy, but he finished the game. There were moments when he was throwing the ball very well and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31329]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was messy, but he finished the game. There were moments when he was throwing the ball very well and there were times when he lost touch with the strike zone. I was impressed with how he came back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a good thing he's not still in office. You almost feel sorry for the guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33408]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a good thing he's not still in office. You almost feel sorry for the guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32015]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2260]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimately it all comes down to money, ultimately it all comes down to lab capacity. One thing we are clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ultimately it all comes down to money, ultimately it all comes down to lab capacity. One thing we are clear about is if that money were to pass (in Congress), thousands of lives will be saved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/452]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not reform a world by ignoring it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14608]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not reform a world by ignoring it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65164</guid></item></channel></rss>