<?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[One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6969]]></link><description><![CDATA[One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by getting a great library. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24768]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by getting a great library.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37649]]></link><description><![CDATA[I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9940]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66610]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12257]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26568]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:--  We are as they;   Like them we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:--  We are as they;   Like them we fade away    As doth a leaf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 Continuing a short series on prayer:   I have so much to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 Continuing a short series on prayer:   I have so much to do (today) that I should spend the first three hours in prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competitions are for horse, not artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competitions are for horse, not artist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have started enriching uranium to the 3.5 percent level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35719]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have started enriching uranium to the 3.5 percent level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62471]]></link><description><![CDATA[YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMYANK.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole. [Lat., Incipe quidquid agas: pro ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole. [Lat., Incipe quidquid agas: pro toto est prima operis pars.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   We are very shy nowadays of even mentioning Heaven. We are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8545]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   We are very shy nowadays of even mentioning Heaven. We are afraid of the jeer about "pie in the sky", and of being told that we are trying to "escape" from the duty of making a happy world here and now, into dreams of a better world elsewhere. But either there is "pie in the sky" or there is not. If there is not, then Christianity is false, for this doctrine is woven into its whole fabric. If there is, then this doctrine, like any other, must be faced, whether it is useful at political meetings or no.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negotiations are still going on. Everybody was there. This is a good sign and we hope we will reach a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Negotiations are still going on. Everybody was there. This is a good sign and we hope we will reach a result tomorrow night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only a holy grail as long as you don't find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66395]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only a holy grail as long as you don't find it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22489]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the 'Red Queen effect' -- you've got to run twice as fast just to stay in place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the 'Red Queen effect' -- you've got to run twice as fast just to stay in place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25806]]></link><description><![CDATA[In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10503]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins  The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,   Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3046]]></link><description><![CDATA[A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation- guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation- guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47427]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played well for the most part. We had a couple of lapses that ultimately cost us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34109]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played well for the most part. We had a couple of lapses that ultimately cost us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We strive to create the best possible experience for all students. Students have usually had a very positive response to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33276]]></link><description><![CDATA[We strive to create the best possible experience for all students. Students have usually had a very positive response to the overall study abroad experience. As the student participation increases, staff support will be adjusted accordingly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt. [Lat., Extremae est dementiae discere dediscenda.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24539]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt. [Lat., Extremae est dementiae discere dediscenda.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The so-called human race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The so-called human race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market continues to be uncertain about the underlying leadership after many years of being used to the big-cap stocks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41885]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market continues to be uncertain about the underlying leadership after many years of being used to the big-cap stocks leading. We're also somewhat nervous about the earnings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18777]]></link><description><![CDATA[What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among Mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among Mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50353]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That kind of says it all. Plus I think at least three or four (missed) lay-in opportunities where no one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35996]]></link><description><![CDATA[That kind of says it all. Plus I think at least three or four (missed) lay-in opportunities where no one was on us (hurt us).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Boston man is the east wind made flesh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4778]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity is the first path to truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity is the first path to truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them hate so long as they fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them hate so long as they fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3411]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lawsuit, however just, can never be rightly prosecuted by any man, unless he treat his adversary with the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7465]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lawsuit, however just, can never be rightly prosecuted by any man, unless he treat his adversary with the same love and good will as if the business under controversy were already amicably settled and composed. Perhaps someone will interpose here that such moderation is so uniformly absent from any lawsuit that it would be a miracle if any such were found. Indeed, I admit that, as the customs of these times go, an example of an upright litigant is rare; but the thing itself, when not corrupted by the addition of anything evil, does not cease to be good and pure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65062]]></link><description><![CDATA[To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65062</guid></item></channel></rss>