<?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[How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until youwin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21828]]></link><description><![CDATA[How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until youwin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement has been dynamic; it confines men within its limits, while the movement had liberated them from the bondage of institutions; it looks to the past, [although] the movement had pointed forward. Though in content the institution resembles the dynamic epoch whence it proceeded, in spirit it is like the [state] before the revolution. So the Christian church, after the early period, often seemed more closely related in attitude to the Jewish synagogue and the Roman state than to the age of Christ and his apostles; its creed was often more like a system of philosophy than like the living gospel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60317]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul, May keep the path, but will not reach the goal; While ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul, May keep the path, but will not reach the goal; While he who walks in love may wander far, But God will bring him where the Blessed are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second disasterous. -Margot Fonteyn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tucked-up sempstress walks hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60007]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tucked-up sempstress walks hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is an unbelievable coach. I loved playing for him and I don't think I've had a better coach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40026]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is an unbelievable coach. I loved playing for him and I don't think I've had a better coach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  We need not despair of any man, so long as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  We need not despair of any man, so long as he lives. For God deemed it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit evil at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My circumstances do not make me what I am, they reveal who I havechosen to be. (from James Allen). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21489]]></link><description><![CDATA[My circumstances do not make me what I am, they reveal who I havechosen to be. (from James Allen).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "successmechanism" within you takes over and does the job ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22444]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "successmechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better thanyou could do it by conscious effort or "willpower.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53801]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last Christian died on the cross ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last Christian died on the cross]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us take to our hearts a lesson-- No lesson could braver be--  From the ways of the tapestry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us take to our hearts a lesson-- No lesson could braver be--  From the ways of the tapestry weavers   On the other side of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11030]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14698]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17466]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20992]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern of inn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53635]]></link><description><![CDATA[A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true University of these days is a Collection of Books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47240]]></link><description><![CDATA[My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I'd known I was gonna live this long. I'd have taken better care of myself. [Eubie Blake At Age ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1295]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I'd known I was gonna live this long. I'd have taken better care of myself. [Eubie Blake At Age 100].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61313]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every really new idea looks crazy at first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every really new idea looks crazy at first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It [true love] is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie,  Which heart to heart, and mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58531]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [true love] is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie,  Which heart to heart, and mind to mind   In body and in soul can bind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think this is a bearish report because average hourly earnings are ticking up significantly. That is obviously a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34919]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think this is a bearish report because average hourly earnings are ticking up significantly. That is obviously a direct driver of inflation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have an engagement ring, which is my favorite accessory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39297]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have an engagement ring, which is my favorite accessory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27017]]></link><description><![CDATA[By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, Clifford, tell me, didst thou never hear, That things ill got had ever bad success? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51322]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, Clifford, tell me, didst thou never hear, That things ill got had ever bad success?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The paintings have been in Vienna for 68 years, and people in Europe saw them all the time. I thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The paintings have been in Vienna for 68 years, and people in Europe saw them all the time. I thought it would be a beautiful thing to show them in this country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most water conservation measures can save our customers money both in the short and long runs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most water conservation measures can save our customers money both in the short and long runs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1761]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But strong of limb And swift of foot misfortune is, and, far  Outstripping all, comes to every land,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42805]]></link><description><![CDATA[But strong of limb And swift of foot misfortune is, and, far  Outstripping all, comes to every land,   And there wreaks evil on mankind, which prayers    Do afterwards redress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19470]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5776]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26141]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43571]]></link><description><![CDATA[All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He used to raise a storm in a teapot. [Lat., Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57896]]></link><description><![CDATA[He used to raise a storm in a teapot. [Lat., Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been try to move the football on the ground. It's something we've been trying to get accomplished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34099]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been try to move the football on the ground. It's something we've been trying to get accomplished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36293]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother been so beautiful and so tall. She took the little maiden, on her arm, and both flew in brightness and in joy so high, so very high, and then above was neither cold, nor hunger, nor anxiety--they were with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They knew the line was there. It could have caused a lot of people to get sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34134]]></link><description><![CDATA[They knew the line was there. It could have caused a lot of people to get sick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46497]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46497</guid></item></channel></rss>