<?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[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688   Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66628]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea was to show that if his privacy wasn't safe, none of ours were, and it clearly proved the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38658]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea was to show that if his privacy wasn't safe, none of ours were, and it clearly proved the point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48074]]></link><description><![CDATA[There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A light is still a light-even though the blind man cannot see it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25068]]></link><description><![CDATA[A light is still a light-even though the blind man cannot see it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27988]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ha! see where the wild-blazing Grog-Shop appears, As the red waves of wretchedness swell,  How it burns on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ha! see where the wild-blazing Grog-Shop appears, As the red waves of wretchedness swell,  How it burns on the edge of tempestuous years   The horrible Light-House of Hell!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55601]]></link><description><![CDATA[What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22314]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17402]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55323]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sequelae are inherently unpredictable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sequelae are inherently unpredictable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fresh feres will dry the bright blue eye We late saw streaming o'er. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fresh feres will dry the bright blue eye We late saw streaming o'er.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright  From the ice roof depending; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright  From the ice roof depending; and beneath,   Grottoes and temples with their crystal spires    And gleaming columns radiant in the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35109]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who awaits much can expect little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22714]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who awaits much can expect little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigotry is the sacred disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigotry is the sacred disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you believe everything you read, better not read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51877]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you believe everything you read, better not read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10239]]></link><description><![CDATA[God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, "This is my Country.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a tempest in a tumbler of water. [Fr., C'est une tempete dans un verre d'eau.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57900]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a tempest in a tumbler of water. [Fr., C'est une tempete dans un verre d'eau.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat;  Found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat;  Found the one gift of which Fortune bereft us,   Lost all the others she lets us devote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is happening across the pages of almost every newspaper is a ruthless attempt to destroy the young challenger among ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36897]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is happening across the pages of almost every newspaper is a ruthless attempt to destroy the young challenger among the Tory modernizers' camp and to keep the Conservatives firmly on the right of British politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17344]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give. -Damien Hess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But they that are above Have ends in everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51914]]></link><description><![CDATA[But they that are above Have ends in everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn." Ropo Oguntimehin Education is a companion which no future can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate it and no nepotism can enslave. -T.H. White.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24532]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot afford to hire an attorney at $200 to $300 an hour to fight over your $12,000 car and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10175]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot afford to hire an attorney at $200 to $300 an hour to fight over your $12,000 car and have to pay those bills. People need to become aware that they have some rights, even when going up against these giant companies that try to intimidate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12433]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To their credit they never quit. It was one of those frustrating nights where we kept shooting ourselves in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33814]]></link><description><![CDATA[To their credit they never quit. It was one of those frustrating nights where we kept shooting ourselves in the foot but kept fighting. We didn't lose because of a lack of effort. We lost because of a lack of execution at critical times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She told me immediately, 'He did not survive the storm and neither did his wife Susan and we've known for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34365]]></link><description><![CDATA[She told me immediately, 'He did not survive the storm and neither did his wife Susan and we've known for over two months but couldn't find any of his family members. So they didn't check. They didn't talk with FEMA, FEMA didn't talk with them and the Red Cross didn't talk to either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the people have no tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47258]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the people have no tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's really gone remarkably well when you consider some of the tensions we were dealing with two years ago, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42402]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's really gone remarkably well when you consider some of the tensions we were dealing with two years ago,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19431]]></link><description><![CDATA[As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5763]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is Hebrew to me. [Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25130]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is Hebrew to me. [Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60676]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. [Fr., La patience est amere, mais son fruit est doux.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. [Fr., La patience est amere, mais son fruit est doux.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45730</guid></item></channel></rss>