<?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['Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50601]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without tact you can learn nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without tact you can learn nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money grows on the tree of persistence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money grows on the tree of persistence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When religion is in the hands of the mere natural man, he is always the worse for it; it adds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7338]]></link><description><![CDATA[When religion is in the hands of the mere natural man, he is always the worse for it; it adds a bad heat to his own dark fire and helps to inflame his four elements of selfishness, envy, pride, and wrath. And hence it is that worse passions, or a worse degree of them are to be found in persons of great religious zeal than in others that made no pretenses to it. History also furnishes us with instances of persons of great piety and devotion who have fallen into great delusions and deceived both themselves and others. The occasion of their fall was this: ... They considered their whole nature as the subject of religion and divine graces; and therefore their religion was according to the workings of their whole nature, and the old man was as busy and as much delighted in it as the new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the will abandons what is above itself and turns to what is lower, it becomes evil -- not because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8459]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the will abandons what is above itself and turns to what is lower, it becomes evil -- not because that is evil to which it turns, but because the turning itself is wicked. Therefore it is not an inferior thing which has made the will evil, but it is itself which has become so by wickedly and inordinately desiring an inferior thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're hoping to go five innings, and 15-pitch innings to get him up to 75 pitches, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30456]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're hoping to go five innings, and 15-pitch innings to get him up to 75 pitches,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two things may happen when we meet someone: either we become friends or we try to convince that person to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two things may happen when we meet someone: either we become friends or we try to convince that person to accept our beliefs. The same thing happens when a hot coal meets another piece of coal: it either shares its fire with it or is overwhelmed by the other`s size and is extinguished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54269]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57273]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know when to speake; for many times it brings Danger to give the best advice to kings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know when to speake; for many times it brings Danger to give the best advice to kings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3668]]></link><description><![CDATA[I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They did the little boy turkey named Art... chokeand then served his dead body with artichokes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/266]]></link><description><![CDATA[They did the little boy turkey named Art... chokeand then served his dead body with artichokes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may as well say, that 's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55958]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may as well say, that 's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means forcorrecting our misperceptions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wicked flee when no man pursueth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48669]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wicked flee when no man pursueth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10150]]></link><description><![CDATA[My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as we stand "under the Law", we cannot perceive this hidden unity of all the commandments. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6535]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as we stand "under the Law", we cannot perceive this hidden unity of all the commandments. It is part of legalism that the will of God must appear to it as a multiplicity of commandments. In actual fact, it is one and indivisible; God wants nothing else except love because He Himself is love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5415]]></link><description><![CDATA[If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13236]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15368]]></link><description><![CDATA[What need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live; That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies, And sleep in spite of thunder]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15368</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[That's where Pfizer is crossing the line here a little bit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39573]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's where Pfizer is crossing the line here a little bit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination rules the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination rules the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not really worried about it. I just tried to be a peacemaker... Sometimes it don't pay to be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39660]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not really worried about it. I just tried to be a peacemaker... Sometimes it don't pay to be the good guy, ... I just take it with a grain of salt and move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction. [Lat., Eheu! quam brevibus pereunt ingentia fatis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction. [Lat., Eheu! quam brevibus pereunt ingentia fatis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49123]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19061]]></link><description><![CDATA[In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49895]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter;  Oh no! the miserablest day we live   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter;  Oh no! the miserablest day we live   There's many a better thing to do than die!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate;  And whatever sky's above ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate;  And whatever sky's above me,   Here's a heart for every fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10602]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb    Lawless are they that make their wills ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb    Lawless are they that make their wills their law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And history with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19316]]></link><description><![CDATA[And history with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a big advantage to be first on the road. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41113]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a big advantage to be first on the road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took a couple races, but for the most part, this Pontiac GTO has been something special, ... This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36095]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took a couple races, but for the most part, this Pontiac GTO has been something special, ... This is the best racecar I've ever had and we were in trouble before we got it. It's a dream to drive right now and that's the way my car was last year. The GTO, and the guys getting this new car figured out has been the difference these last few weeks. They do a fantastic job, and once they get it, they usually don't lose it. They go from race to race, and the variables with the track and the weather are so different, that you have to change these things, and these guys are the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4632]]></link><description><![CDATA["Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the omnibus left him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have a lot of information today. I think today is probably a quiet day depending on what the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30765]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have a lot of information today. I think today is probably a quiet day depending on what the stock market does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50625]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58010]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58010</guid></item></channel></rss>