<?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[Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!  Still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19624]]></link><description><![CDATA[How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!  Still to ourselves in every place consigned,   Our own felicity we make or find.    With secret course, which no loud storms annoy,     Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Touring is really a pretty lonely business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Touring is really a pretty lonely business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tougher the job, the greater the reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15973]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tougher the job, the greater the reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very much a sensitivity model; you don't know what your business looks like a month out. If it rains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32472]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very much a sensitivity model; you don't know what your business looks like a month out. If it rains tomorrow, or it rains for the next week, then you're missing your entire month or quarter. It's a thin business as far as margins are concerned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22185]]></link><description><![CDATA[I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23488]]></link><description><![CDATA[A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The times they are a-changing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The times they are a-changing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He called me a bigot two times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38124]]></link><description><![CDATA[He called me a bigot two times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2674]]></link><description><![CDATA[While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always do right. That will gratify some of the people and astonish the rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always do right. That will gratify some of the people and astonish the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33602]]></link><description><![CDATA[What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The responsible choice would be to honor those who have worn our nation's uniform, but the administration made a different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18971]]></link><description><![CDATA[The responsible choice would be to honor those who have worn our nation's uniform, but the administration made a different choice. They're raising veterans' health care fees by $250 a year while cutting taxes for millionaires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn, to the sea,  And Wickliff's dust shall spread abroad   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn, to the sea,  And Wickliff's dust shall spread abroad   Wide as the waters be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jester, a bad character. [Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23237]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jester, a bad character. [Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. - Wisdom in Small Doses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50552]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a great, great run. They gave it everything they had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29302]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a great, great run. They gave it everything they had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a game in which one always cheats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a game in which one always cheats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All good things come to those who wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66039]]></link><description><![CDATA[All good things come to those who wait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of the majority are limited rights. They are limited not only by the constitutional guarantees but by the moral principle implied in those guarantees. That principle is that men may not use the facilities of liberty to impair them. No man may invoke a right in order to destroy it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's never too late to give someone a a second chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63004]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's never too late to give someone a a second chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the veil Spun from the cobweb fashion of the times,  TO hid the feeling heart? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20218]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the veil Spun from the cobweb fashion of the times,  TO hid the feeling heart?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach me to live that I may dread The grace as little as my bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach me to live that I may dread The grace as little as my bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45173]]></link><description><![CDATA[For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are high-risk, high-reward [vaccines]. The chances of their success are remote, but if they do work, we would expect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35447]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are high-risk, high-reward [vaccines]. The chances of their success are remote, but if they do work, we would expect them to be blockbusters if they produced enough to supply developed nations and undeveloped nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only risk of failure is promotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48406]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only risk of failure is promotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have so many contacts all over the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29608]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have so many contacts all over the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If these things be seriously pondered and laid to heart, we shall soon understand what Adam and Christ are; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38318]]></link><description><![CDATA[If these things be seriously pondered and laid to heart, we shall soon understand what Adam and Christ are; and how they live and act in men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabitwith dignity all the days of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21417]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabitwith dignity all the days of his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-confidence is the result of a successfully survived risk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-confidence is the result of a successfully survived risk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45197]]></link><description><![CDATA[... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Law, Priest, Mystic, 1761 Commemoration of William of Ockham, Franciscan Friar, Philosopher, Teacher, 1347 Commemoration of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Priest, Scientist, Visionary, 1955   Read whatever chapter of Scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it -- yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a good Milan. We played well after being only partially convincing in previous games. We wasted a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31004]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a good Milan. We played well after being only partially convincing in previous games. We wasted a lot of chances and one has to say that Pagliuca was really good today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A curst Cow hath short hornes. [A curst cow has short horns.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49008]]></link><description><![CDATA[A curst Cow hath short hornes. [A curst cow has short horns.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to know the past to understand the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45658]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to know the past to understand the present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go;  The horse knows the way   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go;  The horse knows the way   To carry the sleigh,    Through the white and drifted snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist    The law of Christ, which it is our duty to fulfill, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist    The law of Christ, which it is our duty to fulfill, is the bearing of the cross. Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8586</guid></item></channel></rss>