<?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[The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not adestination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22078]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not adestination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not replacing DIY with DIFM by any means. What we're doing is broadening our DIY model to include the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31545]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not replacing DIY with DIFM by any means. What we're doing is broadening our DIY model to include the do-it-for-me category.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An uncalled-for defence becomes a positive accusation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50547]]></link><description><![CDATA[An uncalled-for defence becomes a positive accusation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing that goest farthest towards making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56684]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing that goest farthest towards making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile.  . . . .   It's full of worth and goodness too, with manly kindness blent,    It's worth a million dollars and it doesn't cost a cent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the most uncomfortable thing about martyrs is that they look down on people who aren't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26473]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the most uncomfortable thing about martyrs is that they look down on people who aren't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48290]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rod twelve feet long and a ring of wire, A winder and barrel, will help thy desire  In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16098]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rod twelve feet long and a ring of wire, A winder and barrel, will help thy desire  In killing a Pike; but the forked stick,   With a slit and a bladder,--and that other fine trick,    Which our artists call snap, with a goose or a duck,--     Will kill two for one, if you have any luck;      The gentry of Shropshire do merrily smile,       To see a goose and a belt the fish to beguile;        When a Pike suns himselfe and a-frogging doth go,         The two-inched hook is better, I know,          Than the ord'nary snaring: but still I must cry,           When the Pike is at home, minde the cookery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation.We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She concedes that she's the one she pleases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27884]]></link><description><![CDATA[She concedes that she's the one she pleases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44646]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to ask our visitors who our visitors are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33779]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to ask our visitors who our visitors are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25416]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rose-red city half as old as Time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8762]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rose-red city half as old as Time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's why it's nerve-wracking; you've just got to sit there. As a coach, you're helpless. There's nothing you can do, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29652]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's why it's nerve-wracking; you've just got to sit there. As a coach, you're helpless. There's nothing you can do, but it's fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I spoke to Jose Manuel last night and was happy to share this information with him. It is a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30121]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spoke to Jose Manuel last night and was happy to share this information with him. It is a great tribute to the prime minister and to Portugal that colleagues have expressed such support for him and wish to see him accept this appointment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While you live, tell truth and shame the devil! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55875]]></link><description><![CDATA[While you live, tell truth and shame the devil! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sound of a kiss is much softer than that of a cannon - but it's echo lasts a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23842]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sound of a kiss is much softer than that of a cannon - but it's echo lasts a great deal longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes, And with a virtuous vizor hide deep vice! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes, And with a virtuous vizor hide deep vice!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't win the section this year, and, after that, we set this as our goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37568]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't win the section this year, and, after that, we set this as our goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He makes a great row but does nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51150]]></link><description><![CDATA[He makes a great row but does nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. -Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. -Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20551]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20394]]></link><description><![CDATA[To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lost out by a flip of the coin. This time that's not going to happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28628]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lost out by a flip of the coin. This time that's not going to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It sounds like they have a backer, and it's always all about the money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34327]]></link><description><![CDATA[It sounds like they have a backer, and it's always all about the money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People may be worshiping in a group of 5000 or 10,000. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33909]]></link><description><![CDATA[People may be worshiping in a group of 5000 or 10,000.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moonlight is sculpture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moonlight is sculpture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45702]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable;  A vile conceit in pompous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable;  A vile conceit in pompous words express'd,   Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26443]]></link><description><![CDATA[It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a star in the West that shall never go down Till the records of Valour decay,  We must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61240]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a star in the West that shall never go down Till the records of Valour decay,  We must worship its light though it is not our own,   For liberty burst in its ray.    Shall the name of a Washington ever be heard     By a freeman, and thrill not his breast?      Is there one out of bondage that hails not the word,       As a Bethlehem Star of the West?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pollution is the forerunner of perdition ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pollution is the forerunner of perdition]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a few problems at the start, but that is usual. This team has never played together before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40201]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a few problems at the start, but that is usual. This team has never played together before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All history, of course, is the history of wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19358]]></link><description><![CDATA[All history, of course, is the history of wars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Works of art are all that survive of incredibly gifted people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Works of art are all that survive of incredibly gifted people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He challenged the church to rethink its own mission in the radically secular world of the twentieth century... The nonbelieving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6516]]></link><description><![CDATA[He challenged the church to rethink its own mission in the radically secular world of the twentieth century... The nonbelieving brave men he met in the anti-Nazi underground, the stark realities of prison life, and his disappointment in the professional churchmen of Germany, all may have influenced Bonhoeffer to see real Christianity as "non-religious" and "worldly"... The opposition between sacred and secular, supernatural and natural, seemed unreal to him -- the apparent opposites are united in Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The organization is great, I liked the sailing centre but the race conditions were very difficult. I am very happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The organization is great, I liked the sailing centre but the race conditions were very difficult. I am very happy that I could cope with the wind and win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10438]]></link><description><![CDATA[When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50527]]></link><description><![CDATA[To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the rational mind, is now making contact with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9829]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion and manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the intuitive mind, shows very beautifully the unity and complementary nature of the rational and intuitive modes of consciousness; of the yang and the yin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64940</guid></item></channel></rss>