<?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[Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it doth singe yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it doth singe yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stern delight that warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51108]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stern delight that warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every failure, obstacle or hardship is an opportunity in disguise. Success in many cases is failure turned inside out. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every failure, obstacle or hardship is an opportunity in disguise. Success in many cases is failure turned inside out. The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace 'if I can, I hope, maybe' with 'I can, I will, I must.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25075]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1225]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices others are unwilling to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices others are unwilling to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pleasant thing to be pointed at with the finger, and to hear it said, "That is he." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50826]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pleasant thing to be pointed at with the finger, and to hear it said, "That is he."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme;  Though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58977]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme;  Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull;   Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some cursed fraud Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown,  And me with thee hath ruined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some cursed fraud Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown,  And me with thee hath ruined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2537]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To break training without permission is an act of treason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59661]]></link><description><![CDATA[To break training without permission is an act of treason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23838]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's this that myrrh doth still smell in thy kiss, And that with thee no other odour is?  'Tis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14065]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's this that myrrh doth still smell in thy kiss, And that with thee no other odour is?  'Tis doubt, my Postumus, he that doth smell   So sweetly always, smells not very well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19651]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be, or not to be--that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer  The slings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12760]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be, or not to be--that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer  The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune   Or to take arms against a sea of troubles    And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep--     No more--and by a sleep to say we end      The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks       That flesh is heir to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, the government must devote its energy to the rescue and recovery of the affected region and we cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, the government must devote its energy to the rescue and recovery of the affected region and we cannot thank or pay the brave rescue workers enough for the lives they've already saved, ... But we cannot ignore how the federal government has failed to protect the health and safety of its citizens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. [Lat., Quid non ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22923]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. [Lat., Quid non ebrietas designat? Operta recludit;  Spes jubet esse ratas; in praelia trudit inermem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day;  Lies worse; and while it says, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day;  Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest   With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Cleaner air] has been a pretty clear directive from our elected leaders and our customers. We know that our car-crazed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37326]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Cleaner air] has been a pretty clear directive from our elected leaders and our customers. We know that our car-crazed culture contributes to [air pollution] in a big way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45035]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned a great deal about music through my experiences. I've learned of its sanctity. Of its holiness. I've learned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned a great deal about music through my experiences. I've learned of its sanctity. Of its holiness. I've learned that music is a very powerful force, not to be trivialized or watered down or maufactured into soul-less, mindless drivel. Selling out to the corporate butcher would secure me a nice little place in hell, I knew. So I determined early on to make it on my own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome;  Stiff in opinions, always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48953]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome;  Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong.   Was everything by starts, and nothing long;    But in the course of one revolving moon,     Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Palestinian intellectual friend tells me that he mightbe willing to admit that God in Hebrew said Jews couldhave Israel. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43701]]></link><description><![CDATA[My Palestinian intellectual friend tells me that he mightbe willing to admit that God in Hebrew said Jews couldhave Israel. But he said Allah did not speak it in Arabicto the Arabs.spoken on the Terry Gross Show.. Arthur Hertzberg is a founder of the Jewish peace groupPeace Now and is the author of The Fate of Zionism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue of redistricting using the 2000 Census doesn't seem likely to me to be successful. The political gerrymandering is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue of redistricting using the 2000 Census doesn't seem likely to me to be successful. The political gerrymandering is going to be the primary issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60085]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clever men are good, but they are not the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clever men are good, but they are not the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary   If you were to rise early every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary   If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as a means of redeeming your time and of fitting your spirit for prayer, you would find mighty advantages from it. This method, though it seem such a small circumstance of life, would in all probability be a means [toward] great piety. It would keep it constantly in your head that softness and idleness were to be avoided and that self-denial was a part of Christianity... It would teach you to exercise power over yourself, and make you able by degrees to renounce other pleasures and tempers that war against the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24903]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately this earth is not. . . a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately this earth is not. . . a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All for Our Country ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43273]]></link><description><![CDATA[All for Our Country]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were disciplined in the second half, though, and we made it through as group winners, when no one thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40198]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were disciplined in the second half, though, and we made it through as group winners, when no one thought we had a chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963 Thanksgiving (U.S.)   One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963 Thanksgiving (U.S.)   One man may be so placed that his anger sheds the blood of thousands, and another so placed that, however angry he gets, he will only be laughed at. But the little mark on the soul may be much the same in both. Each has done something to himself which, unless he repents, will make it harder for him to keep out of the rage the next time he is tempted, and will make the rage worse when he does fall into it. Each of them, if he seriously turns to God, can have that twist in the central man straightened out again: each is, in the long run, doomed if he will not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not our job to go and participate in this campaign. They're trying to sell the voters on something. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37884]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not our job to go and participate in this campaign. They're trying to sell the voters on something. We didn't know if we would oppose the bond or not. We actually conversed with doctor (Stan) Olson and toured twelve of the schools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8997]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that sees the beauty of holiness, or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8460]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that sees the beauty of holiness, or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world... Unless this is seen, nothing is seen that is worth seeing: for there is no other true excellence or beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/986</guid></item></channel></rss>