<?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[Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest. [Lat., Aequa lege necessitas  Sortitur insignes et imos.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest. [Lat., Aequa lege necessitas  Sortitur insignes et imos.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50073]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51053]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51053</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[If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9210]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Impossible DreamTo dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foeTo bear the unbearable sorrowTo run where the brave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Impossible DreamTo dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foeTo bear the unbearable sorrowTo run where the brave dare not goTo write the unwritable wrongTo be better far than you areTo try when your arms are too wearyThe reach the unreachable starThis is my quest, to follow that starNo matter how hopeless,No matter how farTo fight for the rightWhithout question or pauseTo be willing to march into hellFor a heavenly causeAnd I know if I'll only be trueTo this glorious questThat my heart will be peaceful and calmWhen I'm laid to my restAnd the world would be better for thisThat one man scorned and covered with scarsStill strove with his last ounce of courageTo reach the unreachable starmusic by Leigh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have tied me to a stake. I cannot fly, But bear-like I must fight the course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12014]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have tied me to a stake. I cannot fly, But bear-like I must fight the course.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've rarely seen an issue in which such strong opinion that is so one-sided, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38986]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've rarely seen an issue in which such strong opinion that is so one-sided,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -Mother Theresa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -Mother Theresa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. - On the first moonwalk, July 20, 1969. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60230]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. - On the first moonwalk, July 20, 1969.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9107]]></link><description><![CDATA[A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common idea's and common ideals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Are My Sunshine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35481]]></link><description><![CDATA[You Are My Sunshine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I definitely think fly tying is addicting, but you can start out cheaply. You can get the needed equipment for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30284]]></link><description><![CDATA[I definitely think fly tying is addicting, but you can start out cheaply. You can get the needed equipment for less than $100.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66685]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's very quick and strong, a powerful defender who is also extremely comfortable on the ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35070]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's very quick and strong, a powerful defender who is also extremely comfortable on the ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men have become tools of their tools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men have become tools of their tools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18572]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think doing everything just right is not as important a message these days. It's not as salient a message ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28981]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think doing everything just right is not as important a message these days. It's not as salient a message as doing everything with style and panache.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth and oyle are ever above. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth and oyle are ever above.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray, pray, thou who also weepest,-- And the drops will slacken so;  Weep, weep--and the watch thou keepest,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray, pray, thou who also weepest,-- And the drops will slacken so;  Weep, weep--and the watch thou keepest,   With a quicker count will go.    Think,--the shadow on the dial     For the nature most undone,      Marks the passing of the trial,       Proves the presence of the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These comments have provoked significant feedback from community football leagues and umpiring associations across Australia, all reporting dismay within their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28450]]></link><description><![CDATA[These comments have provoked significant feedback from community football leagues and umpiring associations across Australia, all reporting dismay within their umpiring ranks about being able to retain numbers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew it was going to be a tough battle. They were everything we heard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39689]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew it was going to be a tough battle. They were everything we heard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manager decided to close it because he didn't have any cooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manager decided to close it because he didn't have any cooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64586]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul,  If sympathy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58532]]></link><description><![CDATA[For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul,  If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32011]]></link><description><![CDATA[As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's concerned about taxpayers having to pay for health insurance for big employers, which should be paying for their employees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36574]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's concerned about taxpayers having to pay for health insurance for big employers, which should be paying for their employees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17819]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 O for a closer walk with God,  A calm and heavenly frame, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 O for a closer walk with God,  A calm and heavenly frame, A light to shine upon the road  That leads me to the Lamb Return, O holy Dove, return,  Sweet messenger of rest! I hate the sins that made Thee mourn  And drove Thee from my breast The dearest idol I have known,  Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from Thy throne,  And worship only Thee. So shall my walk be close with God,  Calm and serene my frame; So purer light shall mark the road  That leads me to the Lamb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where in venerable rows Widely waving oaks enclose  The moat of yonder antique hall,   Swarm the rooks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where in venerable rows Widely waving oaks enclose  The moat of yonder antique hall,   Swarm the rooks with clamorous call;    And, to the toils of nature true,     Wreath their capacious nests anew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35299]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Brookfield Academy) had trouble adjusting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37893]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Brookfield Academy) had trouble adjusting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the differences between the conservative and the radical seem to spring mainly from their attitude toward the future. Fear of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47575]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the differences between the conservative and the radical seem to spring mainly from their attitude toward the future. Fear of the future causes us to lean against and cling to the present, while faith in the future renders us receptive to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  Social enthusiasms have such power today, they raise people so effectively to the supreme degree of heroism in suffering and death, that I think it is as well that a few sheep should remain outside the fold in order to bear witness that the love of Christ is essentially something different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first blow is as much as two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first blow is as much as two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great library contains the diary of the human race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24767]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great library contains the diary of the human race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatience, gloom, self-occupation, unloving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7783]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatience, gloom, self-occupation, unloving prejudices, reckless tongue, feverish desires, with all the damage they have caused to Christ's Body, be set aside, because -- because, in spite of all, he longs for God and Eternal Life: then he must set aside and forgive all that the impatience, selfishness, bitter and foolish speech, and sudden yieldings to base impulse by others have caused him to endure. Hardness is the one impossible thing. Harshness to others in those who ask and need the mercy of God sets up a conflict at the very heart of personality and shuts the door upon grace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulties exist to be surmounted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties exist to be surmounted]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59714</guid></item></channel></rss>