<?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[Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All his reverend wit Lies in his wardrobe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58574]]></link><description><![CDATA[All his reverend wit Lies in his wardrobe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We made him a substantial offer. He was a Kiwi player we really wanted. I was a bit worried he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38422]]></link><description><![CDATA[We made him a substantial offer. He was a Kiwi player we really wanted. I was a bit worried he was over-valued because of the leagues he's played in. Now he's gone to one of the most unstable clubs in the A-League.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had her for two more years. Well, almost two years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42001]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had her for two more years. Well, almost two years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long dispute means both parties are wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52690]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long dispute means both parties are wrong]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In campaigns, the goal is to be a stable leader, clear on your record, accomplishments and base, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31215]]></link><description><![CDATA[In campaigns, the goal is to be a stable leader, clear on your record, accomplishments and base,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is an invention of the cowardly and the resigned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is an invention of the cowardly and the resigned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A supreme social challenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A supreme social challenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They dance, they revel, and they sing, Till the rude turrets shake and ring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51110]]></link><description><![CDATA[They dance, they revel, and they sing, Till the rude turrets shake and ring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20213]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo! at the couch where infant beauty sleeps; Her silent watch the mournful mother keeps;  She, while the lovely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo! at the couch where infant beauty sleeps; Her silent watch the mournful mother keeps;  She, while the lovely babe unconscious lies,   Smiles on her slumbering child with pensive eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58757]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We found there are many areas that already have conservation efforts in place and do not need to be designated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32782]]></link><description><![CDATA[We found there are many areas that already have conservation efforts in place and do not need to be designated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59879]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is thrust upon us, and we must take it whether we will or not. Happiest is he who takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is thrust upon us, and we must take it whether we will or not. Happiest is he who takes it most completely and most joyfully, but also most seriously and with the deepest sense of its dangers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945   Furthermore, [the unchristian environment] is the place where we find out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945   Furthermore, [the unchristian environment] is the place where we find out whether the Christian's meditation has led him into the unreal, from which he awakens in terror when he returns to the workaday world, or whether it has led him into a real contact with God, from which he emerges strengthened and purified. Has it transported him for a moment into a spiritual ecstasy that vanishes when everyday life returns, or has it lodged the Word of God so securely and deeply in his heart that it holds and fortifies him, impelling him to active love, to obedience, to good works? Only the day can decide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14639]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tears fall, they're so easy to wipe off onto my sleeve, but how do I erase the stain from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58777]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tears fall, they're so easy to wipe off onto my sleeve, but how do I erase the stain from my heart?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That number showed the market the U.S. may not be able to lower interest rates as soon as people expected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35004]]></link><description><![CDATA[That number showed the market the U.S. may not be able to lower interest rates as soon as people expected ... and that will lengthen the time before their recovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly.(on not perfectionismto put things off). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22341]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly.(on not perfectionismto put things off).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition creates better products, alliances create better companies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition creates better products, alliances create better companies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66033]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces  That which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3518]]></link><description><![CDATA[But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces  That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61474]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms - you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is one of the highest shot totals we have had ever. We were shooting all our shots high early ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30562]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is one of the highest shot totals we have had ever. We were shooting all our shots high early in the game. We needed to be shooting low on the goal. Once we started doing that, things turned around a little. Their goalie did a real good job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23791]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43927]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever begins, also ends. [Lat., Quicquid coepit, et desinit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever begins, also ends. [Lat., Quicquid coepit, et desinit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinderor control the firm resolve of a determined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21971]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinderor control the firm resolve of a determined soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every obstacle there is a solution. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. The greatest mistake is giving up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22273]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; friendships formed without prayer; the daily act of prayer itself hurried over, or gone through without heart: these are the kind of downward steps by which many a Christian descends to a condition of spiritual palsy, or reaches the point where God allows them to have a tremendous fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom is the great guide to human life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom is the great guide to human life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a tragedy for the people of Nepal that full-scale armed conflict may now resume. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41099]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a tragedy for the people of Nepal that full-scale armed conflict may now resume.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53494]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53494</guid></item></channel></rss>