<?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[It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12549]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He threw the ball well. He just couldn't get out of that inning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41144]]></link><description><![CDATA[He threw the ball well. He just couldn't get out of that inning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You might point out to Howard Davies that he could get no better grounding in the game of hurling than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39814]]></link><description><![CDATA[You might point out to Howard Davies that he could get no better grounding in the game of hurling than to check out the Offaly Senior Hurling Championship Q/F featuring Birr against Lusmagh next Saturday evening, with the 'throw-in' at 4:30pm in Banagher. No prizes for guessing who you'll be shouting for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64213]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once we lost scholarships our staff had to make some difficult personnel decisions. As a result, we have lost retention ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once we lost scholarships our staff had to make some difficult personnel decisions. As a result, we have lost retention points because student-athletes have transferred when we were not able to renew their aid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54815]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had a pleasant time here, but I don't think we can survive here much longer like this, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29902]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had a pleasant time here, but I don't think we can survive here much longer like this,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an uncharted ocean. The cautious mariner must needs take Many soundings ere he conduct his barque to port ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an uncharted ocean. The cautious mariner must needs take Many soundings ere he conduct his barque to port in safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9377]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47870]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we read history we make history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19427]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we read history we make history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're trying to do is take a good product and invest in that product, and that product becomes a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35019]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're trying to do is take a good product and invest in that product, and that product becomes a company and that company hires people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35019</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/24894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism is the opium of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism is the opium of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfect church service,would be one we were almost unaware of.Our attention would have been on God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8655]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfect church service,would be one we were almost unaware of.Our attention would have been on God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40157]]></link><description><![CDATA[No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing easily what others find it difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing easily what others find it difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a ring of iron is worn away by constant use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a ring of iron is worn away by constant use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;  Ne'er saw I, never felt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;  Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!   The river glideth at his own sweet will.    Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;     And all that mighty heart is lying still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We finished .500 last season. We've got seven returning starters this year and we've got a nice combination of older ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42338]]></link><description><![CDATA[We finished .500 last season. We've got seven returning starters this year and we've got a nice combination of older and younger players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970  Religion is the same that ever it was, only it suffers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970  Religion is the same that ever it was, only it suffers by them that make profession of it. Never was there less regard for the Person and offices of Christ, of His grace, and of the benefits of His mediation, among them that are called Christians, than is found among many at this day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be poor to know the luxury of living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47884]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be poor to know the luxury of living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the Name of Jesus is a concrete and powerful means of transforming men and women into their hidden, innermost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the Name of Jesus is a concrete and powerful means of transforming men and women into their hidden, innermost utmost reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53893]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11987]]></link><description><![CDATA[By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking. I shall be out of heart shortly, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking. I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too quick a sense of constant infelicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad. -A Midsummer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55536]]></link><description><![CDATA[This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be seen in the frying of the eggs. [Sp., Al freir de los huevos lo vera.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be seen in the frying of the eggs. [Sp., Al freir de los huevos lo vera.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  We may look into a church, almost any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  We may look into a church, almost any church, and discover someone who, though he is offered a gospel of love, must subtly convert it into a gospel of hate before he can receive it. The gospel of love -- with its emphasis upon brotherhood, equality before God, the dignity of every human being, and man's social responsibility toward man -- does not satisfy the lack that he urgently feels. That calls for something altogether different, for an assurance that he is superior, that he is right where others are wrong -- a kind of cosmic teacher's pet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth  ... it be a certain truth, that none can understand [the prophets' and apostles'] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth  ... it be a certain truth, that none can understand [the prophets' and apostles'] writings aright, without the same Spirit by which they were written.  ... The Journal of George Fox  March 20, 1999  Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687  It is no longer the fashion to suffer for the sake of God, and to bear the Cross for Him; for the diligence and real earnestness, that perchance were found in man, have been extinguished and have grown cold; and now no one is willing any longer to suffer distress for the sake of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the city but the people? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8782]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the city but the people?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's not a crime But takes its proper change out still in crime  If once rung on the counter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10652]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's not a crime But takes its proper change out still in crime  If once rung on the counter of this world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My plan of building from the back continues. I'm very happy that, in Josh, we'll have one of the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31532]]></link><description><![CDATA[My plan of building from the back continues. I'm very happy that, in Josh, we'll have one of the best goalkeepers in the league returning to our team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward -- or go back. He who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46400]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward -- or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have need of patience with ourselves and with others; with those below and those above us, and with our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6641]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have need of patience with ourselves and with others; with those below and those above us, and with our own equals; with those who love us and those who love us not; for the greatest things and for the least; against sudden inroads of trouble, and under daily burdens; against disappointments as to the weather, or the breaking of the heart; in the weariness of the body, or the wearing of the soul; in our own failure of duty, or others' failure towards us; in every-day wants, or in the aching of sickness or the decay of old age; in disappointment, bereavement, losses, injuries, reproaches; in heaviness of the heart, or its sickness amid delayed hopes. In all these things, from childhood's little troubles to the martyr's sufferings, patience is the grace of God, whereby we endure evil for the love of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4972]]></link><description><![CDATA[One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28111]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first men that our Saviour dear Did choose to wait upon Him here,  Blest fishers were; and fish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16099]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first men that our Saviour dear Did choose to wait upon Him here,  Blest fishers were; and fish the last   Food was, that He on earth did taste:    I therefore strive to follow those,     Whom He to follow Him hath chose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from breaks of ice, and answer none,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from breaks of ice, and answer none,  And some condemned for a fault alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to a person's nature by discovering the reasons for his or her imperviousness to certain impressions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52327</guid></item></channel></rss>