<?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 first thing that crossed my mind was he had a heart problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39562]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing that crossed my mind was he had a heart problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11700]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to take a really hard look at transit -- something that's not mandated, but optional. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38544]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to take a really hard look at transit -- something that's not mandated, but optional.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's call him Sugar, he's very sweet and he's the coach. ... Sugar is brilliant, I've even told your dad. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's call him Sugar, he's very sweet and he's the coach. ... Sugar is brilliant, I've even told your dad. I want to be happy and very, very rich and successful and I will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-violence is the article of faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Non-violence is the article of faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor ; spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the pillar that holds up the world ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the pillar that holds up the world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26009]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No life Can be pure in its purpose or strong in its strife  And all life not be purer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20867]]></link><description><![CDATA[No life Can be pure in its purpose or strong in its strife  And all life not be purer and stronger thereby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stolen kisses are always sweetest ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stolen kisses are always sweetest]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the fortune of France. [Fr., C'est la fortune de France.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16619]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the fortune of France. [Fr., C'est la fortune de France.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three ways to get something done: (1) Do it yourself. (2) Hire someone to do it for you. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43246]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three ways to get something done: (1) Do it yourself. (2) Hire someone to do it for you. (3) Forbid your kids to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Church on earth is a cross-eyed church, with one eye on God in His heavenly benediction, and one eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Church on earth is a cross-eyed church, with one eye on God in His heavenly benediction, and one eye on the needy world of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109  O Lord our God, grant us grace ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109  O Lord our God, grant us grace to desire Thee with our whole heart; that, so desiring,we may seek, and seeking find Thee; and so finding Thee may love Thee; and loving Thee, may hate those sins from which Thou hast redeemed us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There but for the grace of God go I ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18077]]></link><description><![CDATA[There but for the grace of God go I]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing about the weekend was how we played in our defense zone. Our coverage was great. That was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36151]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing about the weekend was how we played in our defense zone. Our coverage was great. That was the thing I was most worried about go in, and we tightened it up tremendously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising is the very essence of democracy.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising is the very essence of democracy.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10564]]></link><description><![CDATA[... not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold will be slave or master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold will be slave or master.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22877]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vaine is the mill-clacke, if the Miller his hearing lack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49553]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vaine is the mill-clacke, if the Miller his hearing lack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. [Lat., Nec rationem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. [Lat., Nec rationem patitur, nec aequitate mitigatur nec ulla prece flectitur, populus esuriens.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good temper is an estate for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good temper is an estate for life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him. [Before you make a friend, eat a bushel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him. [Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55083]]></link><description><![CDATA[SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17034]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competitions are for horse, not artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competitions are for horse, not artist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417  I saw full surely in this and in all, that ere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417  I saw full surely in this and in all, that ere God made us he loved us; which love never slackened, nor ever shall be. And in this love he hath done all his works; and in this love he hath made all things profitable to us; and in this love our life is everlasting. In our making we had beginning; but the love wherein he made us was in him from without beginning; in which love we have our beginning. And all this shall we see in God, without end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26214]]></link><description><![CDATA[It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28489]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't play too well down there. Basically, the thought is in our head that we have to redeem ourselves. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36002]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't play too well down there. Basically, the thought is in our head that we have to redeem ourselves. If we do, we'll make school history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's not a big inflation problem. Under those circumstances, you get a benign yield-curve inversion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40742]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's not a big inflation problem. Under those circumstances, you get a benign yield-curve inversion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43627]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47139]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making units, the structuring of their incentives, and the counterbalancing of the units against one another, rather than on the more usual (and more exciting) principle of substituting "the good guys" for "the bad guys.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19270]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government didn't present any case, they just wanted it to appear like they did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42214]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government didn't present any case, they just wanted it to appear like they did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them --but at the same time I sensed the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62475]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them --but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24832]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52666]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32505]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32505</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[Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44182</guid></item></channel></rss>