<?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[This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4517]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59]]></link><description><![CDATA[From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that we filed suit shows how important the issue is to us. It may be unwise to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28958]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that we filed suit shows how important the issue is to us. It may be unwise to make any significant change in our posture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17943]]></link><description><![CDATA[That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60407]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43357]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10930]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56125]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her joy in coaching these young women made them believe in themselves and depend on each other. Her guidance not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her joy in coaching these young women made them believe in themselves and depend on each other. Her guidance not only helped them excel here, it will help them become better, more compassionate leaders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39973</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[Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915   A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915   A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave one with an intense social consciousness, if it does not fill one with a sense of overwhelming responsibility for the world. It has been said... truly that the Church exists for those outside of itself. The Church must never be in any sense a little huddle of pious people, shutting their doors against the world, lost in prayer and praise, connoisseurs of preaching and liturgy, busy mutually congratulating themselves on the excellence of their Christian experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there's no motion That tends to vice in man, but I affirm  It is the woman's part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51242]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there's no motion That tends to vice in man, but I affirm  It is the woman's part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46240]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking -- one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56340</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[Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. [It., L'arte vostra quella, quanto puote,  Seque, come il maestro fa il discente;   Si che vostr'arte a Dio quasi e nipote.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not a niche product. The technology will become mainstream quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32591]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not a niche product. The technology will become mainstream quickly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is nice to finish the home season with a victory, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41973]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is nice to finish the home season with a victory,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24370]]></link><description><![CDATA[And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's one of those things that's not 100 percent of one or the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37828]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's one of those things that's not 100 percent of one or the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. -Addison Walker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4029]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. -Addison Walker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66864]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16093</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 are seeing the long bond tell us that the Fed's decision was proper from an inflation perspective. Long-term interest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42199]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing the long bond tell us that the Fed's decision was proper from an inflation perspective. Long-term interest rates are coming down slightly, moving from 7 percent to about 6.95 percent at the this point in time. So the market isn't worried about inflation. The market thinks the Fed's decision was right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smile, damn it !! Smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smile, damn it !! Smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. [Lat., Saepe satius fuit dissimulare quam ulcisci.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22846]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. [Lat., Saepe satius fuit dissimulare quam ulcisci.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27777]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is the foundation of most governments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is the foundation of most governments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are treasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are treasures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe we can get to the final. Paradoxically losing 1-0 in the first leg will help us play with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31003]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe we can get to the final. Paradoxically losing 1-0 in the first leg will help us play with greater freedom and relaxation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love;  To build a new life on a ruined life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14627]]></link><description><![CDATA[What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love;  To build a new life on a ruined life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Censorship in any form is the enemy of creativity, since it cuts off the life blood of creativity: ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Censorship in any form is the enemy of creativity, since it cuts off the life blood of creativity: ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43004</guid></item></channel></rss>