<?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 true test of your strength is not by merely winning all of your life's battles. When you go through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true test of your strength is not by merely winning all of your life's battles. When you go through tough circumstances and seeing every reason to quit but you just won't, that is strength!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57321]]></link><description><![CDATA[It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54211]]></link><description><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule?   - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawless are they that make their wills their law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lawless are they that make their wills their law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  In religion, we are not asked to make up our minds, we are asked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  In religion, we are not asked to make up our minds, we are asked to make up our lives... We may refuse to make up our minds, but our lives get made up, one way or the other... Whatever we believe with our minds, our lives are committed either to God's way or to the God-denying way, and what matters in religion is the act of commitment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34330]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have in place a process through which we are carefully reviewing a range of options to increase the value ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have in place a process through which we are carefully reviewing a range of options to increase the value of our company, including those proposed by Mr. Icahn and his group. Investors should rest assured that this evaluation is being done in a prudent and deliberate manner with an eye toward creating sustainable value for all of our shareholders and as always we will keep our shareholders informed regarding our initiatives and direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64913]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was not born under a rhyming planet. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was not born under a rhyming planet. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1135]]></link><description><![CDATA[To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the game against Finland I wished them luck. Hopefully they win and bring the gold to Buffalo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42305]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the game against Finland I wished them luck. Hopefully they win and bring the gold to Buffalo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22961]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a 'modem', can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast," And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43437]]></link><description><![CDATA["Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast," And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She also won the gold medal in the Super Quiz and essay components. I've done essay judging since I began ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37997]]></link><description><![CDATA[She also won the gold medal in the Super Quiz and essay components. I've done essay judging since I began serving as coordinator in 2000, and Emma's essay was one of the best I've seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're off and running. People are holding our feet to the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34352]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're off and running. People are holding our feet to the fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2093]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13217]]></link><description><![CDATA[To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4820]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56984]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44336]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47605]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse. The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieveit through not dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22753]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieveit through not dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every reformation must have its victims. You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every reformation must have its victims. You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14512]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul. [Fr., La vertu d'un coeur noble est la marque certaine.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul. [Fr., La vertu d'un coeur noble est la marque certaine.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask betterquestions, and as a result, they get better answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask betterquestions, and as a result, they get better answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood. [Lat., Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54926]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood. [Lat., Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9494]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great necessities call out great virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great necessities call out great virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said ''Box about: twill come to my father anon.'']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47504]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17631]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56316]]></link><description><![CDATA[These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48065]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61003]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to forget someone from the past when that person has been the one you ever wanted in your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63232]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to forget someone from the past when that person has been the one you ever wanted in your future...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would like to do more acquisitions within our geographic footprint. We think those make sense at the right price, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36615]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would like to do more acquisitions within our geographic footprint. We think those make sense at the right price, but frankly we're not going to do those if they don't make sense from a price point of view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When John finishes his current suspension, if he is serious about becoming a referee, it might give him a greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35959]]></link><description><![CDATA[When John finishes his current suspension, if he is serious about becoming a referee, it might give him a greater appreciation of the difficulties that go with the job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24308]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven  To bleed for man, to teach him how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6138]]></link><description><![CDATA[But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven  To bleed for man, to teach him how to live,   And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42931</guid></item></channel></rss>