<?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[Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the good and gentle; for this is a naturally pleasing to all, and everyone willingly enjoyeth peace, and loveth those best that agree with him. But to be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace, and a most commendable thing.  ... Thomas à Kempis July 25, 2000 Feast of James the Apostle  When Jesus calls his disciples "brothers" and "friends", he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a loaded field. There are some great teams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28597]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a loaded field. There are some great teams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible:  Mirth cannot move a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27420]]></link><description><![CDATA[To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible:  Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.\r\n ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66906]]></link><description><![CDATA[I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.\r\n]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8721]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61868]]></link><description><![CDATA[She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10469]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel John Peel was somebody that we could all trust. Throughout his life, he gave people a sense of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32350]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel John Peel was somebody that we could all trust. Throughout his life, he gave people a sense of a bigger world out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The circumstances changed when I heard the other proposals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The circumstances changed when I heard the other proposals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The program has changed in the past to meet the demands of the times and must do so again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The program has changed in the past to meet the demands of the times and must do so again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil thoughts often come from idleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil thoughts often come from idleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45721]]></link><description><![CDATA[For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, youhave to take care of them! There is great freedom in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, youhave to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living.It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At all times it is better to have a method. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9878]]></link><description><![CDATA[At all times it is better to have a method.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60855]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4431]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to conquer is the first condition of victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He understands that the process is delicate one with equal chances of falling flat and moving forward. So he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29812]]></link><description><![CDATA[He understands that the process is delicate one with equal chances of falling flat and moving forward. So he is keeping his options open to wash his hands off, if the need arises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The timing of the bombings was clearly designed to wreak the greatest level of havoc and carnage. They are an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30124]]></link><description><![CDATA[The timing of the bombings was clearly designed to wreak the greatest level of havoc and carnage. They are an attack on the democratic process and cannot be justified by any political cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15615]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And will you succeed?Yes! You will indeed!(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47741]]></link><description><![CDATA[And will you succeed?Yes! You will indeed!(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53323]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63029]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9902]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lawyer's primer: If you don't have the law, you argue the facts; if you don't have the facts, you argue the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, then you argue the Constitution]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going to church doesn't make you a Christian, any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going to church doesn't make you a Christian, any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you deal in camels, make the doors high ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11148]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you deal in camels, make the doors high]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not consider self-expression as important. It's not important as a method of teaching. And it's not important as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39106]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not consider self-expression as important. It's not important as a method of teaching. And it's not important as an aim of any art branch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a municipal railroad that connects to BNSF and UP. We don't know if there are many railroads that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37363]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a municipal railroad that connects to BNSF and UP. We don't know if there are many railroads that provide this access.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ask what their priority in life was, it was their children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33830]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ask what their priority in life was, it was their children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43198]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61833]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know with our heads that the Bible and the Gospel have a bearing -- sooner or later -- upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6568]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know with our heads that the Bible and the Gospel have a bearing -- sooner or later -- upon every issue in life, every problem, every relationship, every practice. But is it not true that in our hearts we are afraid that the full-orbed, unfiltered revelation of God will disturb some custom, some privilege, some status by which we benefit in society, occupation, or government? And knowing that we are profiting by the blood, sweat, and tears of the many, we feel wrath rising in us whenever it is proposed that religion touches the thing in question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will continue to brandish our weapons in the face of the occupation (Israel) as Gaza is only the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28619]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will continue to brandish our weapons in the face of the occupation (Israel) as Gaza is only the first step towards the liberation of all of the land of Palestine,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal—that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal—that there is no human relationship between master and slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42313]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11502]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were very wrong in October. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were very wrong in October.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus sung the shepherds till th' approach of night, The skies yet blushing with departing light,  When falling dews ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus sung the shepherds till th' approach of night, The skies yet blushing with departing light,  When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade,   And the low sun had lengthened every shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2581]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2581</guid></item></channel></rss>