<?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[Victory attained by violence is tantamount to defeat, for it is momentary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory attained by violence is tantamount to defeat, for it is momentary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love acting. It is so much more real than life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/566]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love acting. It is so much more real than life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words walked right out of my mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words walked right out of my mouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing peace is the measure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing peace is the measure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who have attained things worth having in this world have workedwhile others have idled, have perservered while others gave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21729]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who have attained things worth having in this world have workedwhile others have idled, have perservered while others gave up in despair,and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial,industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later lifethe success often erroneously attributed to good luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51615]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10424]]></link><description><![CDATA[You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1635]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I felt like slitting my wrists I used to like listening to depressed singers from the 1970s. It was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I felt like slitting my wrists I used to like listening to depressed singers from the 1970s. It was great music for a misunderstood teenager. And when I'm feeling misunderstood these days, I'll stick on a bit of Leonard Cohen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result from the transformation of matter in form, location, or availability (intellectually or temporally). It is these transformations that create economic benefits valued by consumers, and whoever arranges such transformations contributes to the value of things, whether his hands actually come into contact with physical objects or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that pitties another, remembers himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49385]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that pitties another, remembers himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22876]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."   - Thomas Carlyle,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379  Humility is the root, mother, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379  Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can stay obtaines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49327]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can stay obtaines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5055]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64180]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our new installation projectors are really bright and feature-rich. Anyone who needs high performance, versatility and rich colors in an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our new installation projectors are really bright and feature-rich. Anyone who needs high performance, versatility and rich colors in an easy-to-use and easy-to-maintain installation projector will find the XD1000U and XD2000U perfect choices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arkansas taxpayers, firemen, nurses, teachers, police officers, and other public servants are the ones who are really going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arkansas taxpayers, firemen, nurses, teachers, police officers, and other public servants are the ones who are really going to be paying the price of this tax - not the oil companies. State employees will see the value of their funds reduced and taxpayers will be left to make up the losses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence can be obtained if you:...care more than others think is wise;...risk more than others think is safe;...dream more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence can be obtained if you:...care more than others think is wise;...risk more than others think is safe;...dream more than others think is practical;...expect more than others think is possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am slow of study. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am slow of study. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt can only be removed by action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt can only be removed by action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've done a pretty good job given that it was a very promotional year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32881]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've done a pretty good job given that it was a very promotional year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods. [Lat., Nihil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47950]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods. [Lat., Nihil est quod credere de se  Non possit, quum laudatur dis aequa potestas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think that day lost whose (low) descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done.  [Lat., Virtus sui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think that day lost whose (low) descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done.  [Lat., Virtus sui gloria.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elijah went before the people and said, How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elijah went before the people and said, How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him. But the people said nothing. [1 Kings 18:21].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19965]]></link><description><![CDATA[People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crescit eundo [It grows as it goes] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crescit eundo [It grows as it goes]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we now come to the park expecting to win instead of playing not to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44215]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we now come to the park expecting to win instead of playing not to lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With government funding being cut back, charities are being hard-pressed to turn away money that's legal. We don't get into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33563]]></link><description><![CDATA[With government funding being cut back, charities are being hard-pressed to turn away money that's legal. We don't get into why people give money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have it in our power to begin the world over again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62227]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have it in our power to begin the world over again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to keep them (soldiers) busy, especially when they are healing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41546]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to keep them (soldiers) busy, especially when they are healing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who works for the gold in the job rather than for the money in the pay envelope, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17798]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who works for the gold in the job rather than for the money in the pay envelope, is the fellow who gets on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the great right of an excessive wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62457]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the great right of an excessive wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866   The early Hebrews learned at the foot of Mount Sinai ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866   The early Hebrews learned at the foot of Mount Sinai that in the sight of God there is indeed a difference between the sacred and the profane, but there is no difference between the spiritual and the social.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think of the garden after the rain; And hope to my heart comes singing,  "At morn the cherry-blooms ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13148]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think of the garden after the rain; And hope to my heart comes singing,  "At morn the cherry-blooms will be white,   And the Easter bells be ringing!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is still not as fast as today's silicon chips, but we can make it orders of magnitude better. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38298]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is still not as fast as today's silicon chips, but we can make it orders of magnitude better. We have a very clear picture of how to move on. Developing the first car is much harder than making a car that can go faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever longs for paradise forgets his desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever longs for paradise forgets his desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65866]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animis opibusque parati [Prepared in mind and resources] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animis opibusque parati [Prepared in mind and resources]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43274</guid></item></channel></rss>