<?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[True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18187]]></link><description><![CDATA[True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him what we have done for Him. -.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51812]]></link><description><![CDATA[In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think they should leave the schools in the community. They can really bond with teachers and each other here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33356]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think they should leave the schools in the community. They can really bond with teachers and each other here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The probability is going up that there's going to be some kind of transaction involving Knight Ridder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The probability is going up that there's going to be some kind of transaction involving Knight Ridder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52896]]></link><description><![CDATA[At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21047]]></link><description><![CDATA[For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60955]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt...It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is a disappointment but not defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is a disappointment but not defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset? Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset? Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Some have said that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things; first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ... Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus. Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing -- so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though the power be wanting, the will deserves praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though the power be wanting, the will deserves praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63044]]></link><description><![CDATA[A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They tried to get me - I got them first!(suicide by drinking Lysol). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15222]]></link><description><![CDATA[They tried to get me - I got them first!(suicide by drinking Lysol).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55866]]></link><description><![CDATA[A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It feels really nice to be honored. But it's not really for me. It's more of an honor for our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29614]]></link><description><![CDATA[It feels really nice to be honored. But it's not really for me. It's more of an honor for our entire coaching staff ---- and it shows who we are as a program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  The church is unique in that it is so able to cut across ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  The church is unique in that it is so able to cut across age boundaries and social-status boundaries. When one loves the Lord Jesus Christ and sincerely seeks to follow Him, then one quite by surprise comes upon a community that he did not know existed, a community that is experienced within the heart; and when this community is found, nothing is ever quite the same again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business is very good right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business is very good right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is happening right now is that there are thousands and thousands of people all over the world sending their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29217]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is happening right now is that there are thousands and thousands of people all over the world sending their prayers for Daniel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65379]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body is the shell of the soul, and dress the husk of that shell; but the husk often tells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body is the shell of the soul, and dress the husk of that shell; but the husk often tells what the kernel is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. -Amelia Earhart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. -Amelia Earhart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got todiscipline your life. No matter how good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22418]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got todiscipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to bewilling to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going tothe top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof; now also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61671]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof; now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples; And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28894]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people, especially officials, don't have the courage to speak up against corruption. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people, especially officials, don't have the courage to speak up against corruption.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6407]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42795]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of the Atlantic; but there was never a time during my command when I would not have chosen some settlement by reason rather than the sword.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9195]]></link><description><![CDATA[A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, it's a good bird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, it's a good bird.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water which is too pure has no fish ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water which is too pure has no fish]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century:that a writer never complains, never explains and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century:that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65199]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21200]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it ... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25122]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54896]]></link><description><![CDATA[It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He quits his place well, that leaves his friend there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49322]]></link><description><![CDATA[He quits his place well, that leaves his friend there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66707</guid></item></channel></rss>