<?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[It was harder racing the track today than it was the competition. The heat was a factor and it had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30347]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was harder racing the track today than it was the competition. The heat was a factor and it had an effect on the racing. It's hard to sit there and run lap after lap without any relief. And today, there wasn't any relief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who profits by a crime commits it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10645]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who profits by a crime commits it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What else is the meaning of our present chaos, of humanity in sorrow, but this: that contemporary man is tried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6694]]></link><description><![CDATA[What else is the meaning of our present chaos, of humanity in sorrow, but this: that contemporary man is tried before the bar of the Eternal, and found wanting? Nor can any nation survive, or re-establish lasting peace, if it rests on those foundations on which contemporary nations have been built, our own included. What are those crumbling foundations? Conceit, self-will, denial of discipline, self-expressionism, secularism, this worldliness, greed, entrenched privilege, defiance of God's desire. On base absurdities have we built. Have we now moral courage to face our common sin, or are we content to trust in one form of armed wickedness to overcome the evils of another form of the same mad folly? Merely by smashing our enemies we shall not remake the world. By Beelzebub no devils are cast out... (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56581]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40230]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nine tenths of education is encouragement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nine tenths of education is encouragement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nationals were held here in 1960, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29295]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nationals were held here in 1960,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou unassuming Commonplace Of Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou unassuming Commonplace Of Nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58388]]></link><description><![CDATA[On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54401]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Entire affection hateth nicer hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Entire affection hateth nicer hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord of human kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord of human kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreading that climax of all earthly ills, The inflammation of his weekly bills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreading that climax of all earthly ills, The inflammation of his weekly bills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Step after step the ladder is ascended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Step after step the ladder is ascended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They talk about the f------ mob; at least we've got principles! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36308]]></link><description><![CDATA[They talk about the f------ mob; at least we've got principles!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that accumulation of negative stuff really sunk into the minds of people. And these are the people who serve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42058]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that accumulation of negative stuff really sunk into the minds of people. And these are the people who serve on juries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57094]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. - The Deer Park.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest weapon that one can have is a simple...smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65700]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest weapon that one can have is a simple...smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43930]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Man and His Two SweetheartsA middle aged man, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two women at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Man and His Two SweetheartsA middle aged man, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two women at the same time. One of them was young, and the other well advanced in years. The elder woman, ashamed to be courted by a man younger than herself, made a point, whenever her admirer visited her, to pull out some portion of his black hairs. The younger, on the contrary, not wishing to become the wife of an old man, was equally zealous in removing every gray hair she could find. Thus it came to pass that between them both he very soon found that he had not a hair left on his head. Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Red as a rose of Harpocrate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Red as a rose of Harpocrate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing impossible to him who will try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63300]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing impossible to him who will try.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is, above all, the gift of oneself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is, above all, the gift of oneself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9858]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She hugged the offender, and forgave the offense, Sex to the last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16502]]></link><description><![CDATA[She hugged the offender, and forgave the offense, Sex to the last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in love is not complete until he is married. Then he is finished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25794]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in love is not complete until he is married. Then he is finished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ; is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle--the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your; conscience on the other. -Douglas MacArthur.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think what the [lawsuit] is going to do is have people realize that the government is there to protect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40001]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think what the [lawsuit] is going to do is have people realize that the government is there to protect consumers, not to protect one competitor over another,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God bears with the wicked, but not forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27963]]></link><description><![CDATA[God bears with the wicked, but not forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the old armchair quarterback theory. People always think they're a better coach or the better owner. Fantasy football is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36059]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the old armchair quarterback theory. People always think they're a better coach or the better owner. Fantasy football is tailor-made to live out that armchair quarterback life. You get to pick the players. It's ideal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53483]]></link><description><![CDATA[I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against nature and within nature there is no freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against nature and within nature there is no freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To apprehend thus Draws us a profit from all things we see,  And often, to our comfort, shall we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3917]]></link><description><![CDATA[To apprehend thus Draws us a profit from all things we see,  And often, to our comfort, shall we find   The sharded beetle in a safer hold    Than is the full-winged eagle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All who wish to go will be transported, large and small, young and old. Don't be afraid, just take it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57804]]></link><description><![CDATA[All who wish to go will be transported, large and small, young and old. Don't be afraid, just take it easy. Let the women and children go first ... No one will harm you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Continuing a short series on prayer: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Continuing a short series on prayer:   Madness frequently discovers itself merely by unnecessary deviation from the usual modes of the world. My poor friend Christopher Smart showed the disturbance of his mind, by falling upon his knees, and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place. Now although, rationally speaking, it is greater madness not to pray at all, than to pray as Smart did, I am afraid there are so many who do not pray, that their understanding is not called in question... I did not think he ought to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44394]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49809]]></link><description><![CDATA[The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49809</guid></item></channel></rss>