<?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[Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christ's call is to save the lost, not the stiff-necked; He came not to call scoffers but sinners to repentance; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christ's call is to save the lost, not the stiff-necked; He came not to call scoffers but sinners to repentance; not to build and furnish comfortable chapels, churches, and cathedrals at home in which to rock Christian professors to sleep by means of clever essays, stereotyped prayers, and artistic musical performances, but to capture men from the devil's clutches and the very jaws of Hell. This can be accomplished only by a red-hot, unconventional, unfettered devotion, in the power of the Holy Spirit, to the Lord Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A burnt child dreads the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14728]]></link><description><![CDATA[A burnt child dreads the fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34410]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57973]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consumer is in pretty good shape. The American consumer hangs in through thick and thin, and now there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32883]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consumer is in pretty good shape. The American consumer hangs in through thick and thin, and now there are lots of positives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's quite an athlete, isn't he? He can pitch game one, he can run balls down in the outfield, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34547]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's quite an athlete, isn't he? He can pitch game one, he can run balls down in the outfield, he can drive in runs. We're happy to have him, put it that way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These elections will fail by themselves. Political parties inside the country won't attend this farce. Chad's citizens, with the current ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28743]]></link><description><![CDATA[These elections will fail by themselves. Political parties inside the country won't attend this farce. Chad's citizens, with the current loaded environment, won't be going out to vote, even just to say no to Deby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shirley and Joan have done kids' shows for about 40 years now, and I think they've got it down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shirley and Joan have done kids' shows for about 40 years now, and I think they've got it down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is behind, but 65 percent is not that far behind. Whether or not we'll be able to open the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is behind, but 65 percent is not that far behind. Whether or not we'll be able to open the highway on time remains to be seen. The situation will be clearer in a week or two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a matter of we lack fuel, we just can't get it out of the ground because we lack ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31041]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a matter of we lack fuel, we just can't get it out of the ground because we lack power, ... Grocery stores are closed because we don't have power. The longer we go without power, the worse the situation gets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44792]]></link><description><![CDATA[He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23301]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least in a food-and-sustenance sense, we've always taken what we put into our bodies in a fairly serious light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32463]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least in a food-and-sustenance sense, we've always taken what we put into our bodies in a fairly serious light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some minds are like concrete: thoroughly mixed up and permanently set. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some minds are like concrete: thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path to success is to take massive, determined action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path to success is to take massive, determined action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57134]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While Fell was reposing himself in the hay, A reptile concealed bit his leg as he lay;  But, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46868]]></link><description><![CDATA[While Fell was reposing himself in the hay, A reptile concealed bit his leg as he lay;  But, all venom himself, of the wound he made light,   And got well, while the scorpion died of the bite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   I am glad that you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   I am glad that you have been acquainted, from your youth, with the wrestlings of God, being cast from furnace to furnace; knowing, if you were not dear to God, and if your health did not require so much of him, he would not spend as much physic upon you. All the brethren and sisters of Christ must be conformed to his image in suffering, Rom. viii.17, and some do more fully resemble the copy than others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28144]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one is the architect of his own fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one is the architect of his own fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played a solid 60 minutes and that's important for us right now. We haven't done that all year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37376]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played a solid 60 minutes and that's important for us right now. We haven't done that all year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can't find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can't find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn to be receptive of that gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prices were different in the past. They have been changed to be consistent for all summer sessions. This should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prices were different in the past. They have been changed to be consistent for all summer sessions. This should be easier and more convenient for students.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60241]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don\'t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66910]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don\'t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion always has a soothing effect and makes people accept fate. We have to teach them that it was Allah's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion always has a soothing effect and makes people accept fate. We have to teach them that it was Allah's wish and no one could do anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service to humanity is service to God. Let the love and light of the Kingdom radiate through you until all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service to humanity is service to God. Let the love and light of the Kingdom radiate through you until all who look upon you shall be illumined by its reflection. Be as stars, brilliant and sparkling in the loftiness of their heavenly station. ]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and heart to this vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and heart to this vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us do not consciously look at movies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us do not consciously look at movies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to kill a snake, kill it once and for all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23702]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to kill a snake, kill it once and for all]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came here. There was all kinds of people out back, bringing guns in upstairs. And they said grab 'em, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31523]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came here. There was all kinds of people out back, bringing guns in upstairs. And they said grab 'em, and took 'em upstairs, walked out and there was police.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The company has prototypes running right now that are killing things. The basic science is done. A lot of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The company has prototypes running right now that are killing things. The basic science is done. A lot of the scientists developing this were physicists who were doing military-directed physics in Russia and have moved on to more peaceful programs in the United States.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining, and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining, and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore, let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For style beyond the genius never dares. [Fr., Che stilo oltra l'ingegno non si stende.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58097]]></link><description><![CDATA[For style beyond the genius never dares. [Fr., Che stilo oltra l'ingegno non si stende.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never spend your money before you have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never spend your money before you have it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4259]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9534]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it helped prepare us that every game we played counted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it helped prepare us that every game we played counted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41519]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41519</guid></item></channel></rss>