<?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[Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool - good luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14962]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was not made of common calf, Nor ever meant for country loon;  If with an axe I seem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was not made of common calf, Nor ever meant for country loon;  If with an axe I seem cut out,   The workman was no cobbling clown;    A good jack boot with double sole he made,     To roam the woods, or through the rivers wade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All came from, and will goe to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49097]]></link><description><![CDATA[All came from, and will goe to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intuition is a suspension o f logic due to impatience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intuition is a suspension o f logic due to impatience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597 Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 1. the ministry of holding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597 Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 1. the ministry of holding one's tongue   Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words... Thus it must be a decisive rule of every Christian fellowship that each individual is prohibited from saying much that occurs to him. This prohibition does not include the personal word of advice and guidance. But to speak about a brother is forbidden, even under the cloak of help and goodwill; for it is precisely in this guise that the spirit of hatred among brothers creeps in when it is seeking to create mischief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22227]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28297]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63382]]></link><description><![CDATA[If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5674]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The loss of jobs is never a pleasant thing. I know short term this is unpleasant, but I know long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31939]]></link><description><![CDATA[The loss of jobs is never a pleasant thing. I know short term this is unpleasant, but I know long term we'll come out on top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That 400-person party would cost about $500 a head, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32947]]></link><description><![CDATA[That 400-person party would cost about $500 a head,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5241]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me, indulgent gods! with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene;  No splendid poverty, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me, indulgent gods! with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene;  No splendid poverty, no smiling care,   No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where annual elections end, there slavery begins]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity comes in a once while, you got to see it, just like a shooting star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity comes in a once while, you got to see it, just like a shooting star.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can form a coalition very quickly but this may undermine its stability ... or we can take our time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34781]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can form a coalition very quickly but this may undermine its stability ... or we can take our time and design a coalition government that will be stable and stay the course for four years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then he danced;--all foreigners excel The serious Angles in the eloquence  Of pantomime;--he danced, I say right well, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11025]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then he danced;--all foreigners excel The serious Angles in the eloquence  Of pantomime;--he danced, I say right well,   With emphasis, and also with good sense--    A thing in footing indispensable:     He danced without theatrical pretence,      Not like a ballet-master in the van       Of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1051]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The place of justice is a hallowed place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10432]]></link><description><![CDATA[The place of justice is a hallowed place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't use the public restrooms because they weren't working. The food tasted awful. Everything was disgusting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36176]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't use the public restrooms because they weren't working. The food tasted awful. Everything was disgusting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My guess is you'll see stuff coming out this year, but it will go on longer than that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34579]]></link><description><![CDATA[My guess is you'll see stuff coming out this year, but it will go on longer than that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11881</guid></item><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[We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14589]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else, and it'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60971]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else, and it'll become like a wildfire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law has no power over heroes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law has no power over heroes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66530</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[And he's had his family with him during this time. I think that has really helped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30340]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he's had his family with him during this time. I think that has really helped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upon the cunning loom of thought We weave our fancies, so and so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Upon the cunning loom of thought We weave our fancies, so and so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never propose to thy self such a God, as thou wert not bound to imitate: Thou mistakest God, if thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never propose to thy self such a God, as thou wert not bound to imitate: Thou mistakest God, if thou make him to be any such thing, or make him to do any such thing, as thou in thy proportion shouldst not be, or shouldst not do. And shouldst thou curse any man that had never offended, never transgrest, never trespass thee? Can God have done so? Will God curse man, before man have sinned?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/946]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57148]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47654]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Direct The clasping ivy where to climb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Direct The clasping ivy where to climb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You were constantly, Matho, a guest at my villa at Tivoli. Now you buy it--I have deceived you; I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14071]]></link><description><![CDATA[You were constantly, Matho, a guest at my villa at Tivoli. Now you buy it--I have deceived you; I have merely sold you what was already your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This technology is the heart of the next wave of innovation. The leaders that do this well are able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34612]]></link><description><![CDATA[This technology is the heart of the next wave of innovation. The leaders that do this well are able to rapidly change the way their current businesses work to meet the ever-changing demands of their customers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism. - Essays and Aphorisms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46273</guid></item></channel></rss>