<?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[Mind is the Master-power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, andevermore he takes the Tool of Thought, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mind is the Master-power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, andevermore he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, bringsforth a thousand joys, a thousand ills-He thinks in secret and it comes topass; Environment is but his looking-glass. As A Man Thinketh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How lovely he appears! his little cheeks In their pure incarnation, vying with  The rose leaves strewn beneath them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3628]]></link><description><![CDATA[How lovely he appears! his little cheeks In their pure incarnation, vying with  The rose leaves strewn beneath them.   And his lips, too,    How beautifully parted! No; you shall not     Kiss him; at least not now; he will wake soon--      His hour of midday rest is nearly over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is 99 percent failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is 99 percent failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the hornet hangs in the holly hock, And the brown bee drones i' the rose,  And the west ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19612]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the hornet hangs in the holly hock, And the brown bee drones i' the rose,  And the west is a red-streaked four-o'clock,   And summer is near its close--    It's--Oh, for the gate, and the locust lane;     And dusk, and dew, and home again!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/407]]></link><description><![CDATA[To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13832]]></link><description><![CDATA[When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were trying to take the middle away -- and the post -- and they just had too many guys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37461]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were trying to take the middle away -- and the post -- and they just had too many guys that [could] go to the boards. We just didn't have enough size for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14653]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Important principles may, and must, be inflexible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Party honesty is party expediency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Party honesty is party expediency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20509]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre or catching Hares with Tabers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joe understands team. Basketball is not about having the five best players. It's about having five players that play the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joe understands team. Basketball is not about having the five best players. It's about having five players that play the best together. It's a puzzle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indifference is the invisible giant of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unto God, the Lord belong the issues of death. (68:20). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unto God, the Lord belong the issues of death. (68:20).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17498]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string,  Make bracelets to adorn the wife   Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sundaies of man's life, Thredded together on time's string,  Make bracelets to adorn the wife   Of the eternal, glorious King.    On Sunday heaven's gates stand ope;     Blessings are plentiful and rife.      More plentiful than hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statisticians probably do it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statisticians probably do it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   God has been very good to me, for I never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the fact that there is challenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39911]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the fact that there is challenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970  Religion is the same that ever it was, only it suffers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970  Religion is the same that ever it was, only it suffers by them that make profession of it. Never was there less regard for the Person and offices of Christ, of His grace, and of the benefits of His mediation, among them that are called Christians, than is found among many at this day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches;  And most of sterling worth is what   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches;  And most of sterling worth is what   Our own experience preaches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Win or lose, do it fairly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Win or lose, do it fairly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15303]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live each day the fullest you can, not guaranteeing there'll be a tomorrow, not dwelling endlessly on yesterday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live each day the fullest you can, not guaranteeing there'll be a tomorrow, not dwelling endlessly on yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It hurt us deeply because the family was actually a part of our family at the veterans of foreign wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38885]]></link><description><![CDATA[It hurt us deeply because the family was actually a part of our family at the veterans of foreign wars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61348]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit them and not be embarrassed by them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/352]]></link><description><![CDATA[That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think if they are going to borrow money, it should be for something substantial. What I think they should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39522]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think if they are going to borrow money, it should be for something substantial. What I think they should do is leave the existing facility in place and start (building) a new school on the property. They are throwing money away. They are putting Band-Aids on the problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46306]]></link><description><![CDATA[It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44179]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2423]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two great days in a person\'s life - the day we are born and the day we discover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66780]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two great days in a person\'s life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52381]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born is a Cellar, . . . and living in a Garret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born is a Cellar, . . . and living in a Garret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he coulddo it so well that no one could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he coulddo it so well that no one could find fault with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stealing a Rhinoceros should not be attempted lightly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stealing a Rhinoceros should not be attempted lightly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28479]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are brave, others are just too stupid to be afraid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are brave, others are just too stupid to be afraid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9125]]></link><description><![CDATA[An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65355]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65355</guid></item></channel></rss>