<?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[If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly.(on not perfectionismto put things off). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22341]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly.(on not perfectionismto put things off).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20481]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He needs a million dollars to be able to be noticed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31854]]></link><description><![CDATA[He needs a million dollars to be able to be noticed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd,  That fires the length of Ophiucus huge  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd,  That fires the length of Ophiucus huge   In th' artic sky, and from his horrid hair    Shakes pestilence and war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All beings are beautiful seen through eyes of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25891]]></link><description><![CDATA[All beings are beautiful seen through eyes of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget love, I'd rather fall in chocolate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget love, I'd rather fall in chocolate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's work, grave sirs, is never done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62103]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's work, grave sirs, is never done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide,  And folly into sin! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where lives the man that has not tried, How mirth can into folly glide,  And folly into sin!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would the gods had made thee poetical. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would the gods had made thee poetical. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As quickly as the ice vanishes when the Father unlooses the frost fetters and unwounds the icy ropes of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57776]]></link><description><![CDATA[As quickly as the ice vanishes when the Father unlooses the frost fetters and unwounds the icy ropes of the torrent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American Baseball Coaches Association started All-American honors in that year. That was also the first year of the College ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American Baseball Coaches Association started All-American honors in that year. That was also the first year of the College World Series.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a cottage I live, and the cot of content, Where a few little rooms for ambition too low,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9941]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a cottage I live, and the cot of content, Where a few little rooms for ambition too low,  Are furnish'd as plain as a patriarch's tent,   With all for convenience, but nothing for show:    Like Robinson Crusoe's, both peaceful and pleasant,     By industry stor'd, like the hive of a bee;      And the peer who looks down with contempt on a peasant.       Can ne'er be look'd up to with envy by me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10249]]></link><description><![CDATA[A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously I?m disappointed. But you don?t always get everything that you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously I?m disappointed. But you don?t always get everything that you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will prepare and some day my chance will come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11116]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will prepare and some day my chance will come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that was the way The deuce was to pay  As it always is, at the close of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19572]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that was the way The deuce was to pay  As it always is, at the close of the day   That gave us--    Hurray! Hurray! Hurray!     (With some restrictions, the fault-finders say)      That which, please God, we will keep for aye       Our National Independence!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here in His holy House of Prayer we may come on our day of rest, and be safe, if we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here in His holy House of Prayer we may come on our day of rest, and be safe, if we will, from any thoughts but those of the world to come. Here we gather together for no earthly business, but for a purpose of one sort only; and that purpose is the same for which saints and angels are met together in that innumerable company before the throne of God. If there is a place on earth which, however faintly and dimly, shadows out the courts of God on high, surely it is where His people are met together, in all their weakness and ignorance and sin, in their poor and low estate, yet with humble and faithful hearts, in His House of Prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45742]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er;  So gently shuts the eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11175]]></link><description><![CDATA[So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er;  So gently shuts the eye of day;   So dies a wave along the shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50874]]></link><description><![CDATA[In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They think they have God Almighty by the toe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41135]]></link><description><![CDATA[They think they have God Almighty by the toe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55464]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of the times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19710]]></link><description><![CDATA[These were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of the times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8513]]></link><description><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane -- if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground -- ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility. From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must look to God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute laws which the people have made and within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute laws which the people have made and within the limits of a constitution which they have established.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an idea which we will present to the Israeli side. We hope to reach an acceptable solution for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41312]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an idea which we will present to the Israeli side. We hope to reach an acceptable solution for us and them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We plan to re-certify our bid. We don't anticipate any changes. And we believe we have a very good shot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33659]]></link><description><![CDATA[We plan to re-certify our bid. We don't anticipate any changes. And we believe we have a very good shot at winning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very pleased with the way the team played, especially they way they hustled and dove on defense. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42121]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very pleased with the way the team played, especially they way they hustled and dove on defense. You can't ask for anything more. Sometimes the breaks don't go your way. We still have a chance to make the playoffs. We just have to win out from here. It's going to be a good test for the team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710  To think of the Communists as the executors of God's judgment should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710  To think of the Communists as the executors of God's judgment should not strike us as strange if we have read our Bibles. The same study should free us from the assumption that God will always be on our side whatever we do, will always protect His Church from temporal evil; or that He is only concerned with the faithful believers. It was precisely His concern for the wicked Ninevites that so distressed the prophet Jonah.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ho! stand to your glasses steady! 'Tis all we have left to prize.  A cup to the dead already,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ho! stand to your glasses steady! 'Tis all we have left to prize.  A cup to the dead already,--   Hurrah for the next that dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62537]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47154]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chill penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chill penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9241]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11650]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22133]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48045]]></link><description><![CDATA[God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,  A gauntlet with a gift in 't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12059]]></link><description><![CDATA[My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a fearful thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a fearful thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64772]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity. [Lat., Malum est necessitati ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44062]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity. [Lat., Malum est necessitati vivere; sed in necessitate vivere necessitas nulla est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44062</guid></item></channel></rss>