<?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[My nearest And dearest enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13858]]></link><description><![CDATA[My nearest And dearest enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it. Become a dedicated fighter for civil rights. Make it a central part of your life. It will make you a better doctor, a better lawyer, a better teacher. It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man. Make a career of humanity.Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights.You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13227]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978   There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978   There are only two kinds of men: the righteous, who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners who believe themselves righteous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62727]]></link><description><![CDATA[My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.
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Calling her Christine would be like using 'William Jefferson Clinton' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36577]]></link><description><![CDATA[She goes by 'Chris,' not 'Christine,' in her everyday life. Calling her Christine would be like using 'William Jefferson Clinton' instead of Bill Clinton. 'Christine' is just more formal. She says that's what her mother called her when she got in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either he is naive, or he thinks people are stupid! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either he is naive, or he thinks people are stupid!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gallantry to women--the sure road to their favor--is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gallantry to women--the sure road to their favor--is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you own your breath, nobody can steal your peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65715]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you own your breath, nobody can steal your peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5418]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition is the whetstone of talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition is the whetstone of talent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45588]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54594]]></link><description><![CDATA[See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touchstone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touchstone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A difference in your life today will start when you choose to move on from what happened yesterday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62897]]></link><description><![CDATA[A difference in your life today will start when you choose to move on from what happened yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974  Let us remember how very soon the missionary character of the Church ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974  Let us remember how very soon the missionary character of the Church was forgotten, and the Church, instead of obeying the commandment of Jesus to go and make disciples of all nations (in fact, that it was chiefly a missionary association), neglected this great and important calling... It is astonishing how a commandment so simple and distinct, and how a duty which you would have imagined would be eagerly greeted by the impulse of gratitude, of affection, and of compassion, was forgotten for so long a time, in the churches of the Reformation especially. Now we are accustomed to hear of mission work among the heathen nations, and to find that a great multitude of people are interested in it, and regard it with respect; but it was only at the commencement of the last century, and with great difficulty, [that] the attention of the Church was roused to this important duty; and even in the... Church of Scotland there were a number of ministers who thought that the state of heathenism was so utterly corrupt, and that there was so much to be done in our own country, that it was altogether a Utopian project to think of converting the idolaters, and that it was not our imperative duty to trouble ourselves with their wretched condition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32660]]></link><description><![CDATA[O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... then the world 's mine oyster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22153]]></link><description><![CDATA[... then the world 's mine oyster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am pretty much a person of my word and I told myself I would get myself out of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am pretty much a person of my word and I told myself I would get myself out of this and I knew somehow I would.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge o flow 40 percent of the hours they spent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25340]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge o flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low achievers, studying produced flow only 16 percent of the time; more often that not, it yielded anxiety, with the demands outreaching their abilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know it's got a lot of sports fields. We're going to set all sorts of records. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37366]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know it's got a lot of sports fields. We're going to set all sorts of records.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47423]]></link><description><![CDATA[People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actually, I'm pretty happy. I wasn't as fast as I wanted to be, but I'm still getting over a broken ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actually, I'm pretty happy. I wasn't as fast as I wanted to be, but I'm still getting over a broken foot. I think I did well on my passing drills and in the interviews.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine and women bring misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine and women bring misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62452]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here, thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take--and sometimes tea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here, thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take--and sometimes tea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chris [Henderson], our guitar player, has eight feet of water in his house, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chris [Henderson], our guitar player, has eight feet of water in his house,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  Now since our eternal state is as certainly ours, as our present state; since we are as certainly to live for ever, as we now live at all; it is plain, that we cannot judge of the value of any particular time, as to us, but by comparing it to that eternal duration, for which we are created.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Every true prayer has its background and its foreground. The foreground of prayer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Every true prayer has its background and its foreground. The foreground of prayer is the intense, immediate desire for a certain blessing which seems to be absolutely necessary for the soul to have; the background of prayer is the quiet, earnest desire that the will of God, whatever it may be, should be done. What a picture is the perfect prayer of Jesus in Gethsemane! In front burns the strong desire to escape death and to live; but behind there stands, calm and strong, the craving of the whole life for the doing of the will of God... Leave out the foreground, let there be no expression of the will of him who prays, and there is left a pure submission which is almost fatalism. Leave out the background, let there be no acceptance of the will of God, and the prayer is only an expression of self-will, a petulant claiming of the uncorrected choice of him who prays. Only when the two are there together, the special desire resting on the universal submission, the universal submission opening into the special desire, is the picture perfect and the prayer complete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do now remember the poor creature, small beer. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55923]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do now remember the poor creature, small beer. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3319]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He could eat, especially if it was Jack-in the Box. He really loved the big ultimate cheeseburgers and could easily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30366]]></link><description><![CDATA[He could eat, especially if it was Jack-in the Box. He really loved the big ultimate cheeseburgers and could easily eat three.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference. In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29676]]></link><description><![CDATA[When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All cruelty springs from weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52112]]></link><description><![CDATA[All cruelty springs from weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5757]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18146]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything--and it works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14944]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything--and it works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13510]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. [Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cruante que d'estre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. [Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cruante que d'estre humain, et humanite d'estre cruel.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51065</guid></item></channel></rss>