<?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[Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56425]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're buying stocks on sale. There's never been a market that didn't recover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35062]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're buying stocks on sale. There's never been a market that didn't recover.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57633]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Costa Rica team will play very strong, very fast in the beginning of the game, try to get an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30790]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Costa Rica team will play very strong, very fast in the beginning of the game, try to get an early goal and write their ticket to Germany.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The realist is the man, who having weighed all the visible factors in a given situation and having found that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53074]]></link><description><![CDATA[The realist is the man, who having weighed all the visible factors in a given situation and having found that the odds are against him, decides that fighting is useless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now is the age of anxiety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now is the age of anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40935]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know what we are, but know not what we may be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64241]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know what we are, but know not what we may be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my end is my beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13785]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my end is my beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51302]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who trusts no one can't be trusted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59750]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/358]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["How does the Water Come down at Lodore?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61307]]></link><description><![CDATA["How does the Water Come down at Lodore?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treading beneath their feet all visible things, As steps that upwards to their Father's throne  Lead gradual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treading beneath their feet all visible things, As steps that upwards to their Father's throne  Lead gradual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63754]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49503]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64964]]></link><description><![CDATA[He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11273]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  However these deeds of men are judged in themselves, still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of the Church, 1564  However these deeds of men are judged in themselves, still the Lord accomplished his work through them alike when he broke the bloody scepters of arrogant kings and when he overturned intolerable governments. Let the princes hear and be afraid. But we must, in the meantime, be very careful not to despise or violate that authority of magistrates, full of venerable majesty, which God has established by the weightiest decrees, even though it may reside with the most unworthy men, who defile it as much as they can with their own wickedness. For, if the correction of unbridled despotism is the Lord's to avenge, let us not at once think that it is entrusted to us, to whom no command has been given except to obey and suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1248]]></link><description><![CDATA[At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33284]]></link><description><![CDATA[A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If he be not fellow with the best king, thou shalt find the best king of good fellows. -King Henry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55973]]></link><description><![CDATA[If he be not fellow with the best king, thou shalt find the best king of good fellows. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36438]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All comes out even at the end of the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11134]]></link><description><![CDATA[All comes out even at the end of the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think, oh, grateful think! How good the God of Harvest is to you;  Who pours abundance o'er your flowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think, oh, grateful think! How good the God of Harvest is to you;  Who pours abundance o'er your flowing fields,   While those unhappy partners of you kind    Wide-hover round you, like the fowls of heaven,     And ask their humble dole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915   A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915   A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave one with an intense social consciousness, if it does not fill one with a sense of overwhelming responsibility for the world. It has been said... truly that the Church exists for those outside of itself. The Church must never be in any sense a little huddle of pious people, shutting their doors against the world, lost in prayer and praise, connoisseurs of preaching and liturgy, busy mutually congratulating themselves on the excellence of their Christian experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But a few times I was getting in there, getting to the hole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41873]]></link><description><![CDATA[But a few times I was getting in there, getting to the hole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17129]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14625]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was fash and full of faith that "something would turn up."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's almost at the top, but not quite. There's room for some growth. He's already had such a tremendous impact, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38624]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's almost at the top, but not quite. There's room for some growth. He's already had such a tremendous impact, but I think he's come close to maxing out the benefit for golf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664 Sunshine let it be, or frost,  Storm or calm, as Thou shalt choose; Though Thine every gift were lost,  Thee Thyself we cannot lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As God alone is a fit witness of himself in his Word, so also the Word will not find any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8076]]></link><description><![CDATA[As God alone is a fit witness of himself in his Word, so also the Word will not find any acceptance in men's hearts before it is sealed by the inward testimony of the Spirit. The same Spirit, therefore, who has spoken by the mouth of the prophets must penetrate into our hearts, to persuade us that they faithfully proclaimed what has been divinely commanded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47586]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12957]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shame is pride's cloak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shame is pride's cloak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie cannot live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63227]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie cannot live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63227</guid></item></channel></rss>