<?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[There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9586]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36769]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23301]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3748]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  Love can forbear, and Love can forgive, ... but Love can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  Love can forbear, and Love can forgive, ... but Love can never be reconciled to an unlovely object... He can never therefore be reconciled to your sin, because sin itself is incapable of being altered; but He may be reconciled to your person, because that may be restored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost,  We seek it, ere it comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25572]]></link><description><![CDATA[For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost,  We seek it, ere it comes to light,   In every cranny but the right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51887]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind contracts herself and shrinketh in, And to herself she gladly doth retire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56294]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind contracts herself and shrinketh in, And to herself she gladly doth retire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45948]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunwands turn rain droplets into blackberry drupelets as enkindled okra seeds acknowledge heliocracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sunwands turn rain droplets into blackberry drupelets as enkindled okra seeds acknowledge heliocracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf and the CraneA WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf and the CraneA WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large sum, to put her head into his mouth and draw out the bone. When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf. In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the key word here was persistency. We just kept putting pressure on them, believed in our system and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41695]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the key word here was persistency. We just kept putting pressure on them, believed in our system and sooner or later, we would get the breaks to win the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... By purpose, Idon't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you arealways ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21752]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... By purpose, Idon't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you arealways striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you haveof yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you wantto lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was our father no one man can replace him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36747]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was our father no one man can replace him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed  As, God be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed  As, God be thanked! I do not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17247]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How awestriking. How sublime..that out of muck and mud and dirt and slime God makes lemons and God makes limes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27577]]></link><description><![CDATA[How awestriking. How sublime..that out of muck and mud and dirt and slime God makes lemons and God makes limes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is not good language which all understand not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49787]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is not good language which all understand not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16334]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was promulgation of false propaganda bythe administration about the existence of weapons ofmass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59838]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was promulgation of false propaganda bythe administration about the existence of weapons ofmass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation of falsepropaganda about Iraq as a base for Al Qaeda.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek peace, and pursue it. [Prove!4:14]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek peace, and pursue it. [Prove!4:14].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How blessings brighten as they take their flight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51863]]></link><description><![CDATA[How blessings brighten as they take their flight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the quarter's financials are important, the stock performance keys off the PeopleSoft decision. A resolution will be positive one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35286]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the quarter's financials are important, the stock performance keys off the PeopleSoft decision. A resolution will be positive one way or another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18688]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to sand still--and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to sand still--and they obeyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sow that was washed is turned to her wallowing in the mire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sow that was washed is turned to her wallowing in the mire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53650]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wicked book cannot repent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4610]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wicked book cannot repent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O lovers! Be careful in those dangerous first days! Once you’ve brought breakfast in bed you’ll have to bring it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4166]]></link><description><![CDATA[O lovers! Be careful in those dangerous first days! Once you’ve brought breakfast in bed you’ll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730  The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730  The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride, and worldly honor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can come to a decision that positively impacts all three of those then you've made the best decision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33917]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can come to a decision that positively impacts all three of those then you've made the best decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's time for the human race to enter the solar system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47070]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64769]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY If on our daily course our mind Be set to hallow all we find, New treasures still of countless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7596]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY If on our daily course our mind Be set to hallow all we find, New treasures still of countless price God will provide for sacrifice. The trivial round, the common task Will furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves -- a road To bring us daily nearer God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50419]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguisedas insoluble problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21655]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguisedas insoluble problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5815]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So sang they, and the empyrean rung With Hallelujahs. Thus was Sabbath kept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54592]]></link><description><![CDATA[So sang they, and the empyrean rung With Hallelujahs. Thus was Sabbath kept.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -E. Rutherford. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9396]]></link><description><![CDATA[All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -E. Rutherford.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49554]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36983]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4968]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And through the hall there walked to and fro A jolly yeoman, marshall of the same,  Whose name was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2910]]></link><description><![CDATA[And through the hall there walked to and fro A jolly yeoman, marshall of the same,  Whose name was Appetite; he did bestow   Both guestes and meate, whenever in they came,    And knew them how to order without blame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2910</guid></item></channel></rss>