<?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[The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life--knowing that under certain conditions it is not worth-while to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Syllables govern the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Syllables govern the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the greatest blessing to the inner man. If God, then, puts or permits anything hard in our lives, be sure that the real peril, the real trouble, is that we shall lose if we flinch or rebel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The monarch has become a symbol for cross border co-operation in North America. Let's hope it doesn't become the symbol ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The monarch has become a symbol for cross border co-operation in North America. Let's hope it doesn't become the symbol of our common failure to protect the environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258  It is only by forgetting yourself that you can draw near ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258  It is only by forgetting yourself that you can draw near to God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7943]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be no doubt about whether we love our neighbor or not. Be sure that, in proportion as you advance in fraternal charity, you are increasing your love of God, for His Majesty bears so tender an affection for us that I cannot doubt He will repay our love for others by augmenting, and in a thousand different ways, that which we bear for Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20640]]></link><description><![CDATA[A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Spiral!" the memorable Lady terms Our mind's ascent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48372]]></link><description><![CDATA["Spiral!" the memorable Lady terms Our mind's ascent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Your problem isn't karma, Sheldon, it's attitude!" "Well, Lonnie, maybe it's attitudinal karma !" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23683]]></link><description><![CDATA["Your problem isn't karma, Sheldon, it's attitude!" "Well, Lonnie, maybe it's attitudinal karma !"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the way, The works of women are symbolical.  We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull out sight,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62077]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the way, The works of women are symbolical.  We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull out sight,   Producing what? A pair of slippers, sir,    To put on when you're weary--or a stool     To tumble over and vex you . . . curse that stool!      Or else at best, a cushion where you lean       And sleep, and dream of something we are not,        But would be for your sake. Alas, alas!         This hurts most, this . . . that, after all, we are paid          The worth of our work, perhaps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The price action was incredible. A move like that leads me to believe that something is circulating. Something is known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38805]]></link><description><![CDATA[The price action was incredible. A move like that leads me to believe that something is circulating. Something is known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13989]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly, if it be wrong leave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11620]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly, if it be wrong leave it undone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happy coach Calhoun is beginning to trust me. I just want to keep it that way. I don't want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32254]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happy coach Calhoun is beginning to trust me. I just want to keep it that way. I don't want to take a step back. My confidence is through the roof. Confidence is what you have to have at this level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's biggest mistake is to believe that he's working for someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's biggest mistake is to believe that he's working for someone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming  Authority usurp'd, from God not given.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming  Authority usurp'd, from God not given.   He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl,    Dominion absolute; that right we hold     By his donation; but man over men      He made not lord; such title to himself       Reserving, human left from human free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14445]]></link><description><![CDATA[The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lost one (on the road), and we could have lost this one if we didn't hold them on defense. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37701]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lost one (on the road), and we could have lost this one if we didn't hold them on defense. We have to learn to win on the road a lot better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neuer thinke you fortune can beare the sway, Where Virtue's force, can cause her to obay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neuer thinke you fortune can beare the sway, Where Virtue's force, can cause her to obay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46615]]></link><description><![CDATA[None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one of them shows a different picture of misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one of them shows a different picture of misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52025]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15602]]></link><description><![CDATA[A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14642]]></link><description><![CDATA[In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gowne is his that we ares it, and the world his that enjoyes it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49862]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gowne is his that we ares it, and the world his that enjoyes it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was the fullness of time, when Christ Jesus did come, that the Messiah should come. It was so to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8226]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was the fullness of time, when Christ Jesus did come, that the Messiah should come. It was so to the Jews, and it was so to the Gentiles too... Christ hath excommunicated no nation, no shire, no house, no man; He gives none of His ministers leave to say to any man, thou art not redeemed; He gives no wounded or afflicted conscience leave to say to itself, I am not redeemed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65367]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11430]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672  Peace comes when there is no cloud between ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672  Peace comes when there is no cloud between us and God. Peace is the consequence of forgiveness, God's removal of that which obscures His face and so breaks union with Him. The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace -- the first we offer, the second we accept, and the third we inherit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself thanin any other way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21521]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself thanin any other way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46077]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50177]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62205]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12269</guid></item></channel></rss>