<?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[Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, Thou mak'st thy knife keen; but no metal can--  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, Thou mak'st thy knife keen; but no metal can--  No, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness   Of thy sharp envy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes, And with a virtuous vizor hide deep vice! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes, And with a virtuous vizor hide deep vice!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle   I shall not value his prayers at all, be he never so earnest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle   I shall not value his prayers at all, be he never so earnest and frequent in them, who gives not alms according to his ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45289]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8007]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11353]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to repay almost $3,000 to groups and people who had given us money thinking it was deductible, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38117]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to repay almost $3,000 to groups and people who had given us money thinking it was deductible, and I figure we've lost maybe another $4,000 in donations we would have gotten since this came up. So we're hurting. We need some help to pay the bills and keep our programs going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human contribution is the essential ingredient. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human contribution is the essential ingredient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certainly the lesson from the Genesis crash, which was apparently caused by parts incorrectly installed, is that you've got to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certainly the lesson from the Genesis crash, which was apparently caused by parts incorrectly installed, is that you've got to be meticulous in your engineering. And that's certainly going to be the case for Mars. We are going to have to design any return spacecraft from Mars so that it can handle a hard landing, such as we saw for Genesis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without labor nothing prospers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without labor nothing prospers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,  Wears yet a precious jewel in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,  Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;   And this our life, exempt from human haunt,    Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,     Sermons in stones, and good in everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45120]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have to do all the more crappy jobs before, you appreciate all the good work that comes out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65308]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have to do all the more crappy jobs before, you appreciate all the good work that comes out of that. There are many girls who immediately have a top model career, and there are lots of models who are doing things that aren't as exciting as doing big campaigns and beautiful magazines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5181]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I called them because my car was taken without my permission. My baby was inside of my car and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I called them because my car was taken without my permission. My baby was inside of my car and they turned it around and put it on me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45505]]></link><description><![CDATA[I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week. Jesse Jackson -Mario Cuomo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mind your P's and Q's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mind your P's and Q's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't try to control the uncontrollable and don't freak when life happens, just pick everything up and keep on going! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't try to control the uncontrollable and don't freak when life happens, just pick everything up and keep on going!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55231]]></link><description><![CDATA[All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this. -Elbert Hubbard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to know where kids ages 4, 5 and 6 are on a Saturday, go to Badger Field ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40982]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to know where kids ages 4, 5 and 6 are on a Saturday, go to Badger Field on the east side of town.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The race could save one-half its wasted labor Would each reform himself and spare his neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53218]]></link><description><![CDATA[The race could save one-half its wasted labor Would each reform himself and spare his neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think there's any question it looks like they're left-handed, and rightly so. If you have those kinds of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31882]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think there's any question it looks like they're left-handed, and rightly so. If you have those kinds of people on the field, you might as well take advantage of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although they are at different skill levels, working with a traumatized and bereaved population was new for all of them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although they are at different skill levels, working with a traumatized and bereaved population was new for all of them, ... And despite the fact that many had no formal training, the degree of caring and thoughtfulness these volunteers have is amazing. And most of all, their hearts are broken for the community, for what was versus what is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["And now, Madam," I addressed her, "we shall try who shall get the breeches." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61931]]></link><description><![CDATA["And now, Madam," I addressed her, "we shall try who shall get the breeches."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Devotion is not a passing emotion: it is a fixed, enduring habit of mind permeating the whole life and shaping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Devotion is not a passing emotion: it is a fixed, enduring habit of mind permeating the whole life and shaping every action. It rests upon a conviction that God is the Sole Source of Holiness, and that our part is to lean upon Him and be absolutely guided and governed by Him; and it necessitates an abiding hold on Him, a perpetual habit of listening for His Voice within the heart, as of readiness to obey the dictates of that Voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9712]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is a disappointment but not defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is a disappointment but not defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich -- something for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich -- something for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55528]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of species that have not been seen in the last 10 or 15 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30530]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of species that have not been seen in the last 10 or 15 years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52257]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day: we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life. Moreover, when we have an alibi for not writing a book, painting a picture, and so on, we have an alibi for not writing the greatest book and not painting the greatest picture. Small wonder that the effort expended and the punishment endured in obtaining a good alibi often exceed the effort and grief requisite for the attainment of a most marked achievement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66033]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether the weather be fine, Whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold, Whether the weather be hot, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether the weather be fine, Whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold, Whether the weather be hot, We'll weather the weather, Whatever the whether, Whether we like it or not]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379  Humility is the root, mother, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379  Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I understand his decision as much as I hate to see him leave. He's a fine man, and I just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36892]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand his decision as much as I hate to see him leave. He's a fine man, and I just can't say enough good things about him and what he meant to the program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26865]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still fisheth he that catcheth one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still fisheth he that catcheth one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45209]]></link><description><![CDATA[The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18751]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth;  Four things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58615]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth;  Four things greater than all things are--   Women and Horses and Power and War.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole;  But what were that intrinsic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole;  But what were that intrinsic virtue worth,   Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge,    Fresh from St. Andrew's College,     Should nail the conscious needle to the north?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20864</guid></item></channel></rss>