<?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[Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57834]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To lead the people, walk behind them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24468]]></link><description><![CDATA[To lead the people, walk behind them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20934]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail to the crown by Freedom shaped--to gird An English sovereign's brow! and to the throne  Whereon he sits! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail to the crown by Freedom shaped--to gird An English sovereign's brow! and to the throne  Whereon he sits! whose deep foundations lie   In veneration and the people's love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A really patient servant of God is as ready to bear inglorious troubles as those which are honorable. A brave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7234]]></link><description><![CDATA[A really patient servant of God is as ready to bear inglorious troubles as those which are honorable. A brave man can easily bear with contempt, slander, and false accusations from an evil world; but to bear such injustice at the hands of good men, of friends and relations, is a great test of patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56867]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.This minding of other people's business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national and racial affairs. In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came here today to listen and learn and report back to the president. I'm prepared ... to go back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38116]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came here today to listen and learn and report back to the president. I'm prepared ... to go back and report to the president that these folks have done a great job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simply the thing that I am shall make me live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4623]]></link><description><![CDATA[For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did the best he could. I actually have to thank him for that, because he did compete hurt. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39831]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did the best he could. I actually have to thank him for that, because he did compete hurt. He was never 100 percent for about three-quarters of the season. He had high expectations for himself and he does everything at 100 percent. He really wanted to be a state wrestling champion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our staff did a good job of getting ahead in the count with many of their hitters. They are a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our staff did a good job of getting ahead in the count with many of their hitters. They are a great hitting ball club. Benton did an exceptional job for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They tried to get me - I got them first!(suicide by drinking Lysol). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15222]]></link><description><![CDATA[They tried to get me - I got them first!(suicide by drinking Lysol).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. The words of a wise man's mouth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14274]]></link><description><![CDATA[All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688   Christians are like the flowers in a garden, that have each of them the dew of Heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone;  The worm, the canker, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1729]]></link><description><![CDATA[My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone;  The worm, the canker, and the grief   Are mine alone!   - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how discouraged we get, God has not asked us to do the impossible ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17021]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how discouraged we get, God has not asked us to do the impossible]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want them to be cutting each other's throats for the lead or something will come from behind and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33207]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want them to be cutting each other's throats for the lead or something will come from behind and beat them both,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always been a dream of mine to be involved in the America's Cup. I remember when I was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29994]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always been a dream of mine to be involved in the America's Cup. I remember when I was a kid sailing Optimists down in Cornwall and there was a British America's Cup challenge that was training in Falmouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how loud It calls devotion! genuine growth of night!  Devotion! daughter of Astronomy!   As undevout Astronomer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3406]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how loud It calls devotion! genuine growth of night!  Devotion! daughter of Astronomy!   As undevout Astronomer is mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life went a-Maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy;  When I was young!   When I was young?--Ah, woful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life went a-Maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy;  When I was young!   When I was young?--Ah, woful when!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, 1932  Souls are not made sweet by taking [ill tempers] out, but by putting something in -- a great Love, a new Spirit, the Spirit of Christ. Christ, the Spirit of Christ, interpenetrating ours, sweetens, purifies, transforms all. This can only eradicate what is wrong, renovate and regenerate, and rehabilitate the inner man. Will-power does not change men. Time does not change men. Christ does. Therefore "Let that mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary, on a shilling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary, on a shilling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased being out of town and having these discussions (of retirement) going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37450]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased being out of town and having these discussions (of retirement) going on to see all these good things that the company and my team did without me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very retro-looking. They used to have all types of paraphernalia on the walls but all that's changed, and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39600]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very retro-looking. They used to have all types of paraphernalia on the walls but all that's changed, and it gives the place a more updated look. It's very fresh looking and seems to be brighter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15440]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is definitely a big game for us and we'll be ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39368]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is definitely a big game for us and we'll be ready.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45967]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes reality has a way of sneaking up and biting us in the ass. And when the dam bursts, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes reality has a way of sneaking up and biting us in the ass. And when the dam bursts, all you can do is swim. The world of pretend is a cage, not a cocoon. We can only lie to ourselves for so long. We are tired, we are scared, denying it doesn't change the truth. Sooner or later we have to put aside our denial and face the world. Head on, guns blazing. De Nile. It's not just a river in Egypt, it's a freakin' ocean. So how do you keep from drowning in it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12899]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1851]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Although we have different ways of worshipping and doing things, we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Although we have different ways of worshipping and doing things, we have only one God. So how can we claim to have... "Good News" unless people can see in us that Jesus Christ is breaking down barriers and bringing us together?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61213]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61213</guid></item></channel></rss>