<?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[Instead of studying for finals, what about just going to the Bahamas and catching some rays? Maybe you'll flunk, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of studying for finals, what about just going to the Bahamas and catching some rays? Maybe you'll flunk, but you might have flunked anyway; that's my point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48318]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You often ask me, Priscus, what sort of person I should be, if I were to become suddenly rich and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61410]]></link><description><![CDATA[You often ask me, Priscus, what sort of person I should be, if I were to become suddenly rich and powerful. Who can determine what would be his future conduct? Tell me, if you were to become a lion, what sort of a lion would you be?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come,  In some dread moment. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come,  In some dread moment. by the fates assign'd,   Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind;    And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last     The speed that spins the future and the past:      And, sovereign of an undisputed throne,       Awful eternity shall reign alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want everybody out there, and we miss the guys who are out, but there's a mentality in the room ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40027]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want everybody out there, and we miss the guys who are out, but there's a mentality in the room where we're focused on what's in front of us. It's just something that builds over the course of the year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawless are they that make their wills their law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lawless are they that make their wills their law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was like a kid on Christmas morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35437]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was like a kid on Christmas morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7180]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as a means of redeeming your time, and fitting your spirit for prayer, you would find mighty advantages from it. This method, though it seem such a small circumstance of life, would in all probability be a means of great piety. It would keep it constantly in your head, that softness and idleness were to be avoided, that self-denial was a part of Christianity... It would teach you to exercise power over yourself, and make you able by degrees to renounce other pleasures and tempers that war against the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62668]]></link><description><![CDATA[And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me it's a European-type movie, ... It's a small story about family and it's these kinds of characters that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32624]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me it's a European-type movie, ... It's a small story about family and it's these kinds of characters that I most like to portray and I'm not always given the opportunity to do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you go from facing 84 - 86 mph fastballs in Florida, to guys, to put it nicely, throwing slow, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42094]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you go from facing 84 - 86 mph fastballs in Florida, to guys, to put it nicely, throwing slow, it really tests your patience at the plate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1152]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are violets blue, For our sweetness found  Careless in the mossy shades,   Looking on the ground. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60712]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are violets blue, For our sweetness found  Careless in the mossy shades,   Looking on the ground.    Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,--     Such our breath and blueness is.   - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48570]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -Anatole France.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe you can combat some of the ugliness in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48257]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was shocked; I couldnÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢t believe what I was seeing, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31430]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was shocked; I couldnÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢t believe what I was seeing,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a new artist you're just hoping people notice you any way possible just so you can get your music ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39710]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a new artist you're just hoping people notice you any way possible just so you can get your music to them, ... Then you just hope they dig the music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scope is a pox on humanity. It's corrupted the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scope is a pox on humanity. It's corrupted the market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hurt myself todayTo see if I still feelI focus on the painThe only thing that's realThe needle tears a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15470]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hurt myself todayTo see if I still feelI focus on the painThe only thing that's realThe needle tears a holeThe old familiar stingTry to kill it all awayBut I remember everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43495]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with. - Guide to Good Leadership.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you can become you are already. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21928]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you can become you are already.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16192]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our distributed support and security system was failing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our distributed support and security system was failing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:120]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:120].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He not busy being born is busy dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21288]]></link><description><![CDATA[He not busy being born is busy dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53402]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest part about being friends, is loving you so much ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16736]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest part about being friends, is loving you so much]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One enemy is too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49684]]></link><description><![CDATA[One enemy is too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/914]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary, Come hither from the furrow and be merry.  Make holiday: your rye-straw hats ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19577]]></link><description><![CDATA[You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary, Come hither from the furrow and be merry.  Make holiday: your rye-straw hats put on,   And these fresh nymphs encounter every one    In country footing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why? Is this guy afraid of me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why? Is this guy afraid of me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bear with evil, and expect good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bear with evil, and expect good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  The world would use us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871  The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24427]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles -- events for which there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22560]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles -- events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness,--an open and noble temper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness,--an open and noble temper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine. [Lat., Millia frumenti tua triverit area centum.  Non tuus hinc capiet venter plus ac meus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27662]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   Joy is not gush: joy is not jolliness. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   Joy is not gush: joy is not jolliness. Joy is simply perfect acquiescence in God's will, because the soul delights itself in God himself... rejoice in the will of God, and in nothing else. Bow down your heads and your hearts before God, and let the will, the blessed will of God, be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who says "I may be wrong, but--" does not believe there can be any such possibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who says "I may be wrong, but--" does not believe there can be any such possibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62453</guid></item></channel></rss>