<?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[We just felt like what we were doing would be appreciated by someone else. We've enjoyed it, but it's nice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41509]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just felt like what we were doing would be appreciated by someone else. We've enjoyed it, but it's nice to pass it on and not just put it away in a drawer somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have notyet learned how to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have notyet learned how to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15960]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that praiseth himselfe spattereth himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49387]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that praiseth himselfe spattereth himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54939]]></link><description><![CDATA[The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open confession is good for the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Open confession is good for the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still say it's going to go down to the last week. I have a lot of confidence in this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32159]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still say it's going to go down to the last week. I have a lot of confidence in this team. They have a lot of experience and their seasoned competitors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18361]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/520]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43379]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As natural gas and home heating-oil prices hit record highs, the federal government's failure to meet its obligation to revise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39779]]></link><description><![CDATA[As natural gas and home heating-oil prices hit record highs, the federal government's failure to meet its obligation to revise energy-efficiency standards for common appliances calls out for prompt action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reproachful speech from either side The want of argument supplied;  They rail, reviled; as often ends   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reproachful speech from either side The want of argument supplied;  They rail, reviled; as often ends   The contests of disputing friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20671]]></link><description><![CDATA[How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will have no other master but our caprice -- that is to say, our evil self will have no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6597]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will have no other master but our caprice -- that is to say, our evil self will have no God, and the foundation of our nature is seditious, impious, refractory, opposed to and contemptuous of all that tries to rule it, and therefore contrary to order, ungovernable and negative. It is this foundation which Christianity calls the natural man. But the savage which is within us, and constitutes the primitive stuff of us, must be disciplined and civilized in order to produce a man. And the man must be patiently cultivated to produce a wise man; and the wise man must be tested and tried if he is to become righteous, and the righteous man must have substituted the will of God for his individual will, if he is to become a saint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32661]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bleed, bleed, poor Country! Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,  For goodness dare not check thee; wear thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bleed, bleed, poor Country! Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,  For goodness dare not check thee; wear thou thy wrongs,   The title is affeered!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that would have been a fair criticism that would have had more weight if it came a month ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40610]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that would have been a fair criticism that would have had more weight if it came a month ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm so happy to have completed the two triple axels. I wasn't really thinking about winning this championship too much. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41388]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm so happy to have completed the two triple axels. I wasn't really thinking about winning this championship too much. I was more concerned with trying to land the two triple axels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good things soon find a purchaser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good things soon find a purchaser.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57200]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That woman is a blessing from God. She was always looking toward the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41978]]></link><description><![CDATA[That woman is a blessing from God. She was always looking toward the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61194]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3145]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Live like yourself," was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13251]]></link><description><![CDATA["Live like yourself," was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We nothing know, but what is marvellous; Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61993]]></link><description><![CDATA[We nothing know, but what is marvellous; Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is known by the silence he keeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66866]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is known by the silence he keeps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So we've been preparing for this and all we're ready to do is do more of what we've been doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39292]]></link><description><![CDATA[So we've been preparing for this and all we're ready to do is do more of what we've been doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54241]]></link><description><![CDATA[But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8376]]></link><description><![CDATA[People should think less about what they ought to do and more about what they ought to be. If only their being were good, their works would shine forth brightly. Do not imagine that you can ground your salvation upon actions; it must rest on what you are. The ground upon which good character rests is the very same ground from which man's work derives its value, namely, a mind wholly turned to God. Verily, if you were so minded, you might tread on a stone and it would be a more pious work than if you, simply for your own profit, were to receive the Body of the Lord and were wanting in spiritual detachment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10031]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think all great innovations are built on rejections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think all great innovations are built on rejections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wages of sin are sables. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56415]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wages of sin are sables.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete.  For none upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12877]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete.  For none upon earth can achieve his scheme;   The best as the worst are futile here:    We wake at the self-same point of the dream,--     All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22918]]></link><description><![CDATA[He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Housekeeping ain't no joke ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Housekeeping ain't no joke]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write them, above all, in your heart; there they can be neither burned nor destroyed, and you will take them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write them, above all, in your heart; there they can be neither burned nor destroyed, and you will take them wherever you go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes thou shalt be forsaken of God, sometimes thou shalt be troubled by thy neighbors; and what is more, oftentimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes thou shalt be forsaken of God, sometimes thou shalt be troubled by thy neighbors; and what is more, oftentimes thou shalt be wearisome even to thyself. Neither canst thou be delivered or eased by any remedy or comfort; but so long as it pleaseth God, thou oughtest to bear it. For God will have thee learn to suffer tribulation without comfort, and that thou subject thyself wholly to Him, and by tribulation become more humble. No man hath so cordial a feeling of the Passion of Christ, as he that hath suffered the like himself. The Cross therefore is always ready, and everywhere waits for thee. Thou canst not escape it, whithersoever thou runnest; for wheresoever thou goest, thou carriest thyself with thee, and shalt ever find thyself. Both above and below, without and within, which way so ever thou dost turn thee, everywhere thou shalt find the Cross; and everywhere of necessity thou must hold fast patience, if thou wilt have inward peace, and enjoy an everlasting crown.  ...Thomas à Kempis, Of the Imitation of Christ June 8, 1996 Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  The charm of the words of great men, those grand sayings which are recognized as true as soon as heard, is this, that you recognize them as wisdom which has passed across your own mind. You feel that they are your own thoughts come back to you, else you would not at once admit them. "All of that has floated across me before, only I could not say it, and did not feel confident enough to assert it: or had not conviction enough to put it into words." Yes, God spoke to you what He did to them: only, they believed it, said it, trusted the Word within them; and you did not. Be sure that often when you say, "It is only my own poor thought, and I am alone," the real correcting thought is this: "Alone, but the Father is with me, and therefore I can live that lonely conviction.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8058</guid></item></channel></rss>