<?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['Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;  And we are weeds without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24688]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume;  And we are weeds without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until he be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so will he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47833]]></link><description><![CDATA[People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60597]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60597</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[They can see this is a match made in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37803]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can see this is a match made in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47982]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9664]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28477]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a number of moderate Republicans around who are qualified for the court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35079]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a number of moderate Republicans around who are qualified for the court.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64714]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12423]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clouds that thunder do not always rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clouds that thunder do not always rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885    After saying our prayers, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885    After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She bears her down majestically near, Speed on her prow, and terror in her tier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56166]]></link><description><![CDATA[She bears her down majestically near, Speed on her prow, and terror in her tier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60662]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was in good shape when I came here, but it (boxing) whooped me. It is way more physically demanding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29154]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was in good shape when I came here, but it (boxing) whooped me. It is way more physically demanding than any other sport.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect cannot be learned, purchased or acquired - it can only be earned ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect cannot be learned, purchased or acquired - it can only be earned]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I walked over, and you could feel the floor was lower than it should be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30508]]></link><description><![CDATA[I walked over, and you could feel the floor was lower than it should be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid gold baby? Maybe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11746]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid gold baby? Maybe we'll never know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will take the bird, must not skare it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49413]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will take the bird, must not skare it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the queen -- I worked for her for seven years -- enjoys her work. But even if she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the queen -- I worked for her for seven years -- enjoys her work. But even if she didn't enjoy it, she would gauze it as her duty to do what she vowed to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They screwed us up one year, and we want to turn it back at them whenever we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30868]]></link><description><![CDATA[They screwed us up one year, and we want to turn it back at them whenever we can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  Let a man but separate himself from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  Let a man but separate himself from all contingencies and from all works, and there will come over him in this state of emptiness a peace which is very great, lovely, and agreeable, and which is in itself no sin since it is part of our human nature. But when it is taken for a veritable possessing of God, or unity with God, then it is sin, for it is in reality nothing else than a state of thorough passivity and apathy untouched by the power from on high -- a purely negative state from which (if one in arrogance calls it divine) nothing follows but blindness, failure of understanding, and a disinclination to be governed by the rules of ordinary righteousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64935]]></link><description><![CDATA[You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living in these arid, remote lands have very few survival strategies left and require our assistance to make it through until the next rains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52552]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24876]]></link><description><![CDATA[And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was really happy with what the divers did all year long. The diving competition was more of a relaxed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38548]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was really happy with what the divers did all year long. The diving competition was more of a relaxed atmosphere, which allowed the divers to let it all out and not be worried. Michael Bennett became our sixth and final NCAA zone qualifier. So all of our divers qualified for the NCAA zone meet. I did not expect that to happen, but I think that it is great that it did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act, and God will act ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act, and God will act]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.  You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And ye sall walk in silk attire, And siller hae to spare,  Gin ye'll consent to be his bride, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4898]]></link><description><![CDATA[And ye sall walk in silk attire, And siller hae to spare,  Gin ye'll consent to be his bride,   Nor think o'Donald mair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When eating an elephant take one bite at a time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32257]]></link><description><![CDATA[When eating an elephant take one bite at a time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People kept coming up to our booth asking if this was the knee brace that everyone was talking about! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42582]]></link><description><![CDATA[People kept coming up to our booth asking if this was the knee brace that everyone was talking about!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever. -King Henry IV. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55850]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is for us, in whom the Christian Church is at this moment partially embodied, to declare that Christianity, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7709]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is for us, in whom the Christian Church is at this moment partially embodied, to declare that Christianity, that the Christian faith can do that for the world which the world needs. You say, "What can I do?" You can furnish one Christian life. You can furnish a life so faithful to every duty, so ready for every service, so determined not to commit every sin, that the great Christian Church shall be the stronger for your living in it, and the problem of the world be answered, and a certain great peace come into this poor, perplexed phase of our humanity as it sees that new revelation of what Christianity is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The green retreats Of Academus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The green retreats Of Academus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19210]]></link><description><![CDATA[A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20294]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20294</guid></item></channel></rss>