<?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[Of course, it's very easy to be witty tomorrow, after you get a chance to do some research and rehearse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, it's very easy to be witty tomorrow, after you get a chance to do some research and rehearse your ad libs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1785]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The team played much better, ... Every team member contributed tonight. Our serving was much better, and we had good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29375]]></link><description><![CDATA[The team played much better, ... Every team member contributed tonight. Our serving was much better, and we had good team hustle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live for yourself -- there's no one elseMore worth living forBegging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live for yourself -- there's no one elseMore worth living forBegging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put himself upon his good behavior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put himself upon his good behavior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19864]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house. [Lat., Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest,  Quin ubi triduum continuum fuerit jam odiosus siet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed,  The holy bread, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed,  The holy bread, the food unpriced,   Thy everlasting mercy, Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. -Clarence Budinton Kelland. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45501]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. -Clarence Budinton Kelland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I looked at the tanker, I saw gas pouring out onto the highway. I said, 'Oh my God.' The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35572]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I looked at the tanker, I saw gas pouring out onto the highway. I said, 'Oh my God.' The traffic was driving right through the gasoline,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a fan club with only two fans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a fan club with only two fans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24836]]></link><description><![CDATA[This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20908]]></link><description><![CDATA[He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each,  Even to the meanest; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each,  Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all   Where pity is, for pity makes the world    Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2414]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And better skilled in dark events to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17090]]></link><description><![CDATA[And better skilled in dark events to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They always win who side with God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22223]]></link><description><![CDATA[They always win who side with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And last the Vice and Follies of the Age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60499]]></link><description><![CDATA[And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14633</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/7775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, 1932  Any such distinction between disreputable and respectable sins... Jesus Christ absolutely refuses to allow. In His eyes avarice, pride, refusal to forgive, hypocrisy, are at least as bad as fornication or adultery or violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be cautious as to what you say of men, and to whom you speak it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be cautious as to what you say of men, and to whom you speak it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of celebration to this thing, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40896]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of celebration to this thing,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She did a really good job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40327]]></link><description><![CDATA[She did a really good job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43289]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw my first Friesian back in 1980 when I was a judge at the California State Fair. I just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32766]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw my first Friesian back in 1980 when I was a judge at the California State Fair. I just couldn't believe what I was seeing --- the animation, the style, the tremendous stature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56372]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we find a thinker reflecting or echoing an apparently erroneous, narrow, or even illogical thought that was popular or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52176]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we find a thinker reflecting or echoing an apparently erroneous, narrow, or even illogical thought that was popular or authoritative in his time, we must never rule out the possibility that what we have discovered is not the limit of his vision but only an example of his deliberate rhetorical accommodation to reigning prejudice which he does not share but thinks it best not to expose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An expert knows all the answers -- if you ask the right questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52783]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert knows all the answers -- if you ask the right questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't care too much about music. What I like is sounds ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23137]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't care too much about music. What I like is sounds]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinions have vested interests just as men have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinions have vested interests just as men have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55403]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of sympathy and we give him the maximum moral and technical support. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32603]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of sympathy and we give him the maximum moral and technical support.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14447]]></link><description><![CDATA[What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are concerned that for the United States, the key issue is oil; second, the war on terrorism; and only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30894]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are concerned that for the United States, the key issue is oil; second, the war on terrorism; and only third, democracy and human rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn." Ropo Oguntimehin Education is a companion which no future can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate it and no nepotism can enslave. -T.H. White.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44102]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62258]]></link><description><![CDATA[You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It needs to be solved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39825]]></link><description><![CDATA[It needs to be solved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965  As we look out upon history and the world, it is with the same vision of all things in Christ which dominates the perceptions of all believers, without distinction of age, or race, or Church. Not a saint, a thinker, a hero, or a martyr of the Church, but we claim a share in his character, influence and achievements, by confessing the debt we owe to the great tradition which he has enriched by saintly consecration, true thought, or noble conduct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8258</guid></item></channel></rss>