<?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[Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every obstacle there is a solution. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. The greatest mistake is giving up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66049]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that we can win eight of our next ten games. We can do this because I see the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41922]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that we can win eight of our next ten games. We can do this because I see the bats coming alive. Its going to be like a light switch for the team producing runs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rout is Folly's circle, which she draws With magic wand. So potent is the spell,  That none decoy'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56764]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rout is Folly's circle, which she draws With magic wand. So potent is the spell,  That none decoy'd into that fatal ring,   Unless by Heaven's peculiar grace, escape.    There we grow early gray, but never wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little dogs start the Hare, the great get her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little dogs start the Hare, the great get her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our neighborhood is so drenched in pain and blood. It's the business of the church to try to offer understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our neighborhood is so drenched in pain and blood. It's the business of the church to try to offer understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may outwit another, but not all the others. [Fr., On peut etre plus fin qu'un autre, mais non pas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11535]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may outwit another, but not all the others. [Fr., On peut etre plus fin qu'un autre, mais non pas plus fin que tous les autres.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60437]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280   Where, then, does happiness lie? In forgetfulness, not indulgence, of the self. In escape from sensual appetites, not in their satisfaction We live in a dark, self-enclosed prison, which is all we see or know if our glance is fixed ever downward. To lift it upward, becoming aware of the wide, luminous universe outside -- this alone is happiness. At its highest level, such happiness is the ecstasy that mystics have inadequately described At more humdrum levels, it is human love; the delights and beauties of our dear earth, its colors and shapes and sounds; the enchantment of understanding and laughing, and all other exercise of such faculties as we possess; the marvel of the meaning of everything, fitfully glimpsed, inadequately expounded, but ever present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62469]]></link><description><![CDATA[I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service is no Inheritance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service is no Inheritance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This grief is crowned with consolation, you old smock brings forth a new petticoat, and indeed the tears live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18347]]></link><description><![CDATA[This grief is crowned with consolation, you old smock brings forth a new petticoat, and indeed the tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expect problems and eat them for breakfast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sever the ignorant doubt in your heart with the sword ofself-knowledge. Observe your discipline. Arise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sever the ignorant doubt in your heart with the sword ofself-knowledge. Observe your discipline. Arise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66242]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12364]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings,  I should suspect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings,  I should suspect that I worshipped the devil   If I thanked my God for worldly things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In effect, the army is confined to fortified bases while the Taliban are filling the vacuum outside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29790]]></link><description><![CDATA[In effect, the army is confined to fortified bases while the Taliban are filling the vacuum outside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scale at which we have been sending it now is unprecedented. I haven't slept in days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scale at which we have been sending it now is unprecedented. I haven't slept in days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Farmer and His SonsA father, being on the point of death, wished to be sure that his sons would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Farmer and His SonsA father, being on the point of death, wished to be sure that his sons would give the same attention to his farm as he himself had given it. He called them to his bedside and said, My sons, there is a great treasure hid in one of my vineyards. The sons, after his death, took their spades and mattocks and carefully dug over every portion of their land. They found no treasure, but the vines repaid their labor by an extraordinary and superabundant crop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8821]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boy Hunting LocustsA boy was hunting for locusts. He had caught a goodly number, when he saw a Scorpion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boy Hunting LocustsA boy was hunting for locusts. He had caught a goodly number, when he saw a Scorpion, and mistaking him for a locust, reached out his hand to take him. The Scorpion, showing his sting, said: If you had but touched me, my friend, you would have lost me, and all your locusts too!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O that Jupiter would but bring back to me the years that have passed! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51818]]></link><description><![CDATA[O that Jupiter would but bring back to me the years that have passed!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.rnZig Ziglar]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change your language and you change your thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change your language and you change your thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Paul Richter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Paul Richter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour, Found thee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour, Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in; A sure and safe one, though thy master missed it. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64282]]></link><description><![CDATA[People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Summer looks out from her brazen tower, Through the flashing bars of July. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23562]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Summer looks out from her brazen tower, Through the flashing bars of July.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  It is only by fidelity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from a passing fervor of spirit... No one can well believe that our piety is sincere, when our behavior is lax and irregular in its little details. What probability is there that we should not hesitate to make the greatest sacrifices, when we shrink from the smallest?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11929]]></link><description><![CDATA[I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52525]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book.   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty and fear shake hands together ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty and fear shake hands together]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is the teacher of fools. [Lat., Stultorum eventus magister est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is the teacher of fools. [Lat., Stultorum eventus magister est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1441]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It appears I am destined for something; I will live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14498]]></link><description><![CDATA[It appears I am destined for something; I will live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman Which gives the stern'st good-night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman Which gives the stern'st good-night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe you can and you're halfway there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe you can and you're halfway there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree.  . . . .  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59684]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree.  . . . .   Poems are made by fools like me,    But only God can make a tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59684</guid></item></channel></rss>