<?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[All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12954]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them. . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51277]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them. . . . I am no true man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound  That breathes upon a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60723]]></link><description><![CDATA[It had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound  That breathes upon a bank of violets,   Stealing and giving odor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on authenticity:   A mere form of religion does upon some accounts bring a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on authenticity:   A mere form of religion does upon some accounts bring a man under a heavier sentence than if he were openly profane and irreligious. He that makes a show of religion flatters God, but all the while he acts and designs against him; whereas the profane man deals plainly, and tho' he be a monstrous and unnatural rebel, yet he is a fair and open enemy. And the kisses of a false friend are more hateful than the wounds of an open enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893   Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893   Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for his temple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15169]]></link><description><![CDATA[A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The puck hadn't been going in lately. I had to stick with it and stay positive. I'm glad I finally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37381]]></link><description><![CDATA[The puck hadn't been going in lately. I had to stick with it and stay positive. I'm glad I finally got one in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fly fishing is a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing, I can only compare to a stick and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly fishing is a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing, I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The overall strategy over the next five years is to gain control of the border. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The overall strategy over the next five years is to gain control of the border.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'll probably pitch as much as he would if he was in Spring Training. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41377]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'll probably pitch as much as he would if he was in Spring Training.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3988]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45218]]></link><description><![CDATA[For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's not the policy or the way we operate public affairs at NASA. We support and make sure we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33297]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's not the policy or the way we operate public affairs at NASA. We support and make sure we are all about full and open communications.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And daisy-stars, whose firmament is green. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10990]]></link><description><![CDATA[And daisy-stars, whose firmament is green.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64851]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/896]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44319]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He came in and was able to locate his pitches and we made the plays behind him. He had pinpoint ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37289]]></link><description><![CDATA[He came in and was able to locate his pitches and we made the plays behind him. He had pinpoint accuracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never cringe when the ball comes her way. We booted a couple, and that's how they scored their runs. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40954]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never cringe when the ball comes her way. We booted a couple, and that's how they scored their runs. But the infield defense was really solid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25516]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be melancholy, if you are solitary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50816]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16306]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great almes-giving lessens no mans living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great almes-giving lessens no mans living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[February, fill the dyke With what thou dost like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15534]]></link><description><![CDATA[February, fill the dyke With what thou dost like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Nouveau riche’ is better than ‘no riche.’ ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14768]]></link><description><![CDATA[‘Nouveau riche’ is better than ‘no riche.’]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The offender never pardons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16504]]></link><description><![CDATA[The offender never pardons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9521]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rumor forthwith flies abroad, dispersed throughout the small town. [Lat., Fama volat parvam subito vulgata per urbem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rumor forthwith flies abroad, dispersed throughout the small town. [Lat., Fama volat parvam subito vulgata per urbem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25742]]></link><description><![CDATA[When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly wronged. It nowhere lays claim to be regarded as the Word, the Way, the Truth. The Bible leads us to Jesus, the inexhaustible, the ever-unfolding Revelation of God. It is Christ "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge", not the Bible, save as leading to Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Woodrow Wilson, the apparent failure, belongs the undying honor, which will grow with the growing centuries, of having saved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62236]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Woodrow Wilson, the apparent failure, belongs the undying honor, which will grow with the growing centuries, of having saved the "little child that shall lead them yet." No other statesman but Wilson could have done it. And he did it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56656]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning "Good morning" at total strangers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60515]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All hell shall stir for this. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55972]]></link><description><![CDATA[All hell shall stir for this. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it followthat electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged,models deposed, tree ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21323]]></link><description><![CDATA[If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it followthat electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged,models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22565]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14698]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knavery and flattery are blood relations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knavery and flattery are blood relations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54071</guid></item></channel></rss>