<?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[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750 Jesus, priceless treasure, source of purest pleasure  Truest friend to me; Long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750 Jesus, priceless treasure, source of purest pleasure  Truest friend to me; Long my heart has panted, till it well-nigh fainted,  Thirsting after Thee. Thine I am, O spotless Lamb; I will suffer naught to hide Thee,  Ask for naught beside Thee. In Thine arm I rest me; foes who would molest me  Cannot reach me here. Though the earth be shaking, every heart be quaking,  God dispels our fear. Sin and hell in conflict fell With their heaviest storms assail us:  Jesus will not fail us. Hence, all thoughts of sadness! For the Lord of gladness,  Jesus, enters in: Those who love the Father, though the storms may gather,  Still have peace within; Yes, whate'er we here must bear, Still in Thee lies purest pleasure,  Jesus, priceless treasure!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ku Klux Klan into Harlem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ku Klux Klan into Harlem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18056]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk. Nothing could be further from the truth. The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune favors the brave. [Lat., Fortes fortuna adjuvat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune favors the brave. [Lat., Fortes fortuna adjuvat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father had never lost his temper with us, never beaten us, but we had for him that feeling often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8414]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father had never lost his temper with us, never beaten us, but we had for him that feeling often described as fear, which is something quite different and far deeper than alarm. It was that sense which, without irreverence, I have thought to find expressed by the great evangelists when they speak of the fear of God. One does not fear God because He is terrible, but because He is literally the soul of goodness and truth, because to do Him wrong is to do wrong to some mysterious part of oneself, and one does not know exactly what the consequences may be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I understand his decision as much as I hate to see him leave. He's a fine man, and I just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36892]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand his decision as much as I hate to see him leave. He's a fine man, and I just can't say enough good things about him and what he meant to the program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11391]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think this is good for the stock tomorrow morning. It might be perceived as another piece of bad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39179]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think this is good for the stock tomorrow morning. It might be perceived as another piece of bad news. But it's not a big issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being No. 1, we were definitely content with that. We got too lax about it. I guess we couldn't finish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being No. 1, we were definitely content with that. We got too lax about it. I guess we couldn't finish today. We couldn't beat their 10-man ride. They were all over the place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The only way actors could breathe on the sound stage was through an air regulator.] You couldn't get out, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29601]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The only way actors could breathe on the sound stage was through an air regulator.] You couldn't get out, ... because the camera crew was literally bolted in. You can't get out; you can't go up or down. It really brought home the visceral feeling of what those men were willing to put themselves through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people not only lose the benefit, but are even the worse for their mortifications [i.e., sacrifices, abstensions], ... because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people not only lose the benefit, but are even the worse for their mortifications [i.e., sacrifices, abstensions], ... because they mistake the whole nature and worth of them: they practice them for their own sakes, as things good in themselves, they think them to be real parts of holiness, and so rest in them and look no further, but grow full of a self-esteem and self-admiration for their own progress in them. This makes them self-sufficient, morose, severe judges of all those that fall short of their mortifications. And thus their self-denials do only that for them which indulgences do for other people: they withstand and hinder the operation of God upon their souls, and instead of being really self-denials, they strengthen and keep up the kingdom of self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a worrisome malady. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a worrisome malady.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33127]]></link><description><![CDATA[A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are pleased to have received approval of the transaction in all six states served by PacifiCorp. We remain on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35988]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are pleased to have received approval of the transaction in all six states served by PacifiCorp. We remain on schedule to close the transaction by the end of the first quarter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is deceived who thinks it slavery to live under an excellent prince. Never does liberty appear in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54457]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is deceived who thinks it slavery to live under an excellent prince. Never does liberty appear in a more gracious form than under a pious king. [Lat., Fallitur egregio quisquis sub principe credet  Servitutem. Nunquam libertas gratior extat   Quam sub rege pio.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's trying, but you only have to go through it one time. Anything for my chance. I want them to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39142]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's trying, but you only have to go through it one time. Anything for my chance. I want them to know that I will sacrifice my body to do whatever they ask me to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come home to men's business and bosoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come home to men's business and bosoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be the widow of a hero than he wife of a coward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be the widow of a hero than he wife of a coward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People weren't notified soon enough then they were given the impression it affected them when it didn'tÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ it was sheer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38779]]></link><description><![CDATA[People weren't notified soon enough then they were given the impression it affected them when it didn'tÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ it was sheer carelessness and incompetence on the part of the city. Unfortunately, these things are becoming more common since amalgamation. The problem is it's all controlled from a central location and they (city staff) don't the areas,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call a child's mind "small" simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5941]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call a child's mind "small" simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I win the gold I might say nothing and just wander past him, hopefully with some kind of medal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29998]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I win the gold I might say nothing and just wander past him, hopefully with some kind of medal - a gold one preferably. I think I might dangle it in front of his face or something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a major league pitcher. He has a lot of experience; he knows how to pitch in and out, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41146]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a major league pitcher. He has a lot of experience; he knows how to pitch in and out, and he knows how to get ahead in the count.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/946]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4645]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36826]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk,  The beetle booms adown the glooms   And bumps along the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3916]]></link><description><![CDATA[O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk,  The beetle booms adown the glooms   And bumps along the dusk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, it would have been harder on me had those guys been 10-year vets, ... But they are so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34742]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, it would have been harder on me had those guys been 10-year vets, ... But they are so young, I just told them that, 'Here's how I snap it and that's where I'm going to keep snapping it.' I pulled rank on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35196]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63840]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9330]]></link><description><![CDATA[If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want everybody out there, and we miss the guys who are out, but there's a mentality in the room ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40027]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want everybody out there, and we miss the guys who are out, but there's a mentality in the room where we're focused on what's in front of us. It's just something that builds over the course of the year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are the governments in charge or is Ian Paisley in charge? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are the governments in charge or is Ian Paisley in charge?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh the brave Fisher's life, It is the best of any,  'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh the brave Fisher's life, It is the best of any,  'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife,   And 'tis belov'd of many:    Other joys Are but toys;     Only this Lawful is,      For our skill Breeds no ill,       But content and pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11181]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow For other's good, and melt at other's woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow For other's good, and melt at other's woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18631]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18631</guid></item></channel></rss>