<?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[To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15668]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44216]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the forces which make it work- of the principles which relate his gadgets to the forces of nature, to the universal order. It is not central heating which makes his existence 'unnatural,' but his refusal to take an interest in the principles behind it. By being entirely dependent on science, yet closing his mind to it, he leads the life of an urban barbarian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56522]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame the earth seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire--why, it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all things it is better to hope than to despair ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11993]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all things it is better to hope than to despair]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace,  It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14932]]></link><description><![CDATA[And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace,  It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones   Who win in the lifelong race.    And each forgets that his youth has fled,     Forgets that his prime is past,      Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,       In the glare of the truth at last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8546]]></link><description><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane--if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground--ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility. From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must look to God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On my own, pretending he's beside me. All alone I walk with him 'til morning. Without him I feel his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12939]]></link><description><![CDATA[On my own, pretending he's beside me. All alone I walk with him 'til morning. Without him I feel his arms around me, and when I lose my way, I close my eyes and he has found me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35093]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51660]]></link><description><![CDATA[By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy lips which spake wrong counsel, I kiss close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy lips which spake wrong counsel, I kiss close.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So still we glide down to the sea Of fathomless eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51100]]></link><description><![CDATA[So still we glide down to the sea Of fathomless eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22114]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49415]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on education:   The devout student is the best of all students. There are too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on education:   The devout student is the best of all students. There are too many who are devout, but not students. They will not accept the discipline of study and of learning, and they even look with suspicion upon the further knowledge which study brings to men. There are equally too many who are students, but not devout. They are interested too much in intellectual knowledge, and too little in the life of prayer and in the life of service of their fellow men. A man would do well to aim at being not only a student, and not only devout, but at being a devout student.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very diverse. As well as a challenge, it's also an opportunity. I believe we all benefit from each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31258]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very diverse. As well as a challenge, it's also an opportunity. I believe we all benefit from each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very fond of water: It ever must delight  Each mother's son and daughter,--   When qualified aright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very fond of water: It ever must delight  Each mother's son and daughter,--   When qualified aright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a great time on the floor, though we had a few bobbles. We were so relaxed. By that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42385]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a great time on the floor, though we had a few bobbles. We were so relaxed. By that time, we knew we had it won.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By banishing doubt and thinking in no-limit ways, you clear a space for the power of intention to flow through. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63331]]></link><description><![CDATA[By banishing doubt and thinking in no-limit ways, you clear a space for the power of intention to flow through. The power of intention is so deficient of doubt that when you're connected to it you see what you'd like to have as already being present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then happy those, beloved of heaven, To whom the mingled cup is given;  Whose lenient sorrow find relief,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then happy those, beloved of heaven, To whom the mingled cup is given;  Whose lenient sorrow find relief,   Whose joys are chastened by their grief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is power if you know about the right person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is power if you know about the right person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a great mistake, and of very pernicious consequence to the souls of men, to imagine that the gospel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6962]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a great mistake, and of very pernicious consequence to the souls of men, to imagine that the gospel is all promises on God's part, and that our part is only to believe them and to rely upon God for the performance of them, and to be very confident that He will make them good, though we do nothing else but only believe that He will do so. That the Christian religion is only a declaration of God's goodwill to us, without any expectation of duty from us -- this is an error which one could hardly think could ever enter into any who have the liberty to read the Bible and attend to what they read and find there. The three great promises of the gospel are all very expressly contained in our Saviour's first sermon upon the mount. There we find the promise of blessedness often repeated but never absolutely made, but upon certain conditions, plainly required on our part, as repentance, righteousness, humility, mercy, peaceableness, meekness, patience. Forgiveness of sins is likewise promised, but only to those who make a penitent acknowledgement of them and ask forgiveness for them., and are ready to grant that forgiveness to others which they beg of God for themselves. The gift of God's Holy Spirit is likewise promised, but it is upon condition of our earnest and importunate prayer to God. The gospel is everywhere full of precepts enjoining duty and obedience upon our part, as well as of promises on God's part, assuring blessings to us -- nay, full of terrible threatenings also if we disobey the precepts of the gospel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The company's intent was to cap their costs on health care, and the company came back to the union and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32802]]></link><description><![CDATA[The company's intent was to cap their costs on health care, and the company came back to the union and said that if your members want to stay with the insurance, they will have to pick up those increases. And there was no way members could afford to do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a facility we'd like filled and you have one you'd like to see stay filled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37659]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a facility we'd like filled and you have one you'd like to see stay filled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50078]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy the spring of love and youth, To some good angel leave the rest,  For time will teach thee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy the spring of love and youth, To some good angel leave the rest,  For time will teach thee soon the truth,   "There are no birds in last year's nest."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I missed it. Plumb-bobbing is overrated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30248]]></link><description><![CDATA[I missed it. Plumb-bobbing is overrated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20930]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46593]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men ... are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men ... are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. -Bernard Baruch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1842]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. -Bernard Baruch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each person must live their life as a model for others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each person must live their life as a model for others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47959]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish. But they are witness to hum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25501]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. - Lacon, 1825.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house... let no one ever come to you without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house... let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spring story is about evolving femininity, everything is subdued, understated. It's more about the line and shape of clothing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spring story is about evolving femininity, everything is subdued, understated. It's more about the line and shape of clothing. Interesting textures. Going back to classics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brands make a powerful impact on people, especially in today's world of ever-increasing consumer choice. This survey highlights the importance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brands make a powerful impact on people, especially in today's world of ever-increasing consumer choice. This survey highlights the importance that brands play within many aspects of our lives, and reveals some interesting trends, such as the dominance of technology and Internet-based brands. Companies that take a proactive approach to managing their brands are in a much better position to earn respect from their customers, as exemplified by the top-ranked brands on the list.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28978</guid></item></channel></rss>