<?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[The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/912]]></link><description><![CDATA[The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. No matter what, no matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25920]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. No matter what, no matter where, it's always home, if love is there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47415]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  Religion is the possibility of the removal of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tasteful rather than expensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tasteful rather than expensive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2581]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42537]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them. They did it out of genuine interest but today's kids are much more materialistic and there's a danger, I suppose, that they might just be out to make dosh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30145]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20292]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the Fed is telling us here is that they are not of the mind to put so much tightness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34708]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the Fed is telling us here is that they are not of the mind to put so much tightness on the economy as to jeopardize modest growth in the year ahead, and the market is taking great delight in that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57507]]></link><description><![CDATA[You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave -- win or lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bodily disease may be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12506]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bodily disease may be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Families of the 'disappeared' deserve answers immediately to their repeated demands for information about the fate of their loved ones. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Families of the 'disappeared' deserve answers immediately to their repeated demands for information about the fate of their loved ones. Above all they deserve justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However, the inconsistencies of our program, coupled with a poor home record have resulted in a loss of confidence from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31720]]></link><description><![CDATA[However, the inconsistencies of our program, coupled with a poor home record have resulted in a loss of confidence from our community, as evidenced by our last two home games. Chris is a quality person and a solid coach. I wish things would have worked out but the fit is just not there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edinburgh has had a huge increase in out-of-town shopping in recent years and we have to decide whether we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Edinburgh has had a huge increase in out-of-town shopping in recent years and we have to decide whether we have reached the point where it's unsustainable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is too short not to do a little practical joking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is too short not to do a little practical joking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17992]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46749]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2822]]></link><description><![CDATA[By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43516]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion- in the long run, these are the only people who count.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground;  They are the darling violets,   That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60709]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground;  They are the darling violets,   That I in nosegays bound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20871]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another. [Lat., Si possem sanior essem.  Sed trahit invitam nova vis; aliudque Cupido,   Mens aliud.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man,  That Chatham's language was his mother-tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise enough To fill the ambition of a private man,  That Chatham's language was his mother-tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only problem facing you in life is the belief inseparation from your Source. Solve that one and all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22402]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only problem facing you in life is the belief inseparation from your Source. Solve that one and all the other ones willvanish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10799]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pluck up thy spirits, look cheerfully upon me. Here, love, thou seest how diligent I am  To dress thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pluck up thy spirits, look cheerfully upon me. Here, love, thou seest how diligent I am  To dress thy meat myself and bring it thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Back in February, when we projected $55 oil, oil prices were falling. We projected a weaker price over the summer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Back in February, when we projected $55 oil, oil prices were falling. We projected a weaker price over the summer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under NASA policy, it is inappropriate to discuss personnel matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under NASA policy, it is inappropriate to discuss personnel matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm disappointed with the results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm disappointed with the results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He seemed a cherub who had lost his way And wandered hither, so his stay  With us was short, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3645]]></link><description><![CDATA[He seemed a cherub who had lost his way And wandered hither, so his stay  With us was short, and 'twas most meet,   That he should be no delver in earth's clod,    Nor need to pause and cleanse his feet     To stand before his God:      O blest word--Evermore!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last night I discovered a new form of oral contraceptive. I asked a girl to go to bed with me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last night I discovered a new form of oral contraceptive. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said no.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all the silent manliness of grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18330]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all the silent manliness of grief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/907]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to make anything fool- proof because fools are so ingenious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16397]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to make anything fool- proof because fools are so ingenious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. -Bruce Barton.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877  You and I drift on through the years dully enough, because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877  You and I drift on through the years dully enough, because we do not believe in God, not really, and so we have no expectation. But Jesus did believe in Him, was sure He is alive and abroad in the world; that, therefore, anything may happen any hour. And thus to Him any smallest incident was a magic casement opening upon who could tell what possibilities. A fisherman offers Him a crude, inchoate half-faith, and with that He is sure that He can found a world-wide Church that will defy the powers of evil, aye, and grind them into nothingness at last: a dying brigand, paying the just penalties of his crimes, gropes towards Him in the darkness with the vague hands of a blind man, and, founding upon that, Christ dies, quite sure that He has won: two or three Gentiles seek an interview with Him, and He sees a whole teeming world of men and women being saved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are apt to overlook the hand and heart of God in our afflictions, and to consider them as mere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7613]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are apt to overlook the hand and heart of God in our afflictions, and to consider them as mere accidents, and unavoidable evils. This view makes them absolute and positive evils, which admit of no remedy or relief. If we view our troubles and trials aside from the divine design and agency in them, we cannot be comforted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The tournament returns to the same venue this morning for the 2005 state tournament, but this time the elements are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28796]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The tournament returns to the same venue this morning for the 2005 state tournament, but this time the elements are forecasted to be more conducive to scoring.] The weather is supposed to be great, ... They say its going to be the nicest day of the week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market didn't like his lines about inflation. Overall, the speech was extremely well balanced . . . The market ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38039]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market didn't like his lines about inflation. Overall, the speech was extremely well balanced . . . The market is just focusing on one or two lines out of the entire speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,--  Did fall one day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58562]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,--  Did fall one day extremely sick by chance   And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59153]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. [Fr., Dis moi ce que tu manges, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. [Fr., Dis moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56116]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56116</guid></item></channel></rss>