<?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[Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't test courage cautiously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10318]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't test courage cautiously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were to prescribe one process in the training of men which is fundamental to success in any direction, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44794]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were to prescribe one process in the training of men which is fundamental to success in any direction, it would be thoroughgoing training in the habit of accurate observation. It is a habit which every one of us should be seeking ever more to perfect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[right before you came, I almost completely tipped over like a board -- 'Timber!' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31437]]></link><description><![CDATA[right before you came, I almost completely tipped over like a board -- 'Timber!']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread, and Thou  Beside me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45467]]></link><description><![CDATA[A book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread, and Thou  Beside me singing in the Wilderness--   On, Wilderness were Paradise enow!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24992]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44116]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60196]]></link><description><![CDATA[The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had the feeling she was taking a doctor-patient confidentiality role. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36167]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had the feeling she was taking a doctor-patient confidentiality role.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56257]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday  Perhaps we feel that we do not see much to encourage us. "I do not envy those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday  Perhaps we feel that we do not see much to encourage us. "I do not envy those who have to fight the battle of Christianity in the twentieth century," wrote Marcus Dods. "Yes, perhaps I do; but it will be a stiff fight." Of course, he did, and anybody with his valiant spirit would. There was a day when our Lord passed through cheering streets wildly enthusiastic; and another day when He watched the crowds deserting Him, till even the disciples themselves seemed to be withering, and He looked at them sadly. "Will you also go away?" He said. And Peter strode across the sudden empty spaces widening around Him, and put his back to Christ's. "No", he cried; "there are two of us, at least", and faced the world, Christ's poor minority of one. I would rather have been Peter than one of the shouting mob. And today, perhaps, we may get our chance of that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44792]]></link><description><![CDATA[He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can and you can't,--You shall and you shan't--You will and you won't--And you will be damned if you do--And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12632]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can and you can't,--You shall and you shan't--You will and you won't--And you will be damned if you do--And you will be damned if you don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18636]]></link><description><![CDATA[What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm old enough to know better, but still too young to care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6040]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm old enough to know better, but still too young to care.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks--especially with cranks. . . . Sweating, slums, the sense of semi-slavery in labour, must go. We must cultivate a sense of manhood by treating men as men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then they began to sing That extremely lovely thing,  "Scherzando! ma non troppo, ppp." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then they began to sing That extremely lovely thing,  "Scherzando! ma non troppo, ppp."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32311]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess when your heart gets broken you sort of start to see cracks in everything. I'm convinced that tragedy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59531]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess when your heart gets broken you sort of start to see cracks in everything. I'm convinced that tragedy wants to harden us and our mission is never to let it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don\'t usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it\'s true - I\'m scary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don\'t usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it\'s true - I\'m scary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62640]]></link><description><![CDATA[A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This assassination will not undermine our efforts to impose law and public order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41286]]></link><description><![CDATA[This assassination will not undermine our efforts to impose law and public order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I wouldn't want to inspire any violence on anyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44535]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan  Under my battlements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52984]]></link><description><![CDATA[The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan  Under my battlements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make good use of your time, it flies fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make good use of your time, it flies fast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the truth is often a great lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half the truth is often a great lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look here, he cries (to give him words): Thou feathered clay, thou scum of birds!  Look here, thou vile, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look here, he cries (to give him words): Thou feathered clay, thou scum of birds!  Look here, thou vile, predestined sinner,   Doomed to be roasted for a dinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A root is a flower that disdains fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16266]]></link><description><![CDATA[A root is a flower that disdains fame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!--  The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62304]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!--  The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule   Our spirits from their urns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10154]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20671]]></link><description><![CDATA[How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1381]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19674]]></link><description><![CDATA[The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20340]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a couple 70-degree days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38147]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a couple 70-degree days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most pharmacies are not going to sign up for every one of them. [You should] see which ones they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most pharmacies are not going to sign up for every one of them. [You should] see which ones they are working with and take your prescription medication list to your agent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing--producing unnecessary garbage and consuming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing--producing unnecessary garbage and consuming vast quantities of energy. Although in the industrial world bottled water is often no healthier than tap water, it can cost up to 10,000 times more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61458]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an occasion of practicing some virtue offered, he addressed himself to God, saying, "Lord, I cannot do this unless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6626]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an occasion of practicing some virtue offered, he addressed himself to God, saying, "Lord, I cannot do this unless Thou enablest me"; and... then he received strength more than sufficient. When he had failed in his duty, he simply confessed his fault, saying to God, "I shall never do otherwise if Thou leavest me to myself; it is Thou who must hinder my falling, and mend what is amiss." After this, he gave himself no further uneasiness about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36980</guid></item></channel></rss>