<?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[Indecision is the graveyard of good intentions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indecision is the graveyard of good intentions]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm like that penny in your pocket. I just keep coming back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm like that penny in your pocket. I just keep coming back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By my penny of observation. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55483]]></link><description><![CDATA[By my penny of observation. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280 JESUS, the infinite I AM, With God essentially the same, With him enthroned above all height, As God of God, and Light of Light, Thou art by thy great Father known, From all eternity his Son. Thou only dost the Father know, And wilt to all thy followers show, Who cannot doubt thy gracious will His glorious Godhead to reveal; Reveal him now, if thou art he, And live, eternal Life, in me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is the key to contentment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the key to contentment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Iraq war was a mistake from the beginning, and when we went in, we went in on the cheap. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Iraq war was a mistake from the beginning, and when we went in, we went in on the cheap. The troops have not been protected. We need to bring them home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way of transgressors is hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way of transgressors is hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54996]]></link><description><![CDATA[I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29840]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. First you have figure out what you want. Second, you have to decide that you deserve it. Third, you have to believe you can get it. And, fourth, you have to have the guts to ask for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23698]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good, and the very gentle, and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?"This is commonly misquotes as "You can't have you're cake and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?"This is commonly misquotes as "You can't have you're cake and eat it, too. - John Heywood's Proverbs, 1546.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65689]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burly, dozing humblebee, Where thou art is clime for me.  Let them sail for Porto Rique,   Far-off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burly, dozing humblebee, Where thou art is clime for me.  Let them sail for Porto Rique,   Far-off heats through seas to seek.    I will follow thee alone,     Thou animated torrid-zone!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   It belongs to the very nature of the gospel that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6334]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   It belongs to the very nature of the gospel that the Church is built across cultural, social, and racial barriers. There are siren voices (as well as gut reactions) telling Christians that the way to success in evangelism is to follow the natural divisions, and to try to build churches along cultural, social and racial divisions. In doing so, they ignore the "success" in the New Testament in crossing these lines; more importantly, they are in fact stressing success more highly than the truth of the gospel. To buy success at the price of treating the fundamental nature of the gospel as dispensable is to follow a false gospel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen -- that's the most exalting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to it’s liberty and interests by the most lasting bands]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65954]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We laid it on the line. No regrets. We wanted to get it done real bad and we came together. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36369]]></link><description><![CDATA[We laid it on the line. No regrets. We wanted to get it done real bad and we came together. People doubted us in this tournament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are words that are too deep to be spoken... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are words that are too deep to be spoken...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10298]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60758]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34493]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40156]]></link><description><![CDATA[No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40156</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[Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bodies were in such bad shape they said there was no other way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39306]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bodies were in such bad shape they said there was no other way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Except I be by Sylvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Except I be by Sylvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The (steam) sterilizers right now use 9,000 watts of electricity each, and these will be down to 1,500 watts apiece. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The (steam) sterilizers right now use 9,000 watts of electricity each, and these will be down to 1,500 watts apiece. That's a big savings. You maybe don't have to bring along as many generators. You don't burn as much fuel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anytime you only score 10 runs in Coors Field, you're struggling in hitting, whereas most other places that's about average. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anytime you only score 10 runs in Coors Field, you're struggling in hitting, whereas most other places that's about average.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot get ahead while you are getting even. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54105]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Am I always to be a mere listener? Shall I never reply? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Am I always to be a mere listener? Shall I never reply?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63777]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recommend that the government articulates our very strong concerns that have been expressed about NMD in the UK. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33841]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recommend that the government articulates our very strong concerns that have been expressed about NMD in the UK.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is a season of recovery and preparation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a very tight balance in world supply and demand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41243]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a very tight balance in world supply and demand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever. - The Brook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investors were disappointed because they were expecting around 5 billion riyals of profit in the fourth quarter. They then decided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investors were disappointed because they were expecting around 5 billion riyals of profit in the fourth quarter. They then decided that the drop was too steep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36514</guid></item></channel></rss>