<?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[When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47590]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think everybody knows, at least everybody who is on the bubble, so to speak. All you can do is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think everybody knows, at least everybody who is on the bubble, so to speak. All you can do is do everything you possibly can every time you get a chance to make it a hard decision for them. When you get the opportunity, you just want to give them reasons to keep you around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quicker-than-expected recovery in capital expenditure spending will probably be the biggest catalyst, if one occurs at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28349]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quicker-than-expected recovery in capital expenditure spending will probably be the biggest catalyst, if one occurs at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do your duty today and repent tomorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do your duty today and repent tomorrow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The green retreats Of Academus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The green retreats Of Academus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52196]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to treat people as if they have nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28638]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to treat people as if they have nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10449]]></link><description><![CDATA[True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, good my lord, Let there be some more test made of my mettle  Before so noble and so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, good my lord, Let there be some more test made of my mettle  Before so noble and so great a figure   Be stamped upon it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life : Such a Way, as gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life : Such a Way, as gives us breath : Such a Truth, as ends all strife : And such a Life as killeth death. Come, my Light, my Feast, my Strength : Such a Light, as shows a feast : Such a Feast, as mends in length : Such a Strength, as makes his guest. Come, my Joy, my Love, my Heart : Such a Joy, as none can move : Such a Love, as none can part : Such a Heart, as joyes in love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63362]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the final form of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the final form of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we found was that age was a significant predictor in Bt corn adoption. We found as producers get older ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32136]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we found was that age was a significant predictor in Bt corn adoption. We found as producers get older and gain experience they are more likely to adopt Bt corn rootworm, but once they reach about age 48 they become less likely to adopt the technology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul -- enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27186]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul -- enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53445]]></link><description><![CDATA[All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5539]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54019]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21363]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In God, we live every commonplace as well as the most exalted moment of our being. To trust in Him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8092]]></link><description><![CDATA[In God, we live every commonplace as well as the most exalted moment of our being. To trust in Him when no need is pressing, when things seem going right of themselves, may be harder than when things seem going wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20368]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any community that fails to prepare -- with the expectation that the federal government can or will offer a lifeline ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any community that fails to prepare -- with the expectation that the federal government can or will offer a lifeline -- will be tragically wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone- that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57017]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone- that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man of, say, the Eighteenth Century, and is far more civilized. This assumption is quite erroneous...The great masses of men, even in this inspired republic, are precisely where the mob was at the dawn of history. They are ignorant, they are dishonest, they are cowardly, they are ignoble. They know little if anything that is worth knowing, and there is not the slightest sign of a natural desire among them to increase their knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself. [Lat., Ipsa se fraus, etiamsi initio cautior fuerit, detegit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself. [Lat., Ipsa se fraus, etiamsi initio cautior fuerit, detegit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is to be feared that the most of us know not how much glory may be in present grace, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6960]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is to be feared that the most of us know not how much glory may be in present grace, nor how much of heaven may be obtained in holiness on the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success... it's what you do with what you've got. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success... it's what you do with what you've got.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54779]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgivernourselves. For the things we didn't do. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62901]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgivernourselves. For the things we didn't do. The things we should have done. I think forgiving yourself is more important than forgiving anyone else and it's often the hardest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  True progress is not found in breaking away from the old ways, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  True progress is not found in breaking away from the old ways, but in abiding in the teaching of Christ and His Spirit in the Church. There is an apparent contradiction here, for how can we abide, and yet advance? It is a paradox, like much else in scripture; but Christian experience proves it true. Those make the best progress in religion who hold fast by the faith once for all delivered to the saints, and not those who drift away from their moorings, rudderless upon a sea of doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust not thy feeling, for whatever it be now, it will quickly be changed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust not thy feeling, for whatever it be now, it will quickly be changed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41521]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people grow under responsibility, others merely swell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people grow under responsibility, others merely swell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a dear little plant that grows in our isle, 'Twas St. Patrick himself sure that set it;  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23040]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a dear little plant that grows in our isle, 'Twas St. Patrick himself sure that set it;  And the sun on his labor with pleasure did smile,   And with dew from his eye often wet it.    It thrives through the bog, through the brake, and the mireland;     And he called it the dear little shamrock of Ireland--      The sweet little shamrock, the dear little shamrock,       The sweet little, green little, shamrock of Ireland!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23040</guid></item><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[A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome,  A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2787]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome,  A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,   The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead    Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets;     As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,      Disasters in the sun; and the moist star       Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands        Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die: I think there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56026]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die: I think there be six Richmonds in the field. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate is finding a place where you have no inhibitions, nothing to hide, where you can learn with one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate is finding a place where you have no inhibitions, nothing to hide, where you can learn with one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64989]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10057</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[We took her into the doctor, and at first they didn't know what was wrong. She went down so quick ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40948]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took her into the doctor, and at first they didn't know what was wrong. She went down so quick in a few days. I thank God for the doctor at the clinic in Joes. They drew her blood and said, 'You have 48 hours to get her to Children's (Hospital).' I was devastated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40948</guid></item></channel></rss>