<?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[I would have rather finished the match properly, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41744]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have rather finished the match properly,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to offend a New Yorker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43116]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13882]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Creeds... were formulated gradually, as a result of a series of desperate controversies -- which are now named, sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6958]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Creeds... were formulated gradually, as a result of a series of desperate controversies -- which are now named, sometimes after the supposed leaders and representatives of a particular interpretation of the Christian religion, and sometimes after the particular interpretation itself. I need not now attempt to make precise these heresies, as they came to be called. It is necessary only to point out that in various ways all these heresies were simplifications. By means of them, the revelation of God to men was made -- or appeared to be made -- less scandalous. On the other hand, the various clauses of the Creed were not formulated as a new simplification, or as an alternative-ism. They were nothing more than emphatic statements of the Biblical scandal, statements which brought into sharp antagonism the new simplification and the old, Scriptural, many-sided, and vigorous truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6958</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[Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world ... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world ... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his contract with society. To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen, to do more than your share under it is noble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5485]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1386]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This tyrant, whole sole name blisters our tongues, Was once thought honest; you have loved him well;  He hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59974]]></link><description><![CDATA[This tyrant, whole sole name blisters our tongues, Was once thought honest; you have loved him well;  He hath not touched you yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36144]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have reached an agreement in principle for the creation of a joint company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35714]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have reached an agreement in principle for the creation of a joint company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/910]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homelessness among seniors is a tragedy we never want to see happen. Fortunately, the city does not have a large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homelessness among seniors is a tragedy we never want to see happen. Fortunately, the city does not have a large population of seniors without permanent housing, and although we have seen a slight increase - less than one-half percent - they make up less than 3 percent of the city's homeless population overall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creation science is an attempt to give credibility to Hebrew mythology by making people believe that the world's foremost biologists, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creation science is an attempt to give credibility to Hebrew mythology by making people believe that the world's foremost biologists, paleontologists, and geologists are a bunch of incompetent nincompoops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in God, in Spain all 22 players cross themselves, if it works the game is always going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in God, in Spain all 22 players cross themselves, if it works the game is always going to be a tie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, I think Hilton has clearly put a wrench in the process by offering $70 per share. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, I think Hilton has clearly put a wrench in the process by offering $70 per share.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46044]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease,  And purge it to a sound ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2926]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease,  And purge it to a sound and pristine health,   I would applaud thee to the very echo,    That should applaud you again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is low-wage workers who are being hurt the most by the steady drip, drip, drip of coverage draining out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34062]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is low-wage workers who are being hurt the most by the steady drip, drip, drip of coverage draining out of the employer-based health insurance system,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56409]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never said this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28844]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never said this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters--from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters--from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number--a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The daffodil is our doorside queen; She pushes upward the sword already,  To spot with sunshine the early green. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The daffodil is our doorside queen; She pushes upward the sword already,  To spot with sunshine the early green.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24547]]></link><description><![CDATA[By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28057]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5836]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow--You are not wrong who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow--You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dream;Yet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less gone?All that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. [Fr., Soldats, du haut ces Pyramide quarante siecles vous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. [Fr., Soldats, du haut ces Pyramide quarante siecles vous contemplent.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree,  And spreads her sheets o' daisies white   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree,  And spreads her sheets o' daisies white   Out o'er the grassy lea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their only labour was to kill the time; And labour dire it is, and weary woe,  They sit, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their only labour was to kill the time; And labour dire it is, and weary woe,  They sit, they loll, turn o'er some idle rhyme,   Then, rising sudden, to the glass they go,    Or saunter forth, with tottering steps and slow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woosel cock so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill,  The throstle with his note so true,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woosel cock so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill,  The throstle with his note so true,   The wren with little quill--    . . . .     The finch, the sparrow, and the lark,      The plain-song cuckoo grey,       Whose note full many a man doth mark,        And dares not answer nay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus shadow owes its birth to light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus shadow owes its birth to light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The selfsame heaven That frowns on me looks sadly upon him. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56024]]></link><description><![CDATA[The selfsame heaven That frowns on me looks sadly upon him. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science, as in common life, we frequently see that a novelty in system, or in practice, cannot be duly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44692]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science, as in common life, we frequently see that a novelty in system, or in practice, cannot be duly appreciated till time has sobered the enthusiasm of its advocates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55777]]></link><description><![CDATA[To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16528]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24785]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24785</guid></item></channel></rss>