<?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[That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51054]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think and that is all that I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21503]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think and that is all that I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, the lovely fickleness of an April day! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, the lovely fickleness of an April day!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16447]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes;  He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2318]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes;  He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! At his heels,   Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends,    And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down,     And wins them, but to lose them in his turn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without courage all virtues lose their meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without courage all virtues lose their meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook,  Thy bubblings ne'er remember   Apollo's summer look;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11568]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook,  Thy bubblings ne'er remember   Apollo's summer look;    But with a sweet forgetting,     They stay their crystal fretting,      Never, never petting       About the frozen time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe in luck - is skepticism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56489]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe in luck - is skepticism]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22515]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world. [The Circle is Sacred].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not expect good from another's death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not expect good from another's death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're really serious about it and if you want your gear to last, you need to spend more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38488]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're really serious about it and if you want your gear to last, you need to spend more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to sing their praises. [Lat., Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona  Multi: sed omnes illacrimabiles   Urgentur, ignotique longa    Nocte, carent quia vate sacro.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime. [It., Oh! ben provvide il cielo,  Ch' uom per ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime. [It., Oh! ben provvide il cielo,  Ch' uom per delitto mai lieto non sia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29578]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her voice was like the voice the stars Had when they sang together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her voice was like the voice the stars Had when they sang together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60921</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[Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [Fr., Hatez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [Fr., Hatez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre courage,  Vingt fois sur le metier remettez votre ouvrage.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21679]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played solid defense and we picked up our offense, especially at the line with a 12 of 17 effort. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38277]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played solid defense and we picked up our offense, especially at the line with a 12 of 17 effort. Our guys came back well, but we need to keep working and improving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God's dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36601]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8513]]></link><description><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane -- if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground -- ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility. From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must look to God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully,or just completely, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully,or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think one wants lots of different lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37226]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think one wants lots of different lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A happy soul, that all the way To heaven hath a summer's day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57285]]></link><description><![CDATA[A happy soul, that all the way To heaven hath a summer's day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14412]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24126]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obscurity is the realm of error. [Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obscurity is the realm of error. [Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I quote others in order to better express myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I quote others in order to better express myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47525]]></link><description><![CDATA["I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to get boring before it gets exciting. It's gone from a criminal trial to more of a civil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38283]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to get boring before it gets exciting. It's gone from a criminal trial to more of a civil one. This has become a document trial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is still not as fast as today's silicon chips, but we can make it orders of magnitude better. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38298]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is still not as fast as today's silicon chips, but we can make it orders of magnitude better. We have a very clear picture of how to move on. Developing the first car is much harder than making a car that can go faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green;  But as the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43375]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green;  But as the time steals onwards, while none perceives   Slowly she clothes herself with leaves--    Hides her fruit under them, hard to find.     . . . .      But by and by, when the flowers grow few       And the fruits are dwindling and small to view--        Out she comes in her matron grace         With the purple myriads of her race;          Full of plenty from root to crown,           Showering plenty her feet adown.            While far over head hang gorgeously             Large luscious berries of sanguine dye,              For the best grows highest, always highest,               Upon the mulberry-tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41190]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competitiveness has been a big thing for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competitiveness has been a big thing for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50043]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It conflicts directly with the mission of the church to assist people who come to us and are in need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39987]]></link><description><![CDATA[It conflicts directly with the mission of the church to assist people who come to us and are in need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel is willing to take a risk in order to make progress in the peace process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Israel is willing to take a risk in order to make progress in the peace process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32598</guid></item></channel></rss>