<?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[As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64414]]></link><description><![CDATA[As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every serious crisis is invariably wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every serious crisis is invariably wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44421]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5994]]></link><description><![CDATA[things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf and the LambWOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf and the LambWOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then said the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf, "You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink to me." Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, "Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations." The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O! lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life alone doth nature live;  Ours is her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54044]]></link><description><![CDATA[O! lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life alone doth nature live;  Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentration is the secret of strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentration is the secret of strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20264]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct,or more uncertain in its success, than to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21726]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct,or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in theintroduction of a new order of things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hitler invaded in March 1938 and everything after that went downhill. My husband was in the concentration camp and everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hitler invaded in March 1938 and everything after that went downhill. My husband was in the concentration camp and everything was taken - but material values at the time didn't matter one bit. It was only after that it did matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 In the pure soul, whether it sing or pray, The Christ ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 In the pure soul, whether it sing or pray, The Christ is born anew from day to day. The life that knoweth Him shall bide apart And keep eternal Christmas in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you lose the entire front four, and they were all drafted by the NFL, it's easy to say you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29872]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you lose the entire front four, and they were all drafted by the NFL, it's easy to say you won't be any good, ... But when you really research it, you see those guys have played and they have the ability. The great thing about athletics is that what's written doesn't make any difference. It's what you do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639   There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639   There is no defect in Scripture, so anyone may "have the light of his natural understanding so completed... that there can be no want of needful instruction" for any good work God would have that person do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253   The Word of God can grow to be only a hunting-ground for texts; and we can preach, meaning intensely every word we utter, and yet in reality only lost for the moment like an actor in his part, or at least leaving it to the folk to live it out; for us, bless me, we have no time for that, but are already immersed, poor harried souls, in determining what we shall preach on next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I ain't got nothing. I've got this watch, and these shoes, and that's about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29506]]></link><description><![CDATA[I ain't got nothing. I've got this watch, and these shoes, and that's about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the best solution today. We are expanding beyond the financial sector by utilizing our mid-market machines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33100]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the best solution today. We are expanding beyond the financial sector by utilizing our mid-market machines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5717]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   The conduct of disputation by verbal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   The conduct of disputation by verbal brickbat, by innuendo, and by light-fingered intellectual dexterity, is a mordant reminder of the time when controversies were settled by faggot and sword. The truth is hardly less the loser because the inquisitor has altered his methods. All of us who seek to explore the wide reaches of God's revelation, and strive to bring the thinking of others under the domination of Christ, do well to seek first to bring our own rhetorical techniques under that same dominion -- under the discipline, that is, of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every why hath a wherefore. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every why hath a wherefore. -The Comedy of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63646]]></link><description><![CDATA[A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the smallest of the majors, and they have an automotive-market niche, and some people think that's extremely attractive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42676]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the smallest of the majors, and they have an automotive-market niche, and some people think that's extremely attractive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under this bill, Duke Cunningham still would be able to get away with trading bribes for earmarks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under this bill, Duke Cunningham still would be able to get away with trading bribes for earmarks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless'd; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man makes his own shipwreck. [Lat., Naufragium sibi quisque facit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man makes his own shipwreck. [Lat., Naufragium sibi quisque facit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8649]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3470]]></link><description><![CDATA[In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As society advances the standard of poverty rises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47895]]></link><description><![CDATA[As society advances the standard of poverty rises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. - "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", 1908.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY He has come! the Christ of God; Left for us His glad abode, Stooping from His throne of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6680]]></link><description><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY He has come! the Christ of God; Left for us His glad abode, Stooping from His throne of bliss, To this darksome wilderness. He has come! the Prince of Peace; Come to bid our sorrows cease; Come to scatter with His light All the darkness of our night. He, the Mighty King, has come! Making this poor world His home; Come to bear our sin's sad load,-- Son of David, Son of God! He has come whose name of grace Speaks deliverance to our race; Left for us His glad abode,-- Son of Mary, Son of God! Unto us a Child is born! Ne'er has earth beheld a morn, Among all the morns of time, Half so glorious in its prime! Unto us a Son is given! He has come from God's own heaven, Bringing with Him, from above, Holy peace and holy love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had pitching in the first game, but the hitting wasn't there. We got the bats alive a little bit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42500]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had pitching in the first game, but the hitting wasn't there. We got the bats alive a little bit in the second game, but we couldn't keep it going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5769]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coach Pressler offered me his resignation earlier this afternoon, and I accepted it. I believe this is in the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coach Pressler offered me his resignation earlier this afternoon, and I accepted it. I believe this is in the best interests of the program, the department of athletics and the university.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a heavy-metal fan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32506]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a heavy-metal fan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in an epidemic, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37038]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in an epidemic,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature abhors a vacuum. [Fr., Natura abhorret vacuum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature abhors a vacuum. [Fr., Natura abhorret vacuum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love without reason, and without reason we hate. [Fr., On aime sans raison, et sans raison l'on hait.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53110]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love without reason, and without reason we hate. [Fr., On aime sans raison, et sans raison l'on hait.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2134]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2134</guid></item></channel></rss>