<?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[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688  But upon a day the good providence of God did cast me to Bedford to work on my calling, and in one of the streets of that town I came where there were three or four poor women sitting at a door in the sun and talking about the things of God; and being now willing to hear them discourse, I drew near to hear what they said, for I was now a brisk talker also myself in the matters of religion. But now I may say I heard, but I understood not; for they were far above, out of my reach; for their talk was about a new birth -- the work of God on their hearts. And methought they spake as if Joy did make them speak; they spake with such pleasantness of scripture language and with such appearance of grace in all they said, that they were to me as if they had found a new world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,  Making it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,  Making it momentany as a sound,   Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,    Brief as the lightning in the collied night,     That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,      And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'       The jaws of darkness do devour it up:        So quick bright things come to confusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't get any easier. It will be tough to repeat what we did today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39253]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't get any easier. It will be tough to repeat what we did today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3746]]></link><description><![CDATA[In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Axylos, Teuthranos's son that dwelt in stablished Arisbe; a man of substance dear to his fellows; for his dwelling was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Axylos, Teuthranos's son that dwelt in stablished Arisbe; a man of substance dear to his fellows; for his dwelling was by the road-side and he entertained all men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For thou, o Lord of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23460]]></link><description><![CDATA[For thou, o Lord of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee. (2 Samuel 7:27)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28005]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47551]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that I know I learned from AP Swoboda. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that I know I learned from AP Swoboda.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63880]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater education than one that is self-driven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66234]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earnings have been good, but what you're starting to see is a return to the attitude about earnings that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earnings have been good, but what you're starting to see is a return to the attitude about earnings that we saw in the late 1990's, where you're seeing more talk about whisper numbers, higher expectations, and a more punitive reaction to numbers that disappoint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of silent dogs and still waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of silent dogs and still waters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64213]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44423]]></link><description><![CDATA[One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43934]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eloquence may set fire to reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eloquence may set fire to reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Senior Rob Hudson sustained his good form with a 3-under par 33 to earn medalist honors for the varsity boys, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28795]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Senior Rob Hudson sustained his good form with a 3-under par 33 to earn medalist honors for the varsity boys, causing Adams to extoll Hudsons consistency.] Hes really worked hard to make himself a Division I golfer, ... Hes gone from his bad rounds being 38 or 39 to being even par. [FCC] is a short course, but hes been able to put up those numbers at every course weve played on. Im real tickled for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28795</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[He said he had a show he wanted to put on the air about the survivors of a plane crash ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37936]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said he had a show he wanted to put on the air about the survivors of a plane crash and would I please help him do it, ... I thought, 'How is that a show?' And then I thought if I were to do this it would be far too weird and borderline sci-fi and he'd never want to do it. But his response was no, I love that idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50668]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, it's an unambiguous positive. But in terms of its overall importance, it's only marginal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, it's an unambiguous positive. But in terms of its overall importance, it's only marginal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the use of running when we are on the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62449]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generally speaking, everyone is more interresting doing nothing than doing anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generally speaking, everyone is more interresting doing nothing than doing anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5219]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting lice in half with their teeth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64287]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to? who aspires must down as low  As high he soar'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2335]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to? who aspires must down as low  As high he soar'd, obnoxious first and last   To basest things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis "good works" make the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis "good works" make the man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman's love is writ in water, Woman's faith is traced in sand.   - Sir Robert Aytoun (Ayton) of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman's love is writ in water, Woman's faith is traced in sand.   - Sir Robert Aytoun (Ayton) of Kincaldie,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that its workers are not just sitting around downloading Internet porn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45742]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue is, can you make a law to restrict free speech? The First Amendment says that 'Congress shall make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue is, can you make a law to restrict free speech? The First Amendment says that 'Congress shall make no law (abridging the freedom of speech).' No law, period.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fun doing it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  Without realizing what was happening, most of us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  Without realizing what was happening, most of us gradually came to take for granted the premises underlying the philosophy of optimism. We proceeded to live these propositions, though we would not have stated them as blandly as I set them forth here:   Man is inherently good.  Individual man can carve out his own salvation with the help of education and society through progressively better government.  Reality and values worth searching for lie in the material world that science is steadily teaching us to analyze, catalogue, and measure. While we do not deny the existence of inner values, we relegate them to second place.  The purpose of life is happiness, [which] we define in terms of enjoyable activity, friends, and the accumulation of material objects.  The pain and evil of life -- such as ignorance, poverty, selfishness, hatred, greed, lust for power -- are caused by factors in the external world; therefore, the cure lies in the reforming of human institutions and the bettering of environmental conditions.  As science and technology remove poverty and lift from us the burden of physical existence, we shall automatically become finer persons, seeing for ourselves the value of living the Golden Rule.  In time, the rest of the world will appreciate the demonstration that the American way of life is best. They will then seek for themselves the good life of freedom and prosperity. This will be the greatest impetus toward an end of global conflict.  The way to get along with people is to beware of religious dictums and dogma. The ideal is to be a nice person and to live by the Creed of Tolerance. Thus we offend few people. We live and let live. This is the American Way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61194]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do blacks identify with the Christian religionof their oppressors?Source: Diane Rehm Show guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do blacks identify with the Christian religionof their oppressors?Source: Diane Rehm Show guest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check,  Richer than doing nothing for a robe,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48204]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check,  Richer than doing nothing for a robe,   Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk:    Such pain the cap of him that makes him fine     Yet keeps his book uncrossed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop. The leaves of life keep falling one by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24863]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop. The leaves of life keep falling one by one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Base is the slave that pays. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Base is the slave that pays. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55947</guid></item></channel></rss>