<?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[Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day,  The great, the important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15370]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day,  The great, the important day, big with the fate   Of Cato, and of Rome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11789]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!  What an inviting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!  What an inviting hell invented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led!  Art thou that huntress of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led!  Art thou that huntress of the silver bow   Fabled of old? Or rather dost thou tread    Those cloudy summits thence to gaze below,     Like the wild chamois from her Alpine snow,      Where hunters never climbed--secure from dread?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even Vance Walberg (Fresno City College basketball coach) said Jackson was like a man playing against boys. And there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even Vance Walberg (Fresno City College basketball coach) said Jackson was like a man playing against boys. And there is no doubt how good Clovis West is, but I thought our players were kind of intimidated and I was disappointed that we didn't compete better. I felt like some of the kids gave up and just went through the motions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65071]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was nice for the girls to come back like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37867]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was nice for the girls to come back like that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep violence in the mind where it belongs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep violence in the mind where it belongs]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt is the father of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt is the father of invention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the Lapdog A man had an Ass, and a Maltese Lapdog, a very great beauty. The Ass ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1545]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Lapdog A man had an Ass, and a Maltese Lapdog, a very great beauty. The Ass was left in a stable and had plenty of oats and hay to eat, just as any other Ass would. The Lapdog knew many tricks and was a great favorite with his master, who often fondled him and seldom went out to dine without bringing him home some tidbit to eat. The Ass, on the contrary, had much work to do in grinding the corn-mill and in carrying wood from the forest or burdens from the farm. He often lamented his own hard fate and contrasted it with the luxury and idleness of the Lapdog, till at last one day he broke his cords and halter, and galloped into his master's house, kicking up his heels without measure, and frisking and fawning as well as he could. He next tried to jump about his master as he had seen the Lapdog do, but he broke the table and smashed all the dishes upon it to atoms. He then attempted to lick his master, and jumped upon his back. The servants, hearing the strange hubbub and perceiving the danger of their master, quickly relieved him, and drove out the Ass to his stable with kicks and clubs and cuffs. The Ass, as he returned to his stall beaten nearly to death, thus lamented: I have brought it all on myself! Why could I not have been contented to labor with my companions, and not wish to be idle all the day like that useless little Lapdog!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade  And keeps that palace of the soul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade  And keeps that palace of the soul serene.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12724]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think the market is ready to tip, and when a market tips, it can accelerate very quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36882]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think the market is ready to tip, and when a market tips, it can accelerate very quickly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65607]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28164]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26767]]></link><description><![CDATA[The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't play for safety--it's the most dangerous thing in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't play for safety--it's the most dangerous thing in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8977]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person is responsible for all the good with the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person is responsible for all the good with the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.   - Gail Hamilton (pseudonym of Mary Abigail Dodge),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18552]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3134]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indecision may or may not be my problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indecision may or may not be my problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the laughter of the new-born child On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24175]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the laughter of the new-born child On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Losing was a shock, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Losing was a shock,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat is above all things, a dramatist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12818]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat is above all things, a dramatist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are trying and we continue to try. We have increased oil production to over 10 million barrels a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40148]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are trying and we continue to try. We have increased oil production to over 10 million barrels a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31986]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953 Continuing a Lenten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  In our praying, we should speak to God about Himself -- that is praise; or about His gifts--that is thanksgiving; or about other people -- that is intercession; or about our sins--that is confession and penitence; or about our needs--that is petition. Prayer has five fingers, like a hand, and each in turn must be pointed to God, that our prayer may be full and complete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64604]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  This is the age of the conference and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  This is the age of the conference and study group -- people talking about what they know they should be doing. In a subtle way, talking about something becomes an excuse for not doing it. This new bolt-hole of the conference and study group is not confined to the local congregation. It is a painful fact of life in the central structures of the churches. We have a welter of reports, commissions, surveys, liaison bodies, and so on. They have the appearance of progressive thinking and readiness to face change, combined with the function of being delaying devices. They are the sacraments of current Christianity, and its dilemma. Outreach is a move from power structures to meekness structures, and, in spite of the fact that Christians believe that it is the meek who shall inherit the earth, they show (as in the ecumenical movement) a distinct reluctance to relinquish power-structure thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Erin, how sweetly thy green bosom rises! An emerald set in the ring of the sea.  Each blade ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear Erin, how sweetly thy green bosom rises! An emerald set in the ring of the sea.  Each blade of thy meadows my faithful heart prizes,   Thou queen of the west, the world's cushla ma chree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in a different ball game now. We're going to be shedding a lot of the low-education manufacturing jobs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38866]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in a different ball game now. We're going to be shedding a lot of the low-education manufacturing jobs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is simple. Do what\'s right, the right way, at the right time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is simple. Do what\'s right, the right way, at the right time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52321]]></link><description><![CDATA[The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant of others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Senate race, in particular, brings a lot to bear in terms of the campaigns' organization. It's my sense that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31743]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Senate race, in particular, brings a lot to bear in terms of the campaigns' organization. It's my sense that the main event is the Senate race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Conob Indians of northern Guatemala... describe love as "my soul dies." Love is such that, without experiencing the joy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6400]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Conob Indians of northern Guatemala... describe love as "my soul dies." Love is such that, without experiencing the joy of union with the object of our love, there is a real sense in which "the soul dies." A man who loves God according to the Conob idiom would say "my soul dies for God." This not only describes the powerful emotion felt by the one who loves, but it should imply a related truth -- namely, that in true love there is no room for self. The man who loves God must die to self. True love is, of all emotions, the most unselfish, for it does not look out for self but for others. False love seeks to possess; true love seeks to be possessed. False love leads to cancerous jealousy; true love leads to a life-giving ministry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who excuses himself, accuses himself. [Fr., Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15460]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who excuses himself, accuses himself. [Fr., Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They kindly leave us, but not quite alone, But in good company, the gout or stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48770]]></link><description><![CDATA[They kindly leave us, but not quite alone, But in good company, the gout or stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep. [Fr., Dieu mesure le froid a la brebis tondue.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51924]]></link><description><![CDATA[God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep. [Fr., Dieu mesure le froid a la brebis tondue.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51924</guid></item></channel></rss>