<?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[Adaptability: A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adaptability: A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The claim that Religious believers have a happier outlook on life than Religious skeptics is like saying a drunken man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32970]]></link><description><![CDATA[The claim that Religious believers have a happier outlook on life than Religious skeptics is like saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man. We should all value intellectual sobriety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death of Dr. Hudson is a loss to the republick of letters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death of Dr. Hudson is a loss to the republick of letters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the flag of England? Ye have but my breath to dare, Ye have but my waves to conquer. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16139]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the flag of England? Ye have but my breath to dare, Ye have but my waves to conquer. Go forth, for it is there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27594]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:   Scripture nowhere condemns the acquisition of knowledge. It is the wisdom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on the Bible:   Scripture nowhere condemns the acquisition of knowledge. It is the wisdom of this world, not its knowledge, that is foolishness with God... The history of philosophy is a story of contradictory, discarded hypotheses... Many of them have failed to avail themselves of that which would unravel every knot and solve every problem, namely, the revelation of God in Christ as given in the Holy Scriptures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friend growing up, both of her parents are deaf, so I've always been interested. Through research, children at this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42654]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friend growing up, both of her parents are deaf, so I've always been interested. Through research, children at this age know what they want to say but don't have the language skills to say it yet. The signing bridges that gap and allows them to let their needs be known before they're able to tell us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43512]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can do it for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can do it for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man does his best, what else is there? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13642]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man does his best, what else is there?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   George Brush, the hero of [Thornton Wilder's] "Heaven's My Destination", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   George Brush, the hero of [Thornton Wilder's] "Heaven's My Destination", a textbook salesman and evangelist extraordinary, is the innocent fool, in the kindliest sense of both the noun and the adjective. He is striving to be the fool in Christ, sowing the inevitable amazement, consternation and wrath that must ensue when Christ's fool runs at large among the worldly wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Some participants were disappointed.] I was expecting a bigger celebration, ... It doesn't fit the size of the victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28315]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Some participants were disappointed.] I was expecting a bigger celebration, ... It doesn't fit the size of the victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've noticed the shows have been getting a lot better, even since a week ago when the album was released. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31273]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've noticed the shows have been getting a lot better, even since a week ago when the album was released. There's been a slow build, but we're playing for a lot more people, and the kids seem to know the new songs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27002]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This so-called election is a total farce. No citizen or democratic party is willing to participate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40271]]></link><description><![CDATA[This so-called election is a total farce. No citizen or democratic party is willing to participate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how tohandle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how tohandle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are jumping on it quicker, ... They are doing well. I'm kinda proud of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33183]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are jumping on it quicker, ... They are doing well. I'm kinda proud of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But they that are above Have ends in everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51914]]></link><description><![CDATA[But they that are above Have ends in everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10479]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water influences where we develop projects. When there's no way to make water work, we move on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water influences where we develop projects. When there's no way to make water work, we move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes twenty years to become an overnight success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/998]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything comes if a man will only wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything comes if a man will only wait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Short series, and we didn't play like we're capable of playing. We didn't show up (Saturday). Today, you saw the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Short series, and we didn't play like we're capable of playing. We didn't show up (Saturday). Today, you saw the real East Providence team. A couple bounces here or there, and things could have been different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836  Let no one suppose that we may attain to this true light ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836  Let no one suppose that we may attain to this true light and perfect knowledge, or life of Christ, by much questioning, or by hearsay, or by reading and study, nor yet by high skill and great learning. Yea, so long as a man taketh account of anything which is this or that, whether it be himself, or any other creature; or doeth anything, or frameth a purpose, for the sake of his own likings or desires or opinions or ends, he cometh not unto the life of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our XD80U is smaller and lighter than most laptops, making it perfect for the mobile presenter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our XD80U is smaller and lighter than most laptops, making it perfect for the mobile presenter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hitting rock bottom theory is all very well. But it is probably possible to intervene earlier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42481]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hitting rock bottom theory is all very well. But it is probably possible to intervene earlier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...consequence you'll see will be stranger than a gang of drunken mimes... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27487]]></link><description><![CDATA[...consequence you'll see will be stranger than a gang of drunken mimes...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They converse as those who know that God hears. [Lat., Ita fabulantur ut qui sciant Dominum audire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10103]]></link><description><![CDATA[They converse as those who know that God hears. [Lat., Ita fabulantur ut qui sciant Dominum audire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are not many things in life so beautiful as true friendship, and not many things more uncommon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10928]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are not many things in life so beautiful as true friendship, and not many things more uncommon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility. You may remember, when I was talking about sexual morality, I warned you that the centre of Christian morals did not lie there. Well, now we have come to the centre. According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea-bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration of Octavia Hill, Worker for the Poor, 1912  Let us not inquire into the affairs of others that concern us not, but be busied within ourselves and our own spheres; ever remembering that to pry into the actions or interests of other men not under our charge may minister to pride, to tyranny, to uncharitableness, to trouble, but can never consist with modesty; unless where duty or the mere intentions of charity and relation do warrant it... Knock, therefore, at the door before you enter upon your neighbor's privacy: and remember, that there is no difference between entering his house and looking into it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/731</guid></item></channel></rss>