<?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[When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48494]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty. [Lat., Semel profecto premere felices deus  Cum coepit, urget; hos habent magna exitus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5035]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think you're seeing chaos, basically. No matter how you cut it, it's very poor project design and implementation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28945]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think you're seeing chaos, basically. No matter how you cut it, it's very poor project design and implementation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What bird so sings, yet does so wail? O, 'tis the ravish'd nightingale--  Jug, jug, jug, jug--tereu, she cries, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44551]]></link><description><![CDATA[What bird so sings, yet does so wail? O, 'tis the ravish'd nightingale--  Jug, jug, jug, jug--tereu, she cries,   And still her woes at midnight rise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are always concerned about same-old, same-old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33672]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are always concerned about same-old, same-old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546   All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546   All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired, although not in the hour or in the measure, or the very thing which they ask; yet they will obtain something greater and more glorious than they had dared to ask.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have people spending 55 minutes online is fascinating, because they are not doing something else. There are a fixed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41419]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have people spending 55 minutes online is fascinating, because they are not doing something else. There are a fixed number of minutes in a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I doubt the garrulous archive bequeathed us by the tape recorder will prove as memorable as Henry James's thank-you notes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37093]]></link><description><![CDATA[I doubt the garrulous archive bequeathed us by the tape recorder will prove as memorable as Henry James's thank-you notes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She couldn't have played without it. Her ankle looked like a football. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28600]]></link><description><![CDATA[She couldn't have played without it. Her ankle looked like a football.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are talking about an economy averaging about 30 miles per hour in a 60-mph speed zone. That keeps pressure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38034]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are talking about an economy averaging about 30 miles per hour in a 60-mph speed zone. That keeps pressure on the unemployment rate, forcing it to continue to rise. By summer, we could have 6.4 percent unemployment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of Him who loves us in spite of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9651]]></link><description><![CDATA[In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of Him who loves us in spite of what we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  Of course, it all depends upon what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  Of course, it all depends upon what we are praying for. If we are whimpering, and sniveling, and begging to be spared the discipline of life that is sent to knock some smatterings of manhood into us, the answer to that prayer may never come at all. Thank God! Though, indeed, it is not easy to say that, with honesty. Still, it may never come at all, thank God. But if you have attained as far as Epictetus--pagan though you would call him--whose daily prayer was this: "O God, give me what Thou desirest for me, for I know that what Thou choosest for me is far better than I could choose"; if you are not bleating to get off, but asking to be given grace and strength to see this through with honour, "the very day" you pray that prayer, the answer always comes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is often the introduction to pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is often the introduction to pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13073]]></link><description><![CDATA[My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53383]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1803]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8330]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment; and nothing remained, but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[North Providence is young. They're inexperienced. They have some goal scorers. But I think we have the skating advantage. They're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36155]]></link><description><![CDATA[North Providence is young. They're inexperienced. They have some goal scorers. But I think we have the skating advantage. They're obviously a decent team or they wouldn't be in the playoffs. We don't take any team lightly. But I think we have the speed and depth advantage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44642]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23136]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His cares are now all ended. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55940]]></link><description><![CDATA[His cares are now all ended. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1327]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14447]]></link><description><![CDATA[What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a teenager, I dreamed abbout escaping. I was lucky. I succeeded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40524]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a teenager, I dreamed abbout escaping. I was lucky. I succeeded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only was I the artist, publisher, songwriter and producer, I was also the singer, ... For every three cents ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only was I the artist, publisher, songwriter and producer, I was also the singer, ... For every three cents Elvis made on a record, I made 45 cents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing is small businesses find their niche. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing is small businesses find their niche.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But for twenty years as a professional team, Lou and I were closer than man and wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30860]]></link><description><![CDATA[But for twenty years as a professional team, Lou and I were closer than man and wife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is whatever gives joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is whatever gives joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below,  Which always find us young   And always keep us so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below,  Which always find us young   And always keep us so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60946]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service relationship to humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15926]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65785]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wagner's music is better than it sounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wagner's music is better than it sounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sister is one who reaches for your hand and touches your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56477]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sister is one who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music can change the world because it can change people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music can change the world because it can change people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm the best. I just haven't played yet [on his golf game]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57720]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm the best. I just haven't played yet [on his golf game].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man,  Commands all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man,  Commands all light, all influence, all fate,   Nothing to him falls early or too late.    Our acts, our angles are, or good or ill,     Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace without justice is tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace without justice is tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45907</guid></item></channel></rss>