<?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[Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your dad is running around in jeans and a T-shirt, you want to look different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35657]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your dad is running around in jeans and a T-shirt, you want to look different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be unconscionable for the Brattleboro Select Board to approve the evacuation plan without including these improvements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34203]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be unconscionable for the Brattleboro Select Board to approve the evacuation plan without including these improvements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in amber, more durable than the monument and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16220]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in amber, more durable than the monument and embalming of the body of any king.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3540]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58768]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[.The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21004]]></link><description><![CDATA[.The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65120]]></link><description><![CDATA[It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58707]]></link><description><![CDATA[No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves – but what the teachers are themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17690]]></link><description><![CDATA[It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stern delight that warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51108]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stern delight that warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from far off, but upon our perceptions being made finer so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear that which is about us always. -Willa Cather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The staff has been great to work with, and Coach Martin has treated me great and allows me to grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The staff has been great to work with, and Coach Martin has treated me great and allows me to grow as a coach everyday,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, grant me the Senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16560]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, grant me the Senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52362]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs inordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And took for truth the test of ridicule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54224]]></link><description><![CDATA[And took for truth the test of ridicule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is going to change my life a lot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34150]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is going to change my life a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't aim a duck to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21652]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't aim a duck to death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15769]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most curious offspring of shame is shyness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56139]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most curious offspring of shame is shyness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  If you have failings, ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  If you have failings, ask God often whether it be His honour and pleasure to take them away from you; for without Him you can do nothing. If he takes them away, thank Him; but if He does not do that, you will bear it no more, however, as the defect of a sin, but as a great trial with which you are to gain merit and practice patience. You should be content, whether or not He accords you His gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56057]]></link><description><![CDATA[After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Donors must respond now if we are going to avert a humanitarian catastrophe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Donors must respond now if we are going to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977   Where would you be if God took away all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977   Where would you be if God took away all your Christian work? Too often it is our Christian work that is worshiped and not God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1880]]></link><description><![CDATA[To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellers there is safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellers there is safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17993]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4970]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20481]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65380]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From labour health, from health contentment spring; Contentment opes the source of every joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9932]]></link><description><![CDATA[From labour health, from health contentment spring; Contentment opes the source of every joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever life throws at us, we'll be able to handle it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever life throws at us, we'll be able to handle it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62218]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[L'Abbe de Ville proposed a toast, His master, as the rising Sun:  Reisbach then gave the Empress Queen,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59416]]></link><description><![CDATA[L'Abbe de Ville proposed a toast, His master, as the rising Sun:  Reisbach then gave the Empress Queen,   As the bright moon and much praise won.    The Earl of Stair, whose turn next came,     Gave for his toast his own King Will,      As Joshua the sun of Nun,       Who made both Sun and Moon stand still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11942]]></link><description><![CDATA[A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65525]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12897</guid></item></channel></rss>