<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Under your good correction, I have seen When, after execution, judgment hath  Repented o'er his doom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under your good correction, I have seen When, after execution, judgment hath  Repented o'er his doom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions ... These are ingredients for catastrophe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36805]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions ... These are ingredients for catastrophe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity is my favourite sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity is my favourite sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All women are inferior to men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5863]]></link><description><![CDATA[All women are inferior to men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What care if the day Be turned to gray,  What care if the night come soon!   We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21000]]></link><description><![CDATA[What care if the day Be turned to gray,  What care if the night come soon!   We may choose the pace    Who bow for grace,     At the Inn of the Silver Moon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't get too much winter in the winter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65776]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't get too much winter in the winter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With foreheads villanous low. -The Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56087]]></link><description><![CDATA[With foreheads villanous low. -The Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomats were invented simply to waste time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing fails like success. •Gerald Nachman  We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing fails like success. •Gerald Nachman  We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? •Jean Cocteau  Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. •Lily Tomlin  The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. •Nancy Astor  For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself. •Rita Mae Brown  Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. •Mark Twain  The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already. •J.N. Fadenburg   Make a success of living by seeing the goal and aiming for it unswervingly. •Cecil B. Demille  I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. •Abraham Lincoln  The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made. •Groucho Marx  Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3739]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2046]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678   One might think that, with the Bible as the center of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678   One might think that, with the Bible as the center of Christianity, the unity of Christians could be easily realized. But unfortunately this has not proved true, though we can consider it fortunate indeed that, as this inability to unify proves, the letter of the Bible cannot really replace the living Christ as the center of our faith. The Bible is the expression of the life and work of God, and since life is greater than its expression, it cannot be expressed completely in any logical or theological form. Therefore, the Bible itself cannot escape being understood in many different ways. Thus we see how in the wisdom of God it is impossible in practice to make the Scriptures the end or final authority to those who live in fellowship with the Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and at the same time selling yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and at the same time selling yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20268]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59818]]></link><description><![CDATA[How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear? [Who is so deaf as he that will not hear?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear? [Who is so deaf as he that will not hear?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster.  The far-fam'd sculptor, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster.  The far-fam'd sculptor, and the laurell'd bard,   Those bold insurancers of deathless fame,    Supply their little feeble aids in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweets to the sweet! Farewell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweets to the sweet! Farewell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5364]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by ;degrees, the consequences will be the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is not satisfaction. It is the grateful, faithful, fruitful use of what we have, little or much. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is not satisfaction. It is the grateful, faithful, fruitful use of what we have, little or much. It is to take the cup of Providence, and call upon the name of the Lord. What the cup contains is its contents. To get all that is in the cup is the act and art of contentment. Not to drink because one has but half a cup, or because one does not like its flavor, or because somebody else has silver to one's own glass, is to lose the contents; and that is the penalty, if not the meaning, of discontent. No one is discontented who employs and enjoys to the utmost what he has. It is high philosophy to say, we can have just what we like if we like what we have; but this much at least can be done, and this is contentment: to have the most and best in life by making the most and best of what we have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, they just get afraid to leave, and they will do things that don't always make sense, like run, even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, they just get afraid to leave, and they will do things that don't always make sense, like run, even though they were going to be out within a short period of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10014]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has lain down to die, and the grass is already over him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. [Fr., La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. [Fr., La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60057]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed. That can make life a garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30149]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been extremely touched by these signs of affection on the part of all the Thai people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51602]]></link><description><![CDATA[He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And never lie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13054]]></link><description><![CDATA[In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray the prayer the Easterners do, May the peace of Allah abide with you;  Wherever you stay, wherever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48036]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray the prayer the Easterners do, May the peace of Allah abide with you;  Wherever you stay, wherever you go,   May the beautiful palms of Allah grow;    Through days of labor, and nights of rest,     The love of Good Allah make you blest;      So I touch my heart--as the Easterners do,       May the peace of Allah abide with you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  It should be noted, at least by those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  It should be noted, at least by those who accept Christ's claim to be God, that he by no means fits into the picture of the "mystic saint". Those who are fascinated by the supposed superiority of the mystic soul might profitably compile a list of its characteristics and place them side by side with those of Christ. The results would probably expose a surprising conclusion. There is, in fact, no provision for a "privileged class" in genuine Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and His Purchaser A MAN wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner thathe should try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and His Purchaser A MAN wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner thathe should try out the animal before he bought him. He took theAss home and put him in the straw-yard with his other Asses, uponwhich the new animal left all the others and at once joined theone that was most idle and the greatest eater of them all. Seeing this, the man put a halter on him and led him back to hisowner. On being asked how, in so short a time, he could havemade a trial of him, he answered, I do not need a trial; I knowthat he will be just the same as the one he chose for hiscompanion. A man is known by the company he keeps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's good tying the sack before it be full. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49577]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's good tying the sack before it be full.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46413]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I 'll speak in a monstrous little voice. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I 'll speak in a monstrous little voice. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a paradox, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a paradox, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to make a run and we, obviously in that third quarter only scored two points. And that's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35992]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to make a run and we, obviously in that third quarter only scored two points. And that's not what you call a run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I canknow only what the truth is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21769]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I canknow only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon toserve, and I serve it in all lucidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You hit first or second, you know they're going to come at you because they don't want anybody on base ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35271]]></link><description><![CDATA[You hit first or second, you know they're going to come at you because they don't want anybody on base when he comes up. If he comes up with runners on base, they want to pitch around him and go after Holliday or myself. Having him in there changes the whole dynamic of the team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35271</guid></item></channel></rss>