<?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[Pray Him to give you what the Scriptures call "an honest and good heart," or "a perfect heart;" and, without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray Him to give you what the Scriptures call "an honest and good heart," or "a perfect heart;" and, without waiting, begin at once to obey Him with the best heart you have. Any obedience is better than none. You have to seek His face; obedience is the only way of seeing Him. All your duties are obediences. To do what He bids is to obey Him, and to obey Him is to approach Him. Every act of obedience is an approach -- an approach to Him who is not far off, though He seems so, but close behind this visible screen of things hiding Him from us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[F]ew things loves better Than to abhor himself-- . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15]]></link><description><![CDATA[[F]ew things loves better Than to abhor himself-- . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2398]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13151]]></link><description><![CDATA[God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[accomplished what we did this quarter in large part because of our no-late-fees program, not in spite of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38628]]></link><description><![CDATA[accomplished what we did this quarter in large part because of our no-late-fees program, not in spite of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From fibers of pain and hope and trouble And toil and happiness,--one by one,--  Twisted together, or single or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11128]]></link><description><![CDATA[From fibers of pain and hope and trouble And toil and happiness,--one by one,--  Twisted together, or single or double,   The varying thread of our life is spun.    Hope shall cheer though the chain be galling;     Light shall come though the gloom be falling;      Faith will list for the Master calling       Our hearts to his rest,--when the day is done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And yet he hadde "a thombe of gold" pardee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17771]]></link><description><![CDATA[And yet he hadde "a thombe of gold" pardee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And with unwearied fingers drawing out The lines of life, from living knowledge hid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58025]]></link><description><![CDATA[And with unwearied fingers drawing out The lines of life, from living knowledge hid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is known when needed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29554]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is known when needed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your life is what your thoughts make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your life is what your thoughts make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look here, he cries (to give him words): Thou feathered clay, thou scum of birds!  Look here, thou vile, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look here, he cries (to give him words): Thou feathered clay, thou scum of birds!  Look here, thou vile, predestined sinner,   Doomed to be roasted for a dinner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58961]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can't blame me for looking like this on purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8989]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14664]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65334]]></link><description><![CDATA[For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66149]]></link><description><![CDATA[One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortunately, there's no serious damage. There's definitely some soreness and stiffness, but other than that, I'm fine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortunately, there's no serious damage. There's definitely some soreness and stiffness, but other than that, I'm fine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having good strategies in playing chess is often a good indication of being focused in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having good strategies in playing chess is often a good indication of being focused in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47426]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63892]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I understand everybody's frustration. The bottom line is it has been a tough year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36070]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand everybody's frustration. The bottom line is it has been a tough year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think housework is the reason most women go to the office. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19906]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think housework is the reason most women go to the office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule is the language of the devil ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule is the language of the devil]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get money, money still! And then let virtue follow, if she will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get money, money still! And then let virtue follow, if she will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59326]]></link><description><![CDATA[How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever. . -David Norris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."N. B.: This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."N. B.: This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing. - The Friends of Voltaire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manie things are lost for want of asking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manie things are lost for want of asking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24730]]></link><description><![CDATA[By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that Spanish people are showing again their strength, their solidarity, and the common effort in order to overcome ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39085]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that Spanish people are showing again their strength, their solidarity, and the common effort in order to overcome the atrocities of pain and terrorism,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only things they did were headers and throw-ins. But they were good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only things they did were headers and throw-ins. But they were good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Providence is better then a rent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Providence is better then a rent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. -Herodotus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45993]]></link><description><![CDATA[In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons. -Herodotus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Christians are ever to be united, they must be united in Christ, their living head and the source of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6517]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Christians are ever to be united, they must be united in Christ, their living head and the source of their spiritual life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12895]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12895</guid></item></channel></rss>