<?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[No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1249]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60668]]></link><description><![CDATA[To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1747]]></link><description><![CDATA[You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45512]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. -Hodding Carter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, happy years, once more who would not be a boy! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, happy years, once more who would not be a boy!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65621]]></link><description><![CDATA[For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9304]]></link><description><![CDATA[People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929  Many people despise those who spend their health, strength ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929  Many people despise those who spend their health, strength and money for the salvation of others, and call them mad. And yet it is they who will save many and be saved themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[one of those unforgettable stories that stays with you for years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36759]]></link><description><![CDATA[one of those unforgettable stories that stays with you for years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of the laboratory! Arthur C]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is proud eats up himself. Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48206]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is proud eats up himself. Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a poore sport that's not worth the candle. [It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49569]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a poore sport that's not worth the candle. [It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!  It wad frae monie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!  It wad frae monie a blunder free us,   And foolish notion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old goths never die, they just need less makeup ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old goths never die, they just need less makeup]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good writing is clear thinking made visible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good writing is clear thinking made visible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14562]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No profit to honour, no honour to Religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49655]]></link><description><![CDATA[No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19414]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fail to honor people,they fail to honor you; but of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fail to honor people,they fail to honor you; but of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, 'We did this ourselves.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37973]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide would be my way of telling God that I quit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suicide would be my way of telling God that I quit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The audience applauded, even though it was not clear what Bush meant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The audience applauded, even though it was not clear what Bush meant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can play defense at that position, and he can score. He is a playground legend in Chicago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32632]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can play defense at that position, and he can score. He is a playground legend in Chicago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have four, five, six pro prospects on their team. They'll have a lottery pick coming off their bench. They're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37106]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have four, five, six pro prospects on their team. They'll have a lottery pick coming off their bench. They're obviously more talented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so much balance to our conference. We just have to take everybody's best shot each week. We beat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30594]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so much balance to our conference. We just have to take everybody's best shot each week. We beat a great Southwest team. We cleared a big hurdle and we just have to make sure we don't hit the next hurdle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it just shows the strength and popularity of the Derby at this point. A few weeks ago our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38760]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it just shows the strength and popularity of the Derby at this point. A few weeks ago our list of horses we thought were possible or probable seemed to be shrinking a bit. But when we got the last round of major preps, the list started growing again -- even though two horses (Brother Derek and Lawyer Ron) you'd regard as the favorites scored emphatic victories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The store jelly doesn't compare. It's fun to give something you couldn't find in a store. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The store jelly doesn't compare. It's fun to give something you couldn't find in a store.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27305]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True praise rootes and spreedes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50021]]></link><description><![CDATA[True praise rootes and spreedes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boy and the FilbertsA boy put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts. He grasped as many as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boy and the FilbertsA boy put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts. He grasped as many as he could possibly hold, but when he tried to pull out his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the pitcher. Unwilling to lose his filberts, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and bitterly lamented his disappointment. A bystander said to him, Be satisfied with half the quantity, and you will readily draw out your hand. Do not attempt too much at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're denying that person the right to run a business, ... We can't find no Kahlua cream in south Bibb ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38126]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're denying that person the right to run a business, ... We can't find no Kahlua cream in south Bibb County now! We need that place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is now a broad consensus, that Israel will go ahead and build our borders to preserve Israel as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29092]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is now a broad consensus, that Israel will go ahead and build our borders to preserve Israel as a democratic Jewish state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upon closer inspection many of the allegedly negative implications of rising international trade and investment for jobs, wages and living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Upon closer inspection many of the allegedly negative implications of rising international trade and investment for jobs, wages and living standards are belied by the evidence,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15656]]></link><description><![CDATA[What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63887]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled,  Shakes off her wonted firmness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled,  Shakes off her wonted firmness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25214]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard: Why can't we all be like that bird? -Edward H. Richards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44188]]></link><description><![CDATA[To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The missionary work of the non-professional missionary is essentially to live his daily life in Christ, and therefore with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7862]]></link><description><![CDATA[The missionary work of the non-professional missionary is essentially to live his daily life in Christ, and therefore with a difference, and to be able to explain, or at least to state, the reason and cause of the difference to men who see it... His preaching is essentially private conversation, and has at the back of it facts, facts of a life which explain and illustrate and enforce his words... It is such missionary work, done consciously and deliberately as missionary, that the world needs today. Everybody, Christian and pagan alike, respects such work; and, when it is so done, men wonder, and inquire into the secret of a life which they instinctively admire and covet for themselves... The spirit which inspires love of others and efforts after their well-being, both in body and soul, they cannot but admire and covet -- unless, indeed, seeing that it would reform their own lives, they dread and hate it, because they do not desire to be reformed. In either case, it works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The war is history, the Iran-Iraq borders should turn into borders of peace and friendship, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41295]]></link><description><![CDATA[The war is history, the Iran-Iraq borders should turn into borders of peace and friendship,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53508]]></link><description><![CDATA[With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear;  Who broke no promise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear;  Who broke no promise, served no private end,   Who gained no title, and who lost no friend,    Ennobled by himself, by all approved,     And praised, unenvied, by the Muse he loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roosevelt plays an up-tempo -- I call it helter-skelter -- kind of game, and they try to pull you into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roosevelt plays an up-tempo -- I call it helter-skelter -- kind of game, and they try to pull you into it. If they get you into it, you're in trouble. They play a bumping and pushing style, and if it's not called, your kids try to do it, too. It worked (for them) tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. See our article: Forgiveness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16543]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. See our article: Forgiveness - A Real Stress Buster -Ed Howe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16543</guid></item></channel></rss>