<?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[Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64776]]></link><description><![CDATA[The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a million miles away from rock and roll, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36656]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a million miles away from rock and roll,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Southern Baptist Convention today would be part of the religious right and 20 years ago it would have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30279]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Southern Baptist Convention today would be part of the religious right and 20 years ago it would have been more mainstream. I think it would also be fair to say the conservatives have developed pretty strong ties to the Republican Party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Woodrow Wilson, the apparent failure, belongs the undying honor, which will grow with the growing centuries, of having saved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62236]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Woodrow Wilson, the apparent failure, belongs the undying honor, which will grow with the growing centuries, of having saved the "little child that shall lead them yet." No other statesman but Wilson could have done it. And he did it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  A Christian and an unbelieving poet may both be equally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  A Christian and an unbelieving poet may both be equally original and draw on resources peculiar to themselves, but with this difference. The unbeliever may take his own temperament and experience, just as they happen to stand, and consider them worth communicating simply because they are his. To the Christian his own temperament and experience, as mere fact, and as merely his, are of no value or importance whatsoever: he will deal with them, if at all, only because they are the medium through which, or the position from which, something universally profitable appeared to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday   We usually think of Jesus in the upper room as calmly and patiently preparing his disciples ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday   We usually think of Jesus in the upper room as calmly and patiently preparing his disciples for their coming crisis; only in the garden are we shown his deep anguish over what lies ahead for himself. But if this verse ("'They hated me without a cause." Ps. 69:4) occurred to Jesus as describing his enemies, surely he was also identifying with the rest of [Psalm 69] with its vivid description of overwhelming troubles and importune cries to God for deliverance. What in the upper room was still under the surface was openly expressed in the garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to speak to the Greens and the FDP in the next few days. What we need is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33696]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to speak to the Greens and the FDP in the next few days. What we need is the largest possible consensus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11923]]></link><description><![CDATA[No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard . . . . . . the great echo flap  And buffet round the hills from bluff ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13304]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard . . . . . . the great echo flap  And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60754]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's still out enjoying his life and my brother is gone. We would like to see a little bit of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29200]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's still out enjoying his life and my brother is gone. We would like to see a little bit of justice, that's all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a fair amount of resilience in the consumer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32880]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a fair amount of resilience in the consumer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stocks are certainly more expensive than they were a year ago. People are piling into this space, but I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stocks are certainly more expensive than they were a year ago. People are piling into this space, but I think that if you look at the benchmarks around the world these are great businesses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these?  Surely the heart that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these?  Surely the heart that conceived it sought   Heart's ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To manipulate an image is to control a people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46555]]></link><description><![CDATA[To manipulate an image is to control a people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the market realizes there is no real threat of an immediate conflict, the market will calm down and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the market realizes there is no real threat of an immediate conflict, the market will calm down and we will see oil prices back in the $50s or $60s per barrel. This is highly political.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44755]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose? Is pain to themLess pain, less to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25303]]></link><description><![CDATA[But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose? Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure? Courageous chief,The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight,Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive. - Paradise Lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A high-school teacher, afer all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58761]]></link><description><![CDATA[A high-school teacher, afer all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have discussed the elements of this proposal and our common position on this matter is that we have made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35718]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have discussed the elements of this proposal and our common position on this matter is that we have made progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee goes not out of his way, that goes to a good Inne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee goes not out of his way, that goes to a good Inne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like that best as I am so hairy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29983]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like that best as I am so hairy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be retaught when the students become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be retaught when the students become teachers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And hears thy stormy music in the drum! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43445]]></link><description><![CDATA[And hears thy stormy music in the drum!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead;  They followed still his crooked way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4780]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead;  They followed still his crooked way   And lost a hundred years a day;    For thus such reverence is lent     To well established precedent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17603]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No words are necessary between two loving hearts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62028]]></link><description><![CDATA[No words are necessary between two loving hearts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a lot of interest in resources stocks and the sector looks set for a good move forward. There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41925]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a lot of interest in resources stocks and the sector looks set for a good move forward. There are all the usual stories about overseas predators targeting Australian miners, which look cheap on a world-wide comparison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we'll do anything differently. We'll try to put a lot of pressure on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37155]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we'll do anything differently. We'll try to put a lot of pressure on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -Hans Margolius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the quarter's financials are important, the stock performance keys off the PeopleSoft decision. A resolution will be positive one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35286]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the quarter's financials are important, the stock performance keys off the PeopleSoft decision. A resolution will be positive one way or another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are obligations to nobility. [Lat., Noblesse oblige.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44579]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are obligations to nobility. [Lat., Noblesse oblige.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the step-mother of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the step-mother of genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke: "Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we."  "They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23012]]></link><description><![CDATA[We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke: "Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we."  "They hunt old trails" said Cyril, "very well;   But when did woman ever yet invent?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is more important than all justice; and was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is more important than all justice; and was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just know this is the best job I've ever had because I have had so many other jobs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33691]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just know this is the best job I've ever had because I have had so many other jobs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/221]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's a health to you and yours who have done such things for us and ours. And when we and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's a health to you and yours who have done such things for us and ours. And when we and ours have it in our powers to do for you and yours what you and yours have done for us and ours,  Then we and ours will do for you and yours what you and yours have done for us and ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jazz is rhythm and meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jazz is rhythm and meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am really, I think, truly an easygoing, positive, fun person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66293]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am really, I think, truly an easygoing, positive, fun person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rainbows apologize for angry skies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rainbows apologize for angry skies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23019]]></link><description><![CDATA[An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23019</guid></item></channel></rss>