<?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[Those who commence deliberately. They plod on. They stick to it. They persevere and finally reap their rewards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who commence deliberately. They plod on. They stick to it. They persevere and finally reap their rewards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speake not of my debts, unlesse you meane to pay them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speake not of my debts, unlesse you meane to pay them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58785]]></link><description><![CDATA[So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heredity deals the cards; environment plays the hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heredity deals the cards; environment plays the hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4426]]></link><description><![CDATA[The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are really good friends]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14125]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of imagination makes us infinite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of imagination makes us infinite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not have information on what is put in canned light tuna. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32902]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not have information on what is put in canned light tuna.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cal/OSHA does not have enough field inspectors to meet its day-to-day responsibilities, let alone effectively investigate complaints at a huge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cal/OSHA does not have enough field inspectors to meet its day-to-day responsibilities, let alone effectively investigate complaints at a huge project like the Bay Bridge retrofit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48987]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48630]]></link><description><![CDATA[The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Is there no hope?" the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head,  And took his leave with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26693]]></link><description><![CDATA["Is there no hope?" the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head,  And took his leave with signs of sorrow,   Despairing of his fee to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions;  Yet others of our most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions;  Yet others of our most romantic schemes   Are something more than fictions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13575]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs, When season'd with love, which no rancour disturbs  And sweeten'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs, When season'd with love, which no rancour disturbs  And sweeten'd by all that is sweetest in life   Than turbot, bisque, ortolans, eaten in strife!    But if, out of humour, and hungry, alone     A man should sit down to dinner, each one      Of the dishes which the cook chooses to spoil       With a horrible mixture of garlic and oil,        The chances are ten against one, I must own,         He gets up as ill-tempered as when he sat down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19307]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who could tell such a story with dry eyes? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who could tell such a story with dry eyes?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're just as good as we are. They look like West Point, just not as many of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33453]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're just as good as we are. They look like West Point, just not as many of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can play about anything, but I gotta get it all rigged where I could get to it, you know, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can play about anything, but I gotta get it all rigged where I could get to it, you know, so I can play it all at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5537]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23488]]></link><description><![CDATA[A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19371]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 Commemoration of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, tractarian, 1882  God desires and is pleased to communicate with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills, and our emotions. The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the souls of the redeemed men and women is the throbbing heart of the New Testament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The image of Eternity--the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime  The monsters of the deep are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The image of Eternity--the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime  The monsters of the deep are made; each zone   Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965  Who is it that has helped you most? Has it not been those who believed in you? Perhaps there may be few such left. The light of expectation may have died out of the most friendly and hopeful eyes; and you yourself may have lost heart. Ah! but there is still One whose faith in you has never wavered. And how wonderful it is that that one should be Jesus Christ!... It was a wonderful dream God dreamed, Christ says, when He created you; it was a stately being that was in His mind when you were fashioned; and I can make you all He meant that you should be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35195]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I felt like slitting my wrists I used to like listening to depressed singers from the 1970s. It was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I felt like slitting my wrists I used to like listening to depressed singers from the 1970s. It was great music for a misunderstood teenager. And when I'm feeling misunderstood these days, I'll stick on a bit of Leonard Cohen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now we are inundated with stuff, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now we are inundated with stuff,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a friendship set to music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a friendship set to music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll have a short presentation. We just encourage anybody who is interested in the lake to attend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33557]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll have a short presentation. We just encourage anybody who is interested in the lake to attend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have qualified people to speak. They don't have experts and commentators. There's no political discourse in this city, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28268]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have qualified people to speak. They don't have experts and commentators. There's no political discourse in this city, and it showed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He called me a bigot two times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38124]]></link><description><![CDATA[He called me a bigot two times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am responsible only to God and history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am responsible only to God and history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Africa's bowling attack has been exposed as being toothless, and it certainly lacks a cutting edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38995]]></link><description><![CDATA[South Africa's bowling attack has been exposed as being toothless, and it certainly lacks a cutting edge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64710</guid></item></channel></rss>