<?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[Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow is, ah, whose? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59462]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow is, ah, whose?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know God won't give me anything I can't handle;I just wish he didn't trust me so much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17697]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know God won't give me anything I can't handle;I just wish he didn't trust me so much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27468]]></link><description><![CDATA[We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much for so long with so little, we are now capable of doing anything with nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine . . . . War is hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19147]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine . . . . War is hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is all nouns and verbs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is all nouns and verbs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is silent. [Ger., Der grosste Hass ist, wie die ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is silent. [Ger., Der grosste Hass ist, wie die grosste Tugend und die schlimmsten Hunde, still.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see where Bill Belichick wore a navy blue shirt during (last week's) opener. What, he has abandoned that gray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37858]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see where Bill Belichick wore a navy blue shirt during (last week's) opener. What, he has abandoned that gray sweatshirt he borrowed from the Unabomber?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47084]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47084</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/8258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965  As we look out upon history and the world, it is with the same vision of all things in Christ which dominates the perceptions of all believers, without distinction of age, or race, or Church. Not a saint, a thinker, a hero, or a martyr of the Church, but we claim a share in his character, influence and achievements, by confessing the debt we owe to the great tradition which he has enriched by saintly consecration, true thought, or noble conduct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudice cannot see the things that are because it is always looking for things that aren't ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudice cannot see the things that are because it is always looking for things that aren't]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12454]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a new experience for me. I've had a good preparation this season and I'm just trying to grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36702]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a new experience for me. I've had a good preparation this season and I'm just trying to grow in my game. I just have to keep playing the same way I have been this week and give 100 percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is never too late to be what you might have been. •George Eliot  It takes time to build ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59316]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is never too late to be what you might have been. •George Eliot  It takes time to build a castle. •Irish Proverb  A minute now is better than a minute later. •Anonymous  Time is of the essence, but what is the essence of time? •Karan Varsheni  Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. •Anonymous  I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer. •Dan Quisenberry  Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like an orange. •Unknown  If you're not five minutes early, you're ten minutes late. •Anonymous  To be on time is to be late. To be early is to be on time. •Tim Gunter   The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. •Leo Kennedy  Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end? •Stoppard  Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. •Berlioz  One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. •Anonymous  You may delay, but time will not. •Benjamin Franklin  With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. •Chinese proverb  Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. •Cheers  You can never plan the future by the past. •Edmund Burke  Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. •Roger Babson  The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. •Paul Valery  Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. •M Scott Peck  Time is the fire in which we burn. •Gene Roddenberry  You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. •Charles Buxton  Time ripens all things. No man's born wise. •Cervantes  Imagine a donut, fired from a cannon at the speed of light while rotating. Time is like that, except without the cannon and the donut. •Dilbert  Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. •Will Rogers  You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. •James Thurber  Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. •Thomas Mann  Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. •W N Taylor  Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vengeance is mine, and I will repay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His shortcoming is his long staying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4729]]></link><description><![CDATA[His shortcoming is his long staying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Vain JackdawJupiter determined, it is said, to create a sovereign over the birds, and made proclamation that on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1561]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Vain JackdawJupiter determined, it is said, to create a sovereign over the birds, and made proclamation that on a certain day they should all present themselves before him, when he would himself choose the most beautiful among them to be king. The Jackdaw, knowing his own ugliness, searched through the woods and fields, and collected the feathers which had fallen from the wings of his companions, and stuck them in all parts of his body, hoping thereby to make himself the most beautiful of all. When the appointed day arrived, and the birds had assembled before Jupiter, the Jackdaw also made his appearance in his many feathered finery. But when Jupiter proposed to make him king because of the beauty of his plumage, the birds indignantly protested, and each plucked from him his own feathers, leaving the Jackdaw nothing but a Jackdaw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  Words are merely carriers of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  Words are merely carriers of the secret, supernatural communications, the light and call of God. That is why spiritual books bear such different meanings for different types and qualities of soul, why each time we read them they give us something fresh, as we can bear it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dad was a pretty poor guy, he didn't have a whole lot of money. He always wanted something for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38826]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dad was a pretty poor guy, he didn't have a whole lot of money. He always wanted something for my brother and myself, some kind of business. He'd asked the owners of this course to call him if it ever came up for sale, and one day, they called. I had a scholarship offer to Ohio State and my dad said, 'Son, what do you want to do, cut grass or go to school?' I said, what do you want me to do, Dad? He said, 'Well, I can't afford any help.' I said, 'No problem, Dad, I'll help you cut grass.' Looking back, I think I made the right decision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My job is usually to help the team by playing defense and leading the club. But they were giving me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29181]]></link><description><![CDATA[My job is usually to help the team by playing defense and leading the club. But they were giving me shots, so I had to take them. We all have the green light if we're open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a way for enterprises to authenticate their users and then have those users trusted beyond the scope of just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30654]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a way for enterprises to authenticate their users and then have those users trusted beyond the scope of just their business. We never thought of outsourcing Passport, previously, but there is tremendous market opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17974]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15974]]></link><description><![CDATA[The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a group is able to underwrite the cost of catering an event, we would encourage them to do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31084]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a group is able to underwrite the cost of catering an event, we would encourage them to do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness depends upon ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness depends upon ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63660]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until we end our violence against the earth- a matter ignored by most pacifists, as the issue of military violence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until we end our violence against the earth- a matter ignored by most pacifists, as the issue of military violence is ignored by most conservationists-how can we hope to end our violence against each other? The earth, which we all have in common, is our deepest bond, and our behavior toward it cannot help but be an earnest of our consideration for each other and for our descendants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond Summer sympathies ensnared,  Nor from the perfect circle of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11566]]></link><description><![CDATA[December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond Summer sympathies ensnared,  Nor from the perfect circle of the year   Can even Winter's crystal gems be spared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was such an ugly kid - When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was such an ugly kid - When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you kill bacteria down to three feet you're not going to have any problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33820]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you kill bacteria down to three feet you're not going to have any problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17992]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We saw something starting to happen with the industry and we called them out on it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37643]]></link><description><![CDATA[We saw something starting to happen with the industry and we called them out on it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58853]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing moves more quickly than scandal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59223]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58729]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58729</guid></item></channel></rss>