<?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[The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, nothing hurts worse than pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, nothing hurts worse than pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54846]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's metal more attractive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's metal more attractive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love death. The US loves life. That is the difference between us two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45311]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love death. The US loves life. That is the difference between us two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52489]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11448]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is simply the reification of the process of living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is simply the reification of the process of living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28686]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17814]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is one long process of getting tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is one long process of getting tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That goes back to not accepting it. What if I said, 'Yeah, you're right, Chris is better, I'm just going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41329]]></link><description><![CDATA[That goes back to not accepting it. What if I said, 'Yeah, you're right, Chris is better, I'm just going to be prepared to do mop-up duty.' I don't think we would have won. I think they would have had an unprepared quarterback.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hers was one of the first applications we accepted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hers was one of the first applications we accepted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pool is huge here. I can't go anywhere without running into someone who plays on a league. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pool is huge here. I can't go anywhere without running into someone who plays on a league.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chief Justice battled thyroid cancer since being diagnosed last October and continued to perform his duties on the court ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chief Justice battled thyroid cancer since being diagnosed last October and continued to perform his duties on the court until a precipitous decline in his health the last couple of days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never worry about action, but only about inaction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never worry about action, but only about inaction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906 Continuing a short series on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906 Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35520]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A peaceful mind generates power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22634]]></link><description><![CDATA[A peaceful mind generates power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17125]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth  It is the custom of unbelievers to speak as if the air of Palestine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth  It is the custom of unbelievers to speak as if the air of Palestine were then surcharged with belief in the supernatural, miracles were everywhere. Thus they would explain away the significance of the popular belief that our Lord wrought signs and wonders. But in so doing they set themselves a worse problem than they evade. If miracles were so very common, it would be as easy to believe that Jesus wrought them as that He worked at His father's bench, but also it would be as inconclusive.  And how then are we to explain the astonishment which all the evangelists so constantly record? On any conceivable theory, these writers shared the beliefs of that age, and so did the readers who accepted their assurance that all were amazed, and that His report "went out straightway everywhere into all the region of Galilee." These are emphatic words, and both the author and his readers must have considered a miracle to be more surprising than modern critics believe they did. Yet we do not read of any one was converted by this miracle. All were amazed, but wonder is not self-surrender. They were content to let their excitement die out -- as every violent emotion must -- without any change of life, any permanent devotion to the new Teacher and His doctrine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58735]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although prayer has been defined as communion with God, aspiration after the highest things, Stopford Brooke [Irish clergyman, 1832-1916] is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although prayer has been defined as communion with God, aspiration after the highest things, Stopford Brooke [Irish clergyman, 1832-1916] is right when he insists that prayer, in its plainest meaning, is a petition addressed to God. When Jesus laid the duty of petition upon his disciples, He went on to assert the reasonableness of man's asking and God's answering. Jesus argues along the line of reason that, if an earthly parent does the best in his power for his children, ... the Almighty and All-Wise Love, of which human love is only the shadow, will do better still for His great family; and therefore our Master teaches that men ought everywhere to pray, without fear, with hope, and without doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. [Lat., Summa petit livor: perflant altissima venti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. [Lat., Summa petit livor: perflant altissima venti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55560]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. What news on the Rialto? -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is with those who persevere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46158]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is with those who persevere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are like the eels of Melun; you cry out before you are skinned. [Fr., Vous semblez les anguilles de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10494]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are like the eels of Melun; you cry out before you are skinned. [Fr., Vous semblez les anguilles de Melun; vous criez devant qu'on vous esorche.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24564]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But all's to no end, for the time will not mend Till the King enjoys his own again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54493]]></link><description><![CDATA[But all's to no end, for the time will not mend Till the King enjoys his own again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. [Lat., In regione caecorum rex est luscus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48962]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. [Lat., In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9415]]></link><description><![CDATA[All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a momentous case. The UK is at an important crossroads. It can reaffirm its stand against torture, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39543]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a momentous case. The UK is at an important crossroads. It can reaffirm its stand against torture, which is absolutely banned, or slide towards illegality by its tacit acceptance that torture is sometimes OK.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59610]]></link><description><![CDATA[And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, weaponless himself, Made arms ridiculous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57942]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, weaponless himself, Made arms ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15684]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational;  But he, whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15495]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational;  But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues,   And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're trying to do is trying to have reproduction of species in captivity so that if we do lose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34645]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're trying to do is trying to have reproduction of species in captivity so that if we do lose them in the wild, there's an option.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15975]]></link><description><![CDATA[The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21881</guid></item></channel></rss>