<?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[It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66661]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has a firm will molds the world to himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61611]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has a firm will molds the world to himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The overwhelming recognition of human sin controls the Old Testament and the New Testament alike, and no understanding of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The overwhelming recognition of human sin controls the Old Testament and the New Testament alike, and no understanding of our Lord's words and actions is possible if we persist in denying it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52385]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers. Some of it might not be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers. Some of it might not be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58033]]></link><description><![CDATA[When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14902]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4359]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the employers I talked to do not want to hire them. They said these people are being trained with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33153]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the employers I talked to do not want to hire them. They said these people are being trained with the wrong things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My brother picked on me when I was younger, ... I guess it started when I was about 7 or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38048]]></link><description><![CDATA[My brother picked on me when I was younger, ... I guess it started when I was about 7 or 8 years old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35887]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60045]]></link><description><![CDATA[And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if there is any issue that they would feel strongly enough to take. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32888]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if there is any issue that they would feel strongly enough to take.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9278]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health, And Fortune (for a passport) gave him wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health, And Fortune (for a passport) gave him wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that a lot of gay people feel like if you're openly gay, by doing so you're sacrificing being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28365]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that a lot of gay people feel like if you're openly gay, by doing so you're sacrificing being any kind of public figure on Howard's campus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45129]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou wilt never be spiritually minded and godly unless thou art silent concerning other men's matters and take full heed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou wilt never be spiritually minded and godly unless thou art silent concerning other men's matters and take full heed to thyself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46830]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They haven't notified us yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41589]]></link><description><![CDATA[They haven't notified us yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41505]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4700]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58484]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is truly great who hath a great charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5703]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is truly great who hath a great charity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58452]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8755]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what I'm shooting for, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35665]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what I'm shooting for,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  The valley of the shadow of death holds no darkness for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  The valley of the shadow of death holds no darkness for the child of God. There must be light, else there could be no shadow. Jesus is the light. He has overcome death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50633]]></link><description><![CDATA[They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honesty to reporting.Thus, if a legend told of a notable hero that all men spoke of his prowess any bard who valued his life would hastily add except for a couple of people in his home village who thought he was a loony, and quite a lot of other people who had never really heard of him. Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like: His mighty steed was fast as the wind, on a fairly calm day, say about Force Three, any loose talk about a beloved having a face that could launch a thousand ships would have to be backed by evidence that the object of desire did indeed own a very large seaport. Patrician Olaf II was eventually killed during an experiment conducted in the palace grounds to prove the disputed accuracy of the proverb The Pen is mightier than the Sword.In his memory it was decided that the proverb would from now on include the phrase: only if the Sword is very small and the Pen very sharp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The concern is that the resulting increase in traffic counts on Howard Orchard Road will force the county to fund ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33730]]></link><description><![CDATA[The concern is that the resulting increase in traffic counts on Howard Orchard Road will force the county to fund improvements to a roadway that has not been on any kind of planned improvement list.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60536]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing stings us so bitterly as the loss of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing stings us so bitterly as the loss of money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction. -E. F. Schumacher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52886]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23716]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger may be foolish and obsurd, and one may be irritated when in the wrong; but a man never feels ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger may be foolish and obsurd, and one may be irritated when in the wrong; but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is at bottom right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never seen such a high level in a competition before. Today's race was perhaps the most competitive ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35211]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never seen such a high level in a competition before. Today's race was perhaps the most competitive ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24836]]></link><description><![CDATA[This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your pot broken seemes better then my whole one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your pot broken seemes better then my whole one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44820</guid></item></channel></rss>