<?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 difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven't been willing to try ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21060]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven't been willing to try]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned,  The highest peak hasn't been climbed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned,  The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet,   The mightiest rivers aren't spanned;    Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted,     The chances have just begun      For the best jobs haven't been started,       The best work hasn't been done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On their side the workers had only the Constitution. The other side had bayonets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23953]]></link><description><![CDATA[On their side the workers had only the Constitution. The other side had bayonets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure ... Each one of us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55037]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure ... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every community there is work to be done. In every nation there are wounds to heal. In every heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60966]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every community there is work to be done. In every nation there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62399]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world ~~ Can hear the stars up in the sky ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world ~~ Can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kallis is a methodical run machine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kallis is a methodical run machine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has deceived her father, and may thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51436]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has deceived her father, and may thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beades in the Hand, and the Divell in Capuch (or cape of the cloak). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49797]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beades in the Hand, and the Divell in Capuch (or cape of the cloak).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow small trying to be great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2354]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow small trying to be great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46517]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. - The Upton Letters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But if it makes the Americans happy and willing to go on to discuss the real issues of the peace ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36380]]></link><description><![CDATA[But if it makes the Americans happy and willing to go on to discuss the real issues of the peace process, we happily grant them that achievement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18381]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lover of Jesus and of the truth . . . can lift himself above himself in spirit. [Lat., Amator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18387]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lover of Jesus and of the truth . . . can lift himself above himself in spirit. [Lat., Amator Jesu et veritatis . . . potest se . . . elevare supra seipsum in spiritu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5428]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The houses that are priced properly are selling. We have a market that's pretty much in balance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The houses that are priced properly are selling. We have a market that's pretty much in balance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In essence we have become addicted to the certainty, sureness or sense of security that our faith provides ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5451]]></link><description><![CDATA[In essence we have become addicted to the certainty, sureness or sense of security that our faith provides]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The growing interest is coming from our adult and senior populations, with a need for more family-oriented activities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37544]]></link><description><![CDATA[The growing interest is coming from our adult and senior populations, with a need for more family-oriented activities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17653]]></link><description><![CDATA[After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing adventured, nothing attained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing adventured, nothing attained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1324]]></link><description><![CDATA[True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23539]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1064]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prayers worked, very simply. But we need more prayers. He's not out of it yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29218]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prayers worked, very simply. But we need more prayers. He's not out of it yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to encourage third-party developers who will take the architecture and modify the design to suit specific markets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34797]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to encourage third-party developers who will take the architecture and modify the design to suit specific markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5811]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9688]]></link><description><![CDATA[True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time you have a chance to play the team that's won the conference 50 times in a row, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time you have a chance to play the team that's won the conference 50 times in a row, or however many times they've won it, you're going to get up for them. Every time we get a chance to play them we want to do our best. It always comes down to the last couple of possessions and it's unfortunate someone has to lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every legislator knows where their political strengths are, where the greatest number of votes comes from, and with the ability ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every legislator knows where their political strengths are, where the greatest number of votes comes from, and with the ability to draw the maps themselves they can carve out districts that are very precisely drawn to favor their future political interests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This triggered a series of trade friction, especially in the field of textile, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32215]]></link><description><![CDATA[This triggered a series of trade friction, especially in the field of textile,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18950]]></link><description><![CDATA[To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each one to his own trade; then would the cows be well cared for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each one to his own trade; then would the cows be well cared for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every serious crisis is invariably wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every serious crisis is invariably wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617   Fallacies about Christianity must always be faced as deterrents to right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617   Fallacies about Christianity must always be faced as deterrents to right living, and not merely as mistakes in the mind, for it is the effect they have on our actions which matters most. So soon as we abstract them from our lives and think of them only as faults in our mental machinery, we tend to embrace the greatest fallacy of all -- which is to think of Christianity as a way of looking at life instead of a way of changing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24675]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future is as bright as the promises of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future is as bright as the promises of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19229]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52496]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58822]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50158]]></link><description><![CDATA[For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50158</guid></item></channel></rss>