<?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[Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance--the cheerful man will do more in the same time, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance--the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides, as is usually the case, we are much more affected by the words which we hear, for though what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides, as is usually the case, we are much more affected by the words which we hear, for though what you read in books may be more pointed, yet there is something in the voice, the look, the carriage, and even the gesture of the speaker, that makes a deeper impression upon the mind. [Lat., Praeterea multo magis, ut vulgo dicitur viva vox afficit: nam licet acriora sint, quae legas, ultius tamen in ammo sedent, quae pronuntiatio, vultus, habitus, gestus dicentis adfigit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: You find the present tense and the past perfect ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: You find the present tense and the past perfect]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65650]]></link><description><![CDATA[War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In remembrance of Theresa Marie Schiavo: Issues of law and ethics, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41890]]></link><description><![CDATA[In remembrance of Theresa Marie Schiavo: Issues of law and ethics,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[trying to fit the president's details into our principles, and it's a very difficult fit to be made. But I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33667]]></link><description><![CDATA[trying to fit the president's details into our principles, and it's a very difficult fit to be made. But I think we can get there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early yesterday morning, Dole approached the port to see if we could do anything in advance of that 30th of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early yesterday morning, Dole approached the port to see if we could do anything in advance of that 30th of September date, and all of the agencies, all of the service providers came together and we were able to receive the ship this morning around 10:30.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would not have subdued him when we did, the incident could have been much worse, or even fatal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41688]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would not have subdued him when we did, the incident could have been much worse, or even fatal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew it was going to be tough. Our game plan was to play defense, but I'm happy. We were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32717]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew it was going to be tough. Our game plan was to play defense, but I'm happy. We were even on errors, but we just couldn't get the hits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43950]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33602]]></link><description><![CDATA[What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23277]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2854]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63352]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14596]]></link><description><![CDATA[For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in the. [Ephesians 2:10].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've sold or sampled more than 15 million servings. People are telling us that this is a product that works ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36051]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've sold or sampled more than 15 million servings. People are telling us that this is a product that works for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9358]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't see major these kinds of fluctuations unless there's major maintenance going on, which is usually announced in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34534]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't see major these kinds of fluctuations unless there's major maintenance going on, which is usually announced in the press.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54238]]></link><description><![CDATA[My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I saw was equal ecstasy: One universal smile it seemed of all things.  [It., Cio ch'io vedeva mi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24172]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I saw was equal ecstasy: One universal smile it seemed of all things.  [It., Cio ch'io vedeva mi sembrava un riso   Dell's universo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And a breastplate made of daisies, Closely fitting, leaf on leaf,  Periwinkles interlaced   Drawn for belt about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10980]]></link><description><![CDATA[And a breastplate made of daisies, Closely fitting, leaf on leaf,  Periwinkles interlaced   Drawn for belt about the waist;    While the brown bees, humming praises,     Shot their arrows round the chief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wasn't as easy as you think. It's hard to stay awake that long. (after his team had defeated Whitman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57636]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wasn't as easy as you think. It's hard to stay awake that long. (after his team had defeated Whitman 70-30)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher education has seen its percentage of general fund decline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Higher education has seen its percentage of general fund decline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 Jesus, as a mother you gather your people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 Jesus, as a mother you gather your people to you:  you are gentle with us as a mother with her children; Often you weep over our sins and our pride:  tenderly you draw us from hatred and judgement. You comfort us in sorrow and bind up our wounds:  in sickness you nurse us,  and with pure milk you feed us. Jesus, by your dying we are born to new life:  by your anguish and labour we come forth in joy. Despair turns to hope through your sweet goodness:  through your gentleness we find comfort in fear. Your warmth gives life to the dead:  your touch makes sinners righteous. Lord Jesus, in your mercy heal us:  in your love and tenderness remake us. In your compassion bring grace and forgiveness:  for the beauty of heaven may your love prepare us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failing to plan is planning to fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failing to plan is planning to fail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If woolly fleeces spread the heavenly way No rain, be sure, disturbs the summer's day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8915]]></link><description><![CDATA[If woolly fleeces spread the heavenly way No rain, be sure, disturbs the summer's day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To refuse graciously is to confer a favor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15488]]></link><description><![CDATA[To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet. [Fr., Mais ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56717]]></link><description><![CDATA[But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet. [Fr., Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan? C'estoit le plus grand soucy qu'eust Villon, le poete parisien.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What wilt thou do to thyself, who hast added insult to injury? [Lat., Quid facies tibi,  Injuriae qui addideris ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22844]]></link><description><![CDATA[What wilt thou do to thyself, who hast added insult to injury? [Lat., Quid facies tibi,  Injuriae qui addideris contumeliam?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only on recognising the true, may we lay down our task of searching further for truth; and only on being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only on recognising the true, may we lay down our task of searching further for truth; and only on being satisfied that we have found the holy, are we justified in submitting to its guidance. The duty of following truth at all hazards is not altered, and it is only a false wisdom and prudence which shuns the search. The one chief reason why so much more may be revealed to babes than to the wise and prudent is still simply that, with less calculation and prejudice, they entirely abandon themselves to the leading of truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to the statistics agency of the Chinese government, China invested US$ 7 billion in Sudan in 2005. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42602]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to the statistics agency of the Chinese government, China invested US$ 7 billion in Sudan in 2005.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have an infinate number of monkeys and an infinate number of Sparcs, they will eventually code Solaris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57110]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have an infinate number of monkeys and an infinate number of Sparcs, they will eventually code Solaris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon Seek roses in December--ice in June,  Hope, constancy in wind, or corn in chaff;   Believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10729]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon Seek roses in December--ice in June,  Hope, constancy in wind, or corn in chaff;   Believe a woman or an epitaph,    Or any other thing that's false, before     You trust in critics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a huge agenda for Blair. But in an hour-long meeting, Africa and global warming will take no more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36130]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a huge agenda for Blair. But in an hour-long meeting, Africa and global warming will take no more than 10 minutes each. Those are showpiece elements to Blair's leadership but not the most important issues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36130</guid></item></channel></rss>