<?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[I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51945]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The massive gates of circumstance Are turned upon the smallest hinge,  And thus some seeming pettiest chance   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8699]]></link><description><![CDATA[The massive gates of circumstance Are turned upon the smallest hinge,  And thus some seeming pettiest chance   Oft gives our life its after-tinge.    The trifles of our daily lives,     The common things, scarce worth recall,      Whereof no visible trace survives,       These are the mainsprings after all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.   - Ebenezer Elliott ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.   - Ebenezer Elliott ("The Corn Law Rhymer"),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a statute that says we're exempt from impact fees. Period. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33438]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a statute that says we're exempt from impact fees. Period.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He just wasn't hitting the holes like he wanted to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37438]]></link><description><![CDATA[He just wasn't hitting the holes like he wanted to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65263]]></link><description><![CDATA[A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8997]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is too short to stuff a mushroom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63421]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no assurance that half-truth will make us free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52068]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no assurance that half-truth will make us free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1381]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet still a sad, good Christian at the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet still a sad, good Christian at the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then horn for horn they stretch and strive; Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then horn for horn they stretch and strive; Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes thou shalt be forsaken of God, sometimes thou shalt be troubled by thy neighbors; and what is more, oftentimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes thou shalt be forsaken of God, sometimes thou shalt be troubled by thy neighbors; and what is more, oftentimes thou shalt be wearisome even to thyself. Neither canst thou be delivered or eased by any remedy or comfort; but so long as it pleaseth God, thou oughtest to bear it. For God will have thee learn to suffer tribulation without comfort, and that thou subject thyself wholly to Him, and by tribulation become more humble. No man hath so cordial a feeling of the Passion of Christ, as he that hath suffered the like himself. The Cross therefore is always ready, and everywhere waits for thee. Thou canst not escape it, whithersoever thou runnest; for wheresoever thou goest, thou carriest thyself with thee, and shalt ever find thyself. Both above and below, without and within, which way so ever thou dost turn thee, everywhere thou shalt find the Cross; and everywhere of necessity thou must hold fast patience, if thou wilt have inward peace, and enjoy an everlasting crown.  ...Thomas à Kempis, Of the Imitation of Christ June 8, 1996 Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  The charm of the words of great men, those grand sayings which are recognized as true as soon as heard, is this, that you recognize them as wisdom which has passed across your own mind. You feel that they are your own thoughts come back to you, else you would not at once admit them. "All of that has floated across me before, only I could not say it, and did not feel confident enough to assert it: or had not conviction enough to put it into words." Yes, God spoke to you what He did to them: only, they believed it, said it, trusted the Word within them; and you did not. Be sure that often when you say, "It is only my own poor thought, and I am alone," the real correcting thought is this: "Alone, but the Father is with me, and therefore I can live that lonely conviction.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be nice to win this time. It's hard to say what the competition is going to be like. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42679]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be nice to win this time. It's hard to say what the competition is going to be like. I've still got a couple of weeks to work hard and prepare. I think I can do a little better than I did today. We'll see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told you, sir, they were redhot with drinking; So full of valor that they smote the air  For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told you, sir, they were redhot with drinking; So full of valor that they smote the air  For breathing in their faces, beat the ground,   For kissing of their feet; yet always bending    Towards their project.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eating words has never given me indigestion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eating words has never given me indigestion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24318]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62043]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8807]]></link><description><![CDATA[All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt Away from my embraces:  And fallen into the dusty crypt   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51720]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt Away from my embraces:  And fallen into the dusty crypt   Of darken'd forms and faces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57105]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misery travels free through the whole world! [Ger., Frei geht das Ungluck durch die ganze Erde!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misery travels free through the whole world! [Ger., Frei geht das Ungluck durch die ganze Erde!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We haven't seen anything that looks and feel like an Apple product yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39336]]></link><description><![CDATA[We haven't seen anything that looks and feel like an Apple product yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8853]]></link><description><![CDATA[For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, Columbia, the gem of the ocean, The home of the brave and the free,  The shrine of each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2389]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, Columbia, the gem of the ocean, The home of the brave and the free,  The shrine of each patriot's devotion,   A world offers homage to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like seaweed; even if you have pushed it away, you will not prevent it from coming back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like seaweed; even if you have pushed it away, you will not prevent it from coming back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tester I 'll have in pouch, when thou shalt lack, Base Phrygian Turk! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tester I 'll have in pouch, when thou shalt lack, Base Phrygian Turk! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60871]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66154]]></link><description><![CDATA[She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3217]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. [Ecclesiasticus 28:17 --18].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness,  Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3832]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness,  Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remind the government of its international obligation to respect the right of peaceful assembly, and I remind its security ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41095]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remind the government of its international obligation to respect the right of peaceful assembly, and I remind its security forces of their obligation to use only minimum necessary force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, now you are too flat, And mar the concord with too harsh a descant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, now you are too flat, And mar the concord with too harsh a descant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes find ourselves at a loss as to whether we should be more appalled at the Bush Administration's ideological ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34585]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes find ourselves at a loss as to whether we should be more appalled at the Bush Administration's ideological obsession, its incompetence, its arrogance, its anti-intellectualism, or its dishonesty, ... In New Orleans, we see all of these forces at work in a manner that the mainstream media finally finds itself unable to ignore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. [Lat., Dum in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60022]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. [Lat., Dum in dubio est animus, paulo momento huc illuc impellitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple and brave, his faith awoke Ploughmen to struggle with their fate;  Armies won battles when he spoke,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simple and brave, his faith awoke Ploughmen to struggle with their fate;  Armies won battles when he spoke,   And out of Chaos sprang the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you make a bet, you're saying something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28608]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you make a bet, you're saying something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1693]]></link><description><![CDATA[African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9678]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9678</guid></item></channel></rss>