<?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[God Almighty hates a quitter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10368]]></link><description><![CDATA[God Almighty hates a quitter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem... Problems are like landmarks of progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do blacks identify with the Christian religionof their oppressors?Source: Diane Rehm Show guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do blacks identify with the Christian religionof their oppressors?Source: Diane Rehm Show guest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48397]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53823]]></link><description><![CDATA[He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, an animal that makes bargains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, an animal that makes bargains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15406]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54691]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got everything I need except a man. And I'm not one of those women who thinks a man is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25463]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got everything I need except a man. And I'm not one of those women who thinks a man is the answer to everything, but I'm tired of being alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The arrow will not always find the mark intended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The arrow will not always find the mark intended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It appears the Scottish people have rejected separatism this evening. There was a fundamental choice -- an expensive and messy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34024]]></link><description><![CDATA[It appears the Scottish people have rejected separatism this evening. There was a fundamental choice -- an expensive and messy divorce or the positive policies of Labour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today the journey is ended, I have worked out the mandates of fate;  Naked, along, undefended,   I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today the journey is ended, I have worked out the mandates of fate;  Naked, along, undefended,   I knock at the Uttermost Gate.    Behind is life and its longing,     Its trial, its trouble, its sorrow,      Beyond is the Infinite Morning       Of a day without a tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was not dogma that moved the world, but life. Frequently, when rival parties and rival nations fought with one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8139]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was not dogma that moved the world, but life. Frequently, when rival parties and rival nations fought with one another as to which of two opposed dogmas was the truth, they had been arrayed against one another by more deep-seated and vital causes, and merely inscribed at the last the dogmas on their standards or chose them as watchwords or symbols. We are tired of those elaborate discussions of the fine, wire-drawn, subtle distinctions between sects, and those elaborate discussions of the principles involved in heresies, and we desire to see the real differences in life and conduct receive more attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27794]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sad and solemn night Hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires;  The glorious host of light   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57818]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sad and solemn night Hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires;  The glorious host of light   Walk the dark hemisphere till she retires;    All through her silent watches, gliding slow,     Her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63764]]></link><description><![CDATA[A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51955]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61776]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60405]]></link><description><![CDATA[One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60455]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1331]]></link><description><![CDATA[No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquated...to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the sons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the sons now seek to despoil and destroy, are crying aloud to Him in their time of trouble; and He will keep His promise, and will listen to the voices of His Hawaiian children lamenting for their homes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a driver, he has developed much quicker than I think anybody expected, and that is what really made this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42472]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a driver, he has developed much quicker than I think anybody expected, and that is what really made this possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43745]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["There is no God," the foolish saith,  But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7439]]></link><description><![CDATA["There is no God," the foolish saith,  But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of faith  In bitter need will borrow: Eyes which the preacher could not school,  By wayside graves are raised; And lips say, "God be pitiful,"  Who ne'er said, "God be praised.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5618]]></link><description><![CDATA[He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59074]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: "It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss... ".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59019]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64473]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is like Prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is like Prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and acceptance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64991]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No profit to honour, no honour to Religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49655]]></link><description><![CDATA[No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55823]]></link><description><![CDATA[And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65860]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26010]]></link><description><![CDATA[As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw,  With graceless toil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw,  With graceless toil of beak and added claw,   The meagre food that scarce thy want allays!    And this--to gratify the gloating gaze     Of fools, who value Nature not a straw,      But know to prize the infraction of her law       An hard perversion of her creatures' ways!        Thee the wild woods await, in leaves attired,         Where notes of liquid utterance should engage          Thy bill, that now with pain scant forage earns.   - Julian C.H. Fane,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friend growing up, both of her parents are deaf, so I've always been interested. Through research, children at this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42654]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friend growing up, both of her parents are deaf, so I've always been interested. Through research, children at this age know what they want to say but don't have the language skills to say it yet. The signing bridges that gap and allows them to let their needs be known before they're able to tell us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one knows what Falls Church retail is today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36384]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one knows what Falls Church retail is today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15196]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this. -- Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M Post-It Notepads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15196</guid></item></channel></rss>