<?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[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the "ready-aim-aim-aim syndrome." You must be willing to fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14368]]></link><description><![CDATA[We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65358]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people like"If the people wants there's a lot of ways but if the people has no interest there's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people like"If the people wants there's a lot of ways but if the people has no interest there's a lot of reason & excuses]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Builders are using every nook and cranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Builders are using every nook and cranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically I'm pleased the towns have decided to participate in the project, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically I'm pleased the towns have decided to participate in the project,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64498]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59244]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25524]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4977]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success has made failures of many men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success has made failures of many men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light of day ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light of day]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no way to actively portray where security problems are coming from because all attacks look the same, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34181]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no way to actively portray where security problems are coming from because all attacks look the same, and that forces you to assume the worst every time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48494]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty. [Lat., Semel profecto premere felices deus  Cum coepit, urget; hos habent magna exitus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then read from the treasured volume  The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then read from the treasured volume  The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet  The beauty of thy voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our true nationality is mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our true nationality is mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want the [IAEA] to end discrimination against us and allow all member states equal access to nuclear technology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35720]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want the [IAEA] to end discrimination against us and allow all member states equal access to nuclear technology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real estate is a big concern, and we're going to have to watch it carefully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real estate is a big concern, and we're going to have to watch it carefully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5740]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4288]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Salerio:) . . . if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. (Solanio:) I would she were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17890]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Salerio:) . . . if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word. (Solanio:) I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever knapped ginger or made her neighbors believe she wept for the death of a third husband.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27168]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the looks--not the lips, is the soul reflected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57282]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the looks--not the lips, is the soul reflected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11399]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great is truth, and strongest of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is truth, and strongest of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a true freshman (at Texas), I had Ricky Williams and he took a hell of a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41335]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a true freshman (at Texas), I had Ricky Williams and he took a hell of a lot of pressure off me. Obviously the run game helps the pass. Nothing's changed in football.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time cools; time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time cools; time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is, above all, the gift of oneself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is, above all, the gift of oneself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know so well what the unique quality was that held this great and beautiful pride and exquisite humility together. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6898]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know so well what the unique quality was that held this great and beautiful pride and exquisite humility together. It lay in the relationship he held with God. We know the familiar idea of Jesus' oneness with God: only we deal with it too much as a doctrine of the Church, not as an element in Jesus' own experience. If we never find it in reality, in life, we cannot reveal the true Christ-like character at all -- we will always be trying earnestly to be something, but on too superficial and obvious a plane.  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn June 28, 1996 Feast of Irenêus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  The Church exists, and does not depend for its existence upon our definition of it: it exists wherever God in His sovereign freedom calls it into being by calling his own into the fellowship of His Son. And it exists solely by His mercy. God shuts up and will shut up every way except the way of faith which simply accepts His mercy as mercy. To that end, He is free to break off unbelieving branches, to graft in wild slips, and to call "No people" His people. And if, at the end, those who have preserved through all the centuries the visible "marks" of the Church find themselves at the same board with some strange and uncouth late-comers on the ecclesiastical scene, may we not fancy that they will hear Him say -- would it not be so like him to say -- "It is my will to give unto these last even as unto thee"? Final judgement belongs to God, and we have to beware of judging before the time. I think that if we refuse fellowship in Christ to any body of men and women who accept Jesus as Lord and show the fruits of His Spirit in their corporate life, we do so at our peril. It behooves us, therefore, to receive one another as Christ has received us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63215]]></link><description><![CDATA[If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heede of the viniger of sweet wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heede of the viniger of sweet wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63766]]></link><description><![CDATA[A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the Lapdog A man had an Ass, and a Maltese Lapdog, a very great beauty. The Ass ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1545]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Lapdog A man had an Ass, and a Maltese Lapdog, a very great beauty. The Ass was left in a stable and had plenty of oats and hay to eat, just as any other Ass would. The Lapdog knew many tricks and was a great favorite with his master, who often fondled him and seldom went out to dine without bringing him home some tidbit to eat. The Ass, on the contrary, had much work to do in grinding the corn-mill and in carrying wood from the forest or burdens from the farm. He often lamented his own hard fate and contrasted it with the luxury and idleness of the Lapdog, till at last one day he broke his cords and halter, and galloped into his master's house, kicking up his heels without measure, and frisking and fawning as well as he could. He next tried to jump about his master as he had seen the Lapdog do, but he broke the table and smashed all the dishes upon it to atoms. He then attempted to lick his master, and jumped upon his back. The servants, hearing the strange hubbub and perceiving the danger of their master, quickly relieved him, and drove out the Ass to his stable with kicks and clubs and cuffs. The Ass, as he returned to his stall beaten nearly to death, thus lamented: I have brought it all on myself! Why could I not have been contented to labor with my companions, and not wish to be idle all the day like that useless little Lapdog!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't hit a home run with a witness who has admittedly lied for years but all of a sudden, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38288]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't hit a home run with a witness who has admittedly lied for years but all of a sudden, because he has a get-out-of jail-free card, has changed his mind. If the prosecution thinks it hit a home run they're not going to last the full nine innings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24160]]></link><description><![CDATA[For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46413]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52272]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65428]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So Noah, when he anchor'd safe on The mountain's top, his lofty haven,  And all the passengers he bore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61673]]></link><description><![CDATA[So Noah, when he anchor'd safe on The mountain's top, his lofty haven,  And all the passengers he bore   Were on the new world set ashore,    He made it next his chief design     To plant and propagate a vine,      Which since has overwhelm'd and drown'd       Far greater number, on dry ground,        Of wretched mankind, one by one,         Than all the flood before had done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns,  Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50667]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns,  Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights   To him who wears the regal diadem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I understand everybody's frustration. The bottom line is it has been a tough year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36070]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand everybody's frustration. The bottom line is it has been a tough year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[-Sir To. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55746]]></link><description><![CDATA[-Sir To.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55746</guid></item></channel></rss>