<?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[Once in royal David's city / Stood a lowly cattle shed, / Where a Mother laid her Baby / In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once in royal David's city / Stood a lowly cattle shed, / Where a Mother laid her Baby / In a manger for His bed: / Mary was that Mother mild, / Jesus Christ her little Child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be all the disappointments that attract everyone's attention. They will get the headlines, but the underlying strength of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34711]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be all the disappointments that attract everyone's attention. They will get the headlines, but the underlying strength of the market will continue through this quarter easily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action. So act! Whatever it is you know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/562]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action. So act! Whatever it is you know you should do, do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23226]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32860]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art must take reality by surprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art must take reality by surprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52214]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, well has it been said, that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, well has it been said, that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46096]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6132]]></link><description><![CDATA[All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and His peace passing all understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48318]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11971]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They talk about the f------ mob; at least we've got principles! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36308]]></link><description><![CDATA[They talk about the f------ mob; at least we've got principles!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  It has been well said that no man ever sank under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him and mind the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no timepieces so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All his reverend wit Lies in his wardrobe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58574]]></link><description><![CDATA[All his reverend wit Lies in his wardrobe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,  As fair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,  As fair as ever and as fit to use;   So both the flower doth stay and honey run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   It is a rare campus indeed where the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   It is a rare campus indeed where the Christian universe of discourse is the shared basis of allegiance and the common currency of intellectual exchange. More likely, the Christian faith is an archaic facade, a bit of Victorian fretwork on the front of the house, of which polite note is made at Commencement, but not the common premise of teaching and research and learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2095]]></link><description><![CDATA[True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is tested in adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48956]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is tested in adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who commence deliberately. They plod on. They stick to it. They persevere and finally reap their rewards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who commence deliberately. They plod on. They stick to it. They persevere and finally reap their rewards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is determined not by what scientists or anyone else says or believes but by what the evidence reveals to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is determined not by what scientists or anyone else says or believes but by what the evidence reveals to us]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am very, very happy to have earned this first point. The start in a Davis Cup tie is always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41642]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am very, very happy to have earned this first point. The start in a Davis Cup tie is always important and so I am glad we are ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12721]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42075]]></link><description><![CDATA[People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. Youmust set yourself on fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. Youmust set yourself on fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48630]]></link><description><![CDATA[The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For our men's relay team to come home as All-Americans shows the kind of success they're going to have in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32749]]></link><description><![CDATA[For our men's relay team to come home as All-Americans shows the kind of success they're going to have in the outdoor season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ox and the FrogAn ox drinking at a pool trod on a brood of young frogs and crushed one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1581]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ox and the FrogAn ox drinking at a pool trod on a brood of young frogs and crushed one of them to death. The Mother coming up, and missing one of her sons, inquired of his brothers what had become of him. He is dead, dear Mother; for just now a very huge beast with four great feet came to the pool and crushed him to death with his cloven heel. The Frog, puffing herself out, inquired, if the beast was as big as that in size. Cease, Mother, to puff yourself out, said her son, and do not be angry; for you would, I assure you, sooner burst than successfully imitate the hugeness of that monster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4045]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a managed or well-conducted one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a managed or well-conducted one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The daffodil is our doorside queen; She pushes upward the sword already,  To spot with sunshine the early green. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The daffodil is our doorside queen; She pushes upward the sword already,  To spot with sunshine the early green.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55116]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54212]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.   - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8826]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They did the little boy turkey named Art... chokeand then served his dead body with artichokes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/266]]></link><description><![CDATA[They did the little boy turkey named Art... chokeand then served his dead body with artichokes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45761]]></link><description><![CDATA[The die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43958]]></link><description><![CDATA[How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Sons of Mary smile and are blessed--they know the angels are on their side: They know in them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62125]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Sons of Mary smile and are blessed--they know the angels are on their side: They know in them is the Grace confessed, and for them are the Mercies multiplied;  They sit at the Feet, they hear the Word, they see how truly the Promise runs;   They have cast their burden upon the Lord, and--the Lord He lays it on Martha's sons!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something peculiarly sinister and insidious in even a charge of disloyalty. Such a charge all too frequently places ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59665]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something peculiarly sinister and insidious in even a charge of disloyalty. Such a charge all too frequently places a strain on the reputation of an individual which is indelible and lasting, regardless of the complete innocence later proved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing that is really good and God-like dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church has failed to follow her appointed pathway of separation, holiness, heavenliness and testimony to an absent but coming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6339]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church has failed to follow her appointed pathway of separation, holiness, heavenliness and testimony to an absent but coming Christ; she has turned aside from that purpose to the work of civilizing the world, building magnificent temples, and acquiring earthly power and wealth, and, in this way, has ceased to follow in the footsteps of Him who had not where to lay His head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11785</guid></item></channel></rss>