<?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[It was nice to swing the bats and get some hits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32446]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was nice to swing the bats and get some hits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you lose this game, there's nothing worse. There's nothing worse because this is the game that gets you to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35494]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you lose this game, there's nothing worse. There's nothing worse because this is the game that gets you to the place where all good things can happen. This is the hardest hurdle to get over, because you need 12 more months then to get back here and you didn't put yourself in a position to win the national championship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27162]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.  Or like the snow falls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46691]]></link><description><![CDATA[But pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.  Or like the snow falls in the river,   A moment white--then melts forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What region of the earth is not full of our calamities? [Lat., Quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1666]]></link><description><![CDATA[What region of the earth is not full of our calamities? [Lat., Quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48788]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812   Relieve and comfort all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812   Relieve and comfort all the persecuted and afflicted; speak peace to troubled consciences; strengthen the weak; confirm the strong; instruct the ignorant; deliver the oppressed from him that spoileth him; and relieve the needy that hath no helper; and bring us all, by the waters of comfort, and in the ways of righteousness, to the kingdom of rest and glory, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17491]]></link><description><![CDATA[You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45579]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61453]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well not to lend too easy an ear to accusations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51622]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well not to lend too easy an ear to accusations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22847]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between those two we need gradual increases of complexity and achievements to keep the public interest, to keep the funding, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between those two we need gradual increases of complexity and achievements to keep the public interest, to keep the funding, to keep the political support going. We've gone to the Moon, we've stopped doing that; now commercial people are doing it. Who knows? Maybe we will get technology from other sources; something I have written about in my days of writing science fiction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11383]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13978]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He comes never late who comes repentant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53820]]></link><description><![CDATA[He comes never late who comes repentant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18004]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  If ever I reach heaven I expect to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  If ever I reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third -- the greatest wonder of all -- to find myself there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to the second or even the third rank. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2315]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to the second or even the third rank. [Lat., Prima enim sequentem, honestumn est in secundis, tertiisque consistere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19683]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27778]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talke much and erre much, saies the Spanyard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talke much and erre much, saies the Spanyard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power (n): The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power (n): The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9467]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21449]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61267]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us are watchers--of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway--but few are observers. Everyone is looking, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44798]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us are watchers--of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway--but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21433]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to have a sign over my computer that read OLD DOGS CAN LEARN NEW TRICKS, but lately I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1902]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to have a sign over my computer that read OLD DOGS CAN LEARN NEW TRICKS, but lately I sometimes ask myself how many more new tricks I want to learn. Wouldn’t it be easier just to be outdated?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace without justice is tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace without justice is tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65908]]></link><description><![CDATA[I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jake did a great job. Two runs, we'll take that most days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jake did a great job. Two runs, we'll take that most days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48672]]></link><description><![CDATA[There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They wanted a ransom at that point. Other than that, they handed him over to another group. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40945]]></link><description><![CDATA[They wanted a ransom at that point. Other than that, they handed him over to another group.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44967]]></link><description><![CDATA[With effervescing opinions, the quickest way to let them get flat is to let them get exposed to the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow,  Is carried away in a gust of wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I read in Shakespeare of the majesty of the moral law, in Victor Hugo of the sacredness of childhood, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6583]]></link><description><![CDATA[I read in Shakespeare of the majesty of the moral law, in Victor Hugo of the sacredness of childhood, in Tennyson the ugliness of hypocrisy, in George Eliot the supremacy of duty, in Dickens the divinity of kindness, and in Ruskin the dignity of service. Irving teaches me the lesson of cheerfulness, Hawthorne shows me the hatefulness of sin, Longfellow gives me the soft, tranquil music of hope. Lowell makes us feel that we must give ourselves to our fellow men. Whittier sings to me of divine Fatherhood and human brotherhood. These are Christian lessons: who inspired them? Who put it into the heart of Martin Luther to nail those theses on the church door of Wittenberg? Who stirred and fired the soul of Savonarola? Who thrilled and electrified the soul of John Wesley? Jesus Christ is back of these all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6583</guid></item></channel></rss>