<?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[Some spend their entire lives wondering if they have made a difference in this world. The Marines don't have that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some spend their entire lives wondering if they have made a difference in this world. The Marines don't have that problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on this earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But Genius must be born; and never can be taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But Genius must be born; and never can be taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effects of our actions may be postponed but they are never lost. There is an inevitable reward for good deeds and an inescapable punishment for bad. Meditate upon this truth, and seek always to earn good wages from Destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now those memories come back to haunt meThey haunt me like a curse ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now those memories come back to haunt meThey haunt me like a curse]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is: The ability to stick with a job until it's finished; The ability to do a job without being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is: The ability to stick with a job until it's finished; The ability to do a job without being supervised; The ability to carry money without spending it; and The ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilage of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilage of the underprivilaged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56920]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59116]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can confirm that the... personnel are not participating in customer visits. This is an error in the copy and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42597]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can confirm that the... personnel are not participating in customer visits. This is an error in the copy and will be amended in future material on the subject.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is our great need, to be more like Christ, that His likeness may be seen in our lives; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7196]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is our great need, to be more like Christ, that His likeness may be seen in our lives; and this is just what is promised to us as we yield ourselves in full surrender to the working of His Spirit. Then, as we draw nearer to Christ, we shall be drawn nearer to His people; and in our search for unity with the members we shall be drawn closer to the Head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is human, it is also human to forgive. [Lat., Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16514]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is human, it is also human to forgive. [Lat., Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through... sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60952]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through... sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65141]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's God--I'd have known Him by Blake's picture anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17719]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's God--I'd have known Him by Blake's picture anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Some have said that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things; first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ... Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus. Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing -- so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63352]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[April, April, Laugh thy girlish laughter,  Then, the moment after,   Weep thy girlish tears! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2997]]></link><description><![CDATA[April, April, Laugh thy girlish laughter,  Then, the moment after,   Weep thy girlish tears!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the cooling hour, just when the rounded Red sun sinks down behind the azure hill,  Which then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58326]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the cooling hour, just when the rounded Red sun sinks down behind the azure hill,  Which then seems as if the whole earth is bounded,   Circling all nature, hush'd, and dim, and still,    With the far mountain-crescent half surrounded     On one side, and the deep sea calm and chill      Upon the other, and the rosy sky       With one star sparkling through it like an eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes guts to get out of the ruts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21575]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes guts to get out of the ruts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that we are only 6 percent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16452]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that we are only 6 percent of the world's population; that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind; that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity; and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then fill the bowl--way with gloom! Our joys shall always last;  For Hope shall brighten days to come,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then fill the bowl--way with gloom! Our joys shall always last;  For Hope shall brighten days to come,   And Mem'ry gild the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29925]]></link><description><![CDATA[I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to fly without wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50876]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to fly without wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very important moment in Gibraltar's history -- 300 years of being British, which is rather longer than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42459]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very important moment in Gibraltar's history -- 300 years of being British, which is rather longer than it was ever Spanish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our grandly business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our grandly business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19370]]></link><description><![CDATA[History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played a pretty clean game against a veteran, skilled team that's been at this a lot longer than we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40094]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played a pretty clean game against a veteran, skilled team that's been at this a lot longer than we have. You can draw a lot of positives from that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was unbelievably difficult to get it made. Studios are extremely allergic to risk. Finally, after a long courtship, Lions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33996]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was unbelievably difficult to get it made. Studios are extremely allergic to risk. Finally, after a long courtship, Lions Gate Films agreed to make the film. They liked the idea of a sports movie where spelling was the sport, something that might be compared to 'Hoosiers' or other good sports movies, but with a younger lead character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Using the Oval office to cheat on your wife makes you a bad husband and an irresponsible leader. Using the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Using the Oval office to cheat on your wife makes you a bad husband and an irresponsible leader. Using the Oval office to lead your troops into a war born of blatant deception makes you a murderer and a war criminal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52646]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can make whatever you want out of your life, but first you have to not be afraid to try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63077]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can make whatever you want out of your life, but first you have to not be afraid to try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9341]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10764]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems that an essential condition for crises is to be found in the existence of a highly developed system ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47416]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems that an essential condition for crises is to be found in the existence of a highly developed system of communications and the spreading of a homogenous mentality over vast areas.But when the hour and the right material are at hand, the contagion spreads with the speed of electricity over hundreds of miles, and affects the most diverse populations, which hardly know each other. The message flies through the air and they all suddenly agree on that one issue, if only a sulky admission that "there's got to be a change.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1777]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1777</guid></item></channel></rss>