<?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 is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8057]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark and gloomy day; but the interposition of clouds and vaporous exhalations. Neither is thy soul beyond the reach of the promise, nor does God withdraw Himself; but the vapours of thy carnal, unbelieving heart do cloud thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;  Willing to wound, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;  Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,   Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;    Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,     A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard, ... Just listening to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13036]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard, ... Just listening to my father . . . So just basically following that and following my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not who jumps the highest -- it's who wants it the most ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11980]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not who jumps the highest -- it's who wants it the most]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48183</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[To have people spending 55 minutes online is fascinating, because they are not doing something else. There are a fixed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41419]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have people spending 55 minutes online is fascinating, because they are not doing something else. There are a fixed number of minutes in a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her rarely striking out was not genetics. I think it was the psychology I tried to implant in her when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her rarely striking out was not genetics. I think it was the psychology I tried to implant in her when she was young. We would go to the batting cage and I would put it on 110 pitches. I told her as long as you at least foul the ball off there is no way you are going to strike out and that all you have to do is just nick the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/90]]></link><description><![CDATA[The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/90</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66485]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Occasionally, the chef gets creative and comes up with a new one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Occasionally, the chef gets creative and comes up with a new one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mouse might be in a cookie jar.. but he is not a cookieCasper Ten Boom, father of Corrie Ten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25447]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mouse might be in a cookie jar.. but he is not a cookieCasper Ten Boom, father of Corrie Ten Boom, authorof The Hiding Place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9664]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13014]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53910]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46833]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With an apple I will astonish Paris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3335]]></link><description><![CDATA[With an apple I will astonish Paris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great that they gave me something to act other than, 'Hi, dear, how are you doing?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29444]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great that they gave me something to act other than, 'Hi, dear, how are you doing?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps,  He lifts his head at that close ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13095]]></link><description><![CDATA[King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps,  He lifts his head at that close tread,   The eagle of the Alps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we strive to resemble them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57068]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we strive to resemble them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benedick the married man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benedick the married man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25590]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's privacy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Horse and GroomA groom used to spend whole days in currycombing and rubbing down his Horse, but at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1544]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Horse and GroomA groom used to spend whole days in currycombing and rubbing down his Horse, but at the same time stole his oats and sold them for his own profit. Alas! said the Horse, if you really wish me to be in good condition, you should groom me less, and feed me more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very comfortable with that overall total reduction in risk, and I would not be able to say that there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36962]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very comfortable with that overall total reduction in risk, and I would not be able to say that there is anything that I can tell that should stop them from going ahead and flying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26026]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wheresoe'er thou move, good luck Shall fling her old shoe after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would . . . earnestly advise them for their good to order this paper to be punctually served up, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23321]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would . . . earnestly advise them for their good to order this paper to be punctually served up, and to be looked upon as a part of the tea equipage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were some other girls who had some fair performances, but I'm expecting better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36498]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were some other girls who had some fair performances, but I'm expecting better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jack was embarrassed--never hero more, And as he knew not what to say, he swore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jack was embarrassed--never hero more, And as he knew not what to say, he swore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I'm very brave generally," he went on in a low voice; "only today I happen to have a headache." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10338]]></link><description><![CDATA["I'm very brave generally," he went on in a low voice; "only today I happen to have a headache."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43770]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51718]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  Jesus calls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  Jesus calls us not only to repentance, to the "letting go" of the false gods we come to him with; but he goes one more difficult step farther: he also calls us to believe in him alone as the decisive, absolutely unique, once and for all, full revelation of God to man. This is extremely difficult for us, because Jesus was careful to give men no external guarantee that he was, in fact, God in the flesh. Otherwise, he realized, we would not be worshipping him, but would only be worshipping or trusting in the guarantee, whatever it might be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61831]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dolendi modus, timendi non item. (To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.) -Bacon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dolendi modus, timendi non item. (To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.) -Bacon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22789]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44421]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64214</guid></item></channel></rss>