<?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's not failure, but low aim is crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22129]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not failure, but low aim is crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20021]]></link><description><![CDATA['Umble we are, 'umble we have been, 'umble we shall ever be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nearer the church, the further from God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8664]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nearer the church, the further from God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The education of the will is the object of our existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The education of the will is the object of our existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Candidate Thomas is a sad, sad man, with only one desire: to reunite with his deceased ex-girlfriend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Candidate Thomas is a sad, sad man, with only one desire: to reunite with his deceased ex-girlfriend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing your best means never stop trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing your best means never stop trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, and Pete Fleming, martyrs, Equador, 1956  Oh, the fullness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, and Pete Fleming, martyrs, Equador, 1956  Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on Earth! I care not if I never raise my voice again for Him, if only I may love Him, please Him. Mayhap in mercy He shall give me a host of children that I may lead them through the vast star fields to explore His delicacies whose finger ends set them to burning. But if not, if only I may see Him, touch His garments, smile into His eyes -- ah then, not stars nor children shall matter, only Himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When 100+ CEOs from top companies from around the world are on the wait list, that is 'stress!' So anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57986]]></link><description><![CDATA[When 100+ CEOs from top companies from around the world are on the wait list, that is 'stress!' So anything a manager can do to help one's colleagues is a must to survive. Paul J. Rosch, M.D., F.A.C.P., President of the American Institute of Stress, and Clinical Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, New York Medical College -Wolfgang Hultner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we did everything tonight but win on the scoreboard. I think we dominated a large portion of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we did everything tonight but win on the scoreboard. I think we dominated a large portion of the game, so you know we gave up a bad goal in the beginning. We have to put ourselves in a better position where we have to defend a lead in the last ten minutes rather than try to come back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37601</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[Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fish and visitors stink after three days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fish and visitors stink after three days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has always been a good shooter. After he got about halfway through his junior varsity year, we saw he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33962]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has always been a good shooter. After he got about halfway through his junior varsity year, we saw he could be a good player because he could shoot the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear if forced to flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear if forced to flow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like a 9-11 catastrophe happening everyday worldwide, but this is a tragedy that can be prevented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36053]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like a 9-11 catastrophe happening everyday worldwide, but this is a tragedy that can be prevented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some evils are cured by contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some evils are cured by contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Un gros serpent mordit Aurele. Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva?  Qu' Aurele en mourut? Bagatelle!   Ce fut le ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Un gros serpent mordit Aurele. Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva?  Qu' Aurele en mourut? Bagatelle!   Ce fut le serpent qui creva.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AndroclesA slave named Androcles once escaped from his master and fledto the forest. As he was wandering about there he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1496]]></link><description><![CDATA[AndroclesA slave named Androcles once escaped from his master and fledto the forest. As he was wandering about there he came upon aLion lying down moaning and groaning. At first he turned to flee,but finding that the Lion did not pursue him, he turned back andwent up to him. As he came near, the Lion put out his paw, whichwas all swollen and bleeding, and Androcles found that a hugethorn had got into it, and was causing all the pain. He pulledout the thorn and bound up the paw of the Lion, who was soon ableto rise and lick the hand of Androcles like a dog. Then the Liontook Androcles to his cave, and every day used to bring him meatfrom which to live. But shortly afterwards both Androcles and theLion were captured, and the slave was sentenced to be thrown tothe Lion, after the latter had been kept without food for severaldays. The Emperor and all his Court came to see the spectacle,and Androcles was led out into the middle of the arena. Soon theLion was let loose from his den, and rushed bounding and roaringtowards his victim. But as soon as he came near to Androcles herecognised his friend, and fawned upon him, and licked his handslike a friendly dog. The Emperor, surprised at this, summonedAndrocles to him, who told him the whole story. Whereupon theslave was pardoned and freed, and the Lion let loose to his nativeforest.Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24290]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58035]]></link><description><![CDATA[These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. [Lat., Haec studia adolecentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis solatium et perfugium praebent, delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47325]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52797]]></link><description><![CDATA[True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. -Love's Labour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55471]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, . . . thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wind-tippling cordial, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, . . . thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wind-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A confession has to be part of your new life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9650]]></link><description><![CDATA[A confession has to be part of your new life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think either the Offspring or Green Day started their bands with the intention of becoming so enormously popular; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18306]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think either the Offspring or Green Day started their bands with the intention of becoming so enormously popular; that sort of fell in their laps-especially the Offspring. My attitude is if somebody blunders into the level of popularity, at least remember the human factor. These guys are still human beings and hopefully still have hearts and if you keep in touch with them rather than vilify them you may be able to encourage them to go in the right direction. What I'm hoping will eventually happen is that they will grasp the amount of power and financial clout that is now at their fingertips and use those as tools to help real people with real things the way punk politics was always designed to do before, but nobody had any money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54688]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again let us dream where the land lies sunny And live, like the bees, on our hearts' old honey,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again let us dream where the land lies sunny And live, like the bees, on our hearts' old honey,  Away from the world that slaves for money--   Come, journey the way with me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883   There is no situation so chaotic that God cannot from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883   There is no situation so chaotic that God cannot from that situation create something that is surpassingly good. He did it at the creation. He did it at the cross. He is doing it today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hands across the sea, Feet on English ground,  The old blood is bold blood, the wide world round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hands across the sea, Feet on English ground,  The old blood is bold blood, the wide world round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's gone, and who knows how may he report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17886]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's gone, and who knows how may he report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51656]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our strength was that overall, we had a bunch of kids do well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our strength was that overall, we had a bunch of kids do well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody agrees that we have to fix these levees. But declaring a state of emergency an hour before a political ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody agrees that we have to fix these levees. But declaring a state of emergency an hour before a political convention smacks much more of politics than it does of leadership. The governor has had many opportunities to fund and fix these levees before, and he hasn't done it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24878</guid></item></channel></rss>