<?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[If the husband once give way To his wife's capricious sway,  For his breeches he next day   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51772]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the husband once give way To his wife's capricious sway,  For his breeches he next day   May go to whoop and holloa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success is constancy to purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success is constancy to purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37187]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the "terror of the Lord" that causes us to "persuade" others, but it is the love of Christ ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7243]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the "terror of the Lord" that causes us to "persuade" others, but it is the love of Christ that constraineth us to live to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22261]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36799]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3615]]></link><description><![CDATA[My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47385]]></link><description><![CDATA[It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so upon this wise I prayed,-- Great Spirit, give to me  A heaven not so large as yours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19089]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so upon this wise I prayed,-- Great Spirit, give to me  A heaven not so large as yours   But large enough for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  They only renounce the world as they ought, who live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  They only renounce the world as they ought, who live in the midst of it without worldly tempers, who comply with their share in the offices of human life without complying with the spirit that reigneth in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ore doesn't have added value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ore doesn't have added value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49316]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13553]]></link><description><![CDATA[An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42048]]></link><description><![CDATA[One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2800]]></link><description><![CDATA[People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Queen, who sat With lips severely placid felt the knot  Climb in her throat, and with her feet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Queen, who sat With lips severely placid felt the knot  Climb in her throat, and with her feet unseen   Crushed the wild passion out against the floor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23710]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it ... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3572]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biographers, we're weird. For whatever reasons of conditioning, our temporal sense is different from other people's, and I knew it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Biographers, we're weird. For whatever reasons of conditioning, our temporal sense is different from other people's, and I knew it would take 10 years. And that's just the way it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a fine line between participation and mockery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45551]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a fine line between participation and mockery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26121]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn ich luge, nicht.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At morn the blackcock trims his jetty wing, 'Tis morning prompts the linnet's blithest lay;  All Nature's children feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51080]]></link><description><![CDATA[At morn the blackcock trims his jetty wing, 'Tis morning prompts the linnet's blithest lay;  All Nature's children feel the matin spring   Of life reviving, with reviving day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[as we have said all along, the company is not spinning off AOL, but is focused on returning AOL to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34166]]></link><description><![CDATA[as we have said all along, the company is not spinning off AOL, but is focused on returning AOL to a growth track.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reorganizing can be a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reorganizing can be a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature acts without masters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature acts without masters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never believe your doubts and never doubt your beliefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never believe your doubts and never doubt your beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I reject your reality and substitute it for my own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20485]]></link><description><![CDATA[I reject your reality and substitute it for my own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are saved, we are at home in the universe; and, in principle and in the main, feeble and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6534]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are saved, we are at home in the universe; and, in principle and in the main, feeble and timid creatures as we are, there is nothing anywhere within the world or without it that can make us afraid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we had more energy than them throughout the night, ... I think they're in a bit of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32577]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we had more energy than them throughout the night, ... I think they're in a bit of a funk now. But I think once they get going, they're going to be one of the top teams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men have become the tools of their tools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men have become the tools of their tools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a great sale. Bidding on e-Bay was very strong as were phone bids. We were busy all weekend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33181]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a great sale. Bidding on e-Bay was very strong as were phone bids. We were busy all weekend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day;  He cannot live, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day;  He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction,   But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey;    Although his anatomical construction     Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way,      Your laboring people think beyond all question,       Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith isn't faith until it's all you're holding on to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith isn't faith until it's all you're holding on to]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had neither seen it nor knew anything about the notices, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38771]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had neither seen it nor knew anything about the notices,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38771</guid></item></channel></rss>