<?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[Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better… or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would seem to favor the community colleges, to the detriment of students who would prefer to attend a university. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42513]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would seem to favor the community colleges, to the detriment of students who would prefer to attend a university. Some kids are better served at community colleges, and some kids are better served at universities. That decision should be based on academic reasons, not economic reasons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her reasoning is it was an accident from day one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her reasoning is it was an accident from day one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66812]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27468]]></link><description><![CDATA[We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much for so long with so little, we are now capable of doing anything with nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your goals away from the trolls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your goals away from the trolls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a waste of time; time is a waste of life; so why waste your time when you could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a waste of time; time is a waste of life; so why waste your time when you could be having the time of your life?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40294]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think if you're going to operate a motorcycle, two wheel vehicle or three wheel vehicle you out to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35546]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think if you're going to operate a motorcycle, two wheel vehicle or three wheel vehicle you out to be insured just like I'm insured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two thousand sesterces. How is it that you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23509]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two thousand sesterces. How is it that you have sent me only a thousand? "You said nothing," you tell me; "and this cause was lost through you." You ought to give me so much the more, Sextus, as I had to blush for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life without a friend is death without a witness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life without a friend is death without a witness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14523]]></link><description><![CDATA[We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God heals and the doctor takes the fee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26749]]></link><description><![CDATA[God heals and the doctor takes the fee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40476]]></link><description><![CDATA[If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20263]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. -The Merchant of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55553]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would I had some flowers o' th' spring that might Become your time of day, and yours, and yours, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would I had some flowers o' th' spring that might Become your time of day, and yours, and yours,  That wear upon your virgin branches yet   Your maidenheads growing. O, Proserpina,    For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall     From Dis's wagon; daffodils,      That come before the swallow dares, and take       The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,        But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes         Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses,          That die unmarried, ere they can behold           Bright Phoebus in his strength--a malady            Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and             The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds,              The flower-de-luce being one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situation is only getting worse. We started to notice it in July when imports really started to increase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situation is only getting worse. We started to notice it in July when imports really started to increase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. -Anthony J. D'Angelo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1936]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944    If Christianity has never frightened us, we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944    If Christianity has never frightened us, we have not yet learnt what it is.   ... Abp. William Temple  November 7, 2001 Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739   The social gospel is not an addendum to the gospel; it is the gospel. If we read the Gospels, it becomes clear that it was not what Jesus said about God that got him into trouble (but) his treatment of men and women, his way of being friendly with outcasts with whom no respectable Jew would have anything to do. It has always been fairly safe to talk about God; it is when we start to talk about men that the trouble starts. And yet the fact remains that there is no conceivable way of proving that we love God other than by loving men. And there is no conceivable way of proving that we love men than by doing something for those who most need help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vaine is the mill-clacke, if the Miller his hearing lack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49553]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vaine is the mill-clacke, if the Miller his hearing lack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so lonely when you don't even know yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25464]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so lonely when you don't even know yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2229]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4825]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us pardon those who have wronged us. For that which others scarcely accomplish -- I mean the blotting out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us pardon those who have wronged us. For that which others scarcely accomplish -- I mean the blotting out of their own sins by means of fasting and lamentations, and prayers, and sackcloth and ashes -- this it is possible for us easily to effect without sackcloth and ashes and fasting, if only we blot out anger from our heart, and with sincerity forgive those who have wronged us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50246]]></link><description><![CDATA[He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4170]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in the world when we love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65387]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in the world when we love it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In that day's feats, When he might act the woman in the scene,  He prov'd best man i' th' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57948]]></link><description><![CDATA[In that day's feats, When he might act the woman in the scene,  He prov'd best man i' th' field, and for his meed   Was brow-bound with the oak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22575]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no substitute for experience ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14662]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no substitute for experience]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27088]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28602]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My country is the world, and my religion to do good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45804]]></link><description><![CDATA[My country is the world, and my religion to do good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19905]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19905</guid></item></channel></rss>