<?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[Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a little daunting, a little troublesome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42587]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a little daunting, a little troublesome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8714]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We really don't want to get into the wood business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33959]]></link><description><![CDATA[We really don't want to get into the wood business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I awoke one morning and found myself famous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15094]]></link><description><![CDATA[I awoke one morning and found myself famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16447]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't want this to be the last game out there [Saturday]. Now I've got one more at least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35382]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't want this to be the last game out there [Saturday]. Now I've got one more at least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This triggered a series of trade friction, especially in the field of textile, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32215]]></link><description><![CDATA[This triggered a series of trade friction, especially in the field of textile,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man naturally yearns for novelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man naturally yearns for novelty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capacity for joy Admits temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capacity for joy Admits temptation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Shepherd's Boy and the WolfA sheperd boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1578]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Shepherd's Boy and the WolfA sheperd boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the villagers three or four times by crying out, Wolf! Wolf! and when his neighbors came to help him, laughed at them for their pains. The Wolf, however, did truly come at last. The Shepherd-boy, now really alarmed, shouted in an agony of terror: Pray, do come and help me; the Wolf is killing the sheep; but no one paid any heed to his cries, nor rendered any assistance. The Wolf, having no cause of fear, at his leisure lacerated or destroyed the whole flock. There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been criticism of me from certain quarters among supporters and I can understand and respect that. It comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42704]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been criticism of me from certain quarters among supporters and I can understand and respect that. It comes with the territory. Perhaps I have taken this club as far as I can and now it is time for the mantle to pass on to someone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can make a fire well, can end a quarrell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49326]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can make a fire well, can end a quarrell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one knows what he can do till he tries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13644]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one knows what he can do till he tries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every prohibition you create you also create an underground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47638]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Add a few drops of malice to a half truth and you have an absolute truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Add a few drops of malice to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/78]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/78</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding a summit without first reaching common ground on the crucial issues being negotiated poses a real political danger and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holding a summit without first reaching common ground on the crucial issues being negotiated poses a real political danger and paves the way for confrontations rather than a settlement. The summit would fail, and this would lead to explosions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19472]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16976]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16004]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink. For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is no struggle, there is no strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No pain, no gain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51016]]></link><description><![CDATA[No pain, no gain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever come we have to meet it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever come we have to meet it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, that he were here to write me down an ass! -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55458]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, that he were here to write me down an ass! -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60405]]></link><description><![CDATA[One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet thanks I must you con That you are thieves professed, that you work not  In holier shapes; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet thanks I must you con That you are thieves professed, that you work not  In holier shapes; for there is boundless theft   In limited professions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret in education lies in respecting the student. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13444]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret in education lies in respecting the student.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good habits result from resisting temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good habits result from resisting temptation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not getting any clamoring (for a special session) from constituents or anybody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30782]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not getting any clamoring (for a special session) from constituents or anybody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46311]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By giving to Jesus Christ, the Man who was crucified under Pontius Pilate, this historical personality, the name of Lord, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6265]]></link><description><![CDATA[By giving to Jesus Christ, the Man who was crucified under Pontius Pilate, this historical personality, the name of Lord, the Saviour, we renounce all mysticism. For mysticism in the strict sense exists only where one soars above the sphere of history, and where in place of the Mediator and the historical event are put the inner word of God, the inner motions of the soul, in order to reach immediacy between soul and God, and, in the end, the identity of both. But while it is necessary to safeguard the Christian message of the Holy Spirit from the mystical misunderstanding by calling attention to its relation to Jesus Christ, it is necessary on the other hand to safeguard the message of Jesus Christ and His work from the orthodox and rationalist misunderstanding by emphasizing that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is grace under pressure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is grace under pressure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing we tell our client countries is to have clear institutional arrangements in place for having rapid response and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41510]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing we tell our client countries is to have clear institutional arrangements in place for having rapid response and effective coordination,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus  The moment we make up our minds that we are going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus  The moment we make up our minds that we are going on with this determination to exalt God overall, we step out of the world's parade... We acquire a new viewpoint; a new and different psychology will be formed within us; a new power will begin to surprise us by its upsurgings and its outgoings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35319]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35319</guid></item></channel></rss>