<?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[Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66348]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father, now in heaven, is a keeper of the birds. And his eye is on his sparrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48508]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father, now in heaven, is a keeper of the birds. And his eye is on his sparrow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The offender never pardons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16504]]></link><description><![CDATA[The offender never pardons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He laughs best who laughs last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24215]]></link><description><![CDATA[He laughs best who laughs last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I dont' know whether they were for television ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39351]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I dont' know whether they were for television or not. You know how little I know about cameras.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing adventured, nothing attained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing adventured, nothing attained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3249]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that fights and runs away will live to fight another day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51978]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that fights and runs away will live to fight another day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63464]]></link><description><![CDATA[A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mellow autumn came, and with it came The promised party, to enjoy its sweets.  The corn is cut, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3553]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mellow autumn came, and with it came The promised party, to enjoy its sweets.  The corn is cut, the manor full of game;   The pointer ranges, and the sportsman beats    In russet jacket;--lynx-like is his aim;     Full grows his bag, and wonderful his feats.      An, nutbrown partridges! An, brilliant pheasants!       And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4143]]></link><description><![CDATA[For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not commenting on the rumors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34170]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not commenting on the rumors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep.  Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56161]]></link><description><![CDATA[She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep.  Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white;   She guards them from the steep.    She feeds them on the fragrant height,     And folds them in for sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6143]]></link><description><![CDATA[His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43920]]></link><description><![CDATA[I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a firm believer that it's not the way you look or what you have, but what you've got inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40249]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a firm believer that it's not the way you look or what you have, but what you've got inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He makes no friends who never made a foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63527]]></link><description><![CDATA[He makes no friends who never made a foe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anon, as patient as the female dove When that her golden couplets are disclosed,  His silence will sit drooping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anon, as patient as the female dove When that her golden couplets are disclosed,  His silence will sit drooping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22711]]></link><description><![CDATA[All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As this is their right in line with the criminal code of the country, the court has recorded their decision ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28426]]></link><description><![CDATA[As this is their right in line with the criminal code of the country, the court has recorded their decision of choice as a plea of not guilty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inward rest... gives an air of leisure to [Christ's] crowded life: above all, there is in this Man a secret ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inward rest... gives an air of leisure to [Christ's] crowded life: above all, there is in this Man a secret and a power of dealing with the waste-products of life, the waste of pain, disappointment, enmity, death -- turning to divine uses the abuses of man, transforming arid places of pain to fruitfulness, triumphing at last in death, and making a short life of thirty years or so, abruptly cut off, to be a "finished" life. We cannot admire the poise and beauty of this human life, and then ignore the things that made it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little labour, much health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49048]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little labour, much health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60205]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to "hunger and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52085]]></link><description><![CDATA[A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to "hunger and thirst" after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not  Be forced to grind the bones out of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not  Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms   For bread, but have some space to think and feel    Like moral and immortal creatures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63302]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fast bind, fast find-- A proverb never stale in thrifty mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fast bind, fast find-- A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39104]]></link><description><![CDATA[As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65115]]></link><description><![CDATA[In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fatigue is the best pillow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fatigue is the best pillow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57566]]></link><description><![CDATA[I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   Suffer all, and conquer all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   Suffer all, and conquer all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52468]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it. [Ger., Wer dem Publicum dient, ist ein armes Thier;  Er qualt sich ab, niemand bedankt sich dafur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The solemn fog; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The solemn fog; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trifles make perfection--and perfection is no trifle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trifles make perfection--and perfection is no trifle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19755]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy,  Whose trust, ever childlike, no cares could destroy,  Be there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy,  Whose trust, ever childlike, no cares could destroy,  Be there at our waking, and give us, we pray,  Your bliss in our hearts, Lord, at the break of the day.  Lord of all eagerness, Lord of all faith,  Whose strong hands were skilled at the plane and the lathe,  Be there at our labors, and give us, we pray,  Your strength in our hearts, Lord, at the noon of the day.  Lord of all kindliness, Lord of all grace,  Your hands swift to welcome, your arms to embrace,  Be there at our homing, and give us, we pray,  Your love in our hearts, Lord, at the eve of the day.  Lord of all gentleness, Lord of all calm,  Whose voice is contentment, whose presence is balm,  Be there at our sleeping, and give us, we pray,  Your peace in our hearts, Lord, at the end of the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845   While many Americans are still firmly committed to the traditional, supernatural conceptions of a personal God, a Divine Savior, and the promise of eternal life, the trend is away from these convictions. The fact is that a demythologized modernism is overwhelming the traditional Christ-centered, mystical faith. For the modern skeptics are not the apostates, village atheists, or political revolutionaries of old. The leaders of today's challenge to traditional beliefs are principally theologians -- those in whose care the church entrusts its sacred teachings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are probably extreme cases. More often, structures are calibrated so that assets pay down while a derivative amortizes. Most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37702]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are probably extreme cases. More often, structures are calibrated so that assets pay down while a derivative amortizes. Most investors, who do not want their returns squeezed, would insist that the original transactions are modified to contain risks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come from a tradition of screenwriting -- with a co-writer -- where everything is challenged, where you have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36931]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come from a tradition of screenwriting -- with a co-writer -- where everything is challenged, where you have to defend every idea, ... I am a robber of ideas, but for there to be ideas, you have to have discussion. If everyone takes my word for the truth, you can't do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty is another's ugliness; one man's wisdom is another's folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59997]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty is another's ugliness; one man's wisdom is another's folly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59997</guid></item></channel></rss>