<?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[Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40804]]></link><description><![CDATA[They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification of a better career option and higher salary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48135]]></link><description><![CDATA[He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66704]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it.It's kind of fun to do the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66409]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it.It's kind of fun to do the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The self-sins... dwell too deep within us and are too much a part of our natures to come to our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7265]]></link><description><![CDATA[The self-sins... dwell too deep within us and are too much a part of our natures to come to our attention till the light of God is focused upon them. The grosser manifestations of these sins -- egotism, exhibitionism, self-promotion -- are strangely tolerated in Christian leaders, even in circles of impeccable orthodoxy. They are so much in evidence as actually, for many people, to become identified with the gospel. I trust it is not a cynical observation to say that they appear these days to be a requisite for popularity in some sections of the Church visible. Promoting self under the guise of promoting Christ is currently so common as to excite little notice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64964]]></link><description><![CDATA[He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45124]]></link><description><![CDATA[The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Retort Courteous;… the Quip Modest;… the Reply Churlish;… the Reproof Valiant;… the Countercheck Quarrelsome;… the Lie with Circumstance;… the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Retort Courteous;… the Quip Modest;… the Reply Churlish;… the Reproof Valiant;… the Countercheck Quarrelsome;… the Lie with Circumstance;… the Lie Direct. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to starve free than be a fat slave ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to starve free than be a fat slave]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent does what it can, and genius does what it must. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent does what it can, and genius does what it must.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When shall we find his equal? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50388]]></link><description><![CDATA[When shall we find his equal?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52075]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27858]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil drives.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12147]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil drives.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were pleased with it. I was proud of them. We didn't have an outstanding meet the week before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42123]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were pleased with it. I was proud of them. We didn't have an outstanding meet the week before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my understanding from briefings that I have had with high-level sources within the intelligence organizations of this country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39208]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my understanding from briefings that I have had with high-level sources within the intelligence organizations of this country that at least two of the identified terrorists so far were people known to intelligence and immigration agencies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your ignorance cramps my conversation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your ignorance cramps my conversation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And from the prayer of Want, and plaint of Woe, O never, never turn away their ear!  Forlorn, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48039]]></link><description><![CDATA[And from the prayer of Want, and plaint of Woe, O never, never turn away their ear!  Forlorn, in this bleak wilderness below,   Ah! what were man, should Heaven refuse to hear!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pure love produces pure nonsense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pure love produces pure nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is cultured insolence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is cultured insolence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine;  A small Euphrates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine;  A small Euphrates thro' the piece is roll'd,   And little eagles wave their wings in gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the strongest... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the strongest...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I knew the good of wishing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61784]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I knew the good of wishing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say, How can we screw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say, How can we screw this kid up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39018]]></link><description><![CDATA[the only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not like we're alone out there. There are really a lot of people doing this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33865]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not like we're alone out there. There are really a lot of people doing this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free agent is anything but. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24339]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free agent is anything but.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't bring this church to the United States to be another Nigerian church. We are afraid with the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28562]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't bring this church to the United States to be another Nigerian church. We are afraid with the way things are going in the world and in America -- allowing people to do what they like, creating their own religion and philosophy -- those people are going to pay for it. We don't want that to happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7716]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I doubt anyone will ever see -- anywhere -- a memorial to a pessimist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46437]]></link><description><![CDATA[I doubt anyone will ever see -- anywhere -- a memorial to a pessimist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then join in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then join in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When two men share an umbrella, both of them get wet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1104]]></link><description><![CDATA[When two men share an umbrella, both of them get wet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22259]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27237]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44086]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theory: A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theory: A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40232]]></link><description><![CDATA[All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/805]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58395]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51191]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should banded unions persecute Opinions, and induce a time  When single thought is civil crime,   And individual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should banded unions persecute Opinions, and induce a time  When single thought is civil crime,   And individual freedom mute,    . . . .     Then waft me from the harbour's mouth,      Wild wind, I seek a warmer sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51713</guid></item></channel></rss>