<?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[This is about the tenth station I've come by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32918]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is about the tenth station I've come by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50879]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The march of the human mind is slow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The march of the human mind is slow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1331]]></link><description><![CDATA[No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquated...to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and ;groans. If people were universally cheerful, probably there wouldn't be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness ;there is. Cheerfulness, too, promotes health and immortality. Cheerful people live longest here on earth, afterward in our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation of monkeys with the throat of parrots. [Fr., Une natione de singes a larynx de parroquets.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16623]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation of monkeys with the throat of parrots. [Fr., Une natione de singes a larynx de parroquets.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I meant to lob it over his (Cotton's) head but I missed and he made a good play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32357]]></link><description><![CDATA[I meant to lob it over his (Cotton's) head but I missed and he made a good play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was like a battleground, helicopters, fire engines, my car door was crushed like an accordion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29431]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was like a battleground, helicopters, fire engines, my car door was crushed like an accordion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23778]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're counting on Jake a lot, but there are a whole lot of other factors and a lot of kids ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31967]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're counting on Jake a lot, but there are a whole lot of other factors and a lot of kids we need to step up. I know there are more than a few kids we have who have been waiting around for an opportunity, and this year will provide that opportunity. How they respond will be very key in how this season turns out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59398]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is no longer pain when it is past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is no longer pain when it is past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Timid dogs more eagerly bark than bite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58131]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25977]]></link><description><![CDATA[One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any tax over 12-14% -- regardless of the base -- will corrupt enough taxpayers to render the system unfair to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any tax over 12-14% -- regardless of the base -- will corrupt enough taxpayers to render the system unfair to all. So, beware of single-tax proposals. The U.S. government blows more money than any single tax can generate. The key is to tax multiple bases, disparate in nature, and with simple flat rates. That is a system both fair and sustatinable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58687</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[I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23179]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is sitting on their hands. No-one wants to play with everyone calling a 25 basis points rate rise on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is sitting on their hands. No-one wants to play with everyone calling a 25 basis points rate rise on Wednesday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business anywhere else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business anywhere else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20166</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[Most forcible Feeble. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most forcible Feeble. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foreign workers' remittances boosted local manufacturers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foreign workers' remittances boosted local manufacturers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under 75 percent attendance, they can't count that day for school. I'm sure there are isolated incidents when a flu ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under 75 percent attendance, they can't count that day for school. I'm sure there are isolated incidents when a flu bug might hit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62889]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So live that your memories will be part of your happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18712]]></link><description><![CDATA[So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm at my wits end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50989]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm at my wits end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For man is man, and master of his fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51695]]></link><description><![CDATA[For man is man, and master of his fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47026]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in us a tendency to locate the shaping forces of our existence outside ourselves. Success and failure are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47574]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in us a tendency to locate the shaping forces of our existence outside ourselves. Success and failure are unavoidably related in our minds with the state of things around us. Hence it is that people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to preserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change. The tendency to look for all causes outside ourselves persists even when it is clear that our state of being is the product of personal qualities such as ability, character, appearance, health and so on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  As long as I see any thing to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  As long as I see any thing to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59052]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on education:   The history of our student movement [Inter-Varsity] has demonstrated that a prayer-less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on education:   The history of our student movement [Inter-Varsity] has demonstrated that a prayer-less chapter is a fruitless chapter. Prayer spells all the difference between working for God in our own strength and wisdom or being fellow laborers together with Him in the work that He is seeking to do in the University.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early one morning I, Vadim Maslennikov, set off for school (I was going on seventeen at the time) having forgotten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early one morning I, Vadim Maslennikov, set off for school (I was going on seventeen at the time) having forgotten the envelope with the first-semester fees Mother had left me in the dining room the day before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no downside to it whatsoever. If you make one star out of it, you've come ahead. In a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30829]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no downside to it whatsoever. If you make one star out of it, you've come ahead. In a good season, they'll make a handful of stars. Despite what some hardcore fans might say, a card with five stars on it will do better business than card with zero stars on it, even if those zero stars are the best fighters in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46464]]></link><description><![CDATA[It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5969]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men have reaching hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men have reaching hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're well away from that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36940]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're well away from that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47046]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is easy to the unwilling. -Thomas Fuller. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is easy to the unwilling. -Thomas Fuller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5567</guid></item></channel></rss>