<?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[I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65055]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are governed not by armies, but by ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9540]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -- in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small number of IT vendors are at the moment putting customers at risk of unwittingly running illegal software. Microsoft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42595]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small number of IT vendors are at the moment putting customers at risk of unwittingly running illegal software. Microsoft will not tolerate illegal copies of its software being sold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4721]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more people who know about it, the more help we can get. We can't do this on a small ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38094]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more people who know about it, the more help we can get. We can't do this on a small piece of land. We need a lot of space and it's going to need a lot of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[March: Its stone, Bloodstone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26369]]></link><description><![CDATA[March: Its stone, Bloodstone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   Thus was the Cross of Christ, in St. Paul's day, the glory of Christians; not as it signified their not being ashamed to own a master that was crucified, but as it signified their glorying in a religion which was nothing else but a doctrine of the Cross that called them to the same suffering spirit, the same sacrifice of themselves, the same renunciation of the world, the same humility and meekness, the same patient bearing of injuries, reproaches and contempts, and the same dying to all the greatness, honours, and happiness of this world, which Christ showed on the Cross.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They don't let us inside... they don't give us a chance to put our case. They forget those of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39791]]></link><description><![CDATA[They don't let us inside... they don't give us a chance to put our case. They forget those of the Turkish nation killed by Armenians,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/88]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/88</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words.  "Careful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words.  "Careful with fire," is good advice we know   "Careful with words," is ten times doubly so.    Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead;     But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51751]]></link><description><![CDATA[To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58390]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43134]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We soon believe the things we would believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41136]]></link><description><![CDATA[We soon believe the things we would believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise;  But waking flow'rs,   At morning hours, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise;  But waking flow'rs,   At morning hours,    Give out their sweets to meet thee in the skies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is like a skilful Geometrician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17691]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is like a skilful Geometrician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of doors could open for me that night. I have a job now as a server at a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31247]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of doors could open for me that night. I have a job now as a server at a restaurant but I really want something full-time and I am hoping to meet some people that night that might be able to point me in the right direction. Plus, I am so nervous about speaking in front of all those people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clean tie attracts the soup of the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24337]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debate is the death of conversation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debate is the death of conversation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16718]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have fun like a child in the street. When the day comes when I'm not enjoying it, I will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have fun like a child in the street. When the day comes when I'm not enjoying it, I will leave football.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Divine Wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7760]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Divine Wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to know what's going on in everyone's lives and how I can relate to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to know what's going on in everyone's lives and how I can relate to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66040]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series of verse on Christ:  Hard it is, very hard, To travel up the slow and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series of verse on Christ:  Hard it is, very hard, To travel up the slow and stony road To Calvary, to redeem mankind; far better To make but one resplendent miracle, Lean through the cloud, lift the right hand of power And with a sudden lightning smite the world perfect. Yet this was not God's way, Who had the power,  But set it by, choosing the cross, the thorn,  The sorrowful wounds. Something there is, perhaps, That power destroys in passing, something supreme, To whose great value in the eyes of God That cross, that thorn, and those five wounds bear witness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't say enough about the guys we've got on this team. It's not just the guys that play, it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38106]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't say enough about the guys we've got on this team. It's not just the guys that play, it's everyone that contributes every day. It's been a real fun ride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Letter to his son, October 9, 1746. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27959]]></link><description><![CDATA[An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Letter to his son, October 9, 1746.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You bring in freshman and you know they have the talent to do it. On the field, there's not much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31551]]></link><description><![CDATA[You bring in freshman and you know they have the talent to do it. On the field, there's not much that distracts them. They have the right focus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness--has ever been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness--has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When 9-11 happened, our listeners were so generous, wanting to help and do anything they could, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40091]]></link><description><![CDATA[When 9-11 happened, our listeners were so generous, wanting to help and do anything they could,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66571</guid></item></channel></rss>