<?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[The newspaper takes so long to read. Plus, it has so much in it that no longer applies to my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The newspaper takes so long to read. Plus, it has so much in it that no longer applies to my life. So much trivia. I don't fault them for that ? all of it applies to some people's lives but not mine. I feel that I have better things to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We suffered a 5- to -6 percent loss in business till Saturday as an impact of the Aug. 17 occurrence, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36729]]></link><description><![CDATA[We suffered a 5- to -6 percent loss in business till Saturday as an impact of the Aug. 17 occurrence,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greatly begin! Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime--  Not failure, but low aim is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greatly begin! Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime--  Not failure, but low aim is crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18946]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The classes and the masses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56767]]></link><description><![CDATA[The classes and the masses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopefully a few days of rest will give her an opportunity to heal up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully a few days of rest will give her an opportunity to heal up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I, Phoebus, sang those songs that gained so much renown I, Phoebus, sang them; Homer only wrote them down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17734]]></link><description><![CDATA[I, Phoebus, sang those songs that gained so much renown I, Phoebus, sang them; Homer only wrote them down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  From every pulpit in the land it needs to be thundered forth that God still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  From every pulpit in the land it needs to be thundered forth that God still lives, that God still observes, ... still reigns. Faith is now in the crucible, it is being tested by fire, and there is no fixed... resting place for the heart and mind but in the Throne of God. What is needed now, as never before, is a full, positive, constructive setting forth of the Godhood of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When conditions are dry like this, we are urging people to use extreme caution. Cigarettes are the prime culprits, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34396]]></link><description><![CDATA[When conditions are dry like this, we are urging people to use extreme caution. Cigarettes are the prime culprits, but any spark can ignite a fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a fearful thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a fearful thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24082]]></link><description><![CDATA[We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tide sent into the cleft of rock Neptune's polyfingered hand ofwelcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1639]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tide sent into the cleft of rock Neptune's polyfingered hand ofwelcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16975]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lysander when handing over the command of the fleet to Callicratidas, the Spartan, said to him, "I deliver you a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lysander when handing over the command of the fleet to Callicratidas, the Spartan, said to him, "I deliver you a fleet that is mistress of the seas."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42074]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel  That shall laugh at all disaster,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel  That shall laugh at all disaster,   And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Turks] one and all, bag and baggage, shall I hope clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59899]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Turks] one and all, bag and baggage, shall I hope clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18323]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate To tell again a tale once fully told. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57920]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate To tell again a tale once fully told.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10369]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. - Dune, "Litany Against Fear", 1965.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is not innocence but sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is not innocence but sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Edinburgh has had a huge increase in out-of-town shopping in recent years and we have to decide whether we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Edinburgh has had a huge increase in out-of-town shopping in recent years and we have to decide whether we have reached the point where it's unsustainable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the good of a home if you are never in it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19626]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the good of a home if you are never in it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had 420 females and 723 males compete in the last two years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38533]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had 420 females and 723 males compete in the last two years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At times, it's hard to practice against him because he's relentless for the offense to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32767]]></link><description><![CDATA[At times, it's hard to practice against him because he's relentless for the offense to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live of love, it is when Jesus sleeps   To sleep near Him, though stormy waves beat nigh. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7347]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live of love, it is when Jesus sleeps   To sleep near Him, though stormy waves beat nigh. Deem not I shall awake Him! On these deeps   Peace reigns, like that the Blessed know on high. To Hope, the vovage seems one little day;   Faith's hand shall soon the veil between remove; 'Tis Charity that swells my sail alway.     I live of love!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not over. These kids believe in each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40593]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not over. These kids believe in each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cops aren't going to touch this case, ... They only have enough resources to go after the big cases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cops aren't going to touch this case, ... They only have enough resources to go after the big cases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  Not only the young Christian but also the adult Christian will complain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  Not only the young Christian but also the adult Christian will complain that the Scripture reading is often too long for him, and that much therein he does not understand. To this it must be said that, for the mature Christian, every Scripture reading will be "too long", even the shortest one, [for] the Scripture is a whole, and every word, every sentence, possesses such multiple relationships with the whole that it is impossible always to keep the whole in view when listening to details. It becomes apparent, therefore, that the whole of Scripture, and hence every passage in it as well, far surpasses our understanding. It is good for us to be daily reminded of this fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attention to health is life greatest hindrance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15668]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yonkers that have hearts of oak at fourscore yeares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yonkers that have hearts of oak at fourscore yeares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take your work seriously, but never yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take your work seriously, but never yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61021]]></link><description><![CDATA[I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29852]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20290]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46096]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18036]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Macbeth:) How does your patient, doctor? (Doctor:) Not so sick, my lord,  As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26721]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Macbeth:) How does your patient, doctor? (Doctor:) Not so sick, my lord,  As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies   That keep her from her rest.    (Macbeth:) Cure her of that!     Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,      Pluck from the memory of a rooted sorrow,       Raze out the written troubles of the brain,        And with some sweet oblivious antidote         Cleanse the stuffed bosom of the perilous stuff          Which weighs upon the heart?           (Doctor:) Therein the patient            Must minister to himself.             (Macbeth:) Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26721</guid></item></channel></rss>