<?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 Laborer and the SnakeA snake, having made his hole close to the porch of a cottage, inflicted a mortal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1552]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Laborer and the SnakeA snake, having made his hole close to the porch of a cottage, inflicted a mortal bite on the Cottager's infant son. Grieving over his loss, the Father resolved to kill the Snake. The next day, when it came out of its hole for food, he took up his axe, but by swinging too hastily, missed its head and cut off only the end of its tail. After some time the Cottager, afraid that the Snake would bite him also, endeavored to make peace, and placed some bread and salt in the hole. The Snake, slightly hissing, said: There can henceforth be no peace between us; for whenever I see you I shall remember the loss of my tail, and whenever you see me you will be thinking of the death of your son. No one truly forgets injuries in the presence of him who caused the injury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11156]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10332]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57474]]></link><description><![CDATA[There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such voluntary aid will create a psychological connection between the Muslims and the Palestinian issue and will have a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such voluntary aid will create a psychological connection between the Muslims and the Palestinian issue and will have a great effect on the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53553]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25960]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62261]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18050]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19293]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  He enters by the door who enters by Christ, who imitates the suffering of Christ, who is acquainted with the humility of Christ so as to feel and know that, if God became man for us, men should not think themselves God, but men. He who, being man, wishes to appear God, does not imitate Him who, being God, became man. Thou art not bid to think less of thyself than thou art, but to know what thou art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   Joy is not gush: joy is not jolliness. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   Joy is not gush: joy is not jolliness. Joy is simply perfect acquiescence in God's will, because the soul delights itself in God himself... rejoice in the will of God, and in nothing else. Bow down your heads and your hearts before God, and let the will, the blessed will of God, be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54198]]></link><description><![CDATA[True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did what pitchers do when they're successful. He moved the fastball in and out, he kept his pitches down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30461]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did what pitchers do when they're successful. He moved the fastball in and out, he kept his pitches down for the most part, and he got away with mistakes when they were up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know the media end of things and not much about the business end. Leslie knows the business end but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37802]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know the media end of things and not much about the business end. Leslie knows the business end but not much about the media.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now we’re apart and you’re just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all my family members and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65764]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now we’re apart and you’re just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all my family members and all my quirks and flaws and it doesn’t make sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream after dream ensues; And still they dream that they shall still succeed;  And still are disappointed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream after dream ensues; And still they dream that they shall still succeed;  And still are disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617   Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617   Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we are aware of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17616]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking into my heart, which is perhaps the best way of looking into other men's, I know that the Savior ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Looking into my heart, which is perhaps the best way of looking into other men's, I know that the Savior I want is one of whom I can say with Thomas of old, "My Lord and my God". It would not suffice for my need that He should be only an heroic brother, man divinely inspired. I owe Him my soul, He fills my whole spiritual horizon, I seek to lose myself in Him that I may find myself eternally in life and love divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest part of this job is that you have to be more than a manager. You have to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35760]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest part of this job is that you have to be more than a manager. You have to be a rock star. And I'm not that good a rock star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13512]]></link><description><![CDATA[A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58861]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61604]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  If we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  If we are directed only by our particular natures, and regulate our inclinations by no higher rule than that of our reasons, we are but moralists; divinity will still call us heathens. Therefore this great work of charity must have other motives, ends, and impulsions. I give no alms to satisfy the hunger of my brother, but to fulfil and accomplish the will and command of my God; I draw not my purse for his sake that demands it, but his that enjoined it; I relieve no man upon the rhetoric of his miseries, nor to content mine own commiserating disposition, for this is still but moral charity, and an act that oweth more to passion than reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will stir up the hornets. [Lat., Irritabis crabones.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9969]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will stir up the hornets. [Lat., Irritabis crabones.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true way to be humble is not to stoop till thou art smaller than thyself, but to stand at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8104]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true way to be humble is not to stoop till thou art smaller than thyself, but to stand at thy real height against some higher nature that will show thee what the real smallness of thy greatness is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time and I against any two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time and I against any two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we can't let this continue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38227]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we can't let this continue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65561]]></link><description><![CDATA[I’m always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing canrnbe both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry, Of bugles going by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry, Of bugles going by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two rules to follow: 1) Don't sweat the small stuff. 2) It's all smallstuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two rules to follow: 1) Don't sweat the small stuff. 2) It's all smallstuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have money saved up for the trip, so the cost of gasoline is less important than its availability. Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have money saved up for the trip, so the cost of gasoline is less important than its availability. Our biggest concern is needing to refuel along the way in North Carolina, South Carolina or Georgia, without being able to find any gasoline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11866]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By my penny of observation. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55483]]></link><description><![CDATA[By my penny of observation. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover,  Wanting the scythe, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10542]]></link><description><![CDATA[The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover,  Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank,   Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems    But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs,     Losing both beauty and utility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll have the problem of the cold and the state of the field, but I'm convinced we can win. Slovakia ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41160]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll have the problem of the cold and the state of the field, but I'm convinced we can win. Slovakia is a good team. But when Spain does things right it's a powerful team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the present time, there are probably only a few areas in which one might be able to move forward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35512]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the present time, there are probably only a few areas in which one might be able to move forward by evidence-based benchmarks,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35512</guid></item></channel></rss>