<?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[You have the God-given right to kick the government around--don't hesitate to do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18051]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have the God-given right to kick the government around--don't hesitate to do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66324]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18749]]></link><description><![CDATA[If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss But cheerly seek how to redress their harms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in doubt, don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/878]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in doubt, don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3668]]></link><description><![CDATA[I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17628]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who that has loved knows not the tender tale Which flowers reveal, when lips are coy to tell?   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who that has loved knows not the tender tale Which flowers reveal, when lips are coy to tell?   - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goalkeeper thought Tony was going to shoot, and he stayed on his line. He passed instead, which gave me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39072]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goalkeeper thought Tony was going to shoot, and he stayed on his line. He passed instead, which gave me a pretty easy shot. I got it in, which was huge for us. We really needed to win this game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929  From time immemorial men have quenched their thirst with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929  From time immemorial men have quenched their thirst with water without knowing anything about its chemical constituents. In like manner we do not need to be instructed in all the mysteries of doctrine, but we do need to receive the Living Water which Jesus Christ will give us and which alone can satisfy our souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2377]]></link><description><![CDATA[First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752  Consider that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752  Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The society of women is the element of good manners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The society of women is the element of good manners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goths don't identify with evil, we mourn the evil in society. The fascination with death is basically a reminder to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goths don't identify with evil, we mourn the evil in society. The fascination with death is basically a reminder to us of our own mortality. For these reasons, we wear black.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a driver, he has developed much quicker than I think anybody expected, and that is what really made this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42472]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a driver, he has developed much quicker than I think anybody expected, and that is what really made this possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17948]]></link><description><![CDATA[An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always thought there was gonna be one more solution, one more last minute investor, just one more little nibble. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29329]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always thought there was gonna be one more solution, one more last minute investor, just one more little nibble. It wasn't meant to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before I can have any joy in being alone with God I must have learned not to fear being alone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before I can have any joy in being alone with God I must have learned not to fear being alone with myself. Shrinking from any deep self-scrutiny is by no means an uncommon thing, and often goes far to explain the feverish restlessness with which a world-loving heart plunges into perpetual rounds of gaieties and dissipations; they serve as an escape from troublesome questions about the soul, and help to get rid of the clamours of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have at least four to five different potato dishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38155]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have at least four to five different potato dishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65124]]></link><description><![CDATA[I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England   I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England   I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which Whitfield set me an example on Sunday; having been all my life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3115]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.  [Ger., Mit der Dummheit kampfen Gotter selbst vergebens.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.  [Ger., Mit der Dummheit kampfen Gotter selbst vergebens.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather be right than be President. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather be right than be President.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[neither the time, the inclination, nor the financial ability to fight each and every article that has appeared about me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40214]]></link><description><![CDATA[neither the time, the inclination, nor the financial ability to fight each and every article that has appeared about me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48238]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11847]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee; but before  Mayst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee; but before  Mayst rule it, as thou list: and pour the shame,   Which it would pour on thee, upon the floor.    It is most just to throw that on the ground,     Which would throw me there, if I keep the round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laywers, I suppose, were children once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laywers, I suppose, were children once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   A really patient man neither complains nor seeks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   A really patient man neither complains nor seeks to be pitied; he will speak simply and truly of his trouble, without exaggerating its weight or bemoaning himself. If others pity him, he will accept their compassion patiently, unless they pity him for some ill he is not enduring, in which case he will say so with meekness, and abide in patience and truthfulness, combating his grief and not complaining of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  I love poverty because He loved it. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  I love poverty because He loved it. I love riches because they afford me the means of helping the very poor. I keep faith with everybody; I do not render evil to those who wrong me, but I wish them a situation like mine, in which I receive neither good nor evil from men. I try to be just, true, sincere, and faithful to all men; I have a tender heart for those to whom God has more closely united me; and whether I am alone, or seen by people, I do all my actions in the sight of God, who must judge them, and to whom I have consecrated them all. These are my sentiments; and every day of my life, I bless my Redeemer, who has implanted them in me, and who, out of a man full of weakness, of miseries, of lust, of pride, and of ambition, has made a man free from all these evils by the power of His grace, to which all the glory of it is due, as of myself I have only misery and error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In terms of cricket I would rather think we get on with the game now and play to our potential, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41972]]></link><description><![CDATA[In terms of cricket I would rather think we get on with the game now and play to our potential, than thinking about it too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47385]]></link><description><![CDATA[It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are difficult before they are easy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21922]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are difficult before they are easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are going through hell, keep going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13631]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are going through hell, keep going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation, And for the bass, the beast can only bellow;  In fact, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation, And for the bass, the beast can only bellow;  In fact, he had no singing education,   An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyrants' fears Decrease not, but grow faster than their years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyrants' fears Decrease not, but grow faster than their years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47168]]></link><description><![CDATA[...economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7545]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Texas functions best when public officials recognize that government does not belong to them but to the people, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Texas functions best when public officials recognize that government does not belong to them but to the people,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35979</guid></item></channel></rss>