<?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[One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19191]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fawn and His MotherA young fawn once said to his Mother, You are larger than a dog, and swifter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fawn and His MotherA young fawn once said to his Mother, You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense; why, then, O Mother! do the hounds frighten you so? She smiled, and said: I know full well, my son, that all you say is true. I have the advantages you mention, but when I hear even the bark of a single dog I feel ready to faint, and fly away as fast as I can. No arguments will give courage to the coward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield? -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55349]]></link><description><![CDATA[O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield? -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every Irishman has a potatoe in his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every Irishman has a potatoe in his head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890   And now be careful to be found a wise and faithful servant, and communicate the heavenly bread to your fellow servants without envy or idleness. Do not take up the vain excuse of your rawness of inexperience which you may imagine or assume. For sterile modesty is never pleasing, nor that humility laudable which passes the bounds of reason. Attend to your work; drive out bashfulness by a sense of duty, and act as a master... But I am not sufficient for these things, you say. As if your offering were not accepted from what you have, and not from what you have not. Be prepared to answer for the single talent committed to your charge, and take no thought for the test... For he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. Give all, as assuredly you shall pay to the uttermost farthing; but of a truth out of what you have, not what you have not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But who alas! can love and then be wise? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48727]]></link><description><![CDATA[But who alas! can love and then be wise?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home,  And call the cattle home,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54323]]></link><description><![CDATA["O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home,  And call the cattle home,   Across the sands o' Dee;"    The western wind was wild and dank wi' foam     And all alone went she.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never again are we to look at the stars, as we did when we were children, and wonder how far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never again are we to look at the stars, as we did when we were children, and wonder how far it is to God. A being outside our world would be a spectator, looking on but taking no part in this life, where we try to be brave despite all the bafflement. A god who created, and withdrew, could be mighty, but he could not be love. Who could love a God remote, when suffering is our lot? Our God is closer than our problems, for they are out there, to be faced; He is here, beside us, Emmanuel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A supreme social challenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A supreme social challenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One is easily fooled by that which one loves. [Fr., On est aisement dupe par ce qu'on aime.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11539]]></link><description><![CDATA[One is easily fooled by that which one loves. [Fr., On est aisement dupe par ce qu'on aime.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is past is prologue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64244]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is past is prologue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63655]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21219]]></link><description><![CDATA[A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Survival is nothing more than recovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Survival is nothing more than recovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24565]]></link><description><![CDATA[How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57834]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know that digging razor clams is a holiday tradition for a lot of families, and the tides cooperated this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32516]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know that digging razor clams is a holiday tradition for a lot of families, and the tides cooperated this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61113]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God Almighty hates a quitter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10368]]></link><description><![CDATA[God Almighty hates a quitter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64921]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything we do in emergency services is a calculated risk, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything we do in emergency services is a calculated risk,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I feel like a Stepping Stone... I am that kind, young lady that offers a wanderer food 'n drink ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I feel like a Stepping Stone... I am that kind, young lady that offers a wanderer food 'n drink off to the side of the road -- in the middle of nowhere as they journey into the next phase of their life. I am that kind, young lady that will change a stranger's life forever, and be a burned out memory in the back of their mind... I was that lady with the sad green eyes, the kind smile... The one that offered you a helping hand and good conversation while you ate your food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25391]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish he'd stay away. - The Psychoed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57691]]></link><description><![CDATA[My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64353]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are the music while the music lasts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22718]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are the music while the music lasts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a strong, good-sized kid. He doesn't come down easily. But we don't give him the ball a lot inside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31886]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a strong, good-sized kid. He doesn't come down easily. But we don't give him the ball a lot inside for 2-3 yard dive plays. We prefer giving him the ball off-tackle where he can get into the open field. Once he's in the clear, he's a vapor trail. He's gone. I don't remember seeing anybody who has caught him from behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2674]]></link><description><![CDATA[While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1936]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By doing cross breeding, you're getting the best of both breeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36421]]></link><description><![CDATA[By doing cross breeding, you're getting the best of both breeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A traveler to distant places should make no enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59578]]></link><description><![CDATA[A traveler to distant places should make no enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set outto accomplish it. He should make this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22745]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set outto accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point ofhis thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be aworldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whicheverit is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object whichhe has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, andshould devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts towander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is theroyal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if hefails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily mustuntil weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be themeasure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point forfuture power and triumph.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461  If we would put some slight stress on ourselves at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461  If we would put some slight stress on ourselves at the beginning, then afterwards we should be able to do all things with ease and joy. It is a hard thing to break through a habit, and a yet harder thing to go contrary to our own will. Yet, if thou overcome not slight and easy obstacles, how wilt thou overcome greater ones? Withstand thy will at the beginning, and unlearn an evil habit, lest it lead thee little by little into worse difficulties. Oh, if thou knewest what peace to thyself thy holy life should bring, ... and what joy to others, methinketh thou wouldst be more zealous for spiritual profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958  We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958  We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1648]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1648</guid></item></channel></rss>