<?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[When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46720]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's enough to send shivers down your spine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29169]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's enough to send shivers down your spine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57005]]></link><description><![CDATA[In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast conquered, O Galilaean. [Lat., Vicisti, Galloloae.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast conquered, O Galilaean. [Lat., Vicisti, Galloloae.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8818]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family is not an important thing. It's everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Family is not an important thing. It's everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hastens a glutton choakes him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hastens a glutton choakes him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60262]]></link><description><![CDATA[As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65366]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, if you lined up 100 writers, you'd get 100 different ways in which they write. There's no right way or wrong way to do it; it's whatever your process is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commonly we say a Judgment falls upon a Man for something in him we cannot abide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commonly we say a Judgment falls upon a Man for something in him we cannot abide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  It has been well said that no man ever sank under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him and mind the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been criticism of me from certain quarters among supporters and I can understand and respect that. It comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42704]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been criticism of me from certain quarters among supporters and I can understand and respect that. It comes with the territory. Perhaps I have taken this club as far as I can and now it is time for the mantle to pass on to someone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food there was none, Shelter there was none but love was there in plenty, Hence I was the richest man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Food there was none, Shelter there was none but love was there in plenty, Hence I was the richest man in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to deliberate mortifications -- I take it you do feel satisfied that you accept fully those God sends. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7464]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to deliberate mortifications -- I take it you do feel satisfied that you accept fully those God sends. That being so, you might perhaps do one or two little things, as acts of love, and also as discipline. I suggest by preference the mortification of the tongue -- as being very tiresome and quite harmless to the health. Careful guard on all amusing criticisms of others, on all complaints however casual or trivial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21371]]></link><description><![CDATA[All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true poem is the poet's mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46757]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true poem is the poet's mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41520]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where else are they going to go? This is the place that's open to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where else are they going to go? This is the place that's open to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge: If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not.  God calleth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge: If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not.  God calleth preaching folly. Do not grudge   To pick out treasures from an earthen pot.    The worst speak something good. If all want sense,     God takes a text, and preaches patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japanese pension funds and institutions will likely accelerate their buying from October when the second half of this business year ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Japanese pension funds and institutions will likely accelerate their buying from October when the second half of this business year starts. We are seeing one of the best buying chances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8513]]></link><description><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane -- if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground -- ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility. From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must look to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while thou art free; Imprison it, lest it do thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to find your perfect match is to meet love halfway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11101]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to find your perfect match is to meet love halfway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't beat them, join them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50995]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't beat them, join them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I personally am waiting to celebrate. I have my fingers crossed. Sharon was one of our biggest enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28325]]></link><description><![CDATA[I personally am waiting to celebrate. I have my fingers crossed. Sharon was one of our biggest enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, They damn those authors whom they never read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, They damn those authors whom they never read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63392]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come backto the pleasant fact that there are only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come backto the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61749]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was one of those deals where they had to spend it on somebody by Oct. 1 or give it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32074]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was one of those deals where they had to spend it on somebody by Oct. 1 or give it back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66862]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17658]]></link><description><![CDATA[God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law, without force, is impotent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law, without force, is impotent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. -Walter Lippmann.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14583]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(The Badgers) were throwing up a lot of contested shots, and we were getting rebounds and pushing it down. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36367]]></link><description><![CDATA[(The Badgers) were throwing up a lot of contested shots, and we were getting rebounds and pushing it down. We played our game. We put them in a situation where they were on their heels and had to run with us. We were coming down, getting good looks, open opportunities, and we were knocking them down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to be sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38507]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to be sick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came out shooting and I wasn't really thinking about it. They went in, so I was glad it happened ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38102]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came out shooting and I wasn't really thinking about it. They went in, so I was glad it happened for us. We had some guys sick and everyone came out playing hard. That just shows the character of our team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20369]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20369</guid></item></channel></rss>