<?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[Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child is father of the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child is father of the man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46575]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46376</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[Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is notone's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is notone's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet onhis ideas, to take a calculated risk-and to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7703]]></link><description><![CDATA[God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But let a man once see his God down in the arena as a Man, -- suffering, tempted, sweating, and agonized, finally dying a criminal's death - and he is a hard man indeed who is untouched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44839]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64938]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5891]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/875]]></link><description><![CDATA[There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thomas a Kempis speaks for all the ages when he represents Jesus as saying to him, "A wise lover regards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thomas a Kempis speaks for all the ages when he represents Jesus as saying to him, "A wise lover regards not so much the gift of him who loves, as the love of him who gives. He esteems affection rather than valuables, and sets all gifts below the Beloved. A noble-minded lover rests not in the gift, but in Me above every gift." The sustaining power of the Beloved Presence has through the ages made the sickbed sweet and the graveside triumphant; transformed broken hearts and relations; brought glory to drudgery, poverty and old age; and turned the martyr's stake or noose into a place of coronation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgotten? No, we never do forget: We let the years go; wash them clean with tears,  Leave them to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgotten? No, we never do forget: We let the years go; wash them clean with tears,  Leave them to bleach out in the open day,   Or lock them careful by, like dead friends' clothes,    Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,--     But we forget not, never can forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UPS now flies to more points in China than any other U.S. airline, freight or passenger. These new flights are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32890]]></link><description><![CDATA[UPS now flies to more points in China than any other U.S. airline, freight or passenger. These new flights are part of our strategy to expand our service options, stay ahead of customer needs and solidify our position as the leader in the world's fastest growing market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5172]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[He] called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse'. I'm not a recluse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57655]]></link><description><![CDATA[[He] called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse'. I'm not a recluse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my end is my beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13785]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my end is my beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46240]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking -- one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65280]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38733]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain amount of resilience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12902]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Draw your salary before spending it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Draw your salary before spending it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29532]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41500]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14893]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25502]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. - The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great to call up somebody in the community to help out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41548]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great to call up somebody in the community to help out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd like to see Bonneville use the (surplus power) sales to keep rates as low as possible. We don't need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32818]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd like to see Bonneville use the (surplus power) sales to keep rates as low as possible. We don't need another rate-raising factor out of our control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52969]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They wanted a big splash today. And they got it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37052]]></link><description><![CDATA[They wanted a big splash today. And they got it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody sees when you are lying in your bedand I want to crawl in with youbut I cry instead ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody sees when you are lying in your bedand I want to crawl in with youbut I cry instead]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men do not admire and delight in the same objects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50183]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He didn't have a perfect car in the race today. He drove like a true veteran. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42475]]></link><description><![CDATA[He didn't have a perfect car in the race today. He drove like a true veteran.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We earned this tonight, not with great soccer, but with very hard work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33644]]></link><description><![CDATA[We earned this tonight, not with great soccer, but with very hard work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15337]]></link><description><![CDATA[And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She bears her down majestically near, Speed on her prow, and terror in her tier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56166]]></link><description><![CDATA[She bears her down majestically near, Speed on her prow, and terror in her tier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56166</guid></item></channel></rss>