<?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[How use doth breed a habit in a man! -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55339]]></link><description><![CDATA[How use doth breed a habit in a man! -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ash Wednesday  The apologetic of the New Testament, and of the early centuries generally, was addressed to men who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ash Wednesday  The apologetic of the New Testament, and of the early centuries generally, was addressed to men who had been brought up within one or other of the great pre-Christian religious systems and who had staunchly defended their own inherited traditions against the innovation of the Christian outlook; whereas any apologetic that is to be effective in this country today must be addressed to men who stand within the inheritance of the Christian tradition and know nothing, save by hearsay, of any other, but who have now in varying degrees disengaged themselves from this tradition and whose quarrel with Christianity is therefore undertaken from the point of view either of no religion at all or of some very vague and tenuous residuum of Christian religiosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Figures won't lie, but liars will figure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Figures won't lie, but liars will figure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921  Thou knowest well how to excuse and color thine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921  Thou knowest well how to excuse and color thine own deeds; but thou art not willing to receive the excuses of others. It were more just that thou shouldest accuse thyself, and excuse thy brother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5836]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cheerful temper joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good-natured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60844]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear, not to skin his sheep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51563]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear, not to skin his sheep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs as you do, you can relax a little and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3468]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs as you do, you can relax a little and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock, to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind, you draw large and startling figures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a devil in every berry of the grape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50540]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a devil in every berry of the grape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's so much more need for experienced managers, it's become clear to us that we can't accept the kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37767]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's so much more need for experienced managers, it's become clear to us that we can't accept the kind of turnover we used to have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51876]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14820]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman that deliberates is lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48601]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman that deliberates is lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64252]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we lost King, we lost our guy who pushes us, who pushes the ball up the court for us. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32452]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we lost King, we lost our guy who pushes us, who pushes the ball up the court for us. I didn't think we were going to be able to score quickly after that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century   The man who has never had religion before, no more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century   The man who has never had religion before, no more grows religious when he is sick, than a man who has never learned figures can count when he has need of calculation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2238]]></link><description><![CDATA[To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure; His givings rare, save farthings to the poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure; His givings rare, save farthings to the poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the proteins look very similar. Without the labeling, it would be like trying to find a specific potato within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41360]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the proteins look very similar. Without the labeling, it would be like trying to find a specific potato within a couple hundred thousand of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65607]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24274]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, businessman or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts, and varying interests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who fears to speak of Ninety-Eight? Who blushes at the name?  When cowards mock the patriot's fate,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who fears to speak of Ninety-Eight? Who blushes at the name?  When cowards mock the patriot's fate,   Who hangs his head for shame?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By saying I'd been up on the roof, I hoped to prove that I had intimate knowledge of how and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39024]]></link><description><![CDATA[By saying I'd been up on the roof, I hoped to prove that I had intimate knowledge of how and why he'd died. It was my ego asserting itself: I was there, we were good friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25782]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3217]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel bad that I don't feel worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14496]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel bad that I don't feel worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14215]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look to the past for guidance into the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look to the past for guidance into the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway. Rrelating boxing advice he received from Archie Moore on posturing before a fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think they just wrestled hard. The guys who won, the guys who lost, every single one of them wrestled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28352]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think they just wrestled hard. The guys who won, the guys who lost, every single one of them wrestled tough. Windsor is a well-coached team. We knew they were going to come in and just get after us. In order to prevent that, we've got to make sure we're even more prepared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong, And let no warrior in the heat of fight  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10287]]></link><description><![CDATA[O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong, And let no warrior in the heat of fight  Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes;   For more of those who shrink from shame are safe    Than fall in battle, while with those who flee     Is neither glory nor reprieve from death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy am I; from care I'm free! Why aren't they all contented like me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy am I; from care I'm free! Why aren't they all contented like me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have not loved the world, not the world me; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have not loved the world, not the world me; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd  To its idolatries a patient knee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've done a pretty good job given that it was a very promotional year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32881]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've done a pretty good job given that it was a very promotional year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not turning our backs on them. We've done a very good job helping them find work. We can't guarantee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35912]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not turning our backs on them. We've done a very good job helping them find work. We can't guarantee 100 percent employment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[it is much safer to obey than to rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24483]]></link><description><![CDATA[it is much safer to obey than to rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25556]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47284]]></link><description><![CDATA[There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been tough for me, personally. Novak was the toughest one. He was 6-10, shooting 3s all over the court ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36544]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been tough for me, personally. Novak was the toughest one. He was 6-10, shooting 3s all over the court and getting screens set for him. I wasn't used to that; it really caught me off-guard. But it's an experience for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50986]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50986</guid></item></channel></rss>