<?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[Beginning a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  If we are prepared to admit, even as a possibility, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series on topics of Christian apologetics:  If we are prepared to admit, even as a possibility, that Jesus was divine, or even that without being divine he was unique, then we must, as a matter of logic, discard any attempt to discredit the Gospel accounts on the ground that they record miracles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People kept coming up to our booth asking if this was the knee brace that everyone was talking about! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42582]]></link><description><![CDATA[People kept coming up to our booth asking if this was the knee brace that everyone was talking about!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedlydo."N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedlydo."N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of a much older quote by Aristotle, which see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/318]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4761]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not the time to take our time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64203]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not the time to take our time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We agreed in Cairo on a collective truce and the retaliation, therefore, should be collective, too, because this is an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41288]]></link><description><![CDATA[We agreed in Cairo on a collective truce and the retaliation, therefore, should be collective, too, because this is an Israeli carnage, the result of which must be shared by all parties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoyme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21210]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoyme.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The introverted church is one which puts its own survival before its mission, its own identity above its task, its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The introverted church is one which puts its own survival before its mission, its own identity above its task, its internal concerns before its apostolate, its rituals before its ministry. Undue emphasis on the static structure of the Church has led to the disappearance of a significant lay ministry in denominational Protestantism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, And let's be red with mirth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, And let's be red with mirth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd be proud to say it in a chat room, to the Wall Street Journal , on the cover of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd be proud to say it in a chat room, to the Wall Street Journal , on the cover of your magazine, that hey, these are abusive users, and we have to do something about it. This isn't a charity. We have to run a business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worker is being treated at the hospital for non-life threatening injuries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worker is being treated at the hospital for non-life threatening injuries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our long-range goal, once we get high-school students off the yellow buses, is to start looking at adjusting the bell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our long-range goal, once we get high-school students off the yellow buses, is to start looking at adjusting the bell time of elementary schools. Then we can reduce the number of buses, and then we will see the savings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12712]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one body that knows more than anybody, and that is everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26218]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one body that knows more than anybody, and that is everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are like Slinkies - not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are like Slinkies - not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand!  Amidst their tall ancestral trees,   O'er all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19627]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand!  Amidst their tall ancestral trees,   O'er all the pleasant land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64593]]></link><description><![CDATA[I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will indulge my sorrows, and give way To all the pangs and fury of despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12002]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will indulge my sorrows, and give way To all the pangs and fury of despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just my vengeance complete, The man sprang to his feet,  Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just my vengeance complete, The man sprang to his feet,  Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed!   So, I was afraid!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred in my imagination it is!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil,  And Fear her danger; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil,  And Fear her danger; opens a new world   When this, the present, palls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. It is the prolonged sacrifice of the rights of some persons at the bidding and for the satisfaction of other persons. The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall;  Equal on Sunday in the pew, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16679]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall;  Equal on Sunday in the pew,   On Monday in the mall.    For what avail the plough or sail,     Or land, or life, if freedom fail?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatched in the same nest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatched in the same nest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13524]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42243]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56593]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Impossible DreamTo dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foeTo bear the unbearable sorrowTo run where the brave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Impossible DreamTo dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foeTo bear the unbearable sorrowTo run where the brave dare not goTo write the unwritable wrongTo be better far than you areTo try when your arms are too wearyThe reach the unreachable starThis is my quest, to follow that starNo matter how hopeless,No matter how farTo fight for the rightWhithout question or pauseTo be willing to march into hellFor a heavenly causeAnd I know if I'll only be trueTo this glorious questThat my heart will be peaceful and calmWhen I'm laid to my restAnd the world would be better for thisThat one man scorned and covered with scarsStill strove with his last ounce of courageTo reach the unreachable starmusic by Leigh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26780]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56594]]></link><description><![CDATA[In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing to follow their own vision, even when it takes them far from the mainland of the human community. Unexplored places do not frighten them- or not, at any rate, as much as they frighten those around them. This is one of the secrets of their power. That which we call "genius" has a great deal to do with courage and daring, a great deal to do with nerve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Lady of Threadneedle Street. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Lady of Threadneedle Street.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did an OK job, but I wouldn't go so far as to say we played our best game. We'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41833]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did an OK job, but I wouldn't go so far as to say we played our best game. We'll have to play much better in the second round in order to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I support the McCartney family. I support their demand for justice. I think that there is an onus upon everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35691]]></link><description><![CDATA[I support the McCartney family. I support their demand for justice. I think that there is an onus upon everyone who can help, to help. So good luck to them. And when I go back home I will continue to work on their behalf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35691</guid></item></channel></rss>