<?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[Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['What war?' said the Prime Minister sharply. 'No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61151]]></link><description><![CDATA['What war?' said the Prime Minister sharply. 'No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned,' he said defiantly, 'if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to remember that this is what you play for all your life, and being on the big show, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29587]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to remember that this is what you play for all your life, and being on the big show, you've got to keep trying, ... This is my first time playing the course and even if I don't make the cut, I want to play as good as I can for next year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45772]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who comes to the show should have an open mind. It's kind of different. Take your expectations of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who comes to the show should have an open mind. It's kind of different. Take your expectations of a magic show, and forget them. This will change them. People have preconceived notions of what a magic show should be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the good and gentle; for this is a naturally pleasing to all, and everyone willingly enjoyeth peace, and loveth those best that agree with him. But to be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace, and a most commendable thing.  ... Thomas à Kempis July 25, 2000 Feast of James the Apostle  When Jesus calls his disciples "brothers" and "friends", he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine.  Of all sad words experience gleans,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine.  Of all sad words experience gleans,   The saddest are: "It might have beans."    (The did not make this up myself:     'Twas in a book upon my shelf.      It's witty, but I don't deny       It's rather Whittier than I.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to talk to people and hear their concerns, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41616]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to talk to people and hear their concerns,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3243]]></link><description><![CDATA[For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? to the designer of the camera? To the finger on the button? tso the law of averages?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42619]]></link><description><![CDATA[A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45209]]></link><description><![CDATA[The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thirty days hath November, April, June, and September,  February hath xxviii alone,   And all the rest have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thirty days hath November, April, June, and September,  February hath xxviii alone,   And all the rest have xxxi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63720]]></link><description><![CDATA[A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We bought the property as much for the tree as for the Victorian house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33868]]></link><description><![CDATA[We bought the property as much for the tree as for the Victorian house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34413]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833 Rejoice in God, O ye tongues; give the glory to the Lord, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833 Rejoice in God, O ye tongues; give the glory to the Lord, and the Lamb. Nations, and languages, and every creature, in which is the breath of Life. Let man and beast appear before him, and magnify his name together. Let Noah and his company approach the throne of Grace, and do homage to the Ark of their Salvation. Let Abraham present a Ram, and worship the God of his Redemption. Let Jacob with his speckled Drove adore the good Shepherd of Israel. ... Let Daniel come forth with a Lion, and praise God with all his might, through faith in Christ Jesus. ... Let David bless with the bear --  The beginning of victory to the Lord --  to the Lord the perfection of excellence --  Hallelujah from the heart of God, and from the hand of the artist inimitable, and from the echo of the heavenly harp in sweetness magnifical and mighty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22196]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: Because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11123]]></link><description><![CDATA[For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:  And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He makes no friends who never made a foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63527]]></link><description><![CDATA[He makes no friends who never made a foe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only so much do I know, as I have lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only so much do I know, as I have lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8482]]></link><description><![CDATA[To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23379]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This year it's a little easier, they make less mistakes in practice. I don't have to do so much repetition, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40604]]></link><description><![CDATA[This year it's a little easier, they make less mistakes in practice. I don't have to do so much repetition, because they know what to do and what to expect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3428]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good folly is worth what you pay for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35530]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good folly is worth what you pay for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we can't let this continue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38227]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we can't let this continue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A naughty child is better sick then whole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49063]]></link><description><![CDATA[A naughty child is better sick then whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. - Conceits and Caprices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. - Conceits and Caprices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other than that, there isn't much movement in the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other than that, there isn't much movement in the market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I might a rose-bud grow And thou wouldst cull me from the bower.  To place me on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54440]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I might a rose-bud grow And thou wouldst cull me from the bower.  To place me on that breast of snow   Where I should bloom a wintry flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A win is always the answer to get the bad taste out of your mouth. Beating Iowa is a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A win is always the answer to get the bad taste out of your mouth. Beating Iowa is a great feeling. In our hearts, we all know we can beat any team in the country. We just need to believe it and play like we can every game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the midst of life we are in debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15760]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the midst of life we are in debt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each story I've written starts out as a vague idea that seems to be going nowhere, then suddenly materializes as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each story I've written starts out as a vague idea that seems to be going nowhere, then suddenly materializes as a completed concept. It almost seems like a discovery, as if the story was always there. The few elements I start out with are actually clues. If I figure out what they mean, I can discover the story that's waiting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire; Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow  Of bragging horror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire; Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow  Of bragging horror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10712]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods too are fond of a joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods too are fond of a joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20056</guid></item></channel></rss>