<?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[Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge exists to be imparted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge exists to be imparted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16355]]></link><description><![CDATA[In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I win the gold I might say nothing and just wander past him, hopefully with some kind of medal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29998]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I win the gold I might say nothing and just wander past him, hopefully with some kind of medal - a gold one preferably. I think I might dangle it in front of his face or something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6098]]></link><description><![CDATA[The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65317]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nobody "out there." It's all in here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21959]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nobody "out there." It's all in here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47570]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47570</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[Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Manual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Manual on military leadership -Dwight D. Eisenhower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You’re through. Finished. Burned out. Used up. You’ve been replaced. . . forgotten. That’s a lie! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4997]]></link><description><![CDATA[You’re through. Finished. Burned out. Used up. You’ve been replaced. . . forgotten. That’s a lie!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56953]]></link><description><![CDATA[There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A drunkards purse is a bottle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49013]]></link><description><![CDATA[A drunkards purse is a bottle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st  But keep that count'nance still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44468]]></link><description><![CDATA[If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st  But keep that count'nance still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Dublin City there is no doubtin' Bates every city upon the say.  'Tis there you'd hear O'Connell spoutin' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Dublin City there is no doubtin' Bates every city upon the say.  'Tis there you'd hear O'Connell spoutin'   And Lady Morgan making tay.    For 'tis the capital of the finest nation,     With charmin' pisintry upon a fruitful sod,      Fightin' like devils for conciliation,       And hatin' each other for the Love of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965   The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6151]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61484]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold does not rust on the ground, and rocks don't get soaked in the rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold does not rust on the ground, and rocks don't get soaked in the rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have heard robins singing in areas of Beaumont. But you're probably going to have to wait until next winter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38719]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have heard robins singing in areas of Beaumont. But you're probably going to have to wait until next winter to see the flocks of robins come through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43476]]></link><description><![CDATA[After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20874]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a poet or an artist puts himself into his Productions he is criticized. But that is exactly what God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8431]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a poet or an artist puts himself into his Productions he is criticized. But that is exactly what God does, he does so in Christ. And precisely that is Christianity. The creation was really only completed when God included himself in it. Before the coming of Christ, God was certainly in the creation, but as an invisible sign, like the watermark in paper. But the creation was completed by the Incarnation because God thereby included himself in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54644]]></link><description><![CDATA[In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63583]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The latest chip helps us go after the Web and application tier in the data center, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34798]]></link><description><![CDATA[The latest chip helps us go after the Web and application tier in the data center,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25511]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain. - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 1818.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to truly master the comfort zone, you have to learn to loveit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21443]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to truly master the comfort zone, you have to learn to loveit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was an unwarranted and vicious attack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35856]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was an unwarranted and vicious attack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness  To catch the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness  To catch the nearest way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is being looked at. A lot is going on behind the scenes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41448]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is being looked at. A lot is going on behind the scenes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be  Than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59445]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be  Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining,   And a cot that o'erlooks the wide sea;    With an ambling pad-pony to pace o'er the lawn,     While I carol away idle sorrow,      And blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn,       Look forward with hope for to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if we don't win another game, we beat Superman tonight. When they bring him in, everybody knows the game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if we don't win another game, we beat Superman tonight. When they bring him in, everybody knows the game is over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of mixed emotions. But that was 48 hours. After that 48 hours, I was able to reflect back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32838]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of mixed emotions. But that was 48 hours. After that 48 hours, I was able to reflect back on 23 years. So I'm not going to let 48 hours spoil my fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17461]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not that I have the power to clutch my hand When his fair angels would salute by palm,  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not that I have the power to clutch my hand When his fair angels would salute by palm,  But for my hand, as unattempted yet,   Like a poor beggar, raileth on the rich.    Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail     And say there is no sin but to be rich;      And being rich, my virtue then shall be       To say there is no vice but beggary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it mean to be human? Are we capable, if need be, of fundamental change, or do the dead hands of forgotten ancestors impel us in some direction, indiscriminately for good or ill, and beyond our control? Can we alter our character? Can we improve our societies? Can we leave our children a world better than the one that was left to us? Can we free them from the demons that torment us and haunt our civilization? In the long run, are we wise enough to know what changes to make? Can we be trusted with our own future?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61072]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14860]]></link><description><![CDATA[How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed;  All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This legislation gives prosecutors and law enforcement tools they need to keep sexual predators off the streets and to hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39778]]></link><description><![CDATA[This legislation gives prosecutors and law enforcement tools they need to keep sexual predators off the streets and to hold our worst child abusers fully accountable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39778</guid></item></channel></rss>