<?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[Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History knows no resting place and no plateaus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19482]]></link><description><![CDATA[History knows no resting place and no plateaus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou believest that Christ was crucified for the sins of the world, thou must with Him be crucified... If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6462]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou believest that Christ was crucified for the sins of the world, thou must with Him be crucified... If thou refusest to comply with this order, thou canst not be a living member of Christ, nor be united with Him by faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The United States presents itself as a leader against terrorism, invades countries, restricts the civil rights of Americans in order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30101]]></link><description><![CDATA[The United States presents itself as a leader against terrorism, invades countries, restricts the civil rights of Americans in order to fight terrorism, but when it is about its own terrorists, it denies that they be tried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perswasion of the fortunate swaies the doubtfull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49901]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perswasion of the fortunate swaies the doubtfull.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women may fall when there's no strength in men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women may fall when there's no strength in men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An army of asses led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by an ass ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3108]]></link><description><![CDATA[An army of asses led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by an ass]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished animal and an unfinished man. It is this incurable unfinishedness which sets man apart from other living things. For, in the attempt to finish himself, man becomes a creator. Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62968]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of their saddles into the dirt--and thereby hangs a tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of their saddles into the dirt--and thereby hangs a tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rebellion must be managed with many swords; treason to his prince's person may be with one knife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rebellion must be managed with many swords; treason to his prince's person may be with one knife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a crazy world we live in! Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46985]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a crazy world we live in! Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal misbehaviors using guns as a medical problem! Beam me up, Scotty. Ain't no intelligent life down here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudice cannot see the things that are because it is always looking for things that aren't ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudice cannot see the things that are because it is always looking for things that aren't]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to be realistic. Everest has about a 33 percent success ratio. That's a one in three shot. I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30877]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to be realistic. Everest has about a 33 percent success ratio. That's a one in three shot. I'm a little older than most. This is my first trip. Most people wind up making a couple of trips before they summit. I don't know what my chances will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're really poor, everything you seeis something you can't have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47892]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're really poor, everything you seeis something you can't have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10941]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that the real emotion is one of great pride, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37217]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that the real emotion is one of great pride,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear  As will disperse itself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear  As will disperse itself through all the veins   That the life-weary taker may fall dead,    And that the trunk may be discharged of breath     As violently as hasty powder fired      Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19299]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone,  A woman, of her gentle sex   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone,  A woman, of her gentle sex   The seeming paragon;    To whom the better elements     And kindly stars have given      A form so fair that, like the air,       'Tis less of earth than heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In sports and journeys men are knowne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49544]]></link><description><![CDATA[In sports and journeys men are knowne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dubai has been trying to prove to the rest of the Arab world that there is life after oil, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dubai has been trying to prove to the rest of the Arab world that there is life after oil, and that in fact it's a better life. The good news is there is room for a second and a third Dubai, just like there was room for a second Singapore in Asia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10108]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seating there was very limited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seating there was very limited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very surprised to receive the award. As a coach, you're only as good as your players. I've been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40308]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very surprised to receive the award. As a coach, you're only as good as your players. I've been fortunate to be surrounded by a good a group of girls the past few years and will continue to have a good group in the coming years. All of the credit goes to the girls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,  Lest I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,  Lest I should fear and fall, and miss Thee so   Who art not missed by any that entreat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8005]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshippers meeting together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship. Social religion is perfected when private religion is purified. The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50279]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16468]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51104]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want of pluck shows want of blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Want of pluck shows want of blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5159]]></link><description><![CDATA[A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This shows that criminals are attempting to stay ahead of the game by trying to evade detection at British ports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37840]]></link><description><![CDATA[This shows that criminals are attempting to stay ahead of the game by trying to evade detection at British ports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imperial Waltz! imported from the Rhine (Famed for the growth of pedigrees and wine),  Long be thine import from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imperial Waltz! imported from the Rhine (Famed for the growth of pedigrees and wine),  Long be thine import from all duty free,   And hock itself be less esteem'd than thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16788</guid></item></channel></rss>