<?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[It is difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven't been willing to try ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21060]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven't been willing to try]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trenchant blade Toledo trusty. For want of fighting was grown rusty,  And ate into itself for lack  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45872]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trenchant blade Toledo trusty. For want of fighting was grown rusty,  And ate into itself for lack   Of somebody to hew and hack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23470]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To discover joy is to return to a state of oneness with the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44910]]></link><description><![CDATA[To discover joy is to return to a state of oneness with the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a good time of year. Legislation is at the forefront of people's minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39507]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a good time of year. Legislation is at the forefront of people's minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are fatal to caste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are fatal to caste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9559</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[Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People got the right to know they live next door to a dog that's declared dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40398]]></link><description><![CDATA[People got the right to know they live next door to a dog that's declared dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This triggered a series of trade friction, especially in the field of textile, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32215]]></link><description><![CDATA[This triggered a series of trade friction, especially in the field of textile,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3247]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Light Up My Life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39326]]></link><description><![CDATA[You Light Up My Life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Green, slender, leaf-clad holly boughs Were twisted gracefu' round her brows,  I took her for some Scottish Muse,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Green, slender, leaf-clad holly boughs Were twisted gracefu' round her brows,  I took her for some Scottish Muse,   By that same token,    An' come to stop those reckless vows,     Would soon be broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conciseness is the sister of talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conciseness is the sister of talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57045]]></link><description><![CDATA[One great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avarice is the vice of declining years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avarice is the vice of declining years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want honest, sincere and intensive cooperation in tackling the Taliban and terrorism coming into Afghanistan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40050]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want honest, sincere and intensive cooperation in tackling the Taliban and terrorism coming into Afghanistan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9467]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am very, very happy to have earned this first point. The start in a Davis Cup tie is always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41642]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am very, very happy to have earned this first point. The start in a Davis Cup tie is always important and so I am glad we are ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the things now enjoyed by civilization have been created by some man and sold by another man before anybody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8827]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the things now enjoyed by civilization have been created by some man and sold by another man before anybody really enjoyed the ;benefits of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until youwin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21828]]></link><description><![CDATA[How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until youwin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21802]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying Glory to God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45865]]></link><description><![CDATA[And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15687]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Continuing a short series on prayer: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Continuing a short series on prayer:   Madness frequently discovers itself merely by unnecessary deviation from the usual modes of the world. My poor friend Christopher Smart showed the disturbance of his mind, by falling upon his knees, and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place. Now although, rationally speaking, it is greater madness not to pray at all, than to pray as Smart did, I am afraid there are so many who do not pray, that their understanding is not called in question... I did not think he ought to be shut up. His infirmities were not noxious to society. He insisted on people praying with him; and I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24652]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10952]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like for her to make more shots for us, but that's not the role she's embraced. Players figure out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37178]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like for her to make more shots for us, but that's not the role she's embraced. Players figure out what their own roles are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been involved with college baseball for 30 years, and this is something that's always come up, but nobody's ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38781]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been involved with college baseball for 30 years, and this is something that's always come up, but nobody's ever acted on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amende to-day and slack not, Deythe cometh and warneth not,  Tyme passeth and speketh not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amende to-day and slack not, Deythe cometh and warneth not,  Tyme passeth and speketh not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is simple. Do what\'s right, the right way, at the right time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is simple. Do what\'s right, the right way, at the right time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65212</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[He ne'er consider'd it as loth To look a gift-horse in the mouth,  And very wisely would lay forth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17432]]></link><description><![CDATA[He ne'er consider'd it as loth To look a gift-horse in the mouth,  And very wisely would lay forth   No more upon it than 'twas worth;    But as he got it freely, so     He spent it frank and freely too:      For saints themselves will sometimes be,       Of gifts that cost them nothing, free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools. -As You Like It. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-violence is the article of faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Non-violence is the article of faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feel the fear and do it anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feel the fear and do it anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars.  Not the bright stars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58795]]></link><description><![CDATA[No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars.  Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn,   Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn,    Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows     Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee looseth nothing, that looseth not God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee looseth nothing, that looseth not God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours surpris de trouver de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours surpris de trouver de l'habilete dans les bons.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes are the mirror of the soul ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14809]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes are the mirror of the soul]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not chose to be wrong for the sake of being different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not chose to be wrong for the sake of being different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are saved, we are at home in the universe; and, in principle and in the main, feeble and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6534]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are saved, we are at home in the universe; and, in principle and in the main, feeble and timid creatures as we are, there is nothing anywhere within the world or without it that can make us afraid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6534</guid></item></channel></rss>