<?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[The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was funny, ... I started laughing immediately. It's always been fun coming to BU and playing here. So, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42591]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was funny, ... I started laughing immediately. It's always been fun coming to BU and playing here. So, to do it now and have those fans behind me one more time, it was pretty fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe these are a solid set of figures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31606]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe these are a solid set of figures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19557]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always special to do that. Then to have it on your homecoming night, especially as a senior ... that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28802]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always special to do that. Then to have it on your homecoming night, especially as a senior ... that's even more special.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sprint has essentially under-performed in that space. It does not have nearly as much market share. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sprint has essentially under-performed in that space. It does not have nearly as much market share.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain  Shrunk in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52929]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain  Shrunk in the wind,--and the lightning now   Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48628]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle" "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45912]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53623]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow the teachings of the new, he would be insane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Use three Physicians, Still-first Dr. Quiet,  Next Dr. Merry-man   And Dr. Dyet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Use three Physicians, Still-first Dr. Quiet,  Next Dr. Merry-man   And Dr. Dyet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burroughs was a very political writer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burroughs was a very political writer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12736]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's on the horizon. We can do the job as long as the funding stays consistent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34964]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's on the horizon. We can do the job as long as the funding stays consistent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   If Religion has raised us into a new world, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   If Religion has raised us into a new world, if it has filled us with new ends of life, if it has taken possession of our hearts, and altered the whole turn of our minds, if it has changed all our ideas of things, given us a new set of hopes and fears, and taught us to live by the realities of an invisible world -- then we may humbly hope that we are true followers of the Holy Jesus, and such as may rejoice in the Day of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. [Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum incitamentum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. [Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum incitamentum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  You can also offer your prayers, obedience, and endurance of dryness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  You can also offer your prayers, obedience, and endurance of dryness to Our Lord, for the good of other souls, and then you have practiced intercession. Never mind if it all seems for the time very second-hand. The less you get out of it, the nearer it approaches to being something worth offering; and the humiliation of not being able to feel as devout as we want to be, is excellent for most of us. Use vocal prayer... very slowly, trying to realize the meaning with which it is charged and remember that... you are only a unit in the Chorus of the Church, so that the others will make good the shortcomings you cannot help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're our biggest corporate donor and so of course we look forward to that funding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40106]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're our biggest corporate donor and so of course we look forward to that funding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None is a foole alwaies, everyone sometimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49658]]></link><description><![CDATA[None is a foole alwaies, everyone sometimes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generally, the situation is getting worse and pressure is piling on the weakened people and livestock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generally, the situation is getting worse and pressure is piling on the weakened people and livestock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among Christians so much prominence has been given to the disciplinary effects of sorrow, affliction, bereavement, that they have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among Christians so much prominence has been given to the disciplinary effects of sorrow, affliction, bereavement, that they have been in danger of overlooking the other and more obvious side: that by every joy, by every favor, by every sign of prosperity -- yea, and by these chiefly -- God designs to educate and discipline His children. This one-sided view of the truth has made many morbid, gloomy Christians, who look for God's hand only in the lightning and never think of seeing it in the sunlight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civilized nation, its personal liberty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47106]]></link><description><![CDATA[...Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civilized nation, its personal liberty is said to be less. In other words, men are thought to be more under the control of extra-legal authorities, and to defer more to those around them, in pursuing even their lawful and innocent occupations, than in almost every other country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26913]]></link><description><![CDATA[A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Rose is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more;  He used to wear an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Rose is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more;  He used to wear an old blue coat   All buttoned down before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider myself more exportant than important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55054]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider myself more exportant than important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19480]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When ideas fail, words come in very handy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20286]]></link><description><![CDATA[When ideas fail, words come in very handy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54896]]></link><description><![CDATA[It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The corporate charter that we have is very strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33802]]></link><description><![CDATA[The corporate charter that we have is very strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53681]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's good that we don't play a completely different style, because it helps everybody to know what his role is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32647]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's good that we don't play a completely different style, because it helps everybody to know what his role is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28830]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home is the place where it feels right to walk around without shoes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home is the place where it feels right to walk around without shoes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19602</guid></item></channel></rss>