<?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 horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea four things say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17430]]></link><description><![CDATA[The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea four things say not, It is enough: The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs, When season'd with love, which no rancour disturbs  And sweeten'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs, When season'd with love, which no rancour disturbs  And sweeten'd by all that is sweetest in life   Than turbot, bisque, ortolans, eaten in strife!    But if, out of humour, and hungry, alone     A man should sit down to dinner, each one      Of the dishes which the cook chooses to spoil       With a horrible mixture of garlic and oil,        The chances are ten against one, I must own,         He gets up as ill-tempered as when he sat down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginnings are often scary, endings are often sad, but it's the middle that counts. You should remember that when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginnings are often scary, endings are often sad, but it's the middle that counts. You should remember that when you find yourself at the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14118]]></link><description><![CDATA[All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14539]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 "In pastures green"? Not always; sometimes He, Who knoweth best, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 "In pastures green"? Not always; sometimes He, Who knoweth best, in kindness leadeth me In weary ways, where heavy shadows be. And "by still waters" ? No, not always so; Ofttimes the heavy tempests round me blow, And o'er my soul the waves and billows go. But when the storm beats loudest, and I cry Aloud for help, the Master standeth by, And whispers to my soul, "Lo, it is I." So, where He leads me, I can safely go, And in the blest hereafter I shall know Why, in His wisdom, He hath led me so.  ... Anonymous    July 24, 1998  Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471  If thou shalt remain faithful and zealous in labour, doubt not that God shall be faithful and bountiful in rewarding thee. It is thy duty to have a good hope that thou wilt attain the victory: but thou must not fall into security lest thou become slothful or lifted up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/245]]></link><description><![CDATA[An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As ofthis second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22234]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As ofthis second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65145]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45742]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   I am quite prepared to promise the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189   I am quite prepared to promise the secularists secular education if they on their side will promise not to have moral instruction. Secular education seems to me intellectually clean and comprehensible. Moral instruction seems to me unclean, intolerable; I would destroy it with fire. Teaching the Old Testament by itself means teaching ancient Hebrew ethics, which are simple, barbaric rudimentary, and, to a Christian, unsatisfying. Teaching moral instruction means teaching modern London, Birmingham and Boston ethics, which are not barbaric and rudimentary, but are corrupt, hysterical and crawling with worms, and which are to a Christian, not unsatisfying but detestable. The old Jew who says that you must fight only for your tribe is inadequate; but the modern prig who says you must never fight for anything is substantially and specifically immoral. I know quite well, of course, that the unreligious ethics suggested for modern schools do not verbally assert these things; they only talk about peaceful reform, true Christianity, and the importance of Count Tolstoy. It is all a matter of tone and implication--but then, so is all teaching. Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect; when you say things, they very commonly laugh and do the opposite. It is the things you assume that really sink into them. It is the things you forget even to teach that they learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one of us could ascend to the heavenly realm and for a few hours accompany the divine on His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53311]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one of us could ascend to the heavenly realm and for a few hours accompany the divine on His daily rounds, he would see below millions of his fellow humans busily hurling themselves into the passions, sports, and action of those around him. But if our observer had the power and omniscience of the Lord, he would also feel and sense, pulsing through and vibrating from every one of us here below, a desperate and unending plea, "Notice me! I want to be known admired, and loved by the whole world!" And it is this, this glorious weakness, this dependence of ours on each other, that makes some of us usually heroes and fools at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You just have to have a threat there to worry markets and they (buyers) want to lock in prices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36034]]></link><description><![CDATA[You just have to have a threat there to worry markets and they (buyers) want to lock in prices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be pointed out with the finger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53888]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be pointed out with the finger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58586]]></link><description><![CDATA[All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever begins, also ends. [Lat., Quicquid coepit, et desinit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever begins, also ends. [Lat., Quicquid coepit, et desinit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14991]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He fought hard. But then I thought he had a good chance at winning this match; I didn't think it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39059]]></link><description><![CDATA[He fought hard. But then I thought he had a good chance at winning this match; I didn't think it was that big of an upset because he's a good little wrestler. I don't remember anyone ever beating him. He always beat himself because of the mistakes he made and the points he gave up. He's a good little athlete, probably pound for pound the best athlete in that high school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It cuts like a knife but it feels so right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30821]]></link><description><![CDATA[It cuts like a knife but it feels so right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35196]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course he's going to tell you about all the great benefits, ... He's going to stand on the table ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course he's going to tell you about all the great benefits, ... He's going to stand on the table and dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, 'What a lovely sermon!' but 'I will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48059]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, 'What a lovely sermon!' but 'I will do something.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40470]]></link><description><![CDATA[An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27064]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no index of character so sure as the voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60932]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no index of character so sure as the voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And little eagles wave their wings in gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13099]]></link><description><![CDATA[And little eagles wave their wings in gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis  Turpibus ac pravis omnes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20571]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis  Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We keep the day. With festal cheer, With books and music, surely we  Will drink to him, whate'er he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15595]]></link><description><![CDATA[We keep the day. With festal cheer, With books and music, surely we  Will drink to him, whate'er he be,   And sing the songs he loved to hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your lifestyle - how you live, eat, emote, and think - determines your health. To prevent disease, you may have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your lifestyle - how you live, eat, emote, and think - determines your health. To prevent disease, you may have to change how you live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred -- The anger of the weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred -- The anger of the weak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It really is about time that in such an important city, the capital, that we have something that can represent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36539]]></link><description><![CDATA[It really is about time that in such an important city, the capital, that we have something that can represent London.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's most tragic is that this denial of basic education leads to over 1 million unnecessary child and maternal deaths ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33146]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's most tragic is that this denial of basic education leads to over 1 million unnecessary child and maternal deaths a year. Moreover, children who have never seen the inside of a classroom are precisely those that face the most acute poverty, and should be the prime target of the international community if it is at all serious about realizing the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals of halving extreme poverty by 2015.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47139]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making units, the structuring of their incentives, and the counterbalancing of the units against one another, rather than on the more usual (and more exciting) principle of substituting "the good guys" for "the bad guys.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance lends enchantment to the view ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distance lends enchantment to the view]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to go in, keep my mouth shut and just listen to the guys, ... I have to earn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to go in, keep my mouth shut and just listen to the guys, ... I have to earn the respect of my teammates and coaches, and I'm going to do whatever it takes to earn that respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I can do it By aught that I can speak in his dispraise,  She shall not long continue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56557]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I can do it By aught that I can speak in his dispraise,  She shall not long continue love to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56557</guid></item></channel></rss>