<?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[My voice is still for war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61123]]></link><description><![CDATA[My voice is still for war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My prediction? This move will be completely forgotten. Few to nobody will use it. And, 6 to 12 months from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42165]]></link><description><![CDATA[My prediction? This move will be completely forgotten. Few to nobody will use it. And, 6 to 12 months from now, Oracle will have to give a real response to the open-source threat it faces. Tossing a lightweight database in front of a fast-moving market that wants free, open, and killer databases just won't fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Creeds... were formulated gradually, as a result of a series of desperate controversies -- which are now named, sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6958]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Creeds... were formulated gradually, as a result of a series of desperate controversies -- which are now named, sometimes after the supposed leaders and representatives of a particular interpretation of the Christian religion, and sometimes after the particular interpretation itself. I need not now attempt to make precise these heresies, as they came to be called. It is necessary only to point out that in various ways all these heresies were simplifications. By means of them, the revelation of God to men was made -- or appeared to be made -- less scandalous. On the other hand, the various clauses of the Creed were not formulated as a new simplification, or as an alternative-ism. They were nothing more than emphatic statements of the Biblical scandal, statements which brought into sharp antagonism the new simplification and the old, Scriptural, many-sided, and vigorous truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not going to be politically acceptable to most people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32778]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not going to be politically acceptable to most people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21065]]></link><description><![CDATA[People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have just Three things to teach: Simplicity, Patience & Compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65350]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have just Three things to teach: Simplicity, Patience & Compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The National Children's Study would follow more than 100,000 children, from before birth -- and, in some cases, even before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34090]]></link><description><![CDATA[The National Children's Study would follow more than 100,000 children, from before birth -- and, in some cases, even before pregnancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gravity is only the bark of wisdom; but it preserves it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gravity is only the bark of wisdom; but it preserves it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes time, it takes manpower, it takes aircraft, ships, to verify this. That's why we are calling on all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34275]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes time, it takes manpower, it takes aircraft, ships, to verify this. That's why we are calling on all citizens to help the government, to help the military, to help the police in providing information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18171]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bully is a coward turned inside out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10372]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bully is a coward turned inside out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If small businesses want to buy the high-cost option and they can afford it, great. If they don't, why can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29054]]></link><description><![CDATA[If small businesses want to buy the high-cost option and they can afford it, great. If they don't, why can you not offer them lower-cost options?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is nothing but healthy speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think if they are going to borrow money, it should be for something substantial. What I think they should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39522]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think if they are going to borrow money, it should be for something substantial. What I think they should do is leave the existing facility in place and start (building) a new school on the property. They are throwing money away. They are putting Band-Aids on the problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57829]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I provide a little comic relief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29508]]></link><description><![CDATA[I provide a little comic relief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63776]]></link><description><![CDATA[How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8649]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains. Thomas Fuller. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains. Thomas Fuller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His confidence level is much, much higher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36474]]></link><description><![CDATA[His confidence level is much, much higher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emotional effects after Hurricane Katrina had started to dissipate. Then along came Rita. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38957]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emotional effects after Hurricane Katrina had started to dissipate. Then along came Rita.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58698]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65086]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65648]]></link><description><![CDATA[History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53220]]></link><description><![CDATA[To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wisest he in this whole wide land Of hoarding till bent and gray;  For all you can hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17450]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wisest he in this whole wide land Of hoarding till bent and gray;  For all you can hold in your cold, dead hand   Is what you have given away.    . . . .     He gave with a zest and he gave his best;      Give him the best to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the games end we shall see who gaines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49144]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the games end we shall see who gaines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is too short to live the same day twice. It's a new day, get on your way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is too short to live the same day twice. It's a new day, get on your way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song of gladness in the heart.  ... Bernard of Clairvaux May 8, 2000 Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  And what might this noble Lord do of more worship and joy to me than to show me (that am so simple) this marvelous homeliness [i.e., naturalness and simplicity]? Thus it fareth with our Lord Jesus and with us. For truly it is the most joy that may be that He that is highest and mightiest, noblest and worthiest, is lowest and meekest, homeliest and most courteous: and truly this marvelous joy shall be shewn us all when we see Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50522]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They stay in their homes, ... There is a lot of suspicion. Fifty percent of the children that were held ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40838]]></link><description><![CDATA[They stay in their homes, ... There is a lot of suspicion. Fifty percent of the children that were held hostage did not return to school after the attack. Parents and children are fearful and mistrustful about school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think you I bear the shears of destiny? Have I commandment on the pulse of life? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think you I bear the shears of destiny? Have I commandment on the pulse of life?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or anideal always before him, causes it, through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or anideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be burieddeeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to itsgenerative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of timeand with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thoughtunceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all yourfaculties and powers become directed to that end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should (need) a man die who has sage in his garden? [Lat., Cur moriatur homo, cui salvia crescit in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should (need) a man die who has sage in his garden? [Lat., Cur moriatur homo, cui salvia crescit in horto?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to change... is to let go of fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to change... is to let go of fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56757]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a spelling checkerIt came with my PC;It plainly marks four my revueMistakes I cannot sea.I've run this poem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a spelling checkerIt came with my PC;It plainly marks four my revueMistakes I cannot sea.I've run this poem threw it,I'm sure your pleased too no,Its letter perfect in it's weigh,My checker tolled me sew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9439</guid></item></channel></rss>