<?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 simple act of caring is heroic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simple act of caring is heroic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1108]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44069]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. - The Passionate State of the Mind, 1954. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. - The Passionate State of the Mind, 1954.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But it also hindered me career-wise because I was typed. Nobody could picture me in any other type of role. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33740]]></link><description><![CDATA[But it also hindered me career-wise because I was typed. Nobody could picture me in any other type of role.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I long to believe in immortality. . . . If I am destined to be happy with you here--how short ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I long to believe in immortality. . . . If I am destined to be happy with you here--how short is the longest life. I wish to believe in immortality--I wish to live with you forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be noble! And the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be noble! And the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We batted ourselves into a very good position and then batted ourselves into a very bad position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37915]]></link><description><![CDATA[We batted ourselves into a very good position and then batted ourselves into a very bad position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not be surprised if a private equity group ended up buying Knight Ridder, and then took their time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not be surprised if a private equity group ended up buying Knight Ridder, and then took their time and sold off the assets to strategic buyers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the fire-proofer of emotions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the fire-proofer of emotions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64637]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible is a window in this prison of hope, through which we look into eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible is a window in this prison of hope, through which we look into eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59648]]></link><description><![CDATA[The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod,  Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/73]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/73</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47725]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman--and each nation--must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever approaches Me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets Me with sins equivalent to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever approaches Me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets Me with sins equivalent to the whole world, I will greet him with forgiveness equal to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53459]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56498]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46782]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46782</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[When you have set yourself a task finish it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50811]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have set yourself a task finish it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our narrow views would prescribe. He brings a death upon our feelings, wishes and prospects when He is about to give us the desire of our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the standing jokes of Congress is that the new Congressman always spends the first week wondering how he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9758]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the standing jokes of Congress is that the new Congressman always spends the first week wondering how he got there and the rest of the time wondering how the other members got there]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gay motes that people the sunbeams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gay motes that people the sunbeams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349   O Holy Spirit, Who breathe where you will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349   O Holy Spirit, Who breathe where you will, come into me and snatch me up to yourself. Fortify the nature you have created, with gifts so flowing with honey that, from intense joy in your sweetness, it may despise and reject all which is in this world, that it may accept spiritual gifts, and through melodious jubilation, it may entirely melt in holy love, reaching out for uncircumscribed Light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strength without judgment falls by its own weight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28161]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idle head is a boxe for the winde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49119]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idle head is a boxe for the winde.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who claim to always be right,are always wrong about atleast one thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who claim to always be right,are always wrong about atleast one thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253  Thou knowest how far Thou hast already changed me, who first healed me of the lust of vindicating myself, that so Thou mightest forgive all the rest of my iniquities, and heal all my infirmities, and redeem my life from corruption, and crown me with mercy and pity, and satisfy my desire with good things; who didst curb my pride with Thy fear, and tame my neck to Thy yoke. And now I bear it and it is light unto me, because so hast Thou promised, and hast made it; and verily it was so, and I knew it not, when I feared to take it.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine    October 10, 1999  Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644  Wilberforce, Lord Shaftesbury, and many other evangelicals, have been leaders in social reform, but it was not their religion. Their efforts succeeded because they put first things first, and believed firmly in the Word of God, in the conversion of the individual, in prayer, and in using spiritual means for spiritual work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All for Our Country ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43273]]></link><description><![CDATA[All for Our Country]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was false propaganda by the administrationthat there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraqand that Al Qaeda was connected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45964]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was false propaganda by the administrationthat there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraqand that Al Qaeda was connected to Saddam Hussein.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[…the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24227]]></link><description><![CDATA[…the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write when our bank balance is zero…]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you\'re supposed to use whatever happen to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66913]]></link><description><![CDATA[You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you\'re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft as some song divine, thy story flows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft as some song divine, thy story flows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting itinto a chair and not moving from the chair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21442]]></link><description><![CDATA[For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting itinto a chair and not moving from the chair for a set period of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52115]]></link><description><![CDATA[We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who make plain the nature of our failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52115</guid></item></channel></rss>