<?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 wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires. . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60618]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the cosmology of a given age is not the result of unilinear, "scientific" development, but rather the most striking, imaginative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56789]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the cosmology of a given age is not the result of unilinear, "scientific" development, but rather the most striking, imaginative symbol of its mentality- the projection of its conflicts, prejudice and specific ways of double-think onto the graceful sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1463]]></link><description><![CDATA[A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was such an ugly kid - When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was such an ugly kid - When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge That no king can corrupt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge That no king can corrupt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anon, as patient as the female dove When that her golden couplets are disclosed,  His silence will sit drooping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anon, as patient as the female dove When that her golden couplets are disclosed,  His silence will sit drooping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is like a train that is nearly always late ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is like a train that is nearly always late]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23619</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[There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill-natured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52010]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill-natured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware in your prayer, above everything, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware in your prayer, above everything, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64679]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue  Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56550]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue  Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath   Rides on the posting winds and doth belie    All corners of the world. Kings, queens. and states,     Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave      This viperous slander enters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast;  Is that portentous phrase, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast;  Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51812]]></link><description><![CDATA[In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, And mine that I was proud on--mine so much  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18479]]></link><description><![CDATA[But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, And mine that I was proud on--mine so much  That I myself was to myself not mine,   Valuing of her--why she, O, she is fall'n    Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea     Hath drops too few to wash her clean again,      And salt too little which may season give       To her foul tainted flesh!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is to teach those who have never gone hunting how to respect farming traditions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40121]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is to teach those who have never gone hunting how to respect farming traditions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Direction is more important than speed. We are so busy looking at our speedometers that we forget the milestone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Direction is more important than speed. We are so busy looking at our speedometers that we forget the milestone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20650]]></link><description><![CDATA[The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The would-be wits and can't-be gentlemen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The would-be wits and can't-be gentlemen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iraqi forces will be defensive in nature, composed of volunteers only. The military will serve their people without religious or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iraqi forces will be defensive in nature, composed of volunteers only. The military will serve their people without religious or sectarian or tribal or political discrimination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664   When God would make His name known to mankind, He could find no better word than "I AM". "I am that I am," says God, "I change not." Everyone and everything else measures from that fixed point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48156]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century   You have no questions to ask of any body, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century   You have no questions to ask of any body, no new way that you need inquire after; no oracle that you need to consult; for whilst you shut yourself up in patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God, you are in the very arms of Christ, your heart is His dwelling-place, and He lives and works in you as certainly as He lived in and governed that body and soul which He took from the Virgin Mary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56339]]></link><description><![CDATA[From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1925]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51120]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63940]]></link><description><![CDATA[No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  We see him exalting love for neighbor along with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  We see him exalting love for neighbor along with love for God. He reaches out to foreigners who are beyond the borders of the "Israel of God". He seeks the release of captives, prisoners, and slaves. He denounces the scribes and religious leaders who "devour the houses of widows". Despite his well-known requirement of loyalty that surpasses family ties, he insists that a man put the care of his own parents ahead of his obligations to his religion. His treatment of women is radically opposed to the strictures of that day. He exhibits sympathy and understanding toward children. He operates an out-patient clinic wherever he happens to be. He insists upon justice as the basis for everyday dealings between citizens. The social teaching of parables like "the good Samaritan" and incidents such as the encounter with the rich young ruler have had an effect upon his followers that cannot easily be measured. If one summary statement of Jesus' ethics can be made, it is that love of God is best shown by love of fellow men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your are in charge. You have the ability to master you destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your are in charge. You have the ability to master you destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. And you can do it when things are tough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52740]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Markets were primed for worrying about risk - equities, bonds and currencies too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Markets were primed for worrying about risk - equities, bonds and currencies too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, in a man who is made partaker of His nature, desireth and taketh no revenge for all the wrong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7175]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, in a man who is made partaker of His nature, desireth and taketh no revenge for all the wrong that is or can be done unto Him. This we see in Christ when He saith: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."  ... Theologia Germanica  June 21, 1998  Alas! day by day we ask that His Will may be done, and yet, when it comes to the doing, we find it so hard! We offer ourselves so often to God -- we continually say, "Lord, I am Thine, I give Thee my heart," and when He accepts it, we are such cowards. How dare we call ourselves His, if we cannot shape our own wills to His?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6916]]></link><description><![CDATA[A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65270]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exclusive property is a theft against nature. [Fr., La propriete exclusive est un vol dans la nature.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exclusive property is a theft against nature. [Fr., La propriete exclusive est un vol dans la nature.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love fools experiments. I am always making them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love fools experiments. I am always making them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woo the fair one when around Early birds are singing;  When o'er all the fragrant ground   Early ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woo the fair one when around Early birds are singing;  When o'er all the fragrant ground   Early herbs are springing:    When the brookside, bank, and grove     All with blossom laden,      Shine with beauty, breathe of love,       Woo the timid maiden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61998</guid></item></channel></rss>