<?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[I have never felt that anything really mattered by the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27603]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never felt that anything really mattered by the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51964]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be bastards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be bastards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carlos had a puncture and I was in his dust for a time. Then he caught me and we let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carlos had a puncture and I was in his dust for a time. Then he caught me and we let him passed. Then Hiroshi came back at me and we were all running closely together until I collected a rear-right slow puncture and that cost me the chance of winning the stage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They need to be permanent employees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40089]]></link><description><![CDATA[They need to be permanent employees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66837]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22539]]></link><description><![CDATA[People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it will work out to our advantage more so than worrying about who's going to play. Now we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28693]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it will work out to our advantage more so than worrying about who's going to play. Now we can go four minutes all out, 100 percent, whereas in years past we had to give a little bit here, a little bit there because we didn't have as many guys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65015]]></link><description><![CDATA[I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2623]]></link><description><![CDATA[When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;  The secret anniversaries of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19573]]></link><description><![CDATA[The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;  The secret anniversaries of the heart,   When the full river of feeling overflows;--    The happy days unclouded to their close;     The sudden joys that our of darkness start      As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart       Like swallows singing down each wind that blows!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud of paying taxes. The only thing is--I could be just as proud for half the money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud of paying taxes. The only thing is--I could be just as proud for half the money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get 'em, get 'em right, or they will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get 'em, get 'em right, or they will get you wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27998]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a shocking gasoline build. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28411]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a shocking gasoline build.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not unman each other; part at once; all farewells should be sudden, when forever ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not unman each other; part at once; all farewells should be sudden, when forever]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conflict cannot survive without your participation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conflict cannot survive without your participation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First things first, second things never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3950]]></link><description><![CDATA[First things first, second things never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876   The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13370]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No marvel, an it like your majesty, My Lord Protector's hawks do tower so well;  They know their master ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18894]]></link><description><![CDATA[No marvel, an it like your majesty, My Lord Protector's hawks do tower so well;  They know their master loves to be aloft   And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  If the ordinary canons of history, used in every other case, hold good in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  If the ordinary canons of history, used in every other case, hold good in this case, Jesus is undoubtedly an historical person. If he is not an historical person, the only alternative is that there is no such thing as history at all -- it is delirium, nothing else; and a rational being would be better employed in the collection of snuff-boxes. And if history is impossible, so is all other knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22278]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a really nice surprise, ... We were the only newcomers, and doggone if we didn't take it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37509]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a really nice surprise, ... We were the only newcomers, and doggone if we didn't take it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I saw fair Chloris walk alone, The feather'd snow came softly down,  As Jove, descending from his tow'r ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56709]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I saw fair Chloris walk alone, The feather'd snow came softly down,  As Jove, descending from his tow'r   To court her in a silver show'r.    The wanton snow flew to her breast,     As little birds into their nest;      But o'ercome with whiteness there,       For grief dissolv'd into a tear.        Thence falling on her garment hem,         To deck her, froze into a gem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear follows crime, and is its punishment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear follows crime, and is its punishment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish that men were as resolute as women ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53955]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish that men were as resolute as women]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will directs the tongue or the hand to act, and the evil word is spoken, or the evil deed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8185]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will directs the tongue or the hand to act, and the evil word is spoken, or the evil deed done. Every time we sin, it is the whole of us that sins, and not just a part. The body is only the instrument of the mind and the will. All that God made, including the body with all its desires and instincts, is good in itself. But it has to be kept under control and used in the right way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and Gentleness is Power.   - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and Gentleness is Power.   - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I crave hungrily to be used to show the way of liberty to a soul in bondage, instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7958]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I crave hungrily to be used to show the way of liberty to a soul in bondage, instead of caring only that it be delivered; if I nurse my disappointment when I fail, instead of asking that another the word of release may be given, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5768]]></link><description><![CDATA[If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is a virtue, if you don't mind being lonely ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is a virtue, if you don't mind being lonely]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing.  Few lend (but fools)   Their working tools.   - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing.  Few lend (but fools)   Their working tools.   - Thomas Tusser,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is whatever distracts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is whatever distracts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56796]]></link><description><![CDATA[...one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25110]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel that we can rest on our achievements is a dangerous fallacy. Inner strength can overcome anything that occurs outside. Patanjali (c. 1st to 3rd century BC) -I Ching (B.C.1150?).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All change, all production and generation are effected through the word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17236]]></link><description><![CDATA[All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17236</guid></item></channel></rss>