<?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[Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...it is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56944]]></link><description><![CDATA[...it is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12574]]></link><description><![CDATA[What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63659]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again, and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51097]]></link><description><![CDATA[No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  If our faith is not relevant to our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  If our faith is not relevant to our daily life in the world and in the parish, then it is no use; and if we cannot be Christians in our work, in the neighborhood, in our political decisions, then we had better stop being Christians. A piety reserved for Sundays is no message for this age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For talk six times with the same single lady, And you may get the wedding dress ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26558]]></link><description><![CDATA[For talk six times with the same single lady, And you may get the wedding dress ready.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defer no time; delays have dangerous ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defer no time; delays have dangerous ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who profits by a crime commits it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10645]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who profits by a crime commits it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63399]]></link><description><![CDATA[A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! -King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! -King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold on, and wait for the grasshoppers. [Wait for better times.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold on, and wait for the grasshoppers. [Wait for better times.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I drive a jeep. An old jeep, so nobody will say I'm driving a BMW anymore. I couldn't stand that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I drive a jeep. An old jeep, so nobody will say I'm driving a BMW anymore. I couldn't stand that BMW, ha ha ha! BMW make pure trouble!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20461]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39417]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At first, the chemistry wasn't quite there. That little spark was missing. But today everything was great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31797]]></link><description><![CDATA[At first, the chemistry wasn't quite there. That little spark was missing. But today everything was great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be ready to be surprised ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be ready to be surprised]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislike being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislike being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature always tends to act in the simplest way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It (BHP) had first proposed that the wheat be provided on a deferred payment plan, and it had been advised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38430]]></link><description><![CDATA[It (BHP) had first proposed that the wheat be provided on a deferred payment plan, and it had been advised by DFAT that that would be outside the UN sanctions and a breach of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impersonal realities do indeed exercise over me some kinds of constraint, as does the wind when it constrains me to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impersonal realities do indeed exercise over me some kinds of constraint, as does the wind when it constrains me to battle against it or the rain when it compels me to take shelter. But the constraint of which I have been speaking is of a wholly different kind; it is a constraint to be pure-minded and loyal-hearted, to be kind and true and tender, and to love my neighbour as myself. And what could possibly be meant by saying that any reality of an impersonal kind could exercise over me such a constraint as that? I have never been able to see that it could mean anything at all. I have never been able to see how any being that is not a person could possess a moral and spiritual claim over me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look to the end of a long life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look to the end of a long life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be back. (five days after being pummeled in his fight with Mike Tyson.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57531]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be back. (five days after being pummeled in his fight with Mike Tyson.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright,  Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls,   Seems like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright,  Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls,   Seems like a canopy which love has spread    To curtain her sleeping world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21263]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63686]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a great beautifier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a great beautifier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have regard to the end. [Lat., Finem respice (or Respice finem).] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have regard to the end. [Lat., Finem respice (or Respice finem).]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63510]]></link><description><![CDATA[In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26305]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ever play one position, you are more comfortable with either one that you play. I have to wait ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34256]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ever play one position, you are more comfortable with either one that you play. I have to wait and see what the situation is. You have to be prepared for anything. You just accept what comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strategically, both are good fits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strategically, both are good fits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In fact, it tends to argue the opposite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30781]]></link><description><![CDATA[In fact, it tends to argue the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We own the building, ... We as owners need to set an example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34189]]></link><description><![CDATA[We own the building, ... We as owners need to set an example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13729]]></link><description><![CDATA[False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50867]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35513</guid></item></channel></rss>