<?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[We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/620]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite honestly, I haven't had time to think about it. I've been too busy preparing for a football game. I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite honestly, I haven't had time to think about it. I've been too busy preparing for a football game. I've got enough to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood. [Lat., Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54926]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood. [Lat., Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7728]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this time it's a personnel issue. We'll make a decision whether there will be any consequences when the report ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40119]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this time it's a personnel issue. We'll make a decision whether there will be any consequences when the report is complete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to protect Iraq and the world against terrorists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37412]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to protect Iraq and the world against terrorists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave, an obscure grave. -King Richard II. Act iii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55826]]></link><description><![CDATA[And my large kingdom for a little grave, A little little grave, an obscure grave. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11307]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no knowledge that is not power ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47917]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no knowledge that is not power]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3353]]></link><description><![CDATA[A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let something that doesn't matter cause you to lose something that does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let something that doesn't matter cause you to lose something that does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18995]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppressed and killed.  You must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppressed and killed.  You must not dare for shame to talk of mercy;   For your own reasons turn into your bosoms    As dogs upon their masters, worrying you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. •George S. Patton  Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. •Benjamin Disraeli  Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. •William Feather  All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. •Mark Twain  The reward of a thing well done is having done it. •Ralph Waldo Emerson  It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. •Joseph Ross  Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get. •Dave Gardner  If at first you don't succeed, assassinate everyone who knows you failed. •Anonymous  The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success. •Elbert Hubbard  Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible. •James W. Pence   The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. •Vince Lombardi  or •Donald Kendall  The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Irving Berlin  The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. •Nelson Boswell  The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. •Jean Giraudoux  I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. •Bill Cosby  Why be a man when you can be a success? •Bertold Brecht  For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. •Richard Feynman  Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Karma is the philosophy of an eye for an eye, a toothfor a tooth. I reject that. I believe in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Karma is the philosophy of an eye for an eye, a toothfor a tooth. I reject that. I believe in the love andmercy of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fox Who Had Lost His TailA fox caught in a trap escaped, but in so doing lost his tail. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fox Who Had Lost His TailA fox caught in a trap escaped, but in so doing lost his tail. Thereafter, feeling his life a burden from the shame and ridicule to which he was exposed, he schemed to convince all the other Foxes that being tailless was much more attractive, thus making up for his own deprivation. He assembled a good many Foxes and publicly advised them to cut off their tails, saying that they would not only look much better without them, but that they would get rid of the weight of the brush, which was a very great inconvenience. One of them interrupting him said, If you had not yourself lost your tail, my friend, you would not thus counsel us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is never too late to be what you might have been. •George Eliot  It takes time to build ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59316]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is never too late to be what you might have been. •George Eliot  It takes time to build a castle. •Irish Proverb  A minute now is better than a minute later. •Anonymous  Time is of the essence, but what is the essence of time? •Karan Varsheni  Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. •Anonymous  I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer. •Dan Quisenberry  Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like an orange. •Unknown  If you're not five minutes early, you're ten minutes late. •Anonymous  To be on time is to be late. To be early is to be on time. •Tim Gunter   The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. •Leo Kennedy  Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end? •Stoppard  Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. •Berlioz  One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. •Anonymous  You may delay, but time will not. •Benjamin Franklin  With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. •Chinese proverb  Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. •Cheers  You can never plan the future by the past. •Edmund Burke  Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. •Roger Babson  The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. •Paul Valery  Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. •M Scott Peck  Time is the fire in which we burn. •Gene Roddenberry  You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. •Charles Buxton  Time ripens all things. No man's born wise. •Cervantes  Imagine a donut, fired from a cannon at the speed of light while rotating. Time is like that, except without the cannon and the donut. •Dilbert  Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. •Will Rogers  You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. •James Thurber  Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. •Thomas Mann  Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. •W N Taylor  Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to set boundaries and say no. The biggest challenge with part-time work is that the work creeps to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37764]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to set boundaries and say no. The biggest challenge with part-time work is that the work creeps to full time. Nobody else is going to manage that for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a fountain of youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring in your life and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62536]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a fountain of youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring in your life and the lives of people you love]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he could become one of greatest players in the history of the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40683]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he could become one of greatest players in the history of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have a general idea of the numbers, but when we reach this point, it is important to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31248]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have a general idea of the numbers, but when we reach this point, it is important to have a precise idea of the numbers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although many machines have been disinfected, we're certainly not out of the woods yet. Many machines may still be infected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although many machines have been disinfected, we're certainly not out of the woods yet. Many machines may still be infected without their owner's knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have been talks for 12 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37446]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have been talks for 12 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner. ("To know all is to forgive all.") ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner. ("To know all is to forgive all.") No commonplace is more untrue. Behavior, whether conditioned by an individual neurosis or by society, can be understood, that is to say, one knows exactly why such and such an individual behaves as he does. But a personal action or deed is always mysterious. When we really act, precisely because it is a matter of free choice, we can never say exactly why we do this rather than that. But it is only deeds that we are required to forgive. If someone does me an injury, the question of forgiveness only arises if I am convinced (a) that the injury he did me was a free act on his part and therefore no less mysterious to him than to me, and (b) that it was me personally whom he meant to injure. Christ does not forgive the soldiers who are nailing him to the Cross; he asks the Father to forgive them. He knows as well as they do why they are doing this -- they are a squad, detailed to execute a criminal. They do not know what they are doing, because it is not their business, as executioners, to know whom they are crucifying. If the person who does me an injury does not know what he is doing, then it is as ridiculous for me to talk about forgiving him as it would be for me to "forgive" a tile which falls on my head in a gale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63080]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hanging and wiving go by destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hanging and wiving go by destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not enough to be busy. The question is: What are we busy about? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13653]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not enough to be busy. The question is: What are we busy about?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841   The [Roman] imperial coinage (which was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841   The [Roman] imperial coinage (which was regularly used as a propaganda medium... is full of the characteristic motifs of Advent and Epiphany, celebrating the blessings which the manifestation of each successive divine emperor was to bring to a waiting world. Among the adulatory formulas with which the emperor was acclaimed, Prof. Ethelbert Stauffer mentions, as going back to the first century, "Hail, Victory, Lord of the earth, Invincible, Power, Glory, Honour, Peace, Security, Holy, Blessed, Unequalled, Great, Thou alone worthy art, Worthy is he to inherit the Kingdom, Come, come, do not delay, Come again" (p. 155) [in Christ and the Caesars]. Indeed, one has only to read Psalm lxxii, in Latin, in the official language of the empire, to see that it is largely the same formal language which is used alike in the Forum for the advent of the emperor, and in the catacombs for the celebration of the "Epiphany of Christ" (p. 251). Who was worthy to ascend the throne of the universe and direct the course of history? Caesar, or Jesus?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to have a lion at the head of an army od sheep, than a sheep at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24486]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to have a lion at the head of an army od sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blasphemy is a victimless crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blasphemy is a victimless crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not and should not be a target of terrorists but we are alert for any possibilities, ... We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28259]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not and should not be a target of terrorists but we are alert for any possibilities, ... We have not done anything to make people hate us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dancing is a sweat job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dancing is a sweat job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise,  And interpret your device,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise,  And interpret your device,   . . . .    All things wait for and divine him,--     How shall I dare to malign him?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted. [Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51654]]></link><description><![CDATA[The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted. [Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48218]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recognize the problem in Rocky Mountain National Park. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41818]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recognize the problem in Rocky Mountain National Park.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rough Johnson, the great moralist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rough Johnson, the great moralist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  If you have failings, ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  If you have failings, ask God often whether it be His honour and pleasure to take them away from you; for without Him you can do nothing. If he takes them away, thank Him; but if He does not do that, you will bear it no more, however, as the defect of a sin, but as a great trial with which you are to gain merit and practice patience. You should be content, whether or not He accords you His gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1087]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53001]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.   - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16794]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29581]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29581</guid></item></channel></rss>