<?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[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  Jesus... did not finish all the urgent tasks in Palestine or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  Jesus... did not finish all the urgent tasks in Palestine or all the things He would have liked to do, but He did finish the work which God gave Him to do. The only alternative to frustration is to be sure that we are doing what God wants. Nothing substitutes for knowing that this day, this hour, in this place, we are doing the will of the Father. Then and only then can we think of all the other unfinished tasks with equanimity, and leave them with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These detentions and other abuses seriously undermine claims by the authorities to 'respect and protect human rights', a new provision ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41750]]></link><description><![CDATA[These detentions and other abuses seriously undermine claims by the authorities to 'respect and protect human rights', a new provision introduced into the Chinese Constitution in March 2004.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27668]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, he's a wonderful son-in-law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, he's a wonderful son-in-law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836   You have your season, and you have but your season; neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836   You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work as well as your life is at an end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to take anything away from Martins Ferry because they did a real good job. We just didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35470]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to take anything away from Martins Ferry because they did a real good job. We just didn't slam the door shut when we had some chances, but a coach once told me that a win's a win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942  There is no longer any room in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942  There is no longer any room in the world for a merely external form of Christianity, based upon custom. The world is entering upon a period of catastrophe and crisis when we are being forced to take sides, and in which a higher and more intense spiritual life will be demanded of Christians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give up on anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give up on anybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ratons and myse and soche smale dere That was his mete that vii. yere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ratons and myse and soche smale dere That was his mete that vii. yere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15196]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this. -- Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M Post-It Notepads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule is like a wolf: it only destroys those who fear it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule is like a wolf: it only destroys those who fear it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well has the name of Pontifex been given Unto the Church's head, as the chief builder  And architect of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well has the name of Pontifex been given Unto the Church's head, as the chief builder  And architect of the invisible bridge   That leads from earth to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5995]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's a man, But when you see a king, you see the work  Of many thousand men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54464]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's a man, But when you see a king, you see the work  Of many thousand men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As our cooperation with the IAEA is on the right track, I believe the report will be positive, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35722]]></link><description><![CDATA[As our cooperation with the IAEA is on the right track, I believe the report will be positive,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is anact of choice and therefore sacred, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21975]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is anact of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance livedconsciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in thecreation of a better world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51]]></link><description><![CDATA[The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the pillar that holds up the world ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the pillar that holds up the world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as in economic processes, it is not only impossible to attain perfection but irrational to seek perfection- or even to seek the "best possible" result in each separate instance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1649]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's pretty clear he's vulnerable. He's got his work cut out for him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33404]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's pretty clear he's vulnerable. He's got his work cut out for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew him tyrannous; and tyrants' fears Decrease not, but grow faster than the years;  And should he doubt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59976]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew him tyrannous; and tyrants' fears Decrease not, but grow faster than the years;  And should he doubt it, as no doubt he doth,   That I should open to the list'ning air    How many worthy princes' bloods were shed     To keep his bed of blackness unlaid ope,      To lop that doubt, he'll fill this land with arms       And make pretense of wrong that I have done him;        When all, for mine, if I may call offense,         Must feel war's blow, who spares not innocence;          Which love to all, of which thyself art one,           Who now reproved'st me for't--]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want this guy to go walking. We really want justice to take place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34916]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want this guy to go walking. We really want justice to take place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13186]]></link><description><![CDATA[For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16485]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see things; and you say: "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say: "Why not?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63516]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see things; and you say: "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say: "Why not?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to inquire tomorrow and perhaps make an issue out of it. I'm going to have to see where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37887]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to inquire tomorrow and perhaps make an issue out of it. I'm going to have to see where we stand .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the world ["Charity begins at home"].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death-bed of a day, how beautiful! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58325]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11981]]></link><description><![CDATA[What man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, ye familiar spirits that are culled Out of the powerful legions under earth,  Help me this once, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, ye familiar spirits that are culled Out of the powerful legions under earth,  Help me this once, that France may get the field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are extending their mission through September 2006 to take advantage of having such capable resources still healthy and in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35710]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are extending their mission through September 2006 to take advantage of having such capable resources still healthy and in excellent position to continue their adventures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My biggest concern was that we didn't want to lose sight of other financial aid (for students). We didn't want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34896]]></link><description><![CDATA[My biggest concern was that we didn't want to lose sight of other financial aid (for students). We didn't want it to compete with AFAT.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others have done it before me. I can, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others have done it before me. I can, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51393]]></link><description><![CDATA[That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51393</guid></item></channel></rss>