<?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[A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4288]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, It makes you lean....Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, It makes you lean....Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man gift will make a way for him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14607]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man gift will make a way for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. -Coco Chanel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4034]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. -Coco Chanel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This program is meant to keep the joints moving and gain some mobility that is lost through arthritis, ... We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28986]]></link><description><![CDATA[This program is meant to keep the joints moving and gain some mobility that is lost through arthritis, ... We work from head to toe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 "In pastures green"? Not always; sometimes He, Who knoweth best, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 "In pastures green"? Not always; sometimes He, Who knoweth best, in kindness leadeth me In weary ways, where heavy shadows be. And "by still waters" ? No, not always so; Ofttimes the heavy tempests round me blow, And o'er my soul the waves and billows go. But when the storm beats loudest, and I cry Aloud for help, the Master standeth by, And whispers to my soul, "Lo, it is I." So, where He leads me, I can safely go, And in the blest hereafter I shall know Why, in His wisdom, He hath led me so.  ... Anonymous    July 24, 1998  Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471  If thou shalt remain faithful and zealous in labour, doubt not that God shall be faithful and bountiful in rewarding thee. It is thy duty to have a good hope that thou wilt attain the victory: but thou must not fall into security lest thou become slothful or lifted up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David's had an incredible year on clay and is in spectacular form at the moment, ... I think for him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39054]]></link><description><![CDATA[David's had an incredible year on clay and is in spectacular form at the moment, ... I think for him and the others it is a reward to be selected in the team and this will be a great incentive for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have literally stuck their hands into a hornets' nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39411]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have literally stuck their hands into a hornets' nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who are very, very concerned and are far more knowledgeable in this area than the authors appear to be. This is not the last word ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ definitely not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60054]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet moon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers…. There is divinity in odd numbers, either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55373]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers…. There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most dangerous moment comes with victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most dangerous moment comes with victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bibles laid open, millions of surprises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bibles laid open, millions of surprises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2391]]></link><description><![CDATA[My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10242]]></link><description><![CDATA[God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . what is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27020]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . what is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone's jockeying to get a piece of what they hope is the big growth industry, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone's jockeying to get a piece of what they hope is the big growth industry,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12297]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20906]]></link><description><![CDATA[And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So honour peereth in the meanest habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51487]]></link><description><![CDATA[So honour peereth in the meanest habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The impossible is often the untried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The impossible is often the untried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of prayer because they "cannot meditate" should examine, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of prayer because they "cannot meditate" should examine, not their capacity for meditation, but their capacity for suffering and love. For there is a hard and costly element, a deep seriousness, a crucial choice, in all genuine religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11551]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like watermen who look astern while they row the boat ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like watermen who look astern while they row the boat ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39594]]></link><description><![CDATA[First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25651]]></link><description><![CDATA[You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact.  One sees more devils than vast hell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12171]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact.  One sees more devils than vast hell can hold;   That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic,    Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt.     The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,      Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;       And as imagination bodies forth        The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen         Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing          A local habitation and a name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will have no other master but our caprice -- that is to say, our evil self will have no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6597]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will have no other master but our caprice -- that is to say, our evil self will have no God, and the foundation of our nature is seditious, impious, refractory, opposed to and contemptuous of all that tries to rule it, and therefore contrary to order, ungovernable and negative. It is this foundation which Christianity calls the natural man. But the savage which is within us, and constitutes the primitive stuff of us, must be disciplined and civilized in order to produce a man. And the man must be patiently cultivated to produce a wise man; and the wise man must be tested and tried if he is to become righteous, and the righteous man must have substituted the will of God for his individual will, if he is to become a saint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purifying worth of prayer consists in the increasing contrast which it sets up between the holy God and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purifying worth of prayer consists in the increasing contrast which it sets up between the holy God and the creature; subordinating that creature's fugitive activities and desires to the standard set by this solemn apprehension of Reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I remember it, the bases were loaded.(asked his reaction to hitting a grand slam) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57537]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I remember it, the bases were loaded.(asked his reaction to hitting a grand slam)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I contemplate the interposition of Providence, as it was visibly manifested, in guiding us through the Revolution, in preparing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51910]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I contemplate the interposition of Providence, as it was visibly manifested, in guiding us through the Revolution, in preparing us for the reception of a general government, and in conciliating the good will of the People of America towards one]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3601]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63801]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was not a greater gourmand living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50518]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was not a greater gourmand living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers,  With what pretty music   Shall we charm the hours?  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26627]]></link><description><![CDATA[May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers,  With what pretty music   Shall we charm the hours?    Wilt thou have pipe and reed,     Blown in the open mead?      Or to the lute give heed       In the green bowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27859]]></link><description><![CDATA[The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19947]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On me, on me Time and change can heap no more!  The painful past with blighting grief   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18333]]></link><description><![CDATA[On me, on me Time and change can heap no more!  The painful past with blighting grief   Hath left my heart a withered leaf.    Time and change can do no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In naked beauty more adorned More lovely than Pandora. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2750]]></link><description><![CDATA[In naked beauty more adorned More lovely than Pandora.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2750</guid></item></channel></rss>