<?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[If you can accept losing, you can't win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11786]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can accept losing, you can't win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The symbol of the New Testament and the Christian Church is a cross, which stands for a love faithful despite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The symbol of the New Testament and the Christian Church is a cross, which stands for a love faithful despite physical agony and rejection by the world. No amount of air-conditioning and pew-cusioning in the suburban church can cover over the hard truth that the Christian life... is a narrow way of suffering; that discipleship is costly: that, for the faithful, there is always a cross to be carried. No one can understand Christianity to its depths who comes to it to enjoy it as a pleasant weekend diversion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65505]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63582]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12262]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63693]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gay is not one of those writers who vomits on a page, then goes back and rewrites. He never moves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gay is not one of those writers who vomits on a page, then goes back and rewrites. He never moves on to a next sentence until he's perfectly happy with one he's written before. So he'll struggle with the opening paragraph of a chapter for weeks. This is laborious, not to mention painful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business, the trailer seldom goes far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business, the trailer seldom goes far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the lark that sings so out of tune, Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24106]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the lark that sings so out of tune, Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow--You are not wrong who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow--You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dream;Yet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less gone?All that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring, bring the madding Bay, the drunken wine; The creeping, dirty, courtly Ivy join. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring, bring the madding Bay, the drunken wine; The creeping, dirty, courtly Ivy join.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cases like this hopefully will clarify what copyright is all about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cases like this hopefully will clarify what copyright is all about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965   The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the theory that decides what can be observed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59101]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the theory that decides what can be observed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who are the violets now That strew the green lap of the new-come spring? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who are the violets now That strew the green lap of the new-come spring?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspense is worse than disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspense is worse than disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Really and truly, going independent doesn't change things a lot. The big difference is we won't have any all-conference players. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Really and truly, going independent doesn't change things a lot. The big difference is we won't have any all-conference players.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3343]]></link><description><![CDATA[A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came back from Saturday's loss and we were better against Grand Rapids and grinded out a win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32797]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came back from Saturday's loss and we were better against Grand Rapids and grinded out a win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17729]]></link><description><![CDATA[There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still, year after year strong mercury rules fail in Washington under pressure from corporate interests. Why? Not because the risks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still, year after year strong mercury rules fail in Washington under pressure from corporate interests. Why? Not because the risks of mercury poisoning aren’t real. No, lobbyists for the big industries just say they can’t afford to make changes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear:  In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10105]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear:  In that the skill of conversation lies;   That shows and makes you both polite and wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The peasant thanked her with their tears, When food and clothes were given;  "This is a joy," the lady ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51552]]></link><description><![CDATA[The peasant thanked her with their tears, When food and clothes were given;  "This is a joy," the lady said,   "Saints cannot taste in heaven."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someday is not a day of the week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someday is not a day of the week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very obviously, they've pitched well - not making mistakes, living on the corners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very obviously, they've pitched well - not making mistakes, living on the corners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come not within the measure of my wrath. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come not within the measure of my wrath. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59247]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4240]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[some of the neighbouring countries still interfere in the affairs of Afghanistan and make the situation insecure which remains a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28532]]></link><description><![CDATA[some of the neighbouring countries still interfere in the affairs of Afghanistan and make the situation insecure which remains a nightmare for the entire nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Union Carbide desecratedIndia withkiller insecticidesbrought to BhopalThey violated HinduismAll bugs are sacredto Ahimsa's Gopal***(the biggest industrial accident of all time.. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Union Carbide desecratedIndia withkiller insecticidesbrought to BhopalThey violated HinduismAll bugs are sacredto Ahimsa's Gopal***(the biggest industrial accident of all time.. involved several thousand deaths..as killer insecticide gas killed humans.. )Ahimsa nonviolenceGopal.. name for Krishna as protector of cows and all beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That in the captain 's but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. -Measure for Measure. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55384]]></link><description><![CDATA[That in the captain 's but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25378]]></link><description><![CDATA[The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4563]]></link><description><![CDATA[The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33127]]></link><description><![CDATA[A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the attention but I don't like too much of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to be the role model, to be the leader of the team. It was kind of hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38266]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to be the role model, to be the leader of the team. It was kind of hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am very, very happy to have earned this first point. The start in a Davis Cup tie is always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41642]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am very, very happy to have earned this first point. The start in a Davis Cup tie is always important and so I am glad we are ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5129]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[? devotion to the craft of filmmaking and his wealth of head-and-heart knowledge about what we do and how we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42486]]></link><description><![CDATA[? devotion to the craft of filmmaking and his wealth of head-and-heart knowledge about what we do and how we do it was a special gift to his fellow directors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42486</guid></item></channel></rss>