<?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[Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53947]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was so proud of the heart we showed. Over the last three quarters, we fought our way back into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31952]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was so proud of the heart we showed. Over the last three quarters, we fought our way back into the game and had a big surge in the fourth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63975]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fashion of liking Racine will pass away like that of coffee. [Fr., La mode d'aimer Racine passera comme la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25261]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fashion of liking Racine will pass away like that of coffee. [Fr., La mode d'aimer Racine passera comme la mode du cafe.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56213]]></link><description><![CDATA[A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can heavenly breasts such stormy passions feel? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can heavenly breasts such stormy passions feel?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like your way of conditioning and contracting with the saints. Do this and I'll do that! Here's one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62307]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like your way of conditioning and contracting with the saints. Do this and I'll do that! Here's one for t'other. Save me and I'll give you a taper or go on a pilgrimage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was probably a 380 (foot) shot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38206]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was probably a 380 (foot) shot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, but make haste, the better foot before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."N.B.: This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms. - Gandhi, An Autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism possesses a language which every people can understand--its elements are hunger, envy, and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism possesses a language which every people can understand--its elements are hunger, envy, and death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More light! [Ger., Mehr Licht!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25053]]></link><description><![CDATA[More light! [Ger., Mehr Licht!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ty it well, and let it goe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ty it well, and let it goe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give the world the best that you have, and the best will come back to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give the world the best that you have, and the best will come back to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou art terrible to many, then beware of many. [Lat., Multis terribilis, caveto multos.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51953]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou art terrible to many, then beware of many. [Lat., Multis terribilis, caveto multos.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can you imagine what it would be like in Clovis and Fresno if there weren't the three freeways? ... You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can you imagine what it would be like in Clovis and Fresno if there weren't the three freeways? ... You wouldn't want to drive on the surface streets. We would be in gridlock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is too much reality for a Friday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53044]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is too much reality for a Friday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The response is going well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40427]]></link><description><![CDATA[The response is going well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66266]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2196]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy the spring of love and youth, To some good angel leave the rest,  For time will teach thee ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy the spring of love and youth, To some good angel leave the rest,  For time will teach thee soon the truth,   "There are no birds in last year's nest."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10056]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the relation of a secular, this-worldly unification of mankind to the biblical promise of the summing up of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7247]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the relation of a secular, this-worldly unification of mankind to the biblical promise of the summing up of all things in Christ? Is it a total contradiction of it? Is it some sort of a reflection of it? or perhaps a devil's parody of it? Or has it nothing to do with it at all? Perhaps there will be many Christians to whom it would not occur to pose the question whether the process of secularization has anything to do with the biblical understanding of the goal of history. The Bible, for them, belongs to a religious world which is not admitted to belong to the world of secular events -- the world in which we are when we read the daily newspaper. But this is to read the Bible wrongly. Whatever else it may be, the Bible is a secular book dealing with the sort of events which a news editor accepts for publication in a daily newspaper; it is concerned with secular events, wars, revolutions, enslavements and liberations, migrants and refugees, famines and epidemics and all the rest. It deals with events which happened and tells a story which can be checked. We miss this because we do not sufficiently treat the Bible as a whole. When we do this, we see at once that the Bible -- whatever be the variety of material which it contains: poetry, prayers, legislation, genealogy, and all the rest -- is in its main design a universal history. It is an interpretation of human history as a whole, beginning with the saga of creation and ending with a vision of the gathering together of all the nations and the consummation of God's purpose for mankind. The Bible is an outline of world history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57337]]></link><description><![CDATA[O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe in God is impossible - to not believe in Him is absurd ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3410]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe in God is impossible - to not believe in Him is absurd]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will not allow you to sit here, conspire with the opposition and give them money to overthrow the president, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36711]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will not allow you to sit here, conspire with the opposition and give them money to overthrow the president,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two noblest of things"--as Swift . . . most happily calls them in his Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and light."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally  By rammin' Scriptur' in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54915]]></link><description><![CDATA[So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally  By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun,   An' gittin' Natur' for an ally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44394]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace,  It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14932]]></link><description><![CDATA[And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace,  It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones   Who win in the lifelong race.    And each forgets that his youth has fled,     Forgets that his prime is past,      Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,       In the glare of the truth at last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm always trolling for trivia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm always trolling for trivia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45929]]></link><description><![CDATA[One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   Every action of our lives touches on some chord ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373   Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52869]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2420</guid></item></channel></rss>