<?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[You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3799]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642  Slowly, all through the universe, that temple of God is being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642  Slowly, all through the universe, that temple of God is being built. Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone. When, in your hard fight, in your tiresome drudgery, or in your terrible temptation, you catch the purpose of your being and give yourself to God, and so give Him the chance to give Himself to you, your life -- a living stone -- is taken up and set into that growing wall. Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely ways, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple. Oh, if the stone can only have some vision of the temple of which it is to be a part forever, what patience must fill it as it feels the blows of the hammer, and knows that success for it is simply to let itself be wrought into what shape the Master wills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune befriends the bold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune befriends the bold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I say to Caesar What you require of him? For he partly begs  To be desired to give. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I say to Caesar What you require of him? For he partly begs  To be desired to give. It much would please him   That of his fortunes you should make a staff    To lean upon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51881]]></link><description><![CDATA[What may be done at any time will be done at no time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were so many variables to look at and consider, hauling and such. It wasn't only cost. But they also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39475]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were so many variables to look at and consider, hauling and such. It wasn't only cost. But they also came in as the low-cost provider.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shadow of a mighty name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shadow of a mighty name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are already witnessing major strains in many of our developing countries, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36693]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are already witnessing major strains in many of our developing countries,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labour with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone,  Something uncompleted still   Waits the rising of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labour with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone,  Something uncompleted still   Waits the rising of the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness,  And earth's base built on stubble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14926]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness,  And earth's base built on stubble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An unexamined life is not worth living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1483]]></link><description><![CDATA[An unexamined life is not worth living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not seldom clad in radiant vest Deceitfully goes forth the dawn,  Not seldom evening in the west   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not seldom clad in radiant vest Deceitfully goes forth the dawn,  Not seldom evening in the west   Sinks smilingly forsworn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he won't be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who's always telling you that, of course, he's nobody. Probably all you'll think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him. If you do dislike him, it will be because you feel a bit envious of anyone who seems to enjoy life so easily. He won't be thinking about himself at all. There I must stop. If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you're not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be those who do most, dream most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22120]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be those who do most, dream most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He would not want FBI agents crawling through his papers unrestricted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39970]]></link><description><![CDATA[He would not want FBI agents crawling through his papers unrestricted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sunbeams dropped Their gold, and, passing in porch and niche,  Softened to shadows, silvery, pale, and dim,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59913]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sunbeams dropped Their gold, and, passing in porch and niche,  Softened to shadows, silvery, pale, and dim,   As if the very Day paused and grew Eve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One doctor described it as 18th-century medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36333]]></link><description><![CDATA[One doctor described it as 18th-century medicine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solid men of Boston, make no long orations; Solid men of Boston, drink no long potations;  Solid men of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solid men of Boston, make no long orations; Solid men of Boston, drink no long potations;  Solid men of Boston, go to bed at sundown;   Never lose your way like the loggerheads of London.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has to be a certain amount of common sense. As we know, common sense isn't that common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40259]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has to be a certain amount of common sense. As we know, common sense isn't that common.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It requires no banks, no safe-deposit boxes. It just needs communication. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38710]]></link><description><![CDATA[It requires no banks, no safe-deposit boxes. It just needs communication.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now my soul hath elbow-room. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now my soul hath elbow-room. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're uninhibited at an early age, a learning curve is so much higher without that. It's so much fun, they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39605]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're uninhibited at an early age, a learning curve is so much higher without that. It's so much fun, they're quick learners. The younger ones seem to learn best through songs and games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is sweetened by risk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is sweetened by risk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coach has such an open offense that he doesn't mind what you do as long as you're playing defense. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coach has such an open offense that he doesn't mind what you do as long as you're playing defense. I have pretty much a green light on offense, and that's why it's working out so good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt toshut our eyes against a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21333]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt toshut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of thesiren, till she transforms us into beasts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't negotiate the deal. We're just the matchmakers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16002]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't negotiate the deal. We're just the matchmakers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35744]]></link><description><![CDATA[The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had another paper that ran the whole thing almost (verbatim) ... and we finally got that paper to retract ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40388]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had another paper that ran the whole thing almost (verbatim) ... and we finally got that paper to retract it. We've contacted this reporter and asked them to correct the mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man must realize his own unimportance before he can appreciate his importance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as I accepted my captaincy I knew I wanted Marie-Laure to be my vice captain. I am so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36411]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as I accepted my captaincy I knew I wanted Marie-Laure to be my vice captain. I am so pleased that she agreed. Marie-Laure is a great friend, she has a huge amount of experience and she will bring a lot to the team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give. -Damien Hess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the jasmine flower in her fair young breast, (O the faint, sweet smell of that jasmine flower!)  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23125]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the jasmine flower in her fair young breast, (O the faint, sweet smell of that jasmine flower!)  And the one bird singing alone to his nest.   And the one star over the tower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much virtue in Herbs, little in men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much virtue in Herbs, little in men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25516]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14841]]></link><description><![CDATA[An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would bee at ease, all the world is not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49524]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five bodies have been recovered. Another person was rescued but subsequently died in the hospital. And five more bodies have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Five bodies have been recovered. Another person was rescued but subsequently died in the hospital. And five more bodies have been seen but not yet recovered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36630</guid></item></channel></rss>