<?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[Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every year, it keeps getting better. They've smoothed out the learning curves. We have a great relationship with the city. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every year, it keeps getting better. They've smoothed out the learning curves. We have a great relationship with the city. We know how to keep building it every day. I'm thrilled Macon has come out. We've had four great years, and we're looking forward to coming back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire that's closest kept burns most of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33134]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sufficiency of merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would tell you that I think it was very loose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36338]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would tell you that I think it was very loose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is now incompetent. His condition has worsened to the point where we cannot proceed without him regaining his competence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39132]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is now incompetent. His condition has worsened to the point where we cannot proceed without him regaining his competence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having access to broadband is instrumental for so many businesses today and can greatly assist the running of an organisation, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having access to broadband is instrumental for so many businesses today and can greatly assist the running of an organisation, particularly those in more remote areas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The governor really doesn't control that. If they choose to operate under a different financial situation, that's up to them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31899]]></link><description><![CDATA[The governor really doesn't control that. If they choose to operate under a different financial situation, that's up to them. They know best what they need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878  Is it not plain that all spiritual apathy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878  Is it not plain that all spiritual apathy comes not from over-trust but from unbelief, either doubting that sin is present death, or else that holiness is life and that Jesus has a gift to bestow, not in heaven, but promptly, which is better to gain than all the world? Therefore salvation is linked with faith, which earns nothing but elicits all, like the touch that evokes electricity but which no man supposes to have made it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We talked about having more energy and we started off fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29049]]></link><description><![CDATA[We talked about having more energy and we started off fast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, on the dawn of victory, stopped to rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19277]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, on the dawn of victory, stopped to rest and resting died.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystical union, on the one hand. The resurrection of the body, on the other. I can't reach the ghost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6704]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystical union, on the one hand. The resurrection of the body, on the other. I can't reach the ghost of an image, a formula, or even a feeling, that combines them. But the reality, we are given to understand, does. Reality is the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems--but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18390]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Olivia:) What's a drunken man like, fool? (Clown:) Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman. One draught above ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22936]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Olivia:) What's a drunken man like, fool? (Clown:) Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman. One draught above heat makes him a fool, the seconds mads him, and a third drowns him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They did the book design and layout and we did the production. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40559]]></link><description><![CDATA[They did the book design and layout and we did the production.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a drop in the bucket. It's helping the stock price today, but gastric cancer is not one of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35453]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a drop in the bucket. It's helping the stock price today, but gastric cancer is not one of the biggest markets for cancer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does your sorrow do while you're sleeping? It is awaken and waiting. And, when it loses patience, it wakes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36801]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does your sorrow do while you're sleeping? It is awaken and waiting. And, when it loses patience, it wakes me up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am concerned about their offense. I think their offense is real efficient, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30592]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am concerned about their offense. I think their offense is real efficient,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's pretty much a little village down there where everyone knows everyone, so if they can walk into a loo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40006]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's pretty much a little village down there where everyone knows everyone, so if they can walk into a loo and buy a condom, it's a lot easier than going to the local shop and buying them, when everyone knows what's going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49546]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62383]]></link><description><![CDATA[I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told them, in that situation you can't think about making or missing. You've just got to attack the rim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32645]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told them, in that situation you can't think about making or missing. You've just got to attack the rim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't test courage cautiously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10318]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't test courage cautiously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24290]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19918]]></link><description><![CDATA[At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not waste my time in answering abuse; I thrive under it like a field that benefits from manure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not waste my time in answering abuse; I thrive under it like a field that benefits from manure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luke is an incredibly talented player who can start on the right or center of midfield. I had the pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luke is an incredibly talented player who can start on the right or center of midfield. I had the pleasure of helping coach him at Real Salt Lake, and he is one of the fastest players I have ever seen come out of college.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he stronger, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51155]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he stronger, then spare yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round.  Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round.  Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high--   Fill all the Glasses there; for why    Should every Creature Drink but I?     Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They simply aren't meeting this week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40521]]></link><description><![CDATA[They simply aren't meeting this week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836  It is further objected that he hath left to us no example ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836  It is further objected that he hath left to us no example of that which by many is esteemed the only religious state of life, viz. perfect retirement from the world, for the more devout serving of God and freeing us from the temptations of the world -- such as is that of monks and hermits. This perhaps may seem to some a great oversight and omission. But our Lord in great wisdom thought fit to give us a pattern of a quite different sort of life, which was, not to fly the conversation of men and to live in a monastery or a wilderness, but to do good among men, to live in the world with great freedom and with great innocence. He did indeed sometimes retire himself for the more free and private exercise of devotion, as we ought to do; but he passed his life chiefly in the conversation of men, that they might have all the benefit that was possible of his instruction and example We read that "he was carried into the wilderness to be tempted," but not that he lived there to avoid temptation. He hath given us an example of denying the world without leaving it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No words are necessary between two loving hearts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62028]]></link><description><![CDATA[No words are necessary between two loving hearts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15671]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves from the overtaxed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves from the overtaxed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can and you can't,--You shall and you shan't--You will and you won't--And you will be damned if you do--And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12632]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can and you can't,--You shall and you shan't--You will and you won't--And you will be damned if you do--And you will be damned if you don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53715]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58409]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, "He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspicion of it."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  Look heavenward, if you wish, but never to the horizon; that way danger lies. Truth is not there, happiness is not there, certainty is not there, but the falsehoods, the frauds, the quackeries, the ignes fatui (false beacons) which have deceived each generation all beckon from the horizon and lure the men not content to look for the truth and happiness that tumble out at their feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8264</guid></item></channel></rss>