<?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[Nothing fails like success. •Gerald Nachman  We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing fails like success. •Gerald Nachman  We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? •Jean Cocteau  Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. •Lily Tomlin  The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. •Nancy Astor  For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself. •Rita Mae Brown  Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. •Mark Twain  The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already. •J.N. Fadenburg   Make a success of living by seeing the goal and aiming for it unswervingly. •Cecil B. Demille  I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. •Abraham Lincoln  The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made. •Groucho Marx  Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He misses playing. He prepared really hard for his senior year. It has been tough on him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32539]]></link><description><![CDATA[He misses playing. He prepared really hard for his senior year. It has been tough on him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58196]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18932]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends. [Lat., Qui salubrem locum negligit, mente est captus atque ad agnatos et gentiles deducendus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas a yellow rose, By that south window of the little house,  My cousin Romney gathered with his hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54425]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas a yellow rose, By that south window of the little house,  My cousin Romney gathered with his hand   On all my birthdays, for me. save the last;    And then I shook the tree too rough, too rough,     For roses to stay after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead,  Will rise in majesty to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead,  Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have this fantastic nugget of historical material from the Gilded Age. It's a wonderful, small overview of American painting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41233]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have this fantastic nugget of historical material from the Gilded Age. It's a wonderful, small overview of American painting from about 1870 to 1915.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paul and Cody are the only players from the Midwest going to Ohio State next year, so that's pretty great. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paul and Cody are the only players from the Midwest going to Ohio State next year, so that's pretty great. Robby Dodd will be going to a great Division III program, but other than that we're a young group.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14780]]></link><description><![CDATA[The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace - More followers than a thief to the gallows]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all pointed sentences some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/335]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all pointed sentences some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They don't have many issues left, but they cannot predict an agreement will be made by (Friday) morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41262]]></link><description><![CDATA[They don't have many issues left, but they cannot predict an agreement will be made by (Friday) morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue Sounds ever after as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remember'd tolling a departing friend. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship demands the ability to do without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship demands the ability to do without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59389]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[coerced and had been required as a condition for Libby's continued employment at the White House. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34938]]></link><description><![CDATA[coerced and had been required as a condition for Libby's continued employment at the White House.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man that is warned is half armed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50961]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man that is warned is half armed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A church debt is the devil's salary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11504]]></link><description><![CDATA[A church debt is the devil's salary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who molds the public sentiment ... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55178]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who molds the public sentiment ... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52780]]></link><description><![CDATA[No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is born without faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50303]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is born without faults.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the hallmark of the year appeared to be a realization that we can't let transportation deteriorate any further. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the hallmark of the year appeared to be a realization that we can't let transportation deteriorate any further.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church is the great lost and found department. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53598]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church is the great lost and found department.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  Can the love of Christ move a Christian to fruitful, effective, full-time, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  Can the love of Christ move a Christian to fruitful, effective, full-time, unpaid service to those who belong to Him? I have no hesitation in answering, Yes, it can, and it must. St. Paul wrote, "The very spring of our actions is the love of Christ. We look at it this way: if one died for all men, then in a sense, they all died; and his purpose in dying for them is that their lives should now be no longer lived for themselves but for Him who died and rose again for them." There is the motive. Can anyone doubt that St. Paul's ministry was fruitful -- in wisdom, in Christ-like character, in testimony to the power of the Spirit of Christ -- or effective -- in conversions, in churches planted, in men raised up to carry on the work? Yet St. Paul spent long hours working with his hands to support himself. He served Christ, therefore, as an "amateur". Dare we say he was not really a "full time" worker? Or was he not really "unpaid"?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is characteristic of the thinking of our time that the problem of guilt and forgiveness has been pushed into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6478]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is characteristic of the thinking of our time that the problem of guilt and forgiveness has been pushed into the background and seems to disappear more and more. Modern thought is impersonal. There are, even today, a great many people who understand that man needs salvation, but there are very few who are convinced that he needs forgiveness and redemption... Sin is understood as imperfection, sensuality, worldliness -- but not as guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/887]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man (rather than let the mask slip off) has to tilt his head back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind of tyranny which Lawson's face exerts over the rest of his body as he cruises along the corridors. He doesn't look down his nose at you, he looks along his nose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14276]]></link><description><![CDATA[No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If wisdom were offered me with the provision that I should keep it shutup and refrain from declaring it, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21277]]></link><description><![CDATA[If wisdom were offered me with the provision that I should keep it shutup and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight inowning anything unshared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is so much the first among equals of that world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40288]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is so much the first among equals of that world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than a cabinet of intellectual gems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65684]]></link><description><![CDATA[A collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than a cabinet of intellectual gems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there are no women there are no good manners ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there are no women there are no good manners]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (That shameful Siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (That shameful Siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Kid and the WolfA kid standing on the roof of a house, out of harm's way, saw a Wolf ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Kid and the WolfA kid standing on the roof of a house, out of harm's way, saw a Wolf passing by and immediately began to taunt and revile him. The Wolf, looking up, said, Sirrah! I hear thee: yet it is not thou who mockest me, but the roof on which thou art standing. Time and place often give the advantage to the weak over the strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4495]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5871]]></link><description><![CDATA[My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58153]]></link><description><![CDATA[The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5966]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63457]]></link><description><![CDATA[By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A eulogist of past times. [Lat., Laudator temporis acti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48011]]></link><description><![CDATA[A eulogist of past times. [Lat., Laudator temporis acti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48011</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[He decried that any wouldadd another hue unto the rainbowyet we would ope tosaffron and jadeand pink and roseand olive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60447]]></link><description><![CDATA[He decried that any wouldadd another hue unto the rainbowyet we would ope tosaffron and jadeand pink and roseand olive and tanscarlet and indigos***the quote is from Shakespeare's King John.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are fatal to caste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are fatal to caste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9559</guid></item></channel></rss>