<?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[Life is an adventure in forgiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an adventure in forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The abstract metaphysical monotheism, the constant emphasis laid on God's unity and infinite and incomprehensible essence, could not give light ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The abstract metaphysical monotheism, the constant emphasis laid on God's unity and infinite and incomprehensible essence, could not give light to the mind or peace to the heart... How human is the God of the Old Testament -- the God who appears, speaks, guides, who loves and is loved, even as the Man of the New Testament, Christ Jesus, is divine! This difference between the idea of an absolute and infinite God and the God of Scripture is, after all, that which separates the true believer and Christian from the natural man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor ofthinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21258]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor ofthinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16696]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12077]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16718]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, And violets bathe in the wet o' the morn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16256]]></link><description><![CDATA[The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, And violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, before I commit a sin, it seems to me so shallow that I may wade through it dry-shod from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, before I commit a sin, it seems to me so shallow that I may wade through it dry-shod from any guiltiness; but when I have committed it, it often seems so deep that I cannot escape without drowning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one really won in this constitution. It left almost everything vague. Everyone played to a tie but we don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38953]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one really won in this constitution. It left almost everything vague. Everyone played to a tie but we don't know how the ties are going to be resolved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The land is exceptionally beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39578]]></link><description><![CDATA[The land is exceptionally beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're really wanting to create an environment of continuous education. By providing a single principal ... there would be even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39772]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're really wanting to create an environment of continuous education. By providing a single principal ... there would be even more continuity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't know much about it. Actually, I didn't know anything. My grade school coach, Alden Dahl, he really got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34766]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't know much about it. Actually, I didn't know anything. My grade school coach, Alden Dahl, he really got me interested in the sport. He really thought that I could be something special.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering throughour mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21473]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering throughour mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We'reespecially responsible for the one's we put there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42740]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61428]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every path hath a puddle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every path hath a puddle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimately, it's clear that it won't work to try and take away equal marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ultimately, it's clear that it won't work to try and take away equal marriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4738]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  We have still much to learn as to the laws according to which the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  We have still much to learn as to the laws according to which the mind and body act on one another, and according to which one mind acts on another; but it is certain that a great part of this mutual action can be reduced to general laws, and that the more we know of such laws, the greater our power to benefit others will be. When, through the operation of such laws, surprising events take place, [we may] cry out, ... "Such is the will of God," instead of setting ourselves to inquire whether it is the will of God to give us power to bring about or prevent such results; then our conduct is not piety but sinful laziness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They sing, they will pay. [Fr., Ils chantent, ils payeront.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56461]]></link><description><![CDATA[They sing, they will pay. [Fr., Ils chantent, ils payeront.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/862]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The arrows are from her dowry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The arrows are from her dowry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63686]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius without education is like silver in the mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius without education is like silver in the mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh my God, she's fashion road-kill! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh my God, she's fashion road-kill!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citizen participation [is] a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Citizen participation [is] a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While Milosevic was in power all ethnic Albanians preferred having the west on their side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41762]]></link><description><![CDATA[While Milosevic was in power all ethnic Albanians preferred having the west on their side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63831]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There would bee no great ones if there were no little ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49960]]></link><description><![CDATA[There would bee no great ones if there were no little ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her voice, the music of the spheres, So loud, it deafens mortals' ears;  As wise philosophers have thought,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her voice, the music of the spheres, So loud, it deafens mortals' ears;  As wise philosophers have thought,   And that's the cause we hear it not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole word was not sufficient. [Lat., Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non suffecerit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14101]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole word was not sufficient. [Lat., Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non suffecerit orbis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and say why... I dream of things that never were and say why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and say why... I dream of things that never were and say why not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27896]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured. [Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51675]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured. [Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that gives thee a bone, would not have thee die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that gives thee a bone, would not have thee die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49447</guid></item></channel></rss>