<?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[I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality, with all its difficulties, opportunities, and implications. The true subject matter of religion is not our own little souls, but the Eternal God and His whole mysterious purpose, and our solemn responsibility to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that die by famine die by inches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20154]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that die by famine die by inches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61161]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business make money out of the process or business won't work. •Henry Lewis Stimson   War is like love, it always finds a way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are looking at a pretty heavy train that would take at least a mile to stop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38199]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are looking at a pretty heavy train that would take at least a mile to stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would live to study, and not study to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25393]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would live to study, and not study to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every animal is sad after coitus except the human female and the rooster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every animal is sad after coitus except the human female and the rooster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's actually fairly critical that we have a definitive time frame, because as we move into the Christmas season, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38728]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's actually fairly critical that we have a definitive time frame, because as we move into the Christmas season, a number of hotels have reservations and bookings. It may become more challenging for us to find accommodations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44180]]></link><description><![CDATA[As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a feeling that the answer was quite different and that he ought to know it, but he could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15518]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a feeling that the answer was quite different and that he ought to know it, but he could not think of it. He began to get frightened, and that is bad for thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even here Thy strong magnetic charms I feel, And pant and tremble like the amorous steel.  To lower good, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even here Thy strong magnetic charms I feel, And pant and tremble like the amorous steel.  To lower good, and beauties less divine,   Sometimes my erroneous needle does incline;    But yet (so strong the sympathy)     It turns, and points again to Thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5572]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45119]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux,  Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54728]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux,  Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52740]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61945]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on prayer:   We know that the wind blows; why should we not know that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on prayer:   We know that the wind blows; why should we not know that God answers prayer? I reply, What if God does not care to have you know it at second-hand? What if there would be no good in that? There is some testimony on record, and perhaps there might be much more were it not that, having to do with things so immediately personal, and generally so delicate, answers to prayer would naturally not often be talked about; but no testimony concerning the thing can well be conclusive; for, like a reported miracle, there is always some way to daff it; and besides, the conviction to be got that way is of little value: it avails nothing to know the thing by the best of evidence... `But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves, why should it be necessary to ask Him for anything?" In answer, What if He knows prayer to be the thing we need first and most? What if the main object in God's idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need -- the need of Himself? (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   O God, Who hast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   O God, Who hast ordained that whatever is to be desired, should be sought by labor, and Who, by Thy blessing, bringest honest labor to good effect; look with mercy upon my studies and endeavors. Grant me, O Lord, to design only what is lawful and right, and afford me calmness of mind, and steadiness of purpose, that I may so do Thy will in this short life, as to obtain happiness in the world to come, for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This administration has broken faith with the people of America.They have squandered the immense good will extended by othernations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47957]]></link><description><![CDATA[This administration has broken faith with the people of America.They have squandered the immense good will extended by othernations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't run around, because that's when the seams are there and the holes are there. The tighter you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40024]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't run around, because that's when the seams are there and the holes are there. The tighter you can stay, the more you can make them move it around and maybe take a shot they don't want to take, the better you're doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53483]]></link><description><![CDATA[I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894  We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894  We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the Lord to grant you, of His great mercy, the true understanding of His Word. There is no other interpreter of the Word of God than the Author of this Word, as He Himself has said, "They shall be all taught of God" (John 6:45). Hope for nothing from your own labors, from your own understanding: trust solely in God, and in the influence of His Spirit. Believe this on the word of a man who has experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year,  A handsome house to lodge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61791]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year,  A handsome house to lodge a friend,   A river at my garden's end,    A terrace walk, and half a rood     Of land, set out to plant a wood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9658]]></link><description><![CDATA[To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, we have this positive confluence of earnings and economic news that has been propelling the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, we have this positive confluence of earnings and economic news that has been propelling the market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing to me that 16- and 17-year-olds are treated as adults no matter what. If we make a big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28202]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing to me that 16- and 17-year-olds are treated as adults no matter what. If we make a big enough presence and have enough people, maybe the General Assembly will listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32630]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no facts, only interpretations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14879]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no facts, only interpretations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55169]]></link><description><![CDATA[People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh--  To figure in the Catalogue,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh--  To figure in the Catalogue,   And woo the public eye.    Something I must invent and paint;     But oh my wit is not      Like one of those kind substantives       That answer Who and What?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always count the cost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always count the cost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915  It is easy to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915  It is easy to throw angels and demons and the cosmic character and relevance of Christ's work upon the scrap heap of ancient superstition and mythology, and to consider them but a manner of speech that is utterly irrelevant for our space age. But if we should feel entitled to throw out one part of the witness of Ephesians to Christ, why not the rest of it also: for instance, Christ's Lordship over the church and in the heart? It is unfair and scarcely honest to consider the Bible or parts of it as a cake from which we can pick out merely the raisins we happen to like. Speaking the truth in love and witnessing to the biblical Christ may imply the necessity to speak also of some very strange things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12394]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Villain and he be many miles asunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Villain and he be many miles asunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59242]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59242</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[One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6969]]></link><description><![CDATA[One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6969</guid></item></channel></rss>