<?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[It is base to filch a purse, daring to embezzle a million, but it is great beyond measure to steal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18498]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is base to filch a purse, daring to embezzle a million, but it is great beyond measure to steal a crown. The sin lessens as the guilt increases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than anything I have ever done; it is a far, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11410]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than anything I have ever done; it is a far, far, better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603   It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14273]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been contacted by some (ticket holders). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been contacted by some (ticket holders).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politically, it's not a comfortable position for them to be in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politically, it's not a comfortable position for them to be in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tho' we earn our bread, Tom, By the dirty pen,  What we can we will be,   Honest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tho' we earn our bread, Tom, By the dirty pen,  What we can we will be,   Honest Englishmen.    Do the work that's nearest     Though it's dull at whiles,      Helping, when we meet them,       Lame dogs over stiles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His experiences in having led other organizations toward national awards proved to be invaluable in our own march toward the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38093]]></link><description><![CDATA[His experiences in having led other organizations toward national awards proved to be invaluable in our own march toward the Baldrige.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27590]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken,  And, contrary, the moment, when we say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken,  And, contrary, the moment, when we say   "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19872]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt like we had it then. The momentum was definitely in our favor. They were timid at the point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29063]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt like we had it then. The momentum was definitely in our favor. They were timid at the point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pacifism is a wonderful conviction in theory, but only in theory. Real life has a way of eventually rubbing even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pacifism is a wonderful conviction in theory, but only in theory. Real life has a way of eventually rubbing even the most altruistic nose in a steaming pile of "F**k that".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be firstovercome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be firstovercome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43042]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion. [Lat., Exegi monumentum aera perennius  Regalique situ pyramidum altius,   Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens    Possit diruere aut innumerabilis     Annorum series et fuga temporum.      Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei       Vitabit Libitinam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a.  A merry heart goes all the day, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a.  A merry heart goes all the day,   Your sad tires in a mile-a.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All God wants of man is a peaceful heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64496]]></link><description><![CDATA[All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65800]]></link><description><![CDATA[People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray if thou canst with hope; but ever pray Though hope be weak, or sick with long delay. Whatever is good to wish, ask that of heaven; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took me 17 years to get 3,000 hits, but I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17809]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took me 17 years to get 3,000 hits, but I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much more disgraceful to write one thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51162]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much more disgraceful to write one thing and think another!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that’s the way the world is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15685]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that’s the way the world is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Syracuse will be happy to see that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Syracuse will be happy to see that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than arich person who is unhappy because the poor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22368]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than arich person who is unhappy because the poor person has hope. He thinksmoney will help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16686]]></link><description><![CDATA[A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born To Be Alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born To Be Alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point, the compute grid is well understood. But much less time has been devoted to getting data where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38328]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point, the compute grid is well understood. But much less time has been devoted to getting data where it needs to be, when it needs to be there, as well as to how this process is managed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['I wish life was not so short,' he thought. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66917]]></link><description><![CDATA['I wish life was not so short,' he thought. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abilene is a good team, and they beat us. We made some mistakes, and they took advantage of them like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abilene is a good team, and they beat us. We made some mistakes, and they took advantage of them like a good team will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44966]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song of gladness in the heart.  ... Bernard of Clairvaux May 8, 2000 Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus:  And what might this noble Lord do of more worship and joy to me than to show me (that am so simple) this marvelous homeliness [i.e., naturalness and simplicity]? Thus it fareth with our Lord Jesus and with us. For truly it is the most joy that may be that He that is highest and mightiest, noblest and worthiest, is lowest and meekest, homeliest and most courteous: and truly this marvelous joy shall be shewn us all when we see Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jane Heard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jane Heard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2157]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our spirit is . . . to show ourselves eager to work for, and if need be, to die for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our spirit is . . . to show ourselves eager to work for, and if need be, to die for the Irish Republic. Facing our enemy we must declare an attitude simply. . . . We ask for no mercy and we will make no compromise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Americans were to make the effort to manage their weight using a variety of options, including better nutrition, more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41068]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Americans were to make the effort to manage their weight using a variety of options, including better nutrition, more exercise, approved medications or even surgical approaches, we would be rewarded with significantly better health,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amid my list of blessings infinite, Stands this the foremost, "That my heart has bled." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amid my list of blessings infinite, Stands this the foremost, "That my heart has bled."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friends were poor but honest. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55718]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friends were poor but honest. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1786]]></link><description><![CDATA[My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1786</guid></item></channel></rss>