<?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[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Weak and imperfect men shall, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Weak and imperfect men shall, notwithstanding their frailties and effects, be received as having pleased God, if they have done their utmost to please Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that's gone:  Violets plucked the sweetest rain  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that's gone:  Violets plucked the sweetest rain   Makes not fresh nor grow again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22586]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52685]]></link><description><![CDATA[People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be or not to be that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25219]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be or not to be that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinc'd That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction:  That oft the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinc'd That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction:  That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour,   Serves but to brighten our future days!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63016]]></link><description><![CDATA[The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade, and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1958]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade, and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14414]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The danger is that a terrorist like Osama bin Laden who is very motivated ... gets a bomb out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35957]]></link><description><![CDATA[The danger is that a terrorist like Osama bin Laden who is very motivated ... gets a bomb out of a place like Russia. [Say] some crook steals it, he sells it to Osama bin Laden, Osama bin Laden brings it to Cleveland, or Boston, or L.A., and blows it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41475]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and that's what I was doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is make by discounting the obvious and betting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is make by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-violence is the article of faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Non-violence is the article of faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary peoplevisualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible.And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary peoplevisualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible.And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A position of authority is neither necessary nor sufficient for the exercise of leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3499]]></link><description><![CDATA[A position of authority is neither necessary nor sufficient for the exercise of leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life,you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21399]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life,you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality oflife that's far below what you deserve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53951]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hoarseness caused by swallowing gold and silver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4901]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hoarseness caused by swallowing gold and silver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I definitely feel a bond with Jordan. Him being from L.A., I got plenty of opportunities to see him play. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29630]]></link><description><![CDATA[I definitely feel a bond with Jordan. Him being from L.A., I got plenty of opportunities to see him play. I definitely knew I'd be coming into a school with another talented guard, and you have to enjoy that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay,  For the wander-thirst is on me  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59622]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay,  For the wander-thirst is on me   And my soul is in Cathay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66252]]></link><description><![CDATA[If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike by Algebra. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24527]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike by Algebra.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The Lord afflicts us at times; but it is always a thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The Lord afflicts us at times; but it is always a thousand times less than we deserve, and much less than many of our fellow-creatures are suffering around us. Let us therefore pray for grace to be humble, thankful, and patient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Halcyon days. -King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Halcyon days. -King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24631]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642   To have faith is to rely upon Christ, the Person, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642   To have faith is to rely upon Christ, the Person, with the whole heart. It is not the understanding of the mind, not the theological opinion, not creed, not organization, not ritual. It is the koinonia of the whole personality with God and Christ, ... This experience of communion with Christ is itself the continual attitude of dependence on the Saviour which we call faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...tenderness, infatuation, adulation, idolatry - that isn't much to ask, is it Charles? Is it Charles? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20791]]></link><description><![CDATA[...tenderness, infatuation, adulation, idolatry - that isn't much to ask, is it Charles? Is it Charles?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread  Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread  Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence   Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22211]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64353]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your goals away from the trolls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your goals away from the trolls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[some of the neighbouring countries still interfere in the affairs of Afghanistan and make the situation insecure which remains a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28532]]></link><description><![CDATA[some of the neighbouring countries still interfere in the affairs of Afghanistan and make the situation insecure which remains a nightmare for the entire nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64985]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59939]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forbidden things have a secret charm ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forbidden things have a secret charm]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52824]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/333]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44650]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45163]]></link><description><![CDATA[A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13570]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19868</guid></item></channel></rss>