<?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[We have need of patience with ourselves and with others; with those below and those above us, and with our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6641]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have need of patience with ourselves and with others; with those below and those above us, and with our own equals; with those who love us and those who love us not; for the greatest things and for the least; against sudden inroads of trouble, and under daily burdens; against disappointments as to the weather, or the breaking of the heart; in the weariness of the body, or the wearing of the soul; in our own failure of duty, or others' failure towards us; in every-day wants, or in the aching of sickness or the decay of old age; in disappointment, bereavement, losses, injuries, reproaches; in heaviness of the heart, or its sickness amid delayed hopes. In all these things, from childhood's little troubles to the martyr's sufferings, patience is the grace of God, whereby we endure evil for the love of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong -- but that's the way to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong -- but that's the way to bet it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I also know all the clubs in the Premiership that blanked me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41909]]></link><description><![CDATA[I also know all the clubs in the Premiership that blanked me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big institutions are holding back their own capital. They're looking for an upside catalyst for stock prices. Any activity on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big institutions are holding back their own capital. They're looking for an upside catalyst for stock prices. Any activity on the mergers and acquisition, buy-back or dividend fronts, mixed with good news out of energy or the Fed, would be a catalyst to bring the big institutions back into stock market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13163]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65636]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus idly busy rolls their world away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus idly busy rolls their world away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've sold my records outta shopping carts on the street. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've sold my records outta shopping carts on the street.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the first year for this. The productions are grad student directed, designed and all student run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39227]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the first year for this. The productions are grad student directed, designed and all student run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54726]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy. [Lat., Sed tacitus pasci si posset corvus, haberet  Plus dapis, et rixae multo minus invidiaeque.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3017]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. The mountain of granite blooms into an eternal flower, with the lightness and delicate finish, as well as the aerial proportions and perspective of vegetable beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60955]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt...It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Page regrets having uttered an obscenity in open court. Sixty days to serve in jail is disproportionately severe relative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Page regrets having uttered an obscenity in open court. Sixty days to serve in jail is disproportionately severe relative to the transgression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not allow the money to drive the train. Do not allow deadlines to drive the train. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not allow the money to drive the train. Do not allow deadlines to drive the train.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25378]]></link><description><![CDATA[The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50360]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never till then so many thunderbolts from cloudless skies. (Bolt from the blue.) [Lat., Non alias caelo ceciderunt plura sereno.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never till then so many thunderbolts from cloudless skies. (Bolt from the blue.) [Lat., Non alias caelo ceciderunt plura sereno.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was one of those who by fortune's boon Are born, as they say, with a silver spoon  In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50165]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was one of those who by fortune's boon Are born, as they say, with a silver spoon  In her mouth, not a wooden ladle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43107]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50267]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the hell? He's famous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35308]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the hell? He's famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More have repented speech then silence. [More have repented speech than silence.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49634]]></link><description><![CDATA[More have repented speech then silence. [More have repented speech than silence.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginnings of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginnings of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Crab and Its MotherA crab said to her son, Why do you walk so one-sided, my child? It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1585]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Crab and Its MotherA crab said to her son, Why do you walk so one-sided, my child? It is far more becoming to go straight forward. The young Crab replied: Quite true, dear Mother; and if you will show me the straight way, I will promise to walk in it. The Mother tried in vain, and submitted without remonstrance to the reproof of her child. Example is more powerful than precept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is born a fool is never cured ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16364]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is born a fool is never cured]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Losse embraceth shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Losse embraceth shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, and Pete Fleming, martyrs, Equador, 1956  Oh, the fullness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, and Pete Fleming, martyrs, Equador, 1956  Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on Earth! I care not if I never raise my voice again for Him, if only I may love Him, please Him. Mayhap in mercy He shall give me a host of children that I may lead them through the vast star fields to explore His delicacies whose finger ends set them to burning. But if not, if only I may see Him, touch His garments, smile into His eyes -- ah then, not stars nor children shall matter, only Himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He shall have chariots easier than air, That I will have invented; . . . And thyself,  That art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61974]]></link><description><![CDATA[He shall have chariots easier than air, That I will have invented; . . . And thyself,  That art the messenger, shalt ride before him   On a horse cut out of an entire diamond.    That shall be made to go with golden wheels,     I know not how yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest step is that out of doores. [The greatest step is that out of doors.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest step is that out of doores. [The greatest step is that out of doors.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is really like a lab experiment in the real world. This is an attempt to understand how hydrogen-power vehicles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37325]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is really like a lab experiment in the real world. This is an attempt to understand how hydrogen-power vehicles refuel and work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Online campaigning is becoming more commonplace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Online campaigning is becoming more commonplace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet,  Which once inflam'd my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet,  Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires my wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So wise so young, they say, do never live long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61739]]></link><description><![CDATA[So wise so young, they say, do never live long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I first noticed the trees, swaying in the wind, and then I saw, or maybe I heard, one being twisted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I first noticed the trees, swaying in the wind, and then I saw, or maybe I heard, one being twisted from its roots. That's when I knew something bad was coming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we came out in the second half -- once we kind of settled in -- and played pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31306]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we came out in the second half -- once we kind of settled in -- and played pretty well. We just made so many mistakes early that we let it get away from us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round;  But round himself, all tender like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5150]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round;  But round himself, all tender like gold,   The sun's sweet ray is hovering found.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is born to work and prosper and not to rest and rust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is born to work and prosper and not to rest and rust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socrates, you will remember, asked all the important questions - but he never answered any of them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socrates, you will remember, asked all the important questions - but he never answered any of them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46129]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only test of leadership is that somebody follows. Lance Secretan, Industry Week, 10/12/98 -Robert K. Greenleaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24470]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only test of leadership is that somebody follows. Lance Secretan, Industry Week, 10/12/98 -Robert K. Greenleaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906 Continuing a short series on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906 Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone desperate enough for suicide...should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone desperate enough for suicide...should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25597]]></link><description><![CDATA[No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25597</guid></item></channel></rss>