<?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[There is in us a tendency to locate the shaping forces of our existence outside ourselves. Success and failure are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47574]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in us a tendency to locate the shaping forces of our existence outside ourselves. Success and failure are unavoidably related in our minds with the state of things around us. Hence it is that people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to preserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change. The tendency to look for all causes outside ourselves persists even when it is clear that our state of being is the product of personal qualities such as ability, character, appearance, health and so on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19488]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, "Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10214]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are used to a cagewill weep for a cage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are used to a cagewill weep for a cage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57446]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many saucy airs we meet, From Temple Bar to Aldgate street! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60378]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many saucy airs we meet, From Temple Bar to Aldgate street!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23427]]></link><description><![CDATA[They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52130]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of respect to Betty we couldn't think of a more appropriate name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of respect to Betty we couldn't think of a more appropriate name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52648]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To these men and women we humbly bow, to the generations who followed and carried the pulpit and teaching of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35088]]></link><description><![CDATA[To these men and women we humbly bow, to the generations who followed and carried the pulpit and teaching of Jesus Christ, we are grateful. Let us be inspired to walk in His presence and leave our children the same faith and hope of a home beyond the grave -- a house not made by hands but eternal in the heavens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I assume she is not sincere because if you're smart enough to be on the Supreme Court, you should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30034]]></link><description><![CDATA[I assume she is not sincere because if you're smart enough to be on the Supreme Court, you should be smarter than the president.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading;  I cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading;  I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.   - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43003]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15101]]></link><description><![CDATA[After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a matter of finding the right chair. Will it have its own presence? Will it stand on its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34388]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a matter of finding the right chair. Will it have its own presence? Will it stand on its own? Condition is important, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you areindispensable, and you will move out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you areindispensable, and you will move out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", because I would have liked to stand up in class and tell everybody, "You can make fun of the Cricket Boy if you want to, but to me he's just like everybody else." Then everybody would leave the Cricket Boy alone, and I'd invite him over to spend the night at my house, but after about five minutes of that loud chirping I'd have to kick him out. Maybe later we could get up a petition to get the Cricket Family run out of town. Bye, Cricket Boy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ:   Break Thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ:   Break Thou the bread of life,  Dear Lord, to me, As Thou didst break the loaves   Beside the sea; Beyond the sacred page  I seek Thee, Lord; My spirit pants for Thee,  O living word! Bless Thou the truth, dear Lord,  To me, to me, As Thou didst bless the bread  By Galilee; Then shall all bondage cease,  All fetters fall; And I shall find my peace,  My All-in-All.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he proved against Jamaica his quality, he played very well, took his goal very nicely, and blended in to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35971]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he proved against Jamaica his quality, he played very well, took his goal very nicely, and blended in to the system very well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've gotten a lot more people involved (since King's injury). Their roles changed. I knew they all had it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40326]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've gotten a lot more people involved (since King's injury). Their roles changed. I knew they all had it in them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50118]]></link><description><![CDATA[With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36755]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8643]]></link><description><![CDATA[God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night;  Along the hills of Galilee the white flocks sleeping lay,   When Christ, the Child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas Day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45420]]></link><description><![CDATA[One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to go into my view at the moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to go into my view at the moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63528]]></link><description><![CDATA[I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health costs, energy costs, all those things came together like a perfect storm and now the districts really have no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health costs, energy costs, all those things came together like a perfect storm and now the districts really have no choice but to go to referendum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Syria is trying to strengthen its hegemony in Lebanon by controlling more and more institutions, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Syria is trying to strengthen its hegemony in Lebanon by controlling more and more institutions,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinarymotivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22427]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinarymotivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who wait could face long lines at licensing outlets on the coast,. Nobody wants to be standing in line ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who wait could face long lines at licensing outlets on the coast,. Nobody wants to be standing in line to buy a license at low tide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biography lends to death a new terror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Biography lends to death a new terror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3885]]></link><description><![CDATA[O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stained With grief, that's beauty's canter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stained With grief, that's beauty's canter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that its workers are not just sitting around downloading Internet porn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24680]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24680</guid></item></channel></rss>