<?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[Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what youdo. Attitude determines how well you do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what youdo. Attitude determines how well you do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  In America, it is hard to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  In America, it is hard to distinguish Christianity from its social and cultural setting. It blends into the scenery. Many people assume that we live in a "Christian society". Obviously, the Christian church has no strong witness against society. In [a communist country], the situation is exactly the opposite. Christians there live under a political regime which makes a point of distinguishing itself from all religion, and which is grounded philosophically on atheism and materialism. The Church lives in a hostile social order. The result is that the weak Christians are weeded out, and the strong Christians are tremendously strengthened by adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even after 9/11, when their life-saving role became clear, employers have dragged their feet on raising wages to a mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even after 9/11, when their life-saving role became clear, employers have dragged their feet on raising wages to a mostly African-American workforce. Four years after 9/11, the real estate industry has short-changed security officers, undermined the safety of their own buildings and jeopardized the well-being of the entire city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1752]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God sendeth cold after clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51918]]></link><description><![CDATA[God sendeth cold after clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26530]]></link><description><![CDATA[To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences is to invite the sterility of a cow shut away from the bulls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A popular, independent and developed Iraq will be the best friend of the Iranian nation, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41301]]></link><description><![CDATA[A popular, independent and developed Iraq will be the best friend of the Iranian nation,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To every journey in life, how you begin matters much but who and what the journey makes you become in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62932]]></link><description><![CDATA[To every journey in life, how you begin matters much but who and what the journey makes you become in the end matters much more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - and never knowing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60410]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war, they kill you in a new way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8838]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war, they kill you in a new way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while thou art free; Imprison it, lest it do thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a wise child that knows his own father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5993]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a wise child that knows his own father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew we had to keep fighting because we knew they are a tough team and would keep fighting to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30534]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew we had to keep fighting because we knew they are a tough team and would keep fighting to come back hard. We had to play the whole game out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33604]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the first time, we found fossils that allow us to connect the first phase of human evolution and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30083]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first time, we found fossils that allow us to connect the first phase of human evolution and the second phase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dare to be wrong and to dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dare to be wrong and to dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A late lark twitters from the quiet skies: And from the west,  Where the sun, his day's work ended, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44525]]></link><description><![CDATA[A late lark twitters from the quiet skies: And from the west,  Where the sun, his day's work ended,   Lingers as in content,    There falls on the old, gray city     An influence luminous and serene,      A shining peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun,  And in the dawn they floated on  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8903]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw two clouds at morning Tinged by the rising sun,  And in the dawn they floated on   And mingled into one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45525]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;  Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,   Gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;  Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,   Gives genius a better discerning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47279]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13365]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24624]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62715]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57489]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better not to be at all Than not to be noble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54401]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my opinion, it's faltering and hasn't picked up much momentum yet. Two million is just a drop in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35139]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my opinion, it's faltering and hasn't picked up much momentum yet. Two million is just a drop in the barrel in terms of what would be needed to have an impact and bring more attention to the city.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59352]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Realism... has no more to do with reality than anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Realism... has no more to do with reality than anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44562]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very pleasing to have qualified. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30668]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very pleasing to have qualified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art and science have their meeting point in method. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art and science have their meeting point in method.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61361]]></link><description><![CDATA[A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15963]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark, hark! I hear The strain of strutting chanticleer  Cry cock-a-diddle-dowe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark, hark! I hear The strain of strutting chanticleer  Cry cock-a-diddle-dowe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6053]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Spiral!" the memorable Lady terms Our mind's ascent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48372]]></link><description><![CDATA["Spiral!" the memorable Lady terms Our mind's ascent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36597</guid></item></channel></rss>