<?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 Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921   We must be willing to accept the bitter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921   We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to those who love us. But it is necessary that we face this also. The full acceptance of our abjection and uselessness is the virtue that can make us and others rich in the grace of God. It takes heroic charity and humility to let others sustain us when we are absolutely incapable of sustaining ourselves. We cannot suffer well unless we see Christ everywhere, both in suffering and in the charity of those who come to the aid of our affliction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone listens, or strectches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55243]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone listens, or strectches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen. -Loretta Girzartis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can deny that Chief the Honourable M.A. Nanga, M.P. was the most approachable politician in the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4620]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can deny that Chief the Honourable M.A. Nanga, M.P. was the most approachable politician in the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought I had it. My coach (Brian Johnson) told me to hit if off the front of the rim ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39380]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought I had it. My coach (Brian Johnson) told me to hit if off the front of the rim and bounce back for a 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the ability to meet life's situations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the ability to meet life's situations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've kind of been in denial about this problem. Denial is no longer an option. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30388]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've kind of been in denial about this problem. Denial is no longer an option.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People can experience loss of memory, daytime sleepiness. They can also have a difficulty concentrating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39463]]></link><description><![CDATA[People can experience loss of memory, daytime sleepiness. They can also have a difficulty concentrating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60083]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at first you do succeed, try something harder ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59896]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at first you do succeed, try something harder]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the young die good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the young die good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're getting mature the responsibility you have ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33432]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're getting mature the responsibility you have]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too. (after winning the Grand Slam Cup.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57562]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too. (after winning the Grand Slam Cup.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59965]]></link><description><![CDATA[I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11395]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any solution to a problem changes the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any solution to a problem changes the problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With love and patience, nothing is impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25919]]></link><description><![CDATA[With love and patience, nothing is impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heresie may be easier kept out, then shooke off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heresie may be easier kept out, then shooke off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4482]]></link><description><![CDATA[In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe in luck - is skepticism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56489]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe in luck - is skepticism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61694]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He stands erect; his slouch becomes a walk; He steps right onward, martial in his air,  His form and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57147]]></link><description><![CDATA[He stands erect; his slouch becomes a walk; He steps right onward, martial in his air,  His form and movement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11231]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16369]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle   We have all been inoculated with Christianity, and are never likely to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle   We have all been inoculated with Christianity, and are never likely to take it seriously now! You put some of the virus of some dreadful illness into a man's arm, and there is a little itchiness, some scratchiness, a slight discomfort--disagreeable, no doubt, but not the fever of the real disease, the turning and the tossing, and the ebbing strength. And we have all been inoculated with Christianity, more or less. We are on Christ's side, we wish him well, we hope that He will win, and we are even prepared to do something for Him, provided, of course, that He is reasonable, and does not make too much of an upset among our cozy comforts and our customary ways. But there is not the passion of zeal, and the burning enthusiasm, and the eagerness of self-sacrifice, of the real faith that changes character and wins the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But scandal's my aversion--I protest Against all evil speaking, even in jest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48723]]></link><description><![CDATA[But scandal's my aversion--I protest Against all evil speaking, even in jest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43143]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Risk assessment has not proven itself infallible. A lot of this is subjective. We want to ensure that the community ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Risk assessment has not proven itself infallible. A lot of this is subjective. We want to ensure that the community has as much information as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This guy is a bastard. He took advantage of my daughter, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37166]]></link><description><![CDATA[This guy is a bastard. He took advantage of my daughter,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get people excited and there's a trickle-down effect. Just the names create interest. Robert Cray (who will perform at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38524]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get people excited and there's a trickle-down effect. Just the names create interest. Robert Cray (who will perform at the Grand in August), and national artists like that, I love seeing that kind of stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17959]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fault rests with the gods, who have made her so stupid. [Lat., La faute en est aux dieux, qui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fault rests with the gods, who have made her so stupid. [Lat., La faute en est aux dieux, qui la firent si bete.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. He who has health has hope; and he who has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19812]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. -Thomas Fuller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is Hebrew to me. [Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25130]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is Hebrew to me. [Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65187]]></link><description><![CDATA[The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present is big with the future. [Fr., Le present est gros de l'avenir.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present is big with the future. [Fr., Le present est gros de l'avenir.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men carry about them that which is poyson to serpents: for if it be true that is reported, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46869]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men carry about them that which is poyson to serpents: for if it be true that is reported, they will no better abide the touching with man's spittle than scalding water cast upon them: but if it happed to light within their chawes or mouth, especially if it come from a man that is fasting, it is present death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,--  This art of writing billet-doux--   In buds, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47818]]></link><description><![CDATA[An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,--  This art of writing billet-doux--   In buds, and odors, and bright hues!    In saying all one feels and thinks     In clever daffodils and pinks;      In puns of tulips; and in phrases,       Charming for their truth, of daisies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure  Their blossoms from their roots, accessible   Alone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure  Their blossoms from their roots, accessible   Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer;    Growing straight out of man's reach, on the hill.     God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tempt not a desperate man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tempt not a desperate man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13526]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is going on in the political process is a transition from war to peace. After 22 years of war, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28278]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is going on in the political process is a transition from war to peace. After 22 years of war, we have won the war, virtually, and we have to win the peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28278</guid></item></channel></rss>