<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Take time enough: all other graces Will soon fill up their proper places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take time enough: all other graces Will soon fill up their proper places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Lay had better not think he has it any easier. At the end of the day you go into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38290]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Lay had better not think he has it any easier. At the end of the day you go into a case like this as a defendant six feet under, and you have to continually claw your way out of that hole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The basis for optimism is sheer terror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The basis for optimism is sheer terror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's essentially the entire refining capacity of Canada. That's called a severe supply shock, and that really affects the wholesale ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32982]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's essentially the entire refining capacity of Canada. That's called a severe supply shock, and that really affects the wholesale market, or the price at the refineries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What work's, my countrymen, in hand? Where go you With bats and clubs? The matter? Speak, I pray you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62144]]></link><description><![CDATA[What work's, my countrymen, in hand? Where go you With bats and clubs? The matter? Speak, I pray you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18572]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After graduation I plan on substituting in Jackson Township schools as an elementary school teacher. However, my dream job is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42375]]></link><description><![CDATA[After graduation I plan on substituting in Jackson Township schools as an elementary school teacher. However, my dream job is to become a kindergarten teacher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62218]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alone!--That worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;  Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alone!--That worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;  Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known,   Of hope laid waste, knells in that word--Alone!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells!  What a world of merriment their melody foretells!   How ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells!  What a world of merriment their melody foretells!   How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,    In the icy air of night,     While the stars that oversprinkle      All the Heavens seem to twinkle       With a crystalline delight:        Keeping time, time, time,         In a sort of Runic rhyme          To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells           From the bells, bells, bells, bells,            Bells, bells, bells--             From the jingling and the tingling of the bells.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5323]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1315]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20463]]></link><description><![CDATA[An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28131]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17961]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should never name an animal which is not yours to keep, or which you intend to eat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43655]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should never name an animal which is not yours to keep, or which you intend to eat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest Glory of a free-born People, Is to transmit that Freedom to their Children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest Glory of a free-born People, Is to transmit that Freedom to their Children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our programs don't require radical change. Our programs require just enhancement and tuning and trying to get better yields on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our programs don't require radical change. Our programs require just enhancement and tuning and trying to get better yields on the investments that we and our partners have made. A great example is the fact that we now have 100 business partner innovation centers around the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boy Hunting LocustsA boy was hunting for locusts. He had caught a goodly number, when he saw a Scorpion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boy Hunting LocustsA boy was hunting for locusts. He had caught a goodly number, when he saw a Scorpion, and mistaking him for a locust, reached out his hand to take him. The Scorpion, showing his sting, said: If you had but touched me, my friend, you would have lost me, and all your locusts too!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew. [Lat., Quod tantis Romana manus contexuit annis  Proditur unus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54404]]></link><description><![CDATA[What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew. [Lat., Quod tantis Romana manus contexuit annis  Proditur unus iners angusto tempore vertit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47551]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that your wife will give you for free ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51984]]></link><description><![CDATA[A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that your wife will give you for free]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a very good world we live in To spend, and to lend, and to give in;  But to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62203]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a very good world we live in To spend, and to lend, and to give in;  But to beg, or to borrow, or ask for our own;   'Tis the very worst world that ever was known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The British tourist was askedwhat he thought of theGrand Canyon.. and wroteback'gorge-ous'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20123]]></link><description><![CDATA[The British tourist was askedwhat he thought of theGrand Canyon.. and wroteback'gorge-ous'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58113]]></link><description><![CDATA[To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrong is but falsehood put in practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O father Abram! what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect The thoughts of others! -The Merchant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55569]]></link><description><![CDATA[O father Abram! what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect The thoughts of others! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11941]]></link><description><![CDATA[About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that the truth will come soon. He will be a free man soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that the truth will come soon. He will be a free man soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatsoe'er thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought and softly bodied forth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatsoe'er thy birth, Thou wert a beautiful thought and softly bodied forth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66050]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The current immigration system lacks the fundamental understanding of the need for immigrants in this country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28773]]></link><description><![CDATA[The current immigration system lacks the fundamental understanding of the need for immigrants in this country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're looking for a growth company in a growth industry with good management and a good balance sheet, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37127]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're looking for a growth company in a growth industry with good management and a good balance sheet,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47586]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36665]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63758</guid></item></channel></rss>