<?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[We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/696]]></link><description><![CDATA[We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes that's easier to do. They get excited about it - it's a novelty. The ones you swim over and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes that's easier to do. They get excited about it - it's a novelty. The ones you swim over and over again you don't always want to do that in back-to-back duals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope" is the thing with feathers- that perches in the soul... -Emily Dickenson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope" is the thing with feathers- that perches in the soul... -Emily Dickenson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll always have people who are excited by [online learning] and people who are cautious. The biggest concern surrounds being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29393]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll always have people who are excited by [online learning] and people who are cautious. The biggest concern surrounds being able to deliver the quality we are known for traditionally in the classroom over the Web.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is a waking dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is a waking dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43001]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are like steel: when they lose their temper, they lose their worth. -Chuck Norris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are like steel: when they lose their temper, they lose their worth. -Chuck Norris.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a disease no one talks about, ... But it changes your life. I never got to play football; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31521]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a disease no one talks about, ... But it changes your life. I never got to play football; I had to quit baseball because I was too sick; and when I got to college, I missed a quarter of my sophomore year and had to live with a feeding tube for a while.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20236]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These surveys confirm the country's growing concern about excessive secrecy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29285]]></link><description><![CDATA[These surveys confirm the country's growing concern about excessive secrecy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12423]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65119]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47077]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities. [Fr., Heureux l'homme quand il n'a pas les ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities. [Fr., Heureux l'homme quand il n'a pas les defauts de ses qualites.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15452</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://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://maxioms.com/maxiom/21648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't see Iraq the way you see it on TV. That's what we want to tell people. We're the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36377]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't see Iraq the way you see it on TV. That's what we want to tell people. We're the same as you, we can sing, we can speak different languages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle   "Why was I born?" "Why am I here?" Theology answers, "You are here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle   "Why was I born?" "Why am I here?" Theology answers, "You are here to grow, to grow up in every way unto the full stature of a man newborn in Christ.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of (a) book as a kind of screen saver for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9582]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of (a) book as a kind of screen saver for your brain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23408]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17835]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64889]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One extends one's limits only by exceeding them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22693]]></link><description><![CDATA[One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek first to understand and then to be understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek first to understand and then to be understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate thatprogress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate thatprogress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward yourgoals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem. . . Problems are like landmarks of progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63236]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54000]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3397]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marvin\'s Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marvin\'s Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59928]]></link><description><![CDATA[From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed  To grateful twilight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb;  But God's time is our harvest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17077]]></link><description><![CDATA[The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb;  But God's time is our harvest time,   And that is sure to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43600]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. -Graham Green. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45504]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. -Graham Green.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54579]]></link><description><![CDATA[From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had doting Priam checked his son's desire, Troy had been bright with fame, and not with fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had doting Priam checked his son's desire, Troy had been bright with fame, and not with fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no wisdom like frankness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5212]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no wisdom like frankness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I strive to mould circumstances to myself, not myself to circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50263]]></link><description><![CDATA[I strive to mould circumstances to myself, not myself to circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frankly, we're perplexed. You'd like to see prices about this time of the year fairly low in anticipation of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frankly, we're perplexed. You'd like to see prices about this time of the year fairly low in anticipation of the summer cost increases. Unfortunately, they're already in the stratosphere and still headed north.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be those who do most, dream most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22120]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be those who do most, dream most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9517]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune to maintain and is still in danger of collapsing. There are no plans to replace it, since it was never needed in the first place. I expect every installation has its own pet software which is analogous to the above.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9517</guid></item></channel></rss>