<?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[Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is bad to awaken a sleeping dog. [It., Il fait mal eveiller le chien qu dort.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is bad to awaken a sleeping dog. [It., Il fait mal eveiller le chien qu dort.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4945]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1888]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been a high level of interest by the casinos that's only going to intensify after today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38243]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been a high level of interest by the casinos that's only going to intensify after today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is in your hands, now use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14592]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is in your hands, now use it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the fable tells us, that the wren mounted as high as the eagle, by getting upon his back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the fable tells us, that the wren mounted as high as the eagle, by getting upon his back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a physician, Senator Frist has a moral calling to save lives and alleviate suffering. He joins Nancy Reagan, dozens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17015]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a physician, Senator Frist has a moral calling to save lives and alleviate suffering. He joins Nancy Reagan, dozens of Nobel Laureates, thousands of scientists, and millions of patients across the nation in calling for an end to the restrictions that have shackled the search for new cures. I applaud his courage in putting patients over politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is hideously fragile [and] there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is hideously fragile [and] there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving procures us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving procures us admission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24036]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharon was a strong and charismatic leader who steered the politics toward the right and extremism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sharon was a strong and charismatic leader who steered the politics toward the right and extremism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O churl! drink all; and leave no friendly drop! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51482]]></link><description><![CDATA[O churl! drink all; and leave no friendly drop!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11714]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49125]]></link><description><![CDATA[An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness of human habitations are what human nature habitually abhors; while on the contrary, haze, mist, and the haunting spirits of the mountains are what human nature seeks, and yet can rarely find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43340]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to come up with new formats that are tailor-made for each market. In Houston, we saw there was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28901]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to come up with new formats that are tailor-made for each market. In Houston, we saw there was an opportunity to go after Latinos that were bilingual regardless of generation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's understandable that from time to time there'd be a need for executive sessions, but the device should be used ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34476]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's understandable that from time to time there'd be a need for executive sessions, but the device should be used very sparingly. Good government evolves from trust and a willingness to work together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38330]]></link><description><![CDATA['How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is more about reunification and repairing. But it's extremely urgent. If you're separated from your child in a supermarket ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34697]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is more about reunification and repairing. But it's extremely urgent. If you're separated from your child in a supermarket or department store for 10 minutes, it's something you never forget. Here are parents who are separated from their children for three weeks and don't know where they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much of anything is bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much of anything is bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51752</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://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://maxioms.com/maxiom/62932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four of them went to the hyperbaric chamber at Shock Trauma, they were experiencing more severe symptoms and had been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Four of them went to the hyperbaric chamber at Shock Trauma, they were experiencing more severe symptoms and had been for several days, severe flu-like symptoms. There were another four taken to St. Agnes Hospital for observation, they were experiencing more minor symptoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what is I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So on he fares, and to the border comes, Of Eden, where delicious Paradise,  Now nearer, crowns with her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45470]]></link><description><![CDATA[So on he fares, and to the border comes, Of Eden, where delicious Paradise,  Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green,   As with a rural mound, the champain head    Of a steep wilderness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59888]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. -Martin Luther King.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55815]]></link><description><![CDATA[This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,— This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your actions, for they become habits.Watch your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your actions, for they become habits.Watch your habits, for they become character.Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109  For I seek not to understand in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109  For I seek not to understand in order that I may believe; but I believe in order that I may understand, for I believe for this reason: that unless I believe, I cannot understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,--they who are ambitious of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,--they who are ambitious of preferments in the courts of princes; they who make use of poison to show their skill in curing it; and they who intrust women with their secrets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64772]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bettors looking to cash in on their NFL betting intuition have only a few days left to bet on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bettors looking to cash in on their NFL betting intuition have only a few days left to bet on the outcome of Sunday's Super Bowl. To round out the betting experience for our players, Bodog.com has been offering a wide variety of quality and unique proposition wagers for the Super Bowl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690   I find more marks of authenticity in the Bible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690   I find more marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16459]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life [is] a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life [is] a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12597</guid></item></channel></rss>