<?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[Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22960]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not failure, but low aim, is crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not failure, but low aim, is crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained The deep vibrations of his witching song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60927]]></link><description><![CDATA[He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained The deep vibrations of his witching song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My family and I sat down and discussed this. I was just spread too thin, dealing with my home and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36058]]></link><description><![CDATA[My family and I sat down and discussed this. I was just spread too thin, dealing with my home and the administrative duties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.)   Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.)   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/7993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind  To suffer with the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21030]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind  To suffer with the body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finally, by ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: Not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finally, by ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth it's spark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to find a language to communicate with the folks who sign our checks to help them understand that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39847]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to find a language to communicate with the folks who sign our checks to help them understand that they will not be able to build a valuable journalistic brand without good journalism, which is expensive. This creates a chasm between us that admittedly will be very hard to bridge ... Our job is not to give the public what they think they want because what they want changes or is wrong. Look at how it changed after 9/11. Before 9/11 the public was less interested, according to every survey, in Islam or international news. After 9/11, they asked, 'How come you didn't tell us more about Islam and what was going on?' What the public wants is more about Brad and Angelina.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think chemistry will be a key ingredient. People have kind of forgotten about us, which is good. Hopefully, California ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32411]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think chemistry will be a key ingredient. People have kind of forgotten about us, which is good. Hopefully, California can keep the 'favorite' tag and we can fly under the radar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They shot the lights out. I'll give them credit, and they pressured us really, really well. They were very good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35999]]></link><description><![CDATA[They shot the lights out. I'll give them credit, and they pressured us really, really well. They were very good defensively, and they frustrated us on our opportunities with the ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a veteran guy, get his bat in the lineup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34865]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a veteran guy, get his bat in the lineup.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Master Kingston, this I will say--had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55212]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Master Kingston, this I will say--had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pets are more sensitive to the needs of humansthan vice versa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pets are more sensitive to the needs of humansthan vice versa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55202]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise,  And some the architect: his hand was known  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise,  And some the architect: his hand was known   In heaven by many a tower'd structure high,    Where scepter'd angels held their residence,     And sat as princes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38011]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because then if you don't get well, you die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education in Escambia County would not have been the same without her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education in Escambia County would not have been the same without her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing save the waves and I  May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing save the waves and I  May hear our mutual murmurs sweep;   There, swan-like, let me sing and die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have believed--and we do believe now--that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20005]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have believed--and we do believe now--that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well rooted. Because if it means anything it means the in-sanctity of species which are not human.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63584]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two sides to every question, because, when there are no longer two sides it ceases to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52748]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two sides to every question, because, when there are no longer two sides it ceases to be a question]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may know a man by the company he keeps ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23481]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may know a man by the company he keeps]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In ashes of despaire, though burnt, shall make thee live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16026]]></link><description><![CDATA[In ashes of despaire, though burnt, shall make thee live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunman have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5039]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown  And glittering eyes that showed their right  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12801]]></link><description><![CDATA[And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown  And glittering eyes that showed their right   To general Nature's deep delight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They came out to play ball and go up 21-zip after that punter fumbles that ball. It's tough to dig ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31715]]></link><description><![CDATA[They came out to play ball and go up 21-zip after that punter fumbles that ball. It's tough to dig out of that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51751]]></link><description><![CDATA[To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39590]]></link><description><![CDATA[And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series of verse on Christ:  Hard it is, very hard, To travel up the slow and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series of verse on Christ:  Hard it is, very hard, To travel up the slow and stony road To Calvary, to redeem mankind; far better To make but one resplendent miracle, Lean through the cloud, lift the right hand of power And with a sudden lightning smite the world perfect. Yet this was not God's way, Who had the power,  But set it by, choosing the cross, the thorn,  The sorrowful wounds. Something there is, perhaps, That power destroys in passing, something supreme, To whose great value in the eyes of God That cross, that thorn, and those five wounds bear witness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51886]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What will the world be quite overturned when you die? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28016]]></link><description><![CDATA[What will the world be quite overturned when you die?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 2005 FBI Computer Crime Survey should serve as a wake-up call to every company in America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35009]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 2005 FBI Computer Crime Survey should serve as a wake-up call to every company in America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17766]]></link><description><![CDATA[As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is extremely significant. It is our first step into long-running TV drama production, and it could lead the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32059]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is extremely significant. It is our first step into long-running TV drama production, and it could lead the way for more to follow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is his own chief enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is his own chief enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hearts of oak are our ships, Gallant tars are our men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hearts of oak are our ships, Gallant tars are our men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44019</guid></item></channel></rss>