<?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[Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were no civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this highway? And I get so confused I have to stick my head out the window into the driving rain---unless there's lightning, because I could get struck on the head by a bolt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44108]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at first you do succeed, try something harder ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59896]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at first you do succeed, try something harder]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the idea. We have a lot of potential going forward. It's not a situation where teams can focus on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33270]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the idea. We have a lot of potential going forward. It's not a situation where teams can focus on one or two players. We have a number of players who can contribute going forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, what, what, What's the news from Sway?  Sad news,   Bad news,    Comes by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44459]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, what, what, What's the news from Sway?  Sad news,   Bad news,    Comes by the cable; led     Through the Indian Ocean's bed,      Through the Persian Gulf, the Red       Sea, and the Med-]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the German people lay down their weapons, the Soviets, according to the agreement between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23061]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the German people lay down their weapons, the Soviets, according to the agreement between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, would occupy all of East and Southeast Europe along with the greater part of the Reich. An iron curtain would fall over this enormous territory controlled by the Soviet Union, behind which nations would be slaughtered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some boundless contiguity of shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some boundless contiguity of shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they see it, and feel it in a hands-on way, that makes it fun for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33878]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they see it, and feel it in a hands-on way, that makes it fun for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it's just enough to smile sincerely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's just enough to smile sincerely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't fight forces, use them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't fight forces, use them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour onto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour onto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63963]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets;and the more  We feel of poesie do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets;and the more  We feel of poesie do we become   Like God in love and power,--under-makers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15551]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To refuse graciously is to confer a favor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15488]]></link><description><![CDATA[To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12350]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the hope of all firefighters that there are people still in there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41000]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the hope of all firefighters that there are people still in there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration of Octavia Hill, Worker for the Poor, 1912  Let us not inquire into the affairs of others that concern us not, but be busied within ourselves and our own spheres; ever remembering that to pry into the actions or interests of other men not under our charge may minister to pride, to tyranny, to uncharitableness, to trouble, but can never consist with modesty; unless where duty or the mere intentions of charity and relation do warrant it... Knock, therefore, at the door before you enter upon your neighbor's privacy: and remember, that there is no difference between entering his house and looking into it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56616]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that keeps nor crust nor crumb, Weary of all shall want some. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51335]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that keeps nor crust nor crumb, Weary of all shall want some.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shriek was followed by another, louder and yet more agonizing..for once started upon that journey, the hog never came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shriek was followed by another, louder and yet more agonizing..for once started upon that journey, the hog never came back. One by one the men hooked up the hogs and slit their throats. There was a line of hogs with squeals and lifeblood ebbing away.. until at last each vanished into a huge vat of boiling water (some still alive). The hogs were so innocent. They came so very trustingly. They were so very human in their protests. They had done nothing to deserve it. in the book THE JUNGLE.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything else has gone OK, but the salaries are the sticking point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything else has gone OK, but the salaries are the sticking point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relationships are like Rome. Difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'Golden Age', and unbearable during the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relationships are like Rome. Difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'Golden Age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt.. that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soulmate, and your love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolution: in politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolution: in politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FedEx's report not only helped lift the transport sector, but the entire market. In the absence of major negative news, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37903]]></link><description><![CDATA[FedEx's report not only helped lift the transport sector, but the entire market. In the absence of major negative news, we may see another rally between now and the end of the year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the most part, the deciding factor in whether or not parents do well is how able they are to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33039]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the most part, the deciding factor in whether or not parents do well is how able they are to understand that it's the illness, not the child, creating the chaos.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He cited the safety of the people because the church was dumping a large amount of traffic onto Colonial Boulevard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37458]]></link><description><![CDATA[He cited the safety of the people because the church was dumping a large amount of traffic onto Colonial Boulevard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The findings show that we have a significant majority of respondents who have been with us for more than 10 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The findings show that we have a significant majority of respondents who have been with us for more than 10 years, so we are very good at keeping hold of people once they come to us. Even so, issues were raised about the availability of career breaks, flexible working and working from home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a lot of kids that had to change roles. There were growing pains. This season is about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32643]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a lot of kids that had to change roles. There were growing pains. This season is about the growth of the kids that do the right things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65870]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bad ending follows a bad beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54048]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bad ending follows a bad beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest. . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest. .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next time you go out to a smoking party, young feller, fill your pipe with that 'ere reflection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next time you go out to a smoking party, young feller, fill your pipe with that 'ere reflection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world's 'freeest'country has the highestnumber in prison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16709]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world's 'freeest'country has the highestnumber in prison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise. -Nancy Thayer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14790]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise. -Nancy Thayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing and that friends, although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him, nor can his relatives. Consequently, he develops real self-confidence based upon his own ability, upon his own action, and upon his own initiative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With 9/11, it brought more to the public's attention there could be a call that firefighters might not come back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29273]]></link><description><![CDATA[With 9/11, it brought more to the public's attention there could be a call that firefighters might not come back from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in an epidemic, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37038]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in an epidemic,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our life's a flying shadow, God's the pole, The index pointing at Him is our soul;  Death the horizon, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life's a flying shadow, God's the pole, The index pointing at Him is our soul;  Death the horizon, when our sun is set,   Which will through Christ a resurrection get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs. [Lat., Suus quoque attributus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs. [Lat., Suus quoque attributus est error:  Sed non videmus, manticae quid in tergo est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1190</guid></item></channel></rss>