<?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[For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66590]]></link><description><![CDATA[For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, ... tired of common sense and civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Image creates desire. You will what you imagine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of allowing yourself to be unhappy, just let your love grow as God wants it to grow. Seek goodness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of allowing yourself to be unhappy, just let your love grow as God wants it to grow. Seek goodness in others. Love more persons more -- love them more impersonally, more unselfishly, without thought of return. The return, never fear, will take care of itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everytime you turn around, you see another kid you've never seen before riding on a sidewalk. We need a place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everytime you turn around, you see another kid you've never seen before riding on a sidewalk. We need a place for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I actually talked with Peter when I was scouting locations. We stayed up until 2 in the morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29228]]></link><description><![CDATA[I actually talked with Peter when I was scouting locations. We stayed up until 2 in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still collecting scientific data. I'm really surprised we haven't gone into emergency mode. This time last November, we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31980]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still collecting scientific data. I'm really surprised we haven't gone into emergency mode. This time last November, we were passing through this same zone, and we got clobbered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down aninvitation to dinner without giving an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21846]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down aninvitation to dinner without giving an excuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most;  When all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62009]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most;  When all is won that all desire to woo,   The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Refrain from entering a profession where you are selling your time; as you will never receive fair value in return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Refrain from entering a profession where you are selling your time; as you will never receive fair value in return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are here on earth to do good to others. What the othersare here for, I don't know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21690]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are here on earth to do good to others. What the othersare here for, I don't know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never make a defense or apology before you are accused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get people excited and there's a trickle-down effect. Just the names create interest. Robert Cray (who will perform at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38524]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get people excited and there's a trickle-down effect. Just the names create interest. Robert Cray (who will perform at the Grand in August), and national artists like that, I love seeing that kind of stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then lady Cynthia, mistress of the shade, Goes, with the fashionable owls, to bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then lady Cynthia, mistress of the shade, Goes, with the fashionable owls, to bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63680]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65584]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26419]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the summer's in prime Wi' the flowers richly blooming,  And the wild mountain thyme   A' the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the summer's in prime Wi' the flowers richly blooming,  And the wild mountain thyme   A' the moorlands perfuming.    To own dear native scenes     Let us journey together,      Where glad innocence reigns       'Mang the braes o' Balquhither.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want more self-regulation. Technology is moving too fast and business practices are changing too fast for governments to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32870]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want more self-regulation. Technology is moving too fast and business practices are changing too fast for governments to be able to anticipate every little thing,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education, n. One of the few thing a fellow is willing to pay for and not get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, n. One of the few thing a fellow is willing to pay for and not get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth, Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth, Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned on Grecian earth,  The Lindian Cleobulus said, "The mean was still the best";   The Spartan Chilo said, "Know thyself," a heaven-born phrase confessed.    Corinthian Periander taught "Our anger to command,"     "Too much of nothing," Pittacus, from Mitylene's strand;      Athenian Solon this advised, "Look to the end of life,"       And Bias from Priene showed, "Bad men are the most rife";        Milesian Thales uregd that "None should e'er a surety be";         Few were there words, but if you look, you'll much in little see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50012]]></link><description><![CDATA[To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am, Sir, a brother of the angle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Maoists used to attack in remote areas and district headquarters and now they are targeting urban areas as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Maoists used to attack in remote areas and district headquarters and now they are targeting urban areas as they had made it clear that they will focus on disrupting the local polls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25344]]></link><description><![CDATA[How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits,  Or any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27382]]></link><description><![CDATA[It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain that which he merits,  Or any merit that which he obtains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making bottles to meet Americans' demand for bottled water requires more than 1.5 million barrels of oil annually, enough to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making bottles to meet Americans' demand for bottled water requires more than 1.5 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel some 100,000 U.S. cars for a year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had five receivers on the front line and it was a semi-hands team. We had one or at least ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38256]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had five receivers on the front line and it was a semi-hands team. We had one or at least two shots at it. We didn't come up with it. The big play came when we had a big fourth down play. We had a stop and the kid (Perry) scrambled and scored, we have been victimized by that all year long. You live and die by it and I'm still proud of our team and hats off to Brandywine, they made the plays when they had to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709  Life is at its noblest and its best when our effort cooperates with God's grace to produce the necessary loveliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage  War with the lines ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage  War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon,   Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth    After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5132]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greene wood makes a hott fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greene wood makes a hott fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15266]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53361]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our resilience in the face of life's adversities is diminished. We crumble before vicissitudes that a healthier sense of self could vanquish. We tend to be more influenced by the desire to avoid pain than to experience joy. Negatives have more power over us than positives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grew up competing with much larger institutions. They are very good at what they do and we knew that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38503]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grew up competing with much larger institutions. They are very good at what they do and we knew that we couldn't beat them at their game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50874]]></link><description><![CDATA[In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism; when a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism; when a great one goes, like the New York Herald Tribune, history itself is denied a devoted witness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12528]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;  Though every prospect pleases,   And only man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62308]]></link><description><![CDATA[What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;  Though every prospect pleases,   And only man is vile;    In vain with lavish kindness     The gifts of God are strown;      The heathen in his blindness       Bows down to wood and stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62308</guid></item></channel></rss>