<?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[Joy to the Toiler!--him that tills The fields with Plenty crowned;  Him with the woodman's axe that thrills  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy to the Toiler!--him that tills The fields with Plenty crowned;  Him with the woodman's axe that thrills   The wilderness profound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a woman at the begining of all great things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63529]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a woman at the begining of all great things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EEYORE: I'm not saying there won't be an Accident now, mind you. They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/311]]></link><description><![CDATA[EEYORE: I'm not saying there won't be an Accident now, mind you. They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want the [IAEA] to end discrimination against us and allow all member states equal access to nuclear technology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35720]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want the [IAEA] to end discrimination against us and allow all member states equal access to nuclear technology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26468]]></link><description><![CDATA[A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53285]]></link><description><![CDATA[I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64479]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: Twins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59938]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: Twins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is known when needed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29554]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is known when needed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest man upon Earth is he who stands most alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57029]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest man upon Earth is he who stands most alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the non-performance of base ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business Objects is known for the excellence of both its business intelligence applications and its exceptional customer support organization. With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business Objects is known for the excellence of both its business intelligence applications and its exceptional customer support organization. With an industry leading product platform and a growing customer base, the need to continue to deliver exceptional customer service is paramount. We are delighted that Business Objects has selected Knova's service resolution management applications for customer service and look forward to a strong partnership.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm here to score a lot of goals. It's my speciality, that's what I've been brought here to do, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56726]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm here to score a lot of goals. It's my speciality, that's what I've been brought here to do, and I want to score plenty ; like I did with Barcelona. And here, there's every reason to think I can do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no way to actively portray where security problems are coming from because all attacks look the same, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34181]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no way to actively portray where security problems are coming from because all attacks look the same, and that forces you to assume the worst every time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The other night [in a loss to Philadelphia], we didn't do what we needed to do offensively. No matter how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The other night [in a loss to Philadelphia], we didn't do what we needed to do offensively. No matter how much I play, I want to do a better job of helping change that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Kerry was a thorn in our flesh. He was very articulate, a credible leader of the opposition. He forced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23292]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Kerry was a thorn in our flesh. He was very articulate, a credible leader of the opposition. He forced us to create a counterfoil. We found a vet named John O’Neill and formed a group called Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace. We had O’Neill meet the President, and we did everything we could do to boost his group]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631   God, who is Almighty, Alpha and Omega, First and Last, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631   God, who is Almighty, Alpha and Omega, First and Last, that God is also Love it self; and therefore this Love is Alpha and Omega, First and Last too. Consider Christ's proceeding with Peter in the ship, in the storm: First he suffered him to be in some danger in the storm, but then he visits him with that strong assurance, "Be not afraid, It is I": any testimony of his presence rectifies all. This puts Peter into that spiritual confidence and courage, "Lord bid me come to thee"; he hath a desire to be with Christ, but yet stays his bidding: he puts not himself into an unnecessary danger, without commandment: Christ bids him, and Peter comes: but yet, though Christ were in his sight, and even in the actual exercise of his love to him, so soon as he saw a gust, a storm, "He was afraid"; and Christ lets him fear, and lets him sink, and lets him cry, but he directs his fear and his cry to the right end: "Lord, save me"; and thereupon he stretched forth his hand and saved him...   God puts his children into good ways, and he directs and protects them in those ways; for this is the constancy and perseverence of the love of Jesus Christ to us, as he is called in this text (Matt. 21:44), a stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great pity were it if this beneficence of Providence should be marr'd in the ordering, so as to justly merit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great pity were it if this beneficence of Providence should be marr'd in the ordering, so as to justly merit the Reflection of the old proverb, that though God sends us meat, yet the D------does cooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night,  And God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night,  And God within far Heaven refuse to light   The consolation of the dawn for me,--    Between the shadowy burns of Heaven and Hell,     It is enough love leaves my soul to dwell      With memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47769]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not. [Fr., Un tiens vaut, ce dit-on, mieux que deux tu l'auras.  L'un est sur, l'autre ne l'est pas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I voted to recall. The things she's done can't be justified. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42670]]></link><description><![CDATA[I voted to recall. The things she's done can't be justified.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say that cricket has nothing to do with politics and you say that cricket has nothing to do with life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say that cricket has nothing to do with politics and you say that cricket has nothing to do with life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life tobecome well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21213]]></link><description><![CDATA[A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life tobecome well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13744]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing that is really good and God-like dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43479]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47400]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a "pet" notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite frankly, [the bid process] is as intense as any pursuit of a telecom contract I've ever been through representing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite frankly, [the bid process] is as intense as any pursuit of a telecom contract I've ever been through representing BellSouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44403]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  As long as I see any thing to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  As long as I see any thing to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An excess of courtesy is discourtesy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14442]]></link><description><![CDATA[An excess of courtesy is discourtesy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Check disease in its approach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Check disease in its approach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merchant bar demand continues to draw strength from business investment while the previously booming consumer end-markets lose some luster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merchant bar demand continues to draw strength from business investment while the previously booming consumer end-markets lose some luster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to the town of New Haven, The home of the truth and the light,  Where God speaks to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to the town of New Haven, The home of the truth and the light,  Where God speaks to Jones,   In the very same tones,    That he uses with Hadley and Dwight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is fear that has said its prayers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance,by a desire to control oil wealth, bya desire to implant our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18299]]></link><description><![CDATA[This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance,by a desire to control oil wealth, bya desire to implant our programs.on the Diane Rehm Show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defender of his country--the founder of liberty, The friend of man,  History and tradition are explored in vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61234]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defender of his country--the founder of liberty, The friend of man,  History and tradition are explored in vain   For a parallel to his character.    In the annals of modern greatness     He stands alone;      And the noblest names of antiquity       Lose their lustre in his presence.        Born the benefactor of mankind,         He united all the greatness necessary          To an illustrious career.           Nature made him great,            He made himself virtuous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44316]]></link><description><![CDATA[The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17907</guid></item></channel></rss>