<?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[Originality provokes originality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality provokes originality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today is just a good day in disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today is just a good day in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary peoplevisualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible.And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary peoplevisualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible.And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15246]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make. -- Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have come to the end of a generation. Dan Wilson is the last connection to a team that saved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31912]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have come to the end of a generation. Dan Wilson is the last connection to a team that saved baseball in Seattle. He will always be a member of Mariners family and we hope to come up with a place for him in the organization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was overwhelmed not only with his story but by the way he told it. You could have heard a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34684]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was overwhelmed not only with his story but by the way he told it. You could have heard a pin drop in that room when he finished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just another layer of protection for the residents, ... You're preserving property values. You pay into a fund that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40090]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just another layer of protection for the residents, ... You're preserving property values. You pay into a fund that makes everybody's property values higher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes;  The naked every day he clad  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46459]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes;  The naked every day he clad   When he put on his clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well-being for this area was dependent upon tobacco especially in the Pee Dee and in the state of South ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well-being for this area was dependent upon tobacco especially in the Pee Dee and in the state of South Carolina.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew?  No! grown, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18382]]></link><description><![CDATA[What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew?  No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets;   May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[A spokesman for Andersen reiterated the firm's statement given on Wednesday.] Reaching out to the groups affected in this case ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29655]]></link><description><![CDATA[[A spokesman for Andersen reiterated the firm's statement given on Wednesday.] Reaching out to the groups affected in this case is consistent with our commitment to address the issues raised by Enron's collapse in a straightforward and constructive manner, ... We think it is in the best interests of all parties to deal expeditiously and responsibly with what has occurred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Herself the solitary scion left Of a time-honour'd race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Herself the solitary scion left Of a time-honour'd race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  The Church is an organism that grows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human - but it feels divine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19942]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human - but it feels divine]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7090]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In judging others a man laboureth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7660]]></link><description><![CDATA[In judging others a man laboureth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboureth to good purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The archdiocese also is disappointed that this has taken so long. Obviously, this isn't anything we have any desire to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32461]]></link><description><![CDATA[The archdiocese also is disappointed that this has taken so long. Obviously, this isn't anything we have any desire to prolong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When needs he must, yet faintly then he praises; Somewhat the deed, much more the means he raises:  So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48006]]></link><description><![CDATA[When needs he must, yet faintly then he praises; Somewhat the deed, much more the means he raises:  So marreth what he makes, and praising most, dispraises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3160]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miser is ever in want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miser is ever in want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolves and the SheepWhy should there always be this fear and slaughter between us? said the Wolves to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolves and the SheepWhy should there always be this fear and slaughter between us? said the Wolves to the Sheep. Those evil-disposed Dogs have much to answer for. They always bark whenever we approach you and attack us before we have done any harm. If you would only dismiss them from your heels, there might soon be treaties of peace and reconciliation between us. The Sheep, poor silly creatures, were easily beguiled and dismissed the Dogs, whereupon the Wolves destroyed the unguarded flock at their own pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leslie has three children, and she takes a lot of pride in that she built her business around her family ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leslie has three children, and she takes a lot of pride in that she built her business around her family life. She was able to get her kids off to the school bus and have her business wrapped by the time they came home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heigh ho, heigh ho! / It's off to work we go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heigh ho, heigh ho! / It's off to work we go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue of childhood is extremely complicated, the issue of comics is extremely complicated. And the intersection of the two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue of childhood is extremely complicated, the issue of comics is extremely complicated. And the intersection of the two is extremely, extremely complicated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This grief is crowned with consolation, you old smock brings forth a new petticoat, and indeed the tears live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18347]]></link><description><![CDATA[This grief is crowned with consolation, you old smock brings forth a new petticoat, and indeed the tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discouragement is the opposite of courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discouragement is the opposite of courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separatedfrom right living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21968]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separatedfrom right living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This promises well for Carlos' chances in the rest of the race. We had a feeling he'd be in top ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40099]]></link><description><![CDATA[This promises well for Carlos' chances in the rest of the race. We had a feeling he'd be in top shape after finishing well in the Tour and later having the time to prepare himself and spend time with his family without being troubled by injuries, illness or stressful contract negotiations. But just before a race starts you always get a little nervous anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me your horse and I will tell you what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me your horse and I will tell you what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always the people that know you the least, that judge you the most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63346]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always the people that know you the least, that judge you the most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They try to stick to their game plan. They've been winning games. They're not going to change up just because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30520]]></link><description><![CDATA[They try to stick to their game plan. They've been winning games. They're not going to change up just because other teams do something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can leave. I'll stay here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34794]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can leave. I'll stay here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61549]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240  As a man increases in moral strength of character, so his conscience becomes more sensitive; he realizes more keenly the distance that separates him from the ideal, and hence the weight of the feeling of guiltiness oppresses him ever more heavily. Growth in goodness does not, therefore, necessarily imply increased happiness, on the contrary, it may mean greater unhappiness. And his unhappiness increasing in proportion to the elevation of his ethical standards, a man's end is either Buddha or suicide if he knows no God; while if he knows God, it is despair or that conversion which, having sobbed away its tears on the Father's breast, thence derives ever new strength to fight the battle of life, sure of the final victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58680]]></link><description><![CDATA[When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16817]]></link><description><![CDATA[It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly.(on not perfectionismto put things off). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22341]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly.(on not perfectionismto put things off).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34277]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My temper leads me to peace and harmony with all men; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58849]]></link><description><![CDATA[My temper leads me to peace and harmony with all men; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any personal feuds or dissensions with those, who are embarked in the same great national interest with myself, as every difference of this kind in its conseq]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3029</guid></item></channel></rss>