<?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[Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward for a job well done is more work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward for a job well done is more work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people leave their controlled burns, they should be sticking their hands in there to make sure its cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32756]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people leave their controlled burns, they should be sticking their hands in there to make sure its cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. - The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27724]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. - The Oracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it. [Lat., Qui gratus futurus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it. [Lat., Qui gratus futurus est statim dum accipit de reddendo cogitet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I die content, I die for the liberty of my country. [Fr., Je meurs content, je meurs pour la liberte ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45805]]></link><description><![CDATA[I die content, I die for the liberty of my country. [Fr., Je meurs content, je meurs pour la liberte de mon pays.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59247]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15869]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4866]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37222]]></link><description><![CDATA[I enjoy the crafts on the show enormously, too, when we have experts in showing how to make things. You watch them thinking you'll go home and do the things yourself, which is fun. Some I have done myself later on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16172]]></link><description><![CDATA[What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23136]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whosoever loveth me loveth my hound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whosoever loveth me loveth my hound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Supply-and-demand, -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Supply-and-demand, -- alas! For what noble work was there ever yet any audible demand in that poor sense? The man of Macedonia, speaking in vision to the Apostle Paul, "Come over and help us", did not specify what rate of wages he would give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to light 1 candlethan to curse the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59225]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to light 1 candlethan to curse the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people-not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has been a pretty strong presence at the company for a long time, and was obviously a big driver ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33981]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has been a pretty strong presence at the company for a long time, and was obviously a big driver in the launch of Weekend Edition. The fact that she's leaving by mutual agreement indicates that the board is becoming more active, and is willing to make tougher decisions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28477]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19369]]></link><description><![CDATA[History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is the art of concealing your impatience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4189]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was funny, ... I started laughing immediately. It's always been fun coming to BU and playing here. So, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42591]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was funny, ... I started laughing immediately. It's always been fun coming to BU and playing here. So, to do it now and have those fans behind me one more time, it was pretty fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We suffer more in imagination than in reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51208]]></link><description><![CDATA[We suffer more in imagination than in reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What more would you have? He has invented history. [Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l'histoire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19325]]></link><description><![CDATA[What more would you have? He has invented history. [Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l'histoire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39150]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48325]]></link><description><![CDATA[We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11374]]></link><description><![CDATA[When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  We must try to be at one and the same time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  We must try to be at one and the same time for the Church and against the Church. They alone can serve her faithfully whose consciences are continually exercised as to whether they ought not, for Christ's sake, to leave her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someones neck, and the guy screams and tries to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someones neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market is now and always has been fiercely competitive and we compete every day on every level of business. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market is now and always has been fiercely competitive and we compete every day on every level of business. We're confident in our ability to surpass any competitor in terms of value and choice. We are a reality today ... I think it is one thing to talk about delivering television service someday and another to already be doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23703]]></link><description><![CDATA[One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we have to have traditional roots, but then make things modern for the 90s. I think it makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39125]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we have to have traditional roots, but then make things modern for the 90s. I think it makes us more creative by taking traditional concepts and blowing them out a little bit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great as the preparations were for the dinner, everything was so contrived that not a soul in the house should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great as the preparations were for the dinner, everything was so contrived that not a soul in the house should be kept from the morning service of Thanksgiving in the church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one;  Belshazzar's correspondence   Concluded and begun    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one;  Belshazzar's correspondence   Concluded and begun    In that immortal copy     The conscience of us all      Can read without its glasses       On revelation's wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7274]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is not gold that one sees shining. [Fr., Que tout n'est pas or c'on voit luire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is not gold that one sees shining. [Fr., Que tout n'est pas or c'on voit luire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/676]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can only be forgiven not forgotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can only be forgiven not forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62852</guid></item></channel></rss>