<?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[Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53424]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There with commutual zeal we both had strove In acts of dear benevolence and love;  Brothers in peace, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60139]]></link><description><![CDATA[There with commutual zeal we both had strove In acts of dear benevolence and love;  Brothers in peace, not rivals in command.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We really looked up to Jamie and Justin, because they paved the way for us as the up-and-coming U.S. team. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29993]]></link><description><![CDATA[We really looked up to Jamie and Justin, because they paved the way for us as the up-and-coming U.S. team. It's an unbelievable accomplishment for Jamie to come back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High above hate I dwell, O storms! farewell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18850]]></link><description><![CDATA[High above hate I dwell, O storms! farewell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. - "Leadership Is an Art".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59286]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   We are very shy nowadays of even mentioning Heaven. We are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8545]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   We are very shy nowadays of even mentioning Heaven. We are afraid of the jeer about "pie in the sky", and of being told that we are trying to "escape" from the duty of making a happy world here and now, into dreams of a better world elsewhere. But either there is "pie in the sky" or there is not. If there is not, then Christianity is false, for this doctrine is woven into its whole fabric. If there is, then this doctrine, like any other, must be faced, whether it is useful at political meetings or no.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can be done except little by little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can be done except little by little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we had the slowest bus driver in Pennsylvania. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37572]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we had the slowest bus driver in Pennsylvania.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind flies back with a grand recoil From debts not due till to-morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind flies back with a grand recoil From debts not due till to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65966]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All crush'd and stone-cast in behaviour, She stood as a marble would stand,  Then the Saviour bent down, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5705]]></link><description><![CDATA[All crush'd and stone-cast in behaviour, She stood as a marble would stand,  Then the Saviour bent down, and the Saviour   In silence wrote on in the sand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia. - Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia. - Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought once awakened does not again slumber. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought once awakened does not again slumber.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fifty-acre parcels are generally not that available in Silicon Valley. You can't buy 50 acres, you have to piece it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fifty-acre parcels are generally not that available in Silicon Valley. You can't buy 50 acres, you have to piece it together. So if you're Apple and you're going to go through the trouble of putting it together, you might as well pick an area you want to stay in, as opposed to one further away where you might save money but it will be just as difficult to assemble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition has no rest! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition has no rest!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest sin is sitting on your ass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20694]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A full belly neither fights nor flies well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49021]]></link><description><![CDATA[A full belly neither fights nor flies well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agreement in likes and dislikes--this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agreement in likes and dislikes--this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61865]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18739]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64956]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great house is full of saucy servants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great house is full of saucy servants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are counting $15,000 per day since December last year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30571]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are counting $15,000 per day since December last year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to individualize every single program for every guy in the system. That'll be the big positive. And of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38904]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to individualize every single program for every guy in the system. That'll be the big positive. And of course, the take-a-strike, we've modified that, that's no longer going to exist. Pitch counts will exist, but it's not one blanket program. If it needs to exist for a certain individual, it will. If it doesn't for another, it won't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These robust, versatile machines will enable children to become more active in their own learning, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40205]]></link><description><![CDATA[These robust, versatile machines will enable children to become more active in their own learning,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55134]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy is only a geographical expression. [Fr., L'Italie est un nom geographique.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Italy is only a geographical expression. [Fr., L'Italie est un nom geographique.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have some size as always and a great point guard in Philip Garnett. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39893]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have some size as always and a great point guard in Philip Garnett.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui  Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutions" that get rid of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutions" that get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Residents of low-lying areas, mobile homes and tents should reach higher ground now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Residents of low-lying areas, mobile homes and tents should reach higher ground now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her feet along the dewy hills Are lighter than blown thistledown;  She bears the glamour of one star  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her feet along the dewy hills Are lighter than blown thistledown;  She bears the glamour of one star   Upon her violet crown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46334]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53605]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;  Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19608]]></link><description><![CDATA[At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;  Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, stacher thro'   To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19608</guid></item></channel></rss>