<?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[Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My country is the world, and my religion to do good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45804]]></link><description><![CDATA[My country is the world, and my religion to do good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crooked end obedient spirits draws, The pointed, those rebels who spurn at Christian laws.  [Lat., Curva trahit mites, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53461]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crooked end obedient spirits draws, The pointed, those rebels who spurn at Christian laws.  [Lat., Curva trahit mites, pars pungit acuta rebelles.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27859]]></link><description><![CDATA[The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  If we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  Continuing a series on God and the human condition:  If we are directed only by our particular natures, and regulate our inclinations by no higher rule than that of our reasons, we are but moralists; divinity will still call us heathens. Therefore this great work of charity must have other motives, ends, and impulsions. I give no alms to satisfy the hunger of my brother, but to fulfil and accomplish the will and command of my God; I draw not my purse for his sake that demands it, but his that enjoined it; I relieve no man upon the rhetoric of his miseries, nor to content mine own commiserating disposition, for this is still but moral charity, and an act that oweth more to passion than reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue," As some one somewhere sings about the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56509]]></link><description><![CDATA["Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue," As some one somewhere sings about the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we did very well. We had two major benefactors that really made sure all the women and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33341]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we did very well. We had two major benefactors that really made sure all the women and the children in the shelter got their wish list.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know any other way to lead but by example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know any other way to lead but by example.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plough deep while sluggards sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plough deep while sluggards sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44349]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think you just focus day to day, week to week. He's been the first goalie in the past. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30067]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think you just focus day to day, week to week. He's been the first goalie in the past. He won't lose his focus. He'll play another 10 years in the NHL. Game-sharp is just puck after puck (in practice). Since his last game, he's done two hours each day on ice. I think it was a good spot on the road. Sometimes, when you've stayed out a long time, it's better on the road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51576]]></link><description><![CDATA[A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is never respected there, but only made use of. We will have such-a-one, for he sings prettily; we will invite such-a-one to a ball, for he dances well; we will have such-a-one at supper, for he is always joking and laughing; we will ask another because he plays deep at all games, or because he can drink a great deal. These are all vilifying distinctions, mortifying preferences, and exclude all ideas of esteem and regard. Whoever is had (as it is called) in company for the sake of any one thing singly, is singly that thing, and will never be considered in any other light; consequently never respected, let his merits be what they will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People assume it's being tough on crime, but what you're doing is throwing these kids away. Studies show that kids ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28205]]></link><description><![CDATA[People assume it's being tough on crime, but what you're doing is throwing these kids away. Studies show that kids who are put into the adult system re-offend quicker and more seriously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plant no other tree before the vine. [Lat., Nullam vare, sacra vite prius arborem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plant no other tree before the vine. [Lat., Nullam vare, sacra vite prius arborem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It could be several weeks before we know the damage, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30656]]></link><description><![CDATA[It could be several weeks before we know the damage,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a piece of orange-peel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a piece of orange-peel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64223]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not have unlimited capital. If we cannot make the new library sustainable for future generations we are providing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38469]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not have unlimited capital. If we cannot make the new library sustainable for future generations we are providing a maintenance timebomb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult tobuild and very easy to destroy. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult tobuild and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is toemphasize the similarities between you and the customer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13384]]></link><description><![CDATA[All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14316]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns; to spend their strength  In furthest striving action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/506]]></link><description><![CDATA[For strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns; to spend their strength  In furthest striving action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4512]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will have no other master but our caprice -- that is to say, our evil self will have no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6597]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will have no other master but our caprice -- that is to say, our evil self will have no God, and the foundation of our nature is seditious, impious, refractory, opposed to and contemptuous of all that tries to rule it, and therefore contrary to order, ungovernable and negative. It is this foundation which Christianity calls the natural man. But the savage which is within us, and constitutes the primitive stuff of us, must be disciplined and civilized in order to produce a man. And the man must be patiently cultivated to produce a wise man; and the wise man must be tested and tried if he is to become righteous, and the righteous man must have substituted the will of God for his individual will, if he is to become a saint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.  The sun insists on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.  The sun insists on gladness; but at night,   When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15893</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[Every man can master a grief but he that has it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man can master a grief but he that has it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee!  I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.   Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible    To feeling as to sight? or art thou but     A dagger of the mind, a false creation      Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?       I see thee yet, in form as palpable        As this which now I draw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, now again, thy woes impart, Tell all thy sorrows, all thy sin;  We cannot heal the throbbing heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, now again, thy woes impart, Tell all thy sorrows, all thy sin;  We cannot heal the throbbing heart   Will we discern the wounds within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915 Give me an open ear, O God, that I may hear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915 Give me an open ear, O God, that I may hear Thy voice  calling me to high endeavor. Give me an open mind, O God, a mind ready to receive and to welcome  such new light of knowledge as it is Thy will to reveal to me. Give me open eyes, O God, eyes quick to discover  Thine indwelling in the world which Thou hast made. Give me open hands, O God, hands ready to share with all who are in want  the blessings with which Thou hast enriched my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. -Jonathan ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. -Jonathan Swift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was an interest in being involved the community. There are many things that are beneficial in civilian life. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36201]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was an interest in being involved the community. There are many things that are beneficial in civilian life. It was the opportunity to work with many different people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got off stage and this guy walked up to me. He's like this ball of energy. His name was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37315]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got off stage and this guy walked up to me. He's like this ball of energy. His name was Lawrence Mathis, a manager. He said. 'I like what you're doing, and I'd like to talk to you. What are your plans? What are you doing?' I said, 'You caught me at a bad time, because I'm probably moving home in a couple of months.' But I met with him that next Monday and told him what was going on. He said, 'Give me a year to work with you.' I said, 'l don't have a year. I've got six months, at best.' He said, 'All right. Six months.' Five weeks later we got offered a deal from Broken Bow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are jumping on it quicker, ... They are doing well. I'm kinda proud of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33183]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are jumping on it quicker, ... They are doing well. I'm kinda proud of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38330]]></link><description><![CDATA['How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27236</guid></item></channel></rss>