<?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[Government is not the doctor. It is the disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is not the doctor. It is the disease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and anaction which does not proceed from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21796]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and anaction which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The willingness to learn new skills is very high. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The willingness to learn new skills is very high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a major step in making riding the bus easier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41708]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a major step in making riding the bus easier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Romans 7, St. Paul says, "The law is spiritual." What does that mean? If the law were physical, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8265]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Romans 7, St. Paul says, "The law is spiritual." What does that mean? If the law were physical, then it could be satisfied by works, but since it is spiritual, no one can satisfy it unless everything he does springs from the depths of the heart. But no one can give such a heart except the Spirit of God, who makes the person be like the law, so that he actually conceives a heartfelt longing for the law and henceforward does everything, not through fear or coercion, but from a free heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth. With friends there is not such a word as debt:  Where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth. With friends there is not such a word as debt:  Where amity is ty'd with band of truth,   All benefits are there in common set.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56670]]></link><description><![CDATA[A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rapport? You mean like, 'You run as fast as you can, and I'll throw it as far as I can'? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rapport? You mean like, 'You run as fast as you can, and I'll throw it as far as I can'?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall,  Where the dear Lord was crucified   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6121]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall,  Where the dear Lord was crucified   Who died to save us all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57369]]></link><description><![CDATA[They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to play every play like it's the first play of the game. There's definitely no time to slip ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38185]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to play every play like it's the first play of the game. There's definitely no time to slip up or take a play off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is still complicated for all the sides in the group, not only Spain , ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41158]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is still complicated for all the sides in the group, not only Spain ,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings  Of kings makes peasants,   And of peasants ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15391]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings  Of kings makes peasants,   And of peasants kings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get him. I don't care what you have to do - just get him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29446]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get him. I don't care what you have to do - just get him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34295]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26926]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1899]]></link><description><![CDATA[For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some day Love shall claim his own Some day Right ascend his throne,  Some day hidden Truth be known; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some day Love shall claim his own Some day Right ascend his throne,  Some day hidden Truth be known;   Some day--some sweet day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was not a greater gourmand living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50518]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was not a greater gourmand living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4082]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66818]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25239]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22658]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had them lay on the ground until the sheriff's department got there, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38671]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had them lay on the ground until the sheriff's department got there,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you,and just before you realize what's wrong with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you,and just before you realize what's wrong with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11392]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16823]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise traveler never despises his own country. [It., Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59618]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise traveler never despises his own country. [It., Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All parties will work within the next three days to reach an agreement. We will meet in three days to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36212]]></link><description><![CDATA[All parties will work within the next three days to reach an agreement. We will meet in three days to finalise this issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40671]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we had gone into Baghdad and pushed Saddam Hussein off, we would have inherited an even bigger mess than the mess we inherited with the refugee problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52718]]></link><description><![CDATA[More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs; if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6175]]></link><description><![CDATA[This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs; if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if he is going to be confirmed, there are strategic reasons to make the 'no' vote as high as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if he is going to be confirmed, there are strategic reasons to make the 'no' vote as high as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54694]]></link><description><![CDATA[I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56393]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire. [Lat., Cui peccare licet peccat minus. Ipsa potestas  Semina nequitiae languidiora facit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on't, in the world, than they are. And for my own part, I would a hundred thousand of them were there [Virginia] for we are all one countrymen now, ye know, and we should find ten times more comfort of them there than we do here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prior years, saddled with heavy incentives and a sagging economy, industry executives pushed profitability out as far as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30625]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prior years, saddled with heavy incentives and a sagging economy, industry executives pushed profitability out as far as they could. Our survey this year has definitely found improved profit levels emerging sooner rather than later, and this is very encouraging.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Farmer and the CranesSome cranes made their feeding grounds on some plowlands newly sown with wheat. For a long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Farmer and the CranesSome cranes made their feeding grounds on some plowlands newly sown with wheat. For a long time the Farmer, brandishing an empty sling, chased them away by the terror he inspired; but when the birds found that the sling was only swung in the air, they ceased to take any notice of it and would not move. The Farmer, on seeing this, charged his sling with stones, and killed a great number. The remaining birds at once forsook his fields, crying to each other, It is time for us to be off to Liliput: for this man is no longer content to scare us, but begins to show us in earnest what he can do. If words suffice not, blows must follow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very happy today and back in the right spot. The season has been baby steps. All season my coach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40772]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very happy today and back in the right spot. The season has been baby steps. All season my coach has said, 'Take something away from each race and put it in your toolbox.' By the Olympic race, the toolbox should be overflowing and it is getting there right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40772</guid></item></channel></rss>