<?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[This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/550]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53674]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64555]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22187]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from gay cities and the ways of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from gay cities and the ways of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only arrogance if you're wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3118]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only arrogance if you're wrong]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They could bring the weapon today inside a cargo container that comes to one of our ports, and the technologies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35958]]></link><description><![CDATA[They could bring the weapon today inside a cargo container that comes to one of our ports, and the technologies that we have deployed would have a low chance of finding it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If by fire Of sooty coal th' empiric alchymist  Can turn, or holds it possible to turn,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1981]]></link><description><![CDATA[If by fire Of sooty coal th' empiric alchymist  Can turn, or holds it possible to turn,   Metals of drossiest ore to perfect gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to forecast, forecast often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15701]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to forecast, forecast often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a doubt, there's greater scrutiny, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a doubt, there's greater scrutiny,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're attractive, quality-of-life places and have a somewhat more diverse economic base. It's close to Chicago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38872]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're attractive, quality-of-life places and have a somewhat more diverse economic base. It's close to Chicago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prince, give praise to our French ladies For the sweet sound their speaking carries;  'Twixt Rome and Cadiz many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prince, give praise to our French ladies For the sweet sound their speaking carries;  'Twixt Rome and Cadiz many a maid is,   But no good girl's lip out of Paris.   - Algernon Charles Swinburne,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel,  And, like a quiver'd nymph ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5792]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel,  And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen,   May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths,    Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds;     Where, through the sacred rays of chastity,      No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer,       Will dare to soil her virgin purity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves from the overtaxed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves from the overtaxed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind?  Should auld acquaintance be forgot,   And days ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind?  Should auld acquaintance be forgot,   And days o' lang syne?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All was false and hollow, though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worst appear  The better reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50648]]></link><description><![CDATA[All was false and hollow, though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worst appear  The better reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he that will to bed go sober, Falls with the leaf still in October. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58867]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he that will to bed go sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issues that are important to voters (in Illinois) are Democratic issues. If the Republicans want to win back the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issues that are important to voters (in Illinois) are Democratic issues. If the Republicans want to win back the Governor's Mansion, they really have to put up a Jim Edgar-type candidate, a moderate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Performing is the most important single action in my life. It is a unique experience of hard work-elation and disappointment. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Performing is the most important single action in my life. It is a unique experience of hard work-elation and disappointment. Every move is an experiment in building up a successful repertoire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very uniqueness of the Resurrection as a historical event always causes problems when we try to describe it, just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very uniqueness of the Resurrection as a historical event always causes problems when we try to describe it, just as it did for the original writers. Nevertheless, the background to the New Testament is one of expectation of resurrection, and only the historical rising-again of Jesus makes sense of the narrative in this context.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the brothers don't make the kind of scratch I do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the brothers don't make the kind of scratch I do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore  Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore  Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer   Curves his white bastions with projected roof    Round every windward stake, or tree, or door.     Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work      So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he       For number or proportion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must lead by example of mercy and forgiveness, a trait every Muslim must have by very definition of being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34342]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must lead by example of mercy and forgiveness, a trait every Muslim must have by very definition of being a follower of Islam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch  The other turns to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57925]]></link><description><![CDATA[His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch  The other turns to a mirth-moving jest,   Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor,    Delivers in such apt and gracious words,     That aged ears play truant at his tales,      And younger hearings are quite ravished,       So sweet and voluble is his discourse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56560]]></link><description><![CDATA[A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, Curtain round the vault of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, Curtain round the vault of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gaurdian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gaurdian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is like playing the piano. First, you must learn to play by the rules. Then, you must forget ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54381]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is like playing the piano. First, you must learn to play by the rules. Then, you must forget the rules and play from your heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52294]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What looks like a giving hand is often a holding on for dear life. Take away our holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless. There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19792]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world holds two classes of men: intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53692]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world holds two classes of men: intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees,  And shape the whisper of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57853]]></link><description><![CDATA[And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees,  And shape the whisper of the throne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those holidays add to the magnitude of the after-Christmas shopping day. This year we planned extended hours to anticipate the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those holidays add to the magnitude of the after-Christmas shopping day. This year we planned extended hours to anticipate the shoppers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great to call up somebody in the community to help out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41548]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great to call up somebody in the community to help out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18808</guid></item></channel></rss>