<?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[Frugality is one thing, avarice another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frugality is one thing, avarice another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we areheaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21377]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we areheaded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you truly give up trying to be whole throughothers, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21781]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you truly give up trying to be whole throughothers, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the good and gentle; for this is a naturally pleasing to all, and everyone willingly enjoyeth peace, and loveth those best that agree with him. But to be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace, and a most commendable thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36814]]></link><description><![CDATA[With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country's infrastructure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58537</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[The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom is the great guide to human life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom is the great guide to human life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has asked for me to withdraw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34460]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has asked for me to withdraw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not and should not be a target of terrorists but we are alert for any possibilities, ... We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28259]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not and should not be a target of terrorists but we are alert for any possibilities, ... We have not done anything to make people hate us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyrant, step from the throne, and give place to thy master. [Fr., Tyran, descends du trone et fais place a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyrant, step from the throne, and give place to thy master. [Fr., Tyran, descends du trone et fais place a ton maitre.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger thewind, the stronger the trees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger thewind, the stronger the trees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56574]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking is heavily endorsed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking is heavily endorsed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rod Gilbert and Brad Park are also involved. It's a good chance for fans to hang out and talk hockey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rod Gilbert and Brad Park are also involved. It's a good chance for fans to hang out and talk hockey with people who play the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jas in the Arab language is despair, And Min the darkest meaning of a lie.  Thus cried the Jessamine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jas in the Arab language is despair, And Min the darkest meaning of a lie.  Thus cried the Jessamine among the flowers,   How justly doth a lie    Draw on its head despair!     Among the fragrant spirits of the bowers      The boldest and the strongest still was I.       Although so fair,        Therefore from Heaven         A stronger perfume unto me was given          Than any blossom of the summer hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64754]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21536]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19902]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the "market" in which the "workers" find "jobs," and the physical hazzards are all very different from the way things are in other occupations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3869]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are more inclined to be drawn in if their leader has a compelling vision. Great leaders help people get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60838]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are more inclined to be drawn in if their leader has a compelling vision. Great leaders help people get in touch with their own aspirations and then will help them forge those aspirations into a personal vision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14283]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4091]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60171]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just takes you back. It's just old-fashioned fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35388]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just takes you back. It's just old-fashioned fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a farce. If they couldn't form a government till now, how will they lead a country? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28533]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a farce. If they couldn't form a government till now, how will they lead a country?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11194]]></link><description><![CDATA[They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27899]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're pleased with our employees' ability to deliver a customer-centric experience. Additionally, we're gearing up to open a record number ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30433]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're pleased with our employees' ability to deliver a customer-centric experience. Additionally, we're gearing up to open a record number of new stores in the coming year as we continue to grow our business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been!". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53236]]></link><description><![CDATA[For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been!".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the government does not help us, we are ready to take up arms, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36725]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the government does not help us, we are ready to take up arms,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59521]]></link><description><![CDATA[What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ID theft and security breaches are crimes like any other - they won't completely go away. So we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39199]]></link><description><![CDATA[ID theft and security breaches are crimes like any other - they won't completely go away. So we have to try to reduce the amount of data that's at risk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31754]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15758]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17065]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm an average girl, and sometimes I wish I could be more than that: to exceed excellence. As the days ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48390]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm an average girl, and sometimes I wish I could be more than that: to exceed excellence. As the days seem to go on endlessly, I await the 'someday' I've always been promised. That 'someday' when things are supposed to be perfect... the 'someday' when I find my place in this unforgiving world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new Bali attacks after the London attacks show the resiliency of terrorists to strike targets when our guard is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new Bali attacks after the London attacks show the resiliency of terrorists to strike targets when our guard is down,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47887</guid></item></channel></rss>