<?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[Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people that make balloon animals, I always think of their relatives and how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27490]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people that make balloon animals, I always think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/765]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let 'em wonder. I never believed in givin' them too much of me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But is there nothing else, That we may do but only walk? Methinks  Brothers and sisters lawfully may kiss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23813]]></link><description><![CDATA[But is there nothing else, That we may do but only walk? Methinks  Brothers and sisters lawfully may kiss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see things; and you say: "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say: "Why not?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63516]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see things; and you say: "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say: "Why not?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities -- that's huge progress. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42524]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities -- that's huge progress. We sit now right on the cusp of losing that if we're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   O God, Who hast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   O God, Who hast ordained that whatever is to be desired, should be sought by labor, and Who, by Thy blessing, bringest honest labor to good effect; look with mercy upon my studies and endeavors. Grant me, O Lord, to design only what is lawful and right, and afford me calmness of mind, and steadiness of purpose, that I may so do Thy will in this short life, as to obtain happiness in the world to come, for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27550]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried to pull everyone through. Everyone worked really hard today but that stuff (errors) is going to happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried to pull everyone through. Everyone worked really hard today but that stuff (errors) is going to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, they're selling the foundation to pay for the mortgage. These lands really belong to future generations and shouldn't be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, they're selling the foundation to pay for the mortgage. These lands really belong to future generations and shouldn't be sold to the highest bidder. There's no reason why the world's biggest economic power needs to sell parkland to make ends meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose wit in the combat as gentle as bright Ne'er carried a heartstain away on its blade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose wit in the combat as gentle as bright Ne'er carried a heartstain away on its blade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60962]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty in woman is a virtue most deserving, since we do all we can to cure her of it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35091]]></link><description><![CDATA[I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the first time in the history of Lebanon, the Lebanese feel that they have the power to decide their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34381]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first time in the history of Lebanon, the Lebanese feel that they have the power to decide their fate,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is either free or he is not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16661]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is either free or he is not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is far easier to begin a task than to finish it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50878]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is far easier to begin a task than to finish it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remarriage: A triumph of hope over experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remarriage: A triumph of hope over experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is no longer pain when it is past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is no longer pain when it is past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27939]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We compound our suffering by victimizing each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27713]]></link><description><![CDATA[We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58995]]></link><description><![CDATA[I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3666]]></link><description><![CDATA[A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24832]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66079]]></link><description><![CDATA[May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35740]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27070]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19579]]></link><description><![CDATA[The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With me, a change of trouble is as good as a vacation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60311]]></link><description><![CDATA[With me, a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inseparable gold umbrella which in that country [Burma] as much denotes the grandee as the star or garter does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inseparable gold umbrella which in that country [Burma] as much denotes the grandee as the star or garter does in England.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think this is a very good approach to test our tools and quickly deploy resources in the event of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32917]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think this is a very good approach to test our tools and quickly deploy resources in the event of a situation or a threat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't win if you don't play as a unit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3798]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't win if you don't play as a unit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family... a group experience of love and support. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Family... a group experience of love and support.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a ring of iron is worn away by constant use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a ring of iron is worn away by constant use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the crude cry which we have so often heard during the war years: "If there is a God, why ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7397]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the crude cry which we have so often heard during the war years: "If there is a God, why doesn't He stop Hitler?", to the unspoken questioning in many a Christian heart when a devoted servant of Christ dies from accident or disease at what seems to us a most inopportune moment, there is this universal longing for God to intervene, to show His hand, to vindicate His purpose. I do not pretend to understand the ways of God any more than the next man; but it is surely more fitting as well as more sensible for us to study what God does do and what He does not do as He works in and through the complex fabric of this disintegrated world, than to postulate what we think God ought to do and then feel demoralized and bitterly disappointed because He fails to fulfil what we expect of Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They never fail who die in a great cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21753]]></link><description><![CDATA[They never fail who die in a great cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21753</guid></item></channel></rss>