<?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[Consider an enemy may become a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider an enemy may become a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best prophet is common sense, our native wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15653]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased ÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¹ being out of town and having these discussions (of retirement) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37445]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased ÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¹ being out of town and having these discussions (of retirement) going on ÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¹ to see all these good things that the company and my team did without me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20462]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're never too old to become younger ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62529]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're never too old to become younger]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap,  Not difficult, if thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2336]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap,  Not difficult, if thou hearken to me;   Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand,    They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain,     While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hotel guests have come to deserve a certain caliber of service and accommodations from Hyatt and we strive to continually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hotel guests have come to deserve a certain caliber of service and accommodations from Hyatt and we strive to continually raise the bar. With these new guarantees, we are reassuring our clientele that they will receive exactly what they requested when making the reservation, and if by chance they don't, we will make it up to them generously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy!  And what have kings that privates have not too, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5445]]></link><description><![CDATA[What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy!  And what have kings that privates have not too,   Save ceremony, save general ceremony?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nesh yonge coweslip bendethe wyth the dewe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nesh yonge coweslip bendethe wyth the dewe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me. [Fr., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me. [Fr., Le temps fuit, et nous traine avec soi:  Le moment ou je parle est deja loin de moi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28041]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/871]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders -- what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(The county) being 50 percent federally owned already, we're opposed. This is the third time it has come up now, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37880]]></link><description><![CDATA[(The county) being 50 percent federally owned already, we're opposed. This is the third time it has come up now, and we opposed it every time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23754]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our illusions that create the world ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20468]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our illusions that create the world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The film begins with the title card from an Old Arabian Proverb: And the Prophet said, 'And lo, the beast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The film begins with the title card from an Old Arabian Proverb: And the Prophet said, 'And lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty. And it stayed its hand from killing. And from that day, it was as one dead.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20947]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We 'll have a swashing and a martial outside, As many other mannish cowards have. -As You Like It. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55633]]></link><description><![CDATA[We 'll have a swashing and a martial outside, As many other mannish cowards have. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  Jesus evidently felt deeply the emptiness and futility of much... religious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  Jesus evidently felt deeply the emptiness and futility of much... religious talk. He was interested only in those emotions and professions which could get themselves translated into character and action. Words have always been the bane of religion as well as its vehicle. Religious emotion has enormous motive force, but it is the easiest thing in the world for it to sizzle away in high professions and wordy prayers. In that case, it is a substitute and counterfeit, and a damage to the Reign of God among men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just streamlining the operation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34021]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just streamlining the operation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18714]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room ahs been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on. . -Sharon Salzberg.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From a team standpoint, it's a rebuilding year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41766]]></link><description><![CDATA[From a team standpoint, it's a rebuilding year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60871]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He didn't deny anything. He said, ' I'm sorry. ' When you weather a crisis well, it can actually help ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38616]]></link><description><![CDATA[He didn't deny anything. He said, ' I'm sorry. ' When you weather a crisis well, it can actually help you. Right now is if I had a contract with him, I'd be thinking about using him more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624   Having tried, we must hold fast [to the truth] (I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624   Having tried, we must hold fast [to the truth] (I Thes. 5:21), upon [the penalty of] the loss of a crown (Rev. 3:11); we must not let go for all the fleabitings of the present afflictions, etc. Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world; no, not for the saving of souls, though our own most precious; least of all for the bitter sweetening of a little vanishing pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has very small and delicate ears. It's not all flour corn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39432]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has very small and delicate ears. It's not all flour corn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't seen you in a while, yet I often imagine all your expressions. I haven't spoken to you recently, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16749]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't seen you in a while, yet I often imagine all your expressions. I haven't spoken to you recently, but many times I hear your thoughts. Good friends must not always be together. It is the feeling of oneness, when distant that proves a lasting]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51420]]></link><description><![CDATA[How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20131]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Abrams described a historically significant episode that revealed how the medical establishment -not just the government- has upheld prohibition.] In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33822]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Abrams described a historically significant episode that revealed how the medical establishment -not just the government- has upheld prohibition.] In 1997 after the law was changed in California, Jerome Kassirer, who was Editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, wrote an editorial on medical marijuana called 'federal foolishness,' saying 'We know this drug works, everybody has their anecdotal experience of people who have benefited from it, get over it, reschedule it, make it schedule 2.' Unfortunately, ... he very shortly thereafter became no longer the editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood,  The holy name ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18326]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood,  The holy name of Grief--holy herein,   That, by the grief of One, came all our good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother of revolution and crime is poverty ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47866]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother of revolution and crime is poverty]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47866</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[I had a series of childhood illnesses; scarlet fever, pneumonia, polio. I walked with braces until I was at least ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20458]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a series of childhood illnesses; scarlet fever, pneumonia, polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  The minister is the servant of his people, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  The minister is the servant of his people, who has to help them discern for themselves the will of God for their real work in the real world. It will often be his duty, therefore, to establish a certain economy in the internal life of the Church, so that people are released to give time and energy to fulfilment of their Christian duty in the worlds of industry or politics or business or professional life, where their most determinative decisions have to be taken. A new puritanism is urgently needed in most churches, which cuts away ruthlessly from their life all organizations and activities which prevent their members from grappling with their real task.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not wings, we cannot soar, But we have feet to scale and climb  By slow degrees, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50581]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not wings, we cannot soar, But we have feet to scale and climb  By slow degrees, by more and more,   The cloudy summits of our time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11891]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find nothing more depressing than optimism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45203]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find nothing more depressing than optimism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will the animated avatars come out on the market? Yes. Will people buy them? Yes. They're fun and entertaining. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will the animated avatars come out on the market? Yes. Will people buy them? Yes. They're fun and entertaining. But there's a limit to what consumers will spend -- they're already buying games, ring tones, videos, and music. The average cell-phone bill is already around $50. And consumers have shown [a willingness] to spend an extra 5% to 10% a month for data services. But they're not going to spend an unlimited amount for more and more services.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course  Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51246]]></link><description><![CDATA[To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course  Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . . in important things, diversity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . . in important things, diversity. . . in all things, generosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19883]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The walls are the publishers of the poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The walls are the publishers of the poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25712</guid></item></channel></rss>