<?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[In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37199]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy the fridge!' `Make Jell-O!', all that horrible nutrition that came up because of instant pudding, Jell-O, fish sticks, TV dinners, all of that that I had before dismissed as the death of our culture -- I realized that housewives wanted these things, because they wanted time back, ... A washing machine gave them time to do something else. It gave them time to read a book. ... A woman didn't want to cook all day. These things that were sold to Americans were actually a gift, in a very strange way. I really enjoyed having to blow that notion out of my head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16334]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46124]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eye Contact: A method utilized by a single woman to communicate to a man that she is interested in him. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eye Contact: A method utilized by a single woman to communicate to a man that she is interested in him. Despite being advised to do so, many women have difficulty looking a man directly in the eyes, not necessarily due to the shyness, but usually due to the fact that a woman's eyes are not located in her chest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12603]]></link><description><![CDATA[A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45547]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think another problem people have is they are always searching for that high, and they don't realize they can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31785]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think another problem people have is they are always searching for that high, and they don't realize they can get that same high with that same person again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62744]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genii. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17338]]></link><description><![CDATA[True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genii.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't even know he was into art. I did a little bit because my parents passed when he was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't even know he was into art. I did a little bit because my parents passed when he was 7 and the next year my friend's father passed. He went home and drew the whole cemetery with the casket, the seats and all the tombstones with all the names on it. That's when we knew he could draw from memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friend, judge not me, Thou seest I judge not thee;  Betwixt the stirrop and the ground,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23529]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friend, judge not me, Thou seest I judge not thee;  Betwixt the stirrop and the ground,   Mercy I askt, mercy I found.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the things he has begun to do, and continues to do, is focus on Asia. The stock market ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42105]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the things he has begun to do, and continues to do, is focus on Asia. The stock market is going to be stable, you are not going to be able to have high-powered growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now we are inundated with stuff, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now we are inundated with stuff,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22515]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world. [The Circle is Sacred].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4893]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34993]]></link><description><![CDATA[My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous  With her abundance; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous  With her abundance; she, good cateress,   Means her provision only to the good,    That live according to her sober laws,     And holy dictate of spare temperance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2822]]></link><description><![CDATA[By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is becoming bitter, he envies man his mortality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11191]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is becoming bitter, he envies man his mortality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can't separate people from love. It can't take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906 Continuing a short series on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906 Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our long-range goal, once we get high-school students off the yellow buses, is to start looking at adjusting the bell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our long-range goal, once we get high-school students off the yellow buses, is to start looking at adjusting the bell time of elementary schools. Then we can reduce the number of buses, and then we will see the savings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What they're doing here in Rock Star:INXS is revolutionary. No other band has done anything like this before and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42726]]></link><description><![CDATA[What they're doing here in Rock Star:INXS is revolutionary. No other band has done anything like this before and I think it's a very, very smart move.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Era of good feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Era of good feeling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is near and our mutual company is short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is near and our mutual company is short.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the yellow gold is tried in the fire, so is sincerity tested in adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50711]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the yellow gold is tried in the fire, so is sincerity tested in adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16035]]></link><description><![CDATA[When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we did a good job in the second half to get out and pressure them and not let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33273]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we did a good job in the second half to get out and pressure them and not let them get into a rhythm and knocking the ball around in the midfield, which they like to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49132]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50250]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last season, we basically put a lot of pressure on ourselves. One year later, it?s nice to be back in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last season, we basically put a lot of pressure on ourselves. One year later, it?s nice to be back in this position, playing well against the best teams in the county.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31331</guid></item></channel></rss>