<?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[It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55367]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holy Saturday Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564   (1) God's children ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holy Saturday Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564   (1) God's children ought to walk in constant amazement of spirit as to God, His nature, and works. (2) The glorifying of God is the great work of God's children. (3) Delightful privacy with God argues strong affection. (4) Frequent prayer an argument of much of God's Spirit; true prayer is the pouring out of the heart to God; God's children are most in private with God; the prayers of God's people most respect spiritual mercies; God's people wait for and rest in God's answer. (5) God's people are sensible of their unworthiness. (6) God Himself is regarded as the portion of His people. (7) Ready obedience to God. (8) The patience of God's children under God's hand. (9) The mournful confession of God's people. (10) God's people long after God in an open profession of His ordinances. (11) Their hearts are ready and prepared. (12) God's people's sense of their own insufficiencies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sincerity is the highest compliment you can pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sincerity is the highest compliment you can pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, Fare thee well! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, Fare thee well!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26539]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one thing we learned in 2005 is there is no simple answer or smoking gun for this. This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31901]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one thing we learned in 2005 is there is no simple answer or smoking gun for this. This is a tough problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All comes out even at the end of the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11134]]></link><description><![CDATA[All comes out even at the end of the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man. [Lat., Quemcumque miserum videris, hominem scias.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42818]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man. [Lat., Quemcumque miserum videris, hominem scias.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54159]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as towhat those events mean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21408]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as towhat those events mean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew I had to come out in the second half and help my team out. I was feeling it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29734]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew I had to come out in the second half and help my team out. I was feeling it, so I just kept shooting. I wasn't shy at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; ere long she shall appear to vindicate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; ere long she shall appear to vindicate thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[If something better] is out there, then we'll keep them, ... If not, let's scrap it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28710]]></link><description><![CDATA[[If something better] is out there, then we'll keep them, ... If not, let's scrap it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hole calls the thiefe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49871]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hole calls the thiefe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their "Luck" arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any bad news can throw us, and the jobs report was perceived as bad news, seen as a sign that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any bad news can throw us, and the jobs report was perceived as bad news, seen as a sign that the recovery is fragile, but that's not necessarily true. In the last two recessions, a pickup in employment only happened a year after the recession had ended. So just because unemployment is higher doesn't mean we're not on track for a recovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glorious fault of angels and of gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15465]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glorious fault of angels and of gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A parliamentary agreement has been reached between the Kurdish coalition and the (Shiite) alliance on accepting the suggestions of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36226]]></link><description><![CDATA[A parliamentary agreement has been reached between the Kurdish coalition and the (Shiite) alliance on accepting the suggestions of the forces that did not take part in the elections (Sunnis) and it will be announced in parliament tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two hands to clap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2914]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two hands to clap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the last of earth! I am content. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24114]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the last of earth! I am content.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8883]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23719]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11001]]></link><description><![CDATA[To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lucy was lovely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lucy was lovely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2278]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13750]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like summer seas that lave with silent tides a lonely shore, like whispering winds that stir the tops of forest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like summer seas that lave with silent tides a lonely shore, like whispering winds that stir the tops of forest trees, like a still, small voice that calls us in the watches of the night, like a child's hand that feels about a fast-closed door;  gentle, unnoticed, and oft in vain:  so is Thy coming unto us, O God. Like ships storm-driven into port, like starving souls that seek the bread they once despised, like wanderers begging refuge from the whelming night, like prodigals that seek the father's home when all is spent;  yet welcomed at the open door, arms outstretched and kisses for our shame;  so is our coming unto Thee, 0 God. Like flowers uplifted to the sun, like trees that bend before the storm, like sleeping seas that mirror cloudless skies, like a harp to the hand, like an echo to a cry, like a song to the heart;  for all our stubbornness, our failure, and our sin:  so would we have been to Thee, O God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playboy has done a good job of positioning themselves on the Internet and with other forms of media. They have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Playboy has done a good job of positioning themselves on the Internet and with other forms of media. They have transitioned the company where it could be a brand for decades to come,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has snuck into laboratories and zoos, found people with monkeys as pets. The story is amazing because of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37454]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has snuck into laboratories and zoos, found people with monkeys as pets. The story is amazing because of the extent he's gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May you live all the days of your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59418]]></link><description><![CDATA[May you live all the days of your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis strange how like a very dunce, Man, with his bumps upon his sconce,  Has lived so long, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46576]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis strange how like a very dunce, Man, with his bumps upon his sconce,  Has lived so long, and yet no knowledge he   Has had, till lately, of Phrenology--    A science that by simple dint of     Head-combing he should find a hint of,      When scratching o'er those little pole-hills       The faculties throw up like mole hills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65613]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work comes first. . . . No longer diverted by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62126]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work comes first. . . . No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we? [Lat., O dii immortales! ubinam gentium sumus?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we? [Lat., O dii immortales! ubinam gentium sumus?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sven-Goran Eriksson is a good man, he should teach him [Michael Owen] to respect everyone. Who is he anyway? Who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sven-Goran Eriksson is a good man, he should teach him [Michael Owen] to respect everyone. Who is he anyway? Who is he?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11078]]></link><description><![CDATA[The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having been a linebacker in college, I feel I have an advantage because I can easily associate with my guys. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having been a linebacker in college, I feel I have an advantage because I can easily associate with my guys. I can understand what they see and experience on the playing field, and it helps me teach them how to react and what techniques to use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53981]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/991]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/991</guid></item></channel></rss>