<?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[The most important thing is small businesses find their niche. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing is small businesses find their niche.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43951]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642   To have faith is to rely upon Christ, the Person, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642   To have faith is to rely upon Christ, the Person, with the whole heart. It is not the understanding of the mind, not the theological opinion, not creed, not organization, not ritual. It is the koinonia of the whole personality with God and Christ, ... This experience of communion with Christ is itself the continual attitude of dependence on the Saviour which we call faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frieth in his own grease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frieth in his own grease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13212]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, there's quite a lot of concern about what's going on around the world. Greed has been replaced by fear. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, there's quite a lot of concern about what's going on around the world. Greed has been replaced by fear. There's not much rationality in a greed environment and there's not much rationality in a fear environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56125]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62906]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56812]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think, or be damned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think, or be damned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crescat scientia, vita excolatur [Let knowledge grow, let life be enriched] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crescat scientia, vita excolatur [Let knowledge grow, let life be enriched]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,  Thy naiad airs have brought me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23100]]></link><description><![CDATA[On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,  Thy naiad airs have brought me home   To the glory that was Greece    And the grandeur that was Rome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CANI! - (pronounced kuhn-EYE) stands for Constant And Never-endingImprovement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21266]]></link><description><![CDATA[CANI! - (pronounced kuhn-EYE) stands for Constant And Never-endingImprovement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The company has grown to appreciate including our board just how important the external and internal reputation of Wal-Mart is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The company has grown to appreciate including our board just how important the external and internal reputation of Wal-Mart is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard  Celestial voices to the midnight air, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62313]]></link><description><![CDATA[How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard  Celestial voices to the midnight air,   Sole, or responsive each to other's note,    Singing their great Creator?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3488]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a child is known by his doings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a child is known by his doings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57074]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On top of this, it's a good idea to take up references. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36402]]></link><description><![CDATA[On top of this, it's a good idea to take up references.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let yourself be controlled by these three things: your past, people, and money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let yourself be controlled by these three things: your past, people, and money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are without a great player like Gilbert Arenas, the other guys have to step up and play at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31929]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are without a great player like Gilbert Arenas, the other guys have to step up and play at the top of their games. Tonight was a total team effort. We got a lot of energy, we played great defense, we moved the ball and we made sure that everybody got shots in. When we do that, it makes the game a lot of fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65395</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[Those who love deeply never grow old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who love deeply never grow old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By and large what we see is that hospitals need good, flexible space that can accommodate any number of services. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34187]]></link><description><![CDATA[By and large what we see is that hospitals need good, flexible space that can accommodate any number of services.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iron hand in a velvet glove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iron hand in a velvet glove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3721]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace be with you. [Vulgate Lat., Pax vobiscum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace be with you. [Vulgate Lat., Pax vobiscum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When this project moves forward to a real hearing, there's going to be a significant outcry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31147]]></link><description><![CDATA[When this project moves forward to a real hearing, there's going to be a significant outcry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32082]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy. -- Drillers whom Edwin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy. -- Drillers whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist in his project to drill for oil in 1859.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's as good at his age as Jack (Nicklaus) was, and look at what Jack has done in the gime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57447]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's as good at his age as Jack (Nicklaus) was, and look at what Jack has done in the gime of golf. That's the highest praise I can give anyone, to compare him to Jack Nicklaus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The impression is] that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up, ... As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32898]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The impression is] that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up, ... As soon as you drift out of Dade County you find that the Alice in Wonderland world ends at the Dade-Broward line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Sampson) recruited me for Oklahoma, but he hasn't called about Indiana. I don't know about going way out to Indiana. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32709]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Sampson) recruited me for Oklahoma, but he hasn't called about Indiana. I don't know about going way out to Indiana. That's pretty far from home. I probably wouldn't have gone there even if Mike Davis was there. It's really far, and I'm trying to stay closer to my family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50447]]></link><description><![CDATA[He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely  The pangs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27392]]></link><description><![CDATA[For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely  The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,   The insolence of office, and the spurns    That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,     When he himself might his quietus make      With a bare bodkin?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12774</guid></item></channel></rss>