<?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[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  It is clear that he does not pray, who, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1067]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62657]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7463]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60313]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42313]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65075]]></link><description><![CDATA[However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The liberals who are holding things up need to ask themselves if they want the right to civil liberties or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39014]]></link><description><![CDATA[The liberals who are holding things up need to ask themselves if they want the right to civil liberties or the right not to be blown up on the way to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know severalthousand things that won't work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know severalthousand things that won't work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21225</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[Every disadvantage has got it's advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every disadvantage has got it's advantage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The slow, sweet hours that bring us all things good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The slow, sweet hours that bring us all things good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was so proud of the heart we showed. Over the last three quarters, we fought our way back into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31952]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was so proud of the heart we showed. Over the last three quarters, we fought our way back into the game and had a big surge in the fourth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore!  It bears: "Eternity, be thou   My refuge!" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14085]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore!  It bears: "Eternity, be thou   My refuge!" and no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just felt we're stronger at linebacker than the front guys, so were going to a 3-4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33918]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just felt we're stronger at linebacker than the front guys, so were going to a 3-4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That might be an omen that I need to leave whatever I brought from there and just start completely over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40549]]></link><description><![CDATA[That might be an omen that I need to leave whatever I brought from there and just start completely over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 From subtle love of softening things, From easy choices, weakenings, (Not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 From subtle love of softening things, From easy choices, weakenings, (Not thus are spirits fortified; Not this way went the Crucified;) From all that dims Thy Calvary, 0 Lamb of God, deliver me. Give me the love that leads the way, The faith that nothing can dismay, The hope no disappointments tire, The passion that will burn like fire; Let me not sink to be a clod: Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a positive cash flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a positive cash flow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world was very guilty of such a ballad some three ages since; but I think now 't is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55477]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world was very guilty of such a ballad some three ages since; but I think now 't is not to be found. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is never where virtue is not. [Fr., La gloire n'est jamais ou la vertu n'est pas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is never where virtue is not. [Fr., La gloire n'est jamais ou la vertu n'est pas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will  To take the indisposed and sickly fit  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12499]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will  To take the indisposed and sickly fit   For the sound man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perceptions are real. If you're playing to win, they have to be favourable. Your ability to persuade people to listen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perceptions are real. If you're playing to win, they have to be favourable. Your ability to persuade people to listen to you, understand what you are saying, and support you, will determine whether you win or lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't sit around thinking, 'This'll be great for kids' - it just happened to really appeal to them, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32343]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't sit around thinking, 'This'll be great for kids' - it just happened to really appeal to them,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often, taking stock takes place in the context of a crisis. This is maybe a not-so-painful way to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often, taking stock takes place in the context of a crisis. This is maybe a not-so-painful way to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's still low interest rates, and we're a good buy here in Houston. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40995]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's still low interest rates, and we're a good buy here in Houston.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56457]]></link><description><![CDATA[So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why? Is this guy afraid of me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why? Is this guy afraid of me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are counting $15,000 per day since December last year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30571]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are counting $15,000 per day since December last year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66218]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're thrilled. To have Charles Schwab take the bold step of being one of our original dual-listed companies and to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30800]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're thrilled. To have Charles Schwab take the bold step of being one of our original dual-listed companies and to evaluate both markets on their merits and choose to list solely on Nasdaq is a major validation of the Nasdaq market model.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no index of character so sure as the voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60932]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no index of character so sure as the voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20587]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How goes the enemy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27656]]></link><description><![CDATA[How goes the enemy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heresie may be easier kept out, then shooke off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heresie may be easier kept out, then shooke off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With a written agreement you have a prayer; with averbal agreement you have nothing but air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22395]]></link><description><![CDATA[With a written agreement you have a prayer; with averbal agreement you have nothing but air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom begins in wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom begins in wonder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1493</guid></item></channel></rss>