<?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 secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something peculiarly sinister and insidious in even a charge of disloyalty. Such a charge all too frequently places ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59665]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something peculiarly sinister and insidious in even a charge of disloyalty. Such a charge all too frequently places a strain on the reputation of an individual which is indelible and lasting, regardless of the complete innocence later proved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Really, (trainers) Rick Burkholder and Chris Peduzzi know more than I do, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Really, (trainers) Rick Burkholder and Chris Peduzzi know more than I do,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are pleased to have received approval of the transaction in all six states served by PacifiCorp. We remain on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35988]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are pleased to have received approval of the transaction in all six states served by PacifiCorp. We remain on schedule to close the transaction by the end of the first quarter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is lighter than the wind? A feather. What is lighter than a feather? Fire.  What lighter than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61915]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is lighter than the wind? A feather. What is lighter than a feather? Fire.  What lighter than a fire? A woman.   What lighter than a woman? Nothing.    [Lat., Vente quid levius? fulgur. Quid fulgure? flamma     Flamma quid? mulier. Quid mulier? nihil.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21059]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People can travel faster than sound, yes, but not nearly so fast as rumor! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28072]]></link><description><![CDATA[People can travel faster than sound, yes, but not nearly so fast as rumor!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No command of art, No toil, can help you hear;  Earth's minstrelsy falls clear   But on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19043]]></link><description><![CDATA[No command of art, No toil, can help you hear;  Earth's minstrelsy falls clear   But on the listening heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46774]]></link><description><![CDATA[No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the Spencer mural has long since faded away, and they have put (up) a new mural. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37260]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the Spencer mural has long since faded away, and they have put (up) a new mural.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This administration has broken faith with the people of America.They have squandered the immense good will extended by othernations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47957]]></link><description><![CDATA[This administration has broken faith with the people of America.They have squandered the immense good will extended by othernations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36181]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has been mostly invisible until now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24522]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can get anything in life you want if you will just help enoughother people get what they want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21194]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can get anything in life you want if you will just help enoughother people get what they want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65857]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61537]]></link><description><![CDATA[All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meton: With the straight ruler I set to work to make the circle four-cornered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meton: With the straight ruler I set to work to make the circle four-cornered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The awareness of our own strength makes us modest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure  A white so perfect, spotless clear   As in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure  A white so perfect, spotless clear   As in this flower doth appear?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mix them with my brains, sir. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45427]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mix them with my brains, sir.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word  Is Satisfaction: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54710]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word  Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go,   And pointed satire runs him through and through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flagstick on top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57452]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flagstick on top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody has any doubt that ETA wanted to attack before the general elections, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody has any doubt that ETA wanted to attack before the general elections,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55955]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 INSCRIPTION FOR A PULPIT "The hungry sheep look up, and are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 INSCRIPTION FOR A PULPIT "The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed." The hungry sheep, that crave the living Bread. Grow few, and lean, and feeble as can be, When fed not Gospel, but philosophy; Not Love's eternal story, no, not this, But apt allusion, keen analysis. Discourse well framed -- forgot as soon as heard -- Man's thin dilution of the living Word. O Preacher, leave the rhetorician's arts; Preach Christ, the Food of hungry human hearts; Hold fast to science, history, or creed, But preach the Answer to our human need, That in this place, at least, it may be said No hungry sheep looks up and is not fed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin my thill-horse has on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51407]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin my thill-horse has on his tail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a blow-out quarter, they did an incredible job. They blew away the consensus (forecast), and first-quarter guidance looks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42675]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a blow-out quarter, they did an incredible job. They blew away the consensus (forecast), and first-quarter guidance looks good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good reason and the real reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24340]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good reason and the real reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54073]]></link><description><![CDATA[An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63062]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His ignorance is encyclopedic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20409]]></link><description><![CDATA[His ignorance is encyclopedic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may blaspheme against the Son of Man and be forgiven; but the sin against the Spirit of Truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8371]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may blaspheme against the Son of Man and be forgiven; but the sin against the Spirit of Truth -- what can God Himself do with or for the man who will not acknowledge the truth he knows, or follow the light he sees?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what they want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what they want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This line of defense does come with a price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32965]]></link><description><![CDATA[This line of defense does come with a price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superman don't need no seat belt. [Comment to flight attendant, who replied, 'Superman don't need no airplane, either.'] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superman don't need no seat belt. [Comment to flight attendant, who replied, 'Superman don't need no airplane, either.']]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Across town another university, Southern University-Shreveport, made shelter preparations in the event that the newly opened shelter CenturyTel Center in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33242]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Across town another university, Southern University-Shreveport, made shelter preparations in the event that the newly opened shelter CenturyTel Center in Bossier City became full.] We will house the overflow from CenturyTel, ... Right now they're at 55 to 60 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20432]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20432</guid></item></channel></rss>