<?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[Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had doting Priam checked his son's desire, Troy had been bright with fame, and not with fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had doting Priam checked his son's desire, Troy had been bright with fame, and not with fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our objective now is to sustain, over the cycle, this level of pretax return on equity and double-digit earnings per ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our objective now is to sustain, over the cycle, this level of pretax return on equity and double-digit earnings per share growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20302]]></link><description><![CDATA[A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179  Thou wayfaring Jesus -- a pilgrim and stranger,  Exiled from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179  Thou wayfaring Jesus -- a pilgrim and stranger,  Exiled from heaven by love at Thy birth: Exiled again from Thy rest in the manger,  A fugitive child 'mid the perils of earth -- Cheer with Thy fellowship all who are weary,  Wandering far from the land that they love: Guide every heart that is homeless and dreary,  Safe to its home in Thy presence above.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Larger companies are doing well and are accordingly bidding up salaries in the hunt for talented workers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Larger companies are doing well and are accordingly bidding up salaries in the hunt for talented workers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to be able to contain him (Johnson). He's a fast quarterback, he's young, but he's a great athlete. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34640]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to be able to contain him (Johnson). He's a fast quarterback, he's young, but he's a great athlete. So we just have to be able to contain him and not let him get outside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the fable tells us, that the wren mounted as high as the eagle, by getting upon his back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the fable tells us, that the wren mounted as high as the eagle, by getting upon his back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump of the final plot by which partisanship was installed in the Commission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genuine outrage is not just a permissible reaction to the hard-pressed Christian; God himself feels it, and so should the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genuine outrage is not just a permissible reaction to the hard-pressed Christian; God himself feels it, and so should the Christian in the presence of pain, cruelty, violence, and injustice. God, who is the Father of Jesus Christ, is neither impersonal nor beyond good and evil. By the absolute immutability of His character, He is implacably opposed to evil and outraged by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61173]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One today is worth two tomorrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59451]]></link><description><![CDATA[One today is worth two tomorrows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're hoping the reconciliation bill does go away. It's becoming very controversial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29405]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're hoping the reconciliation bill does go away. It's becoming very controversial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had some personal reservations about, 'Can I do the job?' But I had no reservations about being mobilized. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28688]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had some personal reservations about, 'Can I do the job?' But I had no reservations about being mobilized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except we like it and it makes us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16118]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except we like it and it makes us think and feel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statistics are people with the tears wiped from their eyes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statistics are people with the tears wiped from their eyes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!  I know whose love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43203]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!  I know whose love would follow me still,   Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53229]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think and that is all that I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21503]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think and that is all that I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21148]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66111]]></link><description><![CDATA[People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66408]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fraudsters use current affairs to create legitimacy. The holidays are a great reason to send people email to try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fraudsters use current affairs to create legitimacy. The holidays are a great reason to send people email to try to scam them into giving up their information.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10764]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is thought rare Which is not new, and follow'd; yet we know  That what was worn some twenty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is thought rare Which is not new, and follow'd; yet we know  That what was worn some twenty years ago   Comes into grace again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The actor who slapped you on the stage waits behindthe curtain to congratulate you on your performanceSai Babahttp://www.vahini.org/downloads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/447]]></link><description><![CDATA[The actor who slapped you on the stage waits behindthe curtain to congratulate you on your performanceSai Babahttp://www.vahini.org/downloads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58536]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The field conditions were terrible and the girls were freezing cold, but they were able to overcome that. Their game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The field conditions were terrible and the girls were freezing cold, but they were able to overcome that. Their game came together and they played really well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9003]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Excellency, I am aware of my responsibilities, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your Excellency, I am aware of my responsibilities,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will respond in kind to all those who took part in the aggression on Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29801]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will respond in kind to all those who took part in the aggression on Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3233]]></link><description><![CDATA[I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is obviously a direct driver of inflation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34923]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is obviously a direct driver of inflation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27465]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people don't want to do any of the legwork themselves. They've spent their whole life working and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37085]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people don't want to do any of the legwork themselves. They've spent their whole life working and doing everything and now they are retired and want to be utterly pampered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37085</guid></item></channel></rss>