<?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[Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. They perform their cycles with the same mathematical precision, and they will continue to affect each thing on earth, including man, as long as the earth exists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60727]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He could make the same experiences with Werder instead of Bayern. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40188]]></link><description><![CDATA[He could make the same experiences with Werder instead of Bayern.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66730]]></link><description><![CDATA[People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstinence is the surety of temperance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstinence is the surety of temperance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone.  The plains are everlasting as the hills, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone.  The plains are everlasting as the hills,   The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else    Comes on the mind with the like shock as though     Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is essential for the public to know that aid is being handled in a non-arbitrary, non-discriminatory manner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30393]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is essential for the public to know that aid is being handled in a non-arbitrary, non-discriminatory manner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are . . . robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56541]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are . . . robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9975]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've heard they've had signs up about Cuero for the last three weeks. We're excited about playing this game but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38308]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've heard they've had signs up about Cuero for the last three weeks. We're excited about playing this game but not to the point where we do not know what we're doing. We just have to go into the game with intensity and remain focused on our goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep heart listening and speaking your truth generates an exhilarating "heart talk" frequency. "Heart talk" is care in action and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep heart listening and speaking your truth generates an exhilarating "heart talk" frequency. "Heart talk" is care in action and builds friendship. As you learn to see everyone as your friend, and not as an enemy, you release judgments. Just keep your heart open to them as you speak your truth. -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shadow of a mighty name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shadow of a mighty name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8879]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11394]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important things in life aren't things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important things in life aren't things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2399]]></link><description><![CDATA[This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13863]]></link><description><![CDATA[One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This insensibility of ours is a bad symptom. For one thing, it implies that we have no spiritual ambition, else ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7852]]></link><description><![CDATA[This insensibility of ours is a bad symptom. For one thing, it implies that we have no spiritual ambition, else we should not be satisfied with such poor lives; that we cannot have thought out the fact of Jesus Christ, and how immeasurably He has raised the standard. Will you hang your wretched daubs beside the works of Titian and Michelangelo and not be shamed by the enormous contrast -- stand back and say, with a satisfied smirk, "That is pretty good, you know!"? And can you live face to face with Jesus Christ, and be content with what you are?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou dost shame That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!  Thou little valiant, great in villainy!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou dost shame That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!  Thou little valiant, great in villainy!   Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!    Thou fortune's champion, that dost never fight     But when her humorous ladyship is by      To teach thee safety!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm so surprised and happy to have won. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41385]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm so surprised and happy to have won.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have discussed the elements of this proposal and our common position on this matter is that we have made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35718]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have discussed the elements of this proposal and our common position on this matter is that we have made progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly. [Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17836]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly. [Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19967]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not improbable that a man may receive more solid satisfaction from pudding while he is alive than from praise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51002]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not improbable that a man may receive more solid satisfaction from pudding while he is alive than from praise after he is dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stuff they pulled should never have been removed. Some of it is mundane and some of it is outright ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42187]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stuff they pulled should never have been removed. Some of it is mundane and some of it is outright ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of harmes two the less is for to chose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of harmes two the less is for to chose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television: a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television: a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris  Si scelus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris  Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[January grey is here, Like a sexton by her grave;  February bears the bier,   March with grief ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54956]]></link><description><![CDATA[January grey is here, Like a sexton by her grave;  February bears the bier,   March with grief doth howl and rave,    And April weeps--but, O ye hours!     Follow with May's fairest flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evangelism is selling a dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evangelism is selling a dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things aren't moving as fast as they were at this point last year. I just feel a lot more comfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things aren't moving as fast as they were at this point last year. I just feel a lot more comfortable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20426]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;  I'll say her nay, and hide away, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52932]]></link><description><![CDATA[She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;  I'll say her nay, and hide away,   Then take her by surprise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side,  And of all who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12862]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side,  And of all who assembled within those walls,   That I was the hope and the pride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard the little bird say so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17891]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard the little bird say so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Digestion, much like Love and Wine, no trifling will brook: His cook once spoiled the dinner of an Emperor of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Digestion, much like Love and Wine, no trifling will brook: His cook once spoiled the dinner of an Emperor of men;  The dinner spoiled the temper of his Majesty and then   The Emperor made history--and no one blamed the cook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1835]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1835</guid></item></channel></rss>