<?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[Seek first to understand and then to be understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek first to understand and then to be understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In quarrelling the truth is always lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52681]]></link><description><![CDATA[In quarrelling the truth is always lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the first to be replaced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9242]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the first to be replaced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. -Michael Faraday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15688]]></link><description><![CDATA[We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, I stole my little brother's toys and strapped them to the hood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, I stole my little brother's toys and strapped them to the hood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry withme, for every man is amirror. We see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry withme, for every man is amirror. We see only ourselves reflected inthose around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of ourown. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within usall. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world willchange.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that caricature, at best the complexity of our lives and leave the real artistic chore of interpretation unfinished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to do what the Republican Congress didn't have the decency to do, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42286]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to do what the Republican Congress didn't have the decency to do,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel Johnson County is the best location for the rain forest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37846]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel Johnson County is the best location for the rain forest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen whic]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19965]]></link><description><![CDATA[People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is applicable to all facets of life: a competency that you can learn to expand your perspective, set the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is applicable to all facets of life: a competency that you can learn to expand your perspective, set the context of a goal, understand the dynamics of human behavior and take the initiative to get to where you want to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more sympathy you give, the less you need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66471]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more sympathy you give, the less you need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66471</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 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38309]]></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/38309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tranquility is the old man's milk ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tranquility is the old man's milk]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus will prevail. His Church will prevail. Everything else is just passing away. Our current leadership [of the Episcopal Church ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus will prevail. His Church will prevail. Everything else is just passing away. Our current leadership [of the Episcopal Church USA] will die one day, as will you and I. It is not for us to condemn others, but to witness to them of Him who is in our lives. Even now, the enemy is at work, but Jesus will prevail. I know a God whose mercy knows no limits and whose power has no restraints.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think it has been a little bit of a slow and rough start, but people are beginning to read ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40903]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think it has been a little bit of a slow and rough start, but people are beginning to read and see the benefits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wide world is all before us-- But a world without a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62207]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wide world is all before us-- But a world without a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the gods bless me, When all our offices have been oppressed  With riotous feeders, when our vaults have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27418]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the gods bless me, When all our offices have been oppressed  With riotous feeders, when our vaults have wept   With drunken spilth of wine, when every room    Hath blazed with lights and brayed with minstrelsy,     I have retired me to a wasteful cock      And set mine eyes at flow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situation is getting worse day-by-day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34829]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situation is getting worse day-by-day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29564]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55066]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others. -Sydney J. Harris.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is murder. It was far too expensive to fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38892]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is murder. It was far too expensive to fly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess it's just one of those things. I think we've played some really good games against the Eastern teams ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28816]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess it's just one of those things. I think we've played some really good games against the Eastern teams because we respect them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52914]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47582]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the end of a generation that remade and saved baseball in Seattle. He's the last connection to that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31913]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the end of a generation that remade and saved baseball in Seattle. He's the last connection to that miracle 1995 team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16718]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop worrying. Hollywood won’t turn your daughter into a nymphomaniac or get her hooked on drugs... I will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop worrying. Hollywood won’t turn your daughter into a nymphomaniac or get her hooked on drugs... I will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleeping is a waste of dreaming, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleeping is a waste of dreaming, and dreaming is important because the more dreams you have, the better chance you have of one coming true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3976]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble. [It., Ove son leggi,  Tremar non ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble. [It., Ove son leggi,  Tremar non dee chi leggi non infranse.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, Advanced a stage or two upon that road  Which you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, Advanced a stage or two upon that road  Which you must travel in the steps they trod.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That Was Zen; This Is Tao ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62652]]></link><description><![CDATA[That Was Zen; This Is Tao]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good idea to "shop around" before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9197]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good idea to "shop around" before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mercedes. Ask about the competence of his mechanic. Don't be shy! After all, you're paying for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Souls  The antithesis between death and life is not so stark for the Christian as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Souls  The antithesis between death and life is not so stark for the Christian as it is for the atheist. Life is a process of becoming, and the moment of death is the transition from one life to another. Thus it is possible for a Christian to succumb to his own kind of death-wish, to seek that extreme of other-worldliness to which the faith has always been liable, especially in periods of stress and uncertainty. There may appear a marked preoccupation with death and a rejection of all temporal things. To say that this world is in a fallen state and that not too much value must be set upon it, is very far from the Manichaean error of supposing it to be evil throughout. The Christian hope finds ambivalence in death: that which destroys, also redeems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks aftr unpacking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks aftr unpacking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They dance, they revel, and they sing, Till the rude turrets shake and ring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51110]]></link><description><![CDATA[They dance, they revel, and they sing, Till the rude turrets shake and ring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47819]]></link><description><![CDATA[A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A faithful man shall abound with blessings; but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48671]]></link><description><![CDATA[A faithful man shall abound with blessings; but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soft speeches of the wicked are full of deceit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50847]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soft speeches of the wicked are full of deceit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50847</guid></item></channel></rss>