<?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[Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new organization will further enhance the regional identity of our electric distribution businesses and provide a greater focus on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35984]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new organization will further enhance the regional identity of our electric distribution businesses and provide a greater focus on the electric generation business. The leaders of these business units bring a high level of knowledge and experience to their new positions with the common objective to deliver outstanding service to their customers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the calm and silent night! Seven hundred years and fifty-three  Had Rome been growing up to might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8630]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the calm and silent night! Seven hundred years and fifty-three  Had Rome been growing up to might   And now was queen of land and sea.    No sound was heard of clashing wars,     Peace brooded o'er the hushed domain;      Apollo, Pallas, Jove and Mars,       Held undisturbed their ancient reign,        In the solemn midnight,         Centuries ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are unified both by hating in common and by being hated in common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52322]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are unified both by hating in common and by being hated in common.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22837]]></link><description><![CDATA[But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have written to them and asked them for statements. If I need to call them (to testify), I will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38436]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have written to them and asked them for statements. If I need to call them (to testify), I will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16740]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63394]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think she'll be excited when she gets the 3,000. But, seriously, I think it's awesome that she's doing that. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35241]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think she'll be excited when she gets the 3,000. But, seriously, I think it's awesome that she's doing that. For your coach to do something like that to make our senior day special, I am just really thankful that she would go out on a limb to do something like that. When she told the team, I was really surprised and kind of shocked but it just shows the kind of person she is and we really appreciate what she's doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole family is packed into one trap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50509]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole family is packed into one trap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9231]]></link><description><![CDATA[In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20717]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40152]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34971]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself simply as living my life . . . I feel it's pushing your luck to define how happy you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59099]]></link><description><![CDATA[In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is very game. Maybe, in his own way, he found a little extra incentive out of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30371]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is very game. Maybe, in his own way, he found a little extra incentive out of that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there  Asleep, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there  Asleep, and waiting for the opening day,   When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shedits blood?How can we pray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27370]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shedits blood?How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy?Nobel laureate in literature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are what their mothers made them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are what their mothers made them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles, King & Martyr, 1649   Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles, King & Martyr, 1649   Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. Likewise, the indwelling Christ, though unseen, will be made evident to others from the love which he imparts to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--  Not shrink and let the shaft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--  Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast   To pierce another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. -Leo Tolstoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. -Leo Tolstoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shows that we build, when we should but entomb us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shows that we build, when we should but entomb us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/177]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9846]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every tear has a smile behind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every tear has a smile behind it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tsze-Kung asked, "Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tsze-Kung asked, "Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Islamic world took a real beating because of what the clerics did in northern Nigeria, ... Islamic countries should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Islamic world took a real beating because of what the clerics did in northern Nigeria, ... Islamic countries should be praised for doing so much to bring the spread of polio back under control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65193]]></link><description><![CDATA[This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fewer facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fewer facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55808]]></link><description><![CDATA[In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27015]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only source of knowledge is experience ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only source of knowledge is experience]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good analogy would be that I don't know any customer who wants their vehicle built in their driveway and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35358]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good analogy would be that I don't know any customer who wants their vehicle built in their driveway and rained on for nine months before they get a chance to sit in it. Moisture is the largest enemy of construction. Once moisture gets into the material, it starts to shrink and mold even before it goes to production.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mithriades, by frequently drinking poison, rendered it impossible for any poison to hurt him. You, Cinna, by always dining on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mithriades, by frequently drinking poison, rendered it impossible for any poison to hurt him. You, Cinna, by always dining on next to nothing, have taken due precaution against ever perishing from hunger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory paid to our ashes comes too late ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory paid to our ashes comes too late]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers ... We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13343]]></link><description><![CDATA[I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers ... We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22031]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I called Dave up to write some songs. It just snowballed from there and became ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41401]]></link><description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, I called Dave up to write some songs. It just snowballed from there and became a Soft Cell record. There's still a strong chemistry between us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27278</guid></item></channel></rss>