<?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[Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66219]]></link><description><![CDATA[I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be able to say how much love, is love but little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2168]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be able to say how much love, is love but little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've done a good job taking it one game at a time. My mentality has worn off on the kids. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39369]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've done a good job taking it one game at a time. My mentality has worn off on the kids. If you overlook anybody it will hurt you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is blind, but friendship is clairvoyant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is blind, but friendship is clairvoyant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success is constancy of purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success is constancy of purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart that truly loves never forgets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart that truly loves never forgets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the doubles of those whose way Was festal with fruits and flowers;  Body and brain we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58129]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the doubles of those whose way Was festal with fruits and flowers;  Body and brain we were sound as they,   But the prizes were not ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21177]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right he'll go to the poor house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With profits in such a tailspin, I'm revising down my capital expenditure outlook for the next six to nine months, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42249]]></link><description><![CDATA[With profits in such a tailspin, I'm revising down my capital expenditure outlook for the next six to nine months, and (I see) almost zero job growth for rest of this year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be sure that it is a mistaken devotion which interferes with the duties of your natural state of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be sure that it is a mistaken devotion which interferes with the duties of your natural state of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18184]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People want riches; they need fulfillment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53368]]></link><description><![CDATA[People want riches; they need fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ant and the GrasshopperIn a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about,chirping and singing to its heart's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ant and the GrasshopperIn a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about,chirping and singing to its heart's content. An Ant passed by,bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to thenest.Why not come and chat with me, said the Grasshopper,instead of toiling and moiling in that way?I am helping to lay up food for the winter, said the Ant,and recommend you to do the same.Why bother about winter? said the Grasshopper; we have gotplenty of food at present. But the Ant went on its way andcontinued its toil. When the winter came the Grasshopper had nofood and found itself dying of hunger, while it saw the antsdistributing every day corn and grain from the stores they hadcollected in the summer. Then the Grasshopper knew:It is best to prepare for the days of necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back  How he esteems your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16773]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back  How he esteems your merit,   Is such a friend, that one had need    Be very much his friend indeed     To pardon or to bear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to protect Iraq and the world against terrorists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37412]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to protect Iraq and the world against terrorists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53813]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to get a deterrent effect to let people know we don't want to do this. We would rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32338]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to get a deterrent effect to let people know we don't want to do this. We would rather have people just not commit the crimes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  Life is not long enough for a religion of inferences; we shall never have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  Life is not long enough for a religion of inferences; we shall never have done beginning, if we determine to begin with proof. We shall ever be laying our foundations; we shall turn theology into evidences, and divines into textuaries... Life is for action. If we insist on proofs for everything, we shall never come to action: to act you must assume, and that assumption is faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the destructive dice-box has pleasures for the father, the son will be a gambler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50454]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the destructive dice-box has pleasures for the father, the son will be a gambler.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My people too were scared with eerie sounds, A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls.  A noise of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2794]]></link><description><![CDATA[My people too were scared with eerie sounds, A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls.  A noise of falling weights that never fell,   Weird whispers, bells that rang without a hand,    Door-handles turn'd when none was at the door,     And bolted doors that open'd of themselves;      And one betwixt the dark and light had seen       Her, bending by the cradle of her babe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24791]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22251]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between cause and effect. [Fr., Entre le bon sens et ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between cause and effect. [Fr., Entre le bon sens et le bon gout il y a la difference de la cause a son effet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played good enough to win. I liked how we responded. We just have to do a better job in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38023]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played good enough to win. I liked how we responded. We just have to do a better job in each phase of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We weren't prepared, we didn't have the background information [and] we didn't have the collateral information. In many cases, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32423]]></link><description><![CDATA[We weren't prepared, we didn't have the background information [and] we didn't have the collateral information. In many cases, you can do more damage than good if you don't do your homework.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross  If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross  If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love. If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying peace, peace, where there is no peace; if I forget the poignant words, "Let love be without dissimulation" and blunt the edge of truth, speaking not right things but smooth things, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She sees the same qualities in me that she saw in young Phil Crane. Phil Crane today isn't the Phil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39827]]></link><description><![CDATA[She sees the same qualities in me that she saw in young Phil Crane. Phil Crane today isn't the Phil Crane of 35 years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43585]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56703]]></link><description><![CDATA[My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18941</guid></item></channel></rss>