<?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[Sweet letters of the angel tongue, I've loved ye long and well,  And never have failed in your fragrance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet letters of the angel tongue, I've loved ye long and well,  And never have failed in your fragrance sweet   To find some secret spell,--    A charm that has bound me with witching power,     For mine is the old belief,      That midst your sweets and midst your bloom,       There's a soul in every leaf!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12419]]></link><description><![CDATA[If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Called me wessel, Sammy--a wessel of wrath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Called me wessel, Sammy--a wessel of wrath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think withpurpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21076]]></link><description><![CDATA[To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think withpurpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognizefailure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all conditionsserve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplishmasterfully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The master in the art of living makes little distinction between hiswork and his play, his labor and his leisure, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21089]]></link><description><![CDATA[The master in the art of living makes little distinction between hiswork and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, hisinformation and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knowswhich is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever hedoes, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To himhe's always doing both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Does not the public repudiation of the whole Christian scheme of life in a large part of what was once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Does not the public repudiation of the whole Christian scheme of life in a large part of what was once known as Christendom force one to confront the question whether the path of Wisdom is not rather to attempt to work out a Christian doctrine of modern society and to order our national life in accordance with it? Those who would give a quick, easy or confident answer to this question have failed to understand it. It cannot even be seriously considered without a profound awareness of the extent to which Christian ideas have lost their hold over, or faded from the consciousness of, large sections of the population; of the far-reaching changes that would be called for in the structure, institutions and activities of existing society, which is in many of its features a complete denial of the Christian understanding of the meaning and end of man's existence; and of the stupendous and costly spiritual, moral, and intellectual effort that any genuine attempt to order national life in accordance with the Christian understanding of life would demand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65457]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... then the world 's mine oyster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22153]]></link><description><![CDATA[... then the world 's mine oyster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to be responsible in our management of the Greenway. Everybody wants to save every tree possible, and so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40584]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to be responsible in our management of the Greenway. Everybody wants to save every tree possible, and so do I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. -W.H. Murray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60030]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -- in the eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Panurge had a flea in his ear. [Fr., Panurge auoyt la pulee en l' oreille.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Panurge had a flea in his ear. [Fr., Panurge auoyt la pulee en l' oreille.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gloaming comes, the day is spent, The sun goes out of sight,  And painted is the occident  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gloaming comes, the day is spent, The sun goes out of sight,  And painted is the occident   With purple sanguine bright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46173]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wake up and I think I should start wearing a beret, but I don't do it. One day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wake up and I think I should start wearing a beret, but I don't do it. One day I'm gonna, though. You bet your ass, I will have a beret on. That's ridiculous, but it's true. I always fight with wearing a beret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of the denial of the Armenian genocide has passed through several phases... all characterized by efforts to avoid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of the denial of the Armenian genocide has passed through several phases... all characterized by efforts to avoid responsibility and the moral, material, and political consequences of admission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They mostly recruit distance runners. They noticed how I've progressed through high school. They told me I have a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33495]]></link><description><![CDATA[They mostly recruit distance runners. They noticed how I've progressed through high school. They told me I have a lot of room to improve once I get to college.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think that it will be legitimate and it will be a free and democratic election. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34811]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think that it will be legitimate and it will be a free and democratic election.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This panics the community. It makes people scared. And for no reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37735]]></link><description><![CDATA[This panics the community. It makes people scared. And for no reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["O Charidas, what of the underworld?" "Great darkness."  "And what of the resurrection?"   "A lie."   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43170]]></link><description><![CDATA["O Charidas, what of the underworld?" "Great darkness."  "And what of the resurrection?"   "A lie."    "And Pluto?"     "A fable; we perish utterly."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11475]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I'm running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can't reduce (the debt) any more]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of them want to lead with price, so if you have a network that is better, it's great. Spending ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39049]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of them want to lead with price, so if you have a network that is better, it's great. Spending on voice calls is falling even without a price war, so they don't want to cut prices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59939]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40227]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5691]]></link><description><![CDATA[And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe not today, not tomorrow but in five years I can see the emergence of a significant Chinese operator. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe not today, not tomorrow but in five years I can see the emergence of a significant Chinese operator. I believe China has more potent competitive potential than Oracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't expect when they all started to be this successful and to get that many people involved. You always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29355]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't expect when they all started to be this successful and to get that many people involved. You always push that threat and say, 'Well, we're going to hold you accountable, we're going to tell everybody,' and one out of every 10 times it works out. This time it did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word, With no pore piety than other people--  A daw's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50153]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word, With no pore piety than other people--  A daw's not reckoned a religious bird   Because it keeps a-cawing from a steeple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm sure when Chuck Schumer needs information from the Congressional Budget Office, he doesn't have to check with Harry Reid, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40841]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm sure when Chuck Schumer needs information from the Congressional Budget Office, he doesn't have to check with Harry Reid, the Democratic Senate leader. I expect to be calling Mr. Naughton directly as I always have in the past. If she wants to know what I'm doing, she can always call me. I'll be happy to respond.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;  The rose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51119]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;  The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew,   And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people choose not to donate their services because they believe that it somehow devalues them by "giving them away." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people choose not to donate their services because they believe that it somehow devalues them by "giving them away." In truth, there is nothing that demonstrates the value of your skills more than putting them to good use for a cause you believe in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/95]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/95</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1120]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels--local, State and Federal--in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47677]]></link><description><![CDATA[We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels--local, State and Federal--in ending the pollution of our waters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5577]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're the best Mom in the whole, wide world! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14532]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're the best Mom in the whole, wide world!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard;  It is the hour when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14250]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard;  It is the hour when lovers' vows   Seem sweet in every whispered word;    And gentle winds, and waters near,     Make music to the lonely ear.      Each flower the dews have lightly wet,       And in the sky the stars are met,        And on the wave is deeper blue,         And on the leaf a browner hue,          And in the heaven that clear obscure,           So softly dark, and darkly pure.            Which follows the decline of day,             As twilight melts beneath the moon away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can find my biography in every fable that I read ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can find my biography in every fable that I read]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The Stones] thought nothing of ... music, golf, football and girls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29290]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The Stones] thought nothing of ... music, golf, football and girls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cobbler, . . . produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56200]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cobbler, . . . produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for many years together over his last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a team they know that they can finish high and be in contention in tournaments. It means that much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30428]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a team they know that they can finish high and be in contention in tournaments. It means that much more to them out there on the course. We're not there yet. We need to continue to improve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18690]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18690</guid></item></channel></rss>