<?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[In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought. [Lat., Semper in fide quid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19716]]></link><description><![CDATA[In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought. [Lat., Semper in fide quid senseris, non quid dixeris, cogitandum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that falles into the durt, the longer he stayes there, the fowler he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that falles into the durt, the longer he stayes there, the fowler he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An injury graves itself in metal, but a benefit writes itself in water. [Fr., L'injure se grave en metal; et ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11666]]></link><description><![CDATA[An injury graves itself in metal, but a benefit writes itself in water. [Fr., L'injure se grave en metal; et le bienfait s'escrit en l'onde.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, as we know Him, is a gift to us from Christ. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7753]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, as we know Him, is a gift to us from Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/334]]></link><description><![CDATA[From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy, twice happy, you who dwell in the country, if you only knew the pleasures which surround you! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy, twice happy, you who dwell in the country, if you only knew the pleasures which surround you!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63843]]></link><description><![CDATA[An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are frequently advised to read the Bible with our own personal needs in mind, and to look for answers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6458]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are frequently advised to read the Bible with our own personal needs in mind, and to look for answers to our own private questions. That is good, as far as it goes... But better still is the advice to study the Bible objectively, ... without regard, first of all, to our own subjective needs. Let the great passages fix themselves in our memory. Let them stay there permanently, like bright beacons, launching their powerful shafts of light upon life's problems -- our own and everyone's -- as they illumine, now one, now another dark area of human life. Following such a method, we discover that the Bible does "speak to our condition" and meet our needs, not just occasionally or when some emergency arises, but continually.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/241]]></link><description><![CDATA[More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over here the medical treatment is tied to the cooperation with the interrogators. I asked the doctor several times to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over here the medical treatment is tied to the cooperation with the interrogators. I asked the doctor several times to give me medical assistance but the doctors told me unless I talk to the interrogators, they will not give me help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who start war often know that because of theirhigh political position their own lives will not be indanger.on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who start war often know that because of theirhigh political position their own lives will not be indanger.on the Diane Rehm Show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense among men of fortune is rare. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sunsus communis in illa  Fortuna.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense among men of fortune is rare. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sunsus communis in illa  Fortuna.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to allcreative endeavors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to allcreative endeavors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does he should do with all his might. [Lat., Quod ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/500]]></link><description><![CDATA[What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does he should do with all his might. [Lat., Quod est, eo decet uti: et quicquid agas, agere pro viribus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to Heaven the rest. -John V. Cheney.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aske much to have a little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aske much to have a little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27050]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if they like what they see, they listen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's glowing covenant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52942]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's glowing covenant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A third Cato has dropped from the skies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50424]]></link><description><![CDATA[A third Cato has dropped from the skies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine ever paies for his loding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine ever paies for his loding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll miss him, but it creates the opportunity for someone else to come up and take his place in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42091]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll miss him, but it creates the opportunity for someone else to come up and take his place in the side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing generally raised on city land is taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If he continues to do what he's doing and continues to progress, there's no reason that midway in the season ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28632]]></link><description><![CDATA[If he continues to do what he's doing and continues to progress, there's no reason that midway in the season you couldn't call up a guy like him. He's close. He's close.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liars pay the penalty of their own misdeeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liars pay the penalty of their own misdeeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21038]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20067]]></link><description><![CDATA[My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising promotes that divine discontent which makes people strive to improve their economic status. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising promotes that divine discontent which makes people strive to improve their economic status.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21565]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/376]]></link><description><![CDATA[High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1406]]></link><description><![CDATA[The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. [Fr., Une louange en grec est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24009]]></link><description><![CDATA[A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. [Fr., Une louange en grec est d'une merveilleuse efficace a la tete d'un livre.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It could have been a real nasty situation. But our coaching staff, the Douglas coaching staff and everyone else got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42464]]></link><description><![CDATA[It could have been a real nasty situation. But our coaching staff, the Douglas coaching staff and everyone else got it all under control. None of the players off the bench or any of the fans in the stands ever made contact with any players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At times, it's hard to practice against him because he's relentless for the offense to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32767]]></link><description><![CDATA[At times, it's hard to practice against him because he's relentless for the offense to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10592]]></link><description><![CDATA[The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I 'd set my ten commandments in your face. -King Henry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could I come near your beauty with my nails, I 'd set my ten commandments in your face. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of courage to find your talents. Your teachers, your principals, they believe in you, but they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41767]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of courage to find your talents. Your teachers, your principals, they believe in you, but they can?t believe in you for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And to his eye There was but one beloved face on earth,  And that was shining on him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14853]]></link><description><![CDATA[And to his eye There was but one beloved face on earth,  And that was shining on him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long run, we only hit what we aim at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45109]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leading indicators have been strong the last few months, and that's telling us we're going to see very strong acceleration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leading indicators have been strong the last few months, and that's telling us we're going to see very strong acceleration in first-quarter growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I won't be offended if someone chooses to violate it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36730]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I won't be offended if someone chooses to violate it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36730</guid></item></channel></rss>