<?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 the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43288]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet sleep be with us, one and all! And if upon its stillness fall  The visions of a busy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet sleep be with us, one and all! And if upon its stillness fall  The visions of a busy brain,   We'll have our pleasure o'er again,    To warm the heart, to charm the sight,     Gay dreams to all! good night, good night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will not have peace, God gives him warre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49412]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will not have peace, God gives him warre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are expecting that, come tomorrow, they'll be arriving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28716]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are expecting that, come tomorrow, they'll be arriving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eating habits are evolving to meet the pace and structure of daily life. Consumers are responding to nutritional needs and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eating habits are evolving to meet the pace and structure of daily life. Consumers are responding to nutritional needs and the demands of daily life by missing meals, changing the times at which they eat and even changing the type of products they eat at each occasion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reign of imagagology begins where history ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. [Lat., Nam ut quisque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60772]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious. [Lat., Nam ut quisque est vir optimus, ita difficillime esse alios improbos suspicatur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting . It is the last socially acceptable prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know I'm going to be happy way later in the future, knowing that's the way I conducted myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know I'm going to be happy way later in the future, knowing that's the way I conducted myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730  It is sufficient to know in the general that our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730  It is sufficient to know in the general that our employment [in Paradise] shall be our unspeakable pleasure and every way suitable to the glory and happiness of that state, and as much above the noblest and most delightful employments of this world as the perfection of our bodies and the power of our souls shall then be above what they now are in this world. For there is no doubt that he who made us and endued our souls with a desire of immortality and so large a capacity of happiness, does understand very well by what ways and means to make us happy, and hath in readiness proper exercises and employments for that state, and every way more fitted to make us happy than any condition or employment in this world is suitable to a temporal happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But all's to no end, for the time will not mend Till the King enjoys his own again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54493]]></link><description><![CDATA[But all's to no end, for the time will not mend Till the King enjoys his own again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we take that money we can take it and build better neighborhoods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41007]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we take that money we can take it and build better neighborhoods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who can really benefit from our songs are the girls in middle America and the only way you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who can really benefit from our songs are the girls in middle America and the only way you can really get through to them is TV.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. -David ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. -David Starr Jordan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism is the first rough draft of history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism is the first rough draft of history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house is a machine for living in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19645]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house is a machine for living in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and His Shadow A TRAVELER hired an Ass to convey him to a distant place. Theday being intensely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and His Shadow A TRAVELER hired an Ass to convey him to a distant place. Theday being intensely hot, and the sun shining in its strength, theTraveler stopped to rest, and sought shelter from the heat underthe Shadow of the Ass. As this afforded only protection for one,and as the Traveler and the owner of the Ass both claimed it, aviolent dispute arose between them as to which of them had theright to the Shadow. The owner maintained that he had let theAss only, and not his Shadow. The Traveler asserted that he had,with the hire of the Ass, hired his Shadow also. The quarrelproceeded from words to blows, and while the men fought, the Assgalloped off. In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And gain is gain, however small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17150]]></link><description><![CDATA[And gain is gain, however small.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two types of people. Those we who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27091]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two types of people. Those we who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64793]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17711]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark Twain said `20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mark Twain said `20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off your bowline. Sail away from the safe harbor.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Larger U.S. retailers have recognized for a number of years that the domestic market is mature. In order to grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Larger U.S. retailers have recognized for a number of years that the domestic market is mature. In order to grow sales, they have to look outside of the U.S.. China, however, is a big emerging opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that is a master must serve (another). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that is a master must serve (another).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66079]]></link><description><![CDATA[May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/827]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In quiet places, reason abounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52799]]></link><description><![CDATA[In quiet places, reason abounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26829]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were beating us to the ball on the floor. We had one rebound in the first quarter, four by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32109]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were beating us to the ball on the floor. We had one rebound in the first quarter, four by halftime and 12 turnovers (by halftime). You can't win ballgames like that. They deserved to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43183]]></link><description><![CDATA[God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone that helped did a wonderful job, and it resulted in an outstanding tournament, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone that helped did a wonderful job, and it resulted in an outstanding tournament,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60951]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as half full. But a giving person sees a glass of water and starts looking for someone who might be thirsty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had game plans in Australia and the guys played him very well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42699]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had game plans in Australia and the guys played him very well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When's it going to get real? When are there going to be two sides? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40965]]></link><description><![CDATA[When's it going to get real? When are there going to be two sides?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59875]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66241]]></link><description><![CDATA[No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43157]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43157</guid></item></channel></rss>