<?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[But the practice began at Maple Creek, and historically we had the greatest number of parents stay overnight at that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39776]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the practice began at Maple Creek, and historically we had the greatest number of parents stay overnight at that school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a number of companies in the area who do artificial foliage very well-- but I'd compare it to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46672]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a number of companies in the area who do artificial foliage very well-- but I'd compare it to when you go to someone's house for dinner. If there is a flower arrangement that is fake, it makes me think differently of that person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2503]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25263]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let not the heavens hear these tell-tale women Rail on the Lord's anointed. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let not the heavens hear these tell-tale women Rail on the Lord's anointed. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three or four teams have backed out already, so it's going to be a small meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three or four teams have backed out already, so it's going to be a small meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gowne is his that we ares it, and the world his that enjoyes it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49862]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gowne is his that we ares it, and the world his that enjoyes it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not going to be above normal for much of the next week, and it's going to remain wet most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30156]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not going to be above normal for much of the next week, and it's going to remain wet most of the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57793]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait forsomething outside of yourself to make you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait forsomething outside of yourself to make you happy in the future--Think howreally precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work orwith your family. Every minute should be enjoyed, savored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61528]]></link><description><![CDATA[A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profit is the ignition system of our economic engine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profit is the ignition system of our economic engine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomization, statistical significance, and standard deviations is less than illiterate; he is preconscious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men love to trust God (as they profess) for what they have in their hands, in possession, or what lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men love to trust God (as they profess) for what they have in their hands, in possession, or what lies in an easy view; place their desires afar off, carry their accomplishment behind the clouds out of their sight, interpose difficulties and perplexities -- their hearts are instantly sick. They cannot wait for God; they do not trust Him, nor ever did. Would you have the presence of God with you? Learn to wait quietly for the salvation you expect from Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  God frees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  God frees our souls, not from service, not from duty, but into service and into duty; and he who mistakes the purpose of his freedom mistakes the character of his freedom. He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the condition into which his soul is invited to enter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The balmy zephyrs, silent since her death, Lament the ceasing of a sweeter breath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The balmy zephyrs, silent since her death, Lament the ceasing of a sweeter breath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The falcon and the dove sit there together, And th' one of them doth prune the other's feather. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The falcon and the dove sit there together, And th' one of them doth prune the other's feather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1736]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25499]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60873]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54271]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the market realizes there is no real threat of an immediate conflict, the market will calm down and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the market realizes there is no real threat of an immediate conflict, the market will calm down and we will see oil prices back in the $50s or $60s per barrel. This is highly political.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18023]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is definitely true that having a common foe does give you something to shoot at. I'm just hoping that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34577]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is definitely true that having a common foe does give you something to shoot at. I'm just hoping that we don't fall into a pattern of simply playing catch-up with Microsoft, which is a danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52715]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must become the change we want to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must become the change we want to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. -Mother Teresa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26331]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. -Mother Teresa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32004]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decrepit miser! base ignoble wretch! I am descended of a gentler blood.  Thou art no father nor friend of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Decrepit miser! base ignoble wretch! I am descended of a gentler blood.  Thou art no father nor friend of mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62442]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one fastens where there is gaine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one fastens where there is gaine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ears that gape after secrets retain not faithfully what is entrusted to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50339]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ears that gape after secrets retain not faithfully what is entrusted to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66324]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy--give one and take ten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy--give one and take ten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Westminster Abbey, or Victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Westminster Abbey, or Victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5040</guid></item></channel></rss>