<?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[The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28873]]></link><description><![CDATA[The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to talk with my wife about it, but I'm 90 percent sure I need to go play, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34254]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to talk with my wife about it, but I'm 90 percent sure I need to go play, ... If I stay (with the Giants), I guess I have to play harder and work harder to recover that playing time I lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creativeeffort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creativeeffort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We agreed in Cairo on a collective truce and the retaliation, therefore, should be collective, too, because this is an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41288]]></link><description><![CDATA[We agreed in Cairo on a collective truce and the retaliation, therefore, should be collective, too, because this is an Israeli carnage, the result of which must be shared by all parties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings. . -Buddha.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigotry's birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigotry's birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You train and train and train for one match. You only have four two-minute rounds ? that's eight minutes ? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29153]]></link><description><![CDATA[You train and train and train for one match. You only have four two-minute rounds ? that's eight minutes ? to show what you've got.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55031]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is subtle but he is not malicious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63282]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is subtle but he is not malicious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honour without profit is a ring on the finger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honour without profit is a ring on the finger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing some very strong global growth trends so that should prop up exports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36352]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing some very strong global growth trends so that should prop up exports.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interest rates remain at relatively low levels and consequently the mortgage business remains robust, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Interest rates remain at relatively low levels and consequently the mortgage business remains robust,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is made more sacred by adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is made more sacred by adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smile don't frown Look up don't look downBelieve in yourself Don't let yourself goJust be who you areAnd let your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smile don't frown Look up don't look downBelieve in yourself Don't let yourself goJust be who you areAnd let your live flow..]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever since I was a little kid I'd read these adventure books. I'd read about Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever since I was a little kid I'd read these adventure books. I'd read about Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Every time my dad moved to a new military base, the first thing I'd do was climb the highest hill around, which usually wasn't very high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64788]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I owe my solitude to other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I owe my solitude to other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui  Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65195]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5593]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47860]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12473]]></link><description><![CDATA[First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15882]]></link><description><![CDATA[A computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster and a bad manager worse faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From thy own smile I snatched the snake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56675]]></link><description><![CDATA[From thy own smile I snatched the snake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40152]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even after 9/11, when their life-saving role became clear, employers have dragged their feet on raising wages to a mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even after 9/11, when their life-saving role became clear, employers have dragged their feet on raising wages to a mostly African-American workforce. Four years after 9/11, the real estate industry has short-changed security officers, undermined the safety of their own buildings and jeopardized the well-being of the entire city.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12235]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver. [Lat., Eodem animo beneficium debetur, quo datur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4139]]></link><description><![CDATA[A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver. [Lat., Eodem animo beneficium debetur, quo datur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933   [In nineteenth-century America] religion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933   [In nineteenth-century America] religion became a matter of conduct, of good deeds, of works, with only a vague background of faith. It became highly functional, highly pragmatic; it became a guarantee of success, moral and material. "The proper study of mankind is man," was the evasion by which many American divines escaped the necessity for thought about God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18056]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk. Nothing could be further from the truth. The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58533]]></link><description><![CDATA[A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A miniature like this would have been a love token. The braid of hair has a great deal of intimacy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39330]]></link><description><![CDATA[A miniature like this would have been a love token. The braid of hair has a great deal of intimacy and personal significance for whomever would have owned this miniature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4597]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesting is often only indigence of intellect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend,  And nothing brings me all things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56243]]></link><description><![CDATA[My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend,  And nothing brings me all things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48101]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48101</guid></item></channel></rss>