<?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 Cock and the Jewel A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cock and the Jewel A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and exclaimed: If your owner had found thee, and not I, he would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I have found thee for no purpose. I would rather have one barleycorn than all the jewels in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find that doing the will of God leaves me with no time for disputing about His plans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find that doing the will of God leaves me with no time for disputing about His plans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct,or more uncertain in its success, than to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21726]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct,or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in theintroduction of a new order of things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm speechless and so happy to be in the finals. As a kid, I always looked up to people above ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32182]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm speechless and so happy to be in the finals. As a kid, I always looked up to people above me to see what they could do. I think I passed some of them, most of them, and I'm happy about that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   God has been very good to me, for I never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to cross the border through distant places. Now we will get permits and continue our work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36374]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to cross the border through distant places. Now we will get permits and continue our work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We, African-Americans, need to be more conscious of Africa. Africa will not get out of its economic hole until African-Americans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36322]]></link><description><![CDATA[We, African-Americans, need to be more conscious of Africa. Africa will not get out of its economic hole until African-Americans start working with Africa. We've got the money. We need to go back home to our people and free them from their misery and suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon has set In a bank of jet  That fringes the Western sky,   The pleiads seven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56521]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon has set In a bank of jet  That fringes the Western sky,   The pleiads seven    Have sunk from heaven     And the midnight hurries by;      My hopes are flown       And, alas! alone        On my weary couch I lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a leap of faith. I hope he fulfills the expectations that he activated today. He has the energy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40847]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a leap of faith. I hope he fulfills the expectations that he activated today. He has the energy. It's up to the administration to give him the resources.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The accursed hunger for gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51826]]></link><description><![CDATA[The accursed hunger for gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45378]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. [Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. [Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much. -King Henry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55882]]></link><description><![CDATA[To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I am a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail,  Where'er the surge may sweep, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12063]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I am a weed, Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail,  Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect. [Fr., Nul n'est content de sa fortune;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54724]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect. [Fr., Nul n'est content de sa fortune;  Ni mecontent de son esprit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16811]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge:  All is, I never drink no sperit,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge:  All is, I never drink no sperit,   Nor I haint never signed no pledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were a little bummed the rest of that night. We kind of didn't know what to say. It's like, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29068]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were a little bummed the rest of that night. We kind of didn't know what to say. It's like, why Utah? Why does that always have to happen to us against them? But we kept our heads high, knowing we had the NCAA Tournament to look forward to. We realize that we're not done and we have a chance to play at least one game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62737]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyrants' fears Decrease not, but grow faster than their years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyrants' fears Decrease not, but grow faster than their years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8876]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[, Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child In the last decade or so, science has discovered a tremendous amount about the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55064]]></link><description><![CDATA[, Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child In the last decade or so, science has discovered a tremendous amount about the role emotions play in our lives. Researchers have found that even more than IQ, your emotional awareness and abilities to handle feelings will determine your success and happiness in all walks of life, including family relationships. -John Gottman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were trying to give it its own identity. Before it was tucked away and hard to find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35640]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were trying to give it its own identity. Before it was tucked away and hard to find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30240]]></link><description><![CDATA[A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. So he kicks over the garbage can and says 'That's Punk?', and I say 'No, that's trend!']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66623]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You make trade offs: do you want to get everything that's relevant or do you want to miss some things? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41803]]></link><description><![CDATA[You make trade offs: do you want to get everything that's relevant or do you want to miss some things? The feedback I'm hearing from companies is, if you can get them 50 per cent or 80 percent there, that makes a huge impact,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We go out and do our best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29271]]></link><description><![CDATA[We go out and do our best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46330]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53696]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thomas faked a late steal and the pitcher bit by throwing to first. It's actually a play we practiced on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thomas faked a late steal and the pitcher bit by throwing to first. It's actually a play we practiced on for about a half hour the day before the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society. [Sp., Las necedades del rico por sentencias pasan ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61381]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society. [Sp., Las necedades del rico por sentencias pasan en el mundo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you've got very, very little time to get out. Most coal miners, they just take and fall down on their face right there ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â because they're gonna end up that way anyhow, and then you're gonna have to go find your hat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3869]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56127</guid></item></channel></rss>