<?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[To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty matters, Agesilaus said: "I do not think that shoemaker ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56201]]></link><description><![CDATA[To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty matters, Agesilaus said: "I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Syria is trying to strengthen its hegemony in Lebanon by controlling more and more institutions, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Syria is trying to strengthen its hegemony in Lebanon by controlling more and more institutions,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats;  Chambers of the great are jails, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19228]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats;  Chambers of the great are jails,   And head-winds right for royal sails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were some other girls who had some fair performances, but I'm expecting better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36498]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were some other girls who had some fair performances, but I'm expecting better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today should serve as notice to this community that we will not tolerate gang activity, nor will we allow gangs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today should serve as notice to this community that we will not tolerate gang activity, nor will we allow gangs in this community to gain a foothold on our streets. Our response will be swift, coordinated and certain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medical education is not completed at the medical school, it is only begun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medical education is not completed at the medical school, it is only begun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never insult an alligator until you've crossed the river. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never insult an alligator until you've crossed the river.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that are booted are not alwaies ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49964]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that are booted are not alwaies ready.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63783]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acerra always drinks till dawn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acerra always drinks till dawn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we might call, by way of Eminence, the Dismal Science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54810]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we might call, by way of Eminence, the Dismal Science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23307]]></link><description><![CDATA[You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given, not lent, And not withdrawn, once sent, This Infant of mankind, this One, Is still the little welcome Son. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given, not lent, And not withdrawn, once sent, This Infant of mankind, this One, Is still the little welcome Son. New every year, New-born and newly dear, He comes with tidings and a song, The ages long, the ages long. Even as the cold  Keen winter grows not old, As childhood is so fresh, forseen, And spring in the familiar green. Sudden as sweet Come the expected feet. All joy is young, and new all art, And He, too, whom we have by heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without speculation there is no good and original observation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without speculation there is no good and original observation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I go away and come again each day, But thou shalt go away and ne'er return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58310]]></link><description><![CDATA[I go away and come again each day, But thou shalt go away and ne'er return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I am concerned with here is not to write a new life of Jesus, but to set down my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7658]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I am concerned with here is not to write a new life of Jesus, but to set down my witness to the continued shocks which his words and deeds gave me as I approached the Gospels uninsulated by the familiar cover of beautiful language. The figure who emerged is quite unlike the Jesus of conventional piety, and even more unlike that imagined hero whom members of various causes claim as their champion. What we are so often confronted with today is a "processed" Jesus. Every element that we feel is not consonant with our "image" of him is removed, and the result is more insipid and unsatisfying than the worst of processed food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything tothemselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21806]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything tothemselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John will be a terrific addition to our organization. Over the past 12 years, John has led and managed a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37665]]></link><description><![CDATA[John will be a terrific addition to our organization. Over the past 12 years, John has led and managed a successful media and communications investment banking practice in the U.S. and Europe. Our media and communications business will benefit from his vision, leadership, relationships and proven experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28152]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/852]]></link><description><![CDATA[To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22549]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freeze-Frame -Doc Childre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freeze-Frame -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every kid got a gift, and moms got gifts to wrap and put under the tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every kid got a gift, and moms got gifts to wrap and put under the tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm voted player of the week one week and the next I'm sitting on the bench. It becomes very tempting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35175]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm voted player of the week one week and the next I'm sitting on the bench. It becomes very tempting to look ahead and I'm doing that right now. I have to make the best decision for myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not beoverjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not beoverjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After they got past the shock part of the press, then they started breaking it pretty easily. So we had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39721]]></link><description><![CDATA[After they got past the shock part of the press, then they started breaking it pretty easily. So we had to get out of that for a while. It was as good a start was we wanted for the first five minutes. Then we gave up a foul here and a foul there and put them to the free throw line. The Stinson girl is tough, she was hitting free throws. All of them are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need the opportunity to play to bigger audiences. Winning a contest like this will open a lot of doors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42107]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need the opportunity to play to bigger audiences. Winning a contest like this will open a lot of doors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You talk about some destiny out here. We got guys out there with a lot of heart and they went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32974]]></link><description><![CDATA[You talk about some destiny out here. We got guys out there with a lot of heart and they went all the way down to the wire to show it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a quintuple bypass in May. It was notMad Cows but sane cows in my arteries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a quintuple bypass in May. It was notMad Cows but sane cows in my arteries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best. [Ger., So eine Arbeit wird eigentlich nie fertig; man muss sie fur fertig erklaren, wenn man nach Zeit und Umstand das Moglichste getan hat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4498]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that loveth a book will never want for a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The full-blown rose, mid dewy sweets Most perfect dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The full-blown rose, mid dewy sweets Most perfect dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is not poor who has a competency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50244]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is not poor who has a competency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another ... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another ...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1909</guid></item></channel></rss>