<?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 Clinton Administration has seemed to put more concern on scoring political points than advancing serious reform. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38992]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Clinton Administration has seemed to put more concern on scoring political points than advancing serious reform.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft he that doth abide Is cause of his own paine,  But he that flieth in good tide  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft he that doth abide Is cause of his own paine,  But he that flieth in good tide   Perhaps may fight again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see it as granting access that could provide least-developed countries with the incentive to make improvements in quality and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35312]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see it as granting access that could provide least-developed countries with the incentive to make improvements in quality and marketing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3427]]></link><description><![CDATA[The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4862]]></link><description><![CDATA[In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam;  Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38800]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58581]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are coming to the market because they want to have some fair values on which to basically try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37002]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are coming to the market because they want to have some fair values on which to basically try to consolidate in the future,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more gross the fraud, the more glibly will it go down and the more greedily will it be swallowed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10626]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more gross the fraud, the more glibly will it go down and the more greedily will it be swallowed, since folly will always find faith wherever imposters will find impudence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21363]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66447]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11213]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27625]]></link><description><![CDATA[To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now we're not going to cut anything back, because the schedules are already set. Sports participation is an important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now we're not going to cut anything back, because the schedules are already set. Sports participation is an important part of the whole educational concept, and if you don't have extracurricular things to do, some kids just don't make it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14218]]></link><description><![CDATA[A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13203]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never sendeth mouth but he sendeth meat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12286]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3666]]></link><description><![CDATA[A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24409]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have not yet begun to fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have not yet begun to fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was really important for us to come out of the locker room with a lot of intensity. And those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31298]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was really important for us to come out of the locker room with a lot of intensity. And those quick shots we made right out of the locker room were really big for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man owns land, the land owns him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23978]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man owns land, the land owns him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no heresies in a dead religion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19207]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no heresies in a dead religion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, we but chase feathers flying in the air, and tire our own spirits, for the froth and over-gilded clay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, we but chase feathers flying in the air, and tire our own spirits, for the froth and over-gilded clay of a dying life. One sight of what my Lord hath let me see within this short time, is worth a world of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1378]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say somethign. - Essays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13780]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the whole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd ask for a pinball machine, because with all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd ask for a pinball machine, because with all that rocking back and forth you'd probably be able to get a lot of free games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12972]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20722]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47663]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we think that Jesus did not rise, but "lives" and "reigns" only in his memories and imaginations, and is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6859]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we think that Jesus did not rise, but "lives" and "reigns" only in his memories and imaginations, and is not actively and objectively "there" in the place of power, irrespective of whether he is acknowledged or not, we should give up hope of our own rising, and of Jesus' public return, and admit that the idea of churches and Christians being sustained by the Spirit-giving energy of a living Lord was never more than a pleasing illusion. And, in that case, we ought frankly to affirm that, though the New Testament is an amazing witness to the religious creativity of the human spirit, its actual message is more wrong than right, more misleading than helpful; and we must reconstruct our gospel accordingly. Only a weak, muddled, or cowardly mind will hesitate to do this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3746]]></link><description><![CDATA[In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or soar aloft to be the spangled skies And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or soar aloft to be the spangled skies And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57833</guid></item></channel></rss>