<?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[That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4552]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An agreement is a kind of debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1927]]></link><description><![CDATA[An agreement is a kind of debt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't come out focused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42100]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't come out focused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no hospitality like understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19851]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no hospitality like understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All in the Downs are fleet was moor'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44020]]></link><description><![CDATA[All in the Downs are fleet was moor'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is plain as a pike staff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is plain as a pike staff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the things that truly matter beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace arise from beyond the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63007]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the things that truly matter beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace arise from beyond the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And yet he hadde "a thombe of gold" pardee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17771]]></link><description><![CDATA[And yet he hadde "a thombe of gold" pardee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold,  Translated to a vase of gold;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25097]]></link><description><![CDATA[But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold,  Translated to a vase of gold;   In burning throne though they keep still    Serenities unthawed and chill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one has a right to happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47607]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has a right to happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I worked with patience which means almost power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45710]]></link><description><![CDATA[I worked with patience which means almost power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe this payola scandal may represent the most widespread and flagrant violation of any FCC rules in the history ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe this payola scandal may represent the most widespread and flagrant violation of any FCC rules in the history of American broadcasting. Mr. Spitzer's office has collected a mountain of evidence on the potentially illegal promotion practices of not only Sony BMG, but also other major record companies, independent promoters and several of the largest radio station groups.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brandon really pitched well all game. That first inning his defensive just didn't help him out. That was kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brandon really pitched well all game. That first inning his defensive just didn't help him out. That was kind of a wake up call for us. He threw strikes and kept us in the ball game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great for New England golf fans that the PGA Tour has made Labor Day weekend an annual end-of-summer destination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30246]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great for New England golf fans that the PGA Tour has made Labor Day weekend an annual end-of-summer destination at the TPC,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Asia, for a long time we have been in denial about the sustainability of high oil prices. There is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36689]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Asia, for a long time we have been in denial about the sustainability of high oil prices. There is tremendous potential for Asia to improve efficiency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61192]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the rich man, Lazarus was part of the landscape. If ever he did notice him, it never struck him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7785]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the rich man, Lazarus was part of the landscape. If ever he did notice him, it never struck him that Lazarus had anything to do with him. He was simply unaware of his presence, or, if he was aware of it, he had no sense of responsibility for it... A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played with no subs. We just had 11 girls on the field and I thought that they played really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39456]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played with no subs. We just had 11 girls on the field and I thought that they played really hard and pretty well right through to the end of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A strong nor'wester's blowing, Bill; Hark! don't ye hear it roar now?  Lord help 'em, how I pities them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56168]]></link><description><![CDATA[A strong nor'wester's blowing, Bill; Hark! don't ye hear it roar now?  Lord help 'em, how I pities them   Unhappy folks on shore, now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11520]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).   - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).   - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History knows no resting place and no plateaus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19482]]></link><description><![CDATA[History knows no resting place and no plateaus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27353]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27598]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a tightrope with God at the end. If we walk with our eyes down, looking at what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a tightrope with God at the end. If we walk with our eyes down, looking at what is happening right now in our lives, we are likely to waver and fall. However, if we focus at the end of the rope, where God and Heaven await us, we can see past all of the petty troubles this present life and walk more steadily. We may sometimes still stumble, but if we get back up and train our eyes on God once again, He will guide us to the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63853]]></link><description><![CDATA[All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes that's easier to do. They get excited about it - it's a novelty. The ones you swim over and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes that's easier to do. They get excited about it - it's a novelty. The ones you swim over and over again you don't always want to do that in back-to-back duals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death-the last voyage, the longest and the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death-the last voyage, the longest and the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66407]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915 Give me an open ear, O God, that I may hear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915 Give me an open ear, O God, that I may hear Thy voice  calling me to high endeavor. Give me an open mind, O God, a mind ready to receive and to welcome  such new light of knowledge as it is Thy will to reveal to me. Give me open eyes, O God, eyes quick to discover  Thine indwelling in the world which Thou hast made. Give me open hands, O God, hands ready to share with all who are in want  the blessings with which Thou hast enriched my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of options out there that advertisers now have besides the 30-second commercial on network television, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30403]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of options out there that advertisers now have besides the 30-second commercial on network television,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29567]]></link><description><![CDATA[None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58689]]></link><description><![CDATA[In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad literature . . . is a form of treason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad literature . . . is a form of treason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59660</guid></item></channel></rss>