<?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[I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48154]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House--with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that his statement was credible, and we at this point do not suspect that Jones was involved in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33714]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that his statement was credible, and we at this point do not suspect that Jones was involved in the firing of the shots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is nice to finish the home season with a victory, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41973]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is nice to finish the home season with a victory,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill!  All the spring is in her train,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill!  All the spring is in her train,   Led by shining ranks of rain;    Pit, pat, patter, clatter,     Sudden sun and clatter patter!      . . . .       All things ready with a will,        April's coming up the hill!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd, wakes the bitter memory  Of what he was, what is, and what must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd, wakes the bitter memory  Of what he was, what is, and what must be   Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56355]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. -Thomas More.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situation in Abidjan is very similar to the one we had yesterday. There's a crowd of Young Patriots outside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situation in Abidjan is very similar to the one we had yesterday. There's a crowd of Young Patriots outside the U.N. building as we speak, and it's a growing crowd. We had an attack on a U.N. convoy this morning shortly before 7 a.m.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are going to individually visit all of those houses to shut off the gas meters and then when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31117]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are going to individually visit all of those houses to shut off the gas meters and then when the repairs are made, we will turn them back on. This is extremely unusual, and we are really looking into what exactly caused that ignition, but we just won't know for some time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This (assassination) is against our principles and my principles, and I would never do such a thing in my life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29894]]></link><description><![CDATA[This (assassination) is against our principles and my principles, and I would never do such a thing in my life, ... What do we achieve? I think what happened targeted Syria.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61285]]></link><description><![CDATA[For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things require skill, but an appetite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49111]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things require skill, but an appetite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is more of bitterness than good nature in him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50515]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more of bitterness than good nature in him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5129]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43627]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pastoralists living in these arid, remote lands have very few survival strategies left and desperately require our assistance to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pastoralists living in these arid, remote lands have very few survival strategies left and desperately require our assistance to make it through until the next rains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come,  In some dread moment. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come,  In some dread moment. by the fates assign'd,   Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind;    And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last     The speed that spins the future and the past:      And, sovereign of an undisputed throne,       Awful eternity shall reign alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8740]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness:  So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,   Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26790]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20792]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that is a master must serve (another). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that is a master must serve (another).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57054]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43001]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think this is the biggest disservice to middle-aged men. A lot of them used to look dignified, and now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35654]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think this is the biggest disservice to middle-aged men. A lot of them used to look dignified, and now they look like rumpled old men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear may come true that which one is afraid of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62057]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The political world is stimulating. It's the most interesting thing you can do. It beats following the dollar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47034]]></link><description><![CDATA[The political world is stimulating. It's the most interesting thing you can do. It beats following the dollar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64801]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're happy to support organizations like the YMCA that support great programs in the communities that we serve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34618]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're happy to support organizations like the YMCA that support great programs in the communities that we serve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66163]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earthe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earthe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The effect speakes, the tongue needes not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48064]]></link><description><![CDATA[No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are apt to overlook the hand and heart of God in our afflictions, and to consider them as mere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7613]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are apt to overlook the hand and heart of God in our afflictions, and to consider them as mere accidents, and unavoidable evils. This view makes them absolute and positive evils, which admit of no remedy or relief. If we view our troubles and trials aside from the divine design and agency in them, we cannot be comforted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Benigno Aguirre, of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, has been watching and reading about looters in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30044]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Benigno Aguirre, of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, has been watching and reading about looters in Louisiana.] It may look from the outside as if they are stealing or breaking the law, ... when in fact some of them are trying to survive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He ne'er consider'd it as loth To look a gift-horse in the mouth,  And very wisely would lay forth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17432]]></link><description><![CDATA[He ne'er consider'd it as loth To look a gift-horse in the mouth,  And very wisely would lay forth   No more upon it than 'twas worth;    But as he got it freely, so     He spent it frank and freely too:      For saints themselves will sometimes be,       Of gifts that cost them nothing, free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure ... Each one of us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55037]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure ... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church is the great lost and found department. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53598]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church is the great lost and found department.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53598</guid></item></channel></rss>