<?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[Is made more sacred by adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is made more sacred by adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1270]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25985]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very costly for Americans to continue to fatten up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35448]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very costly for Americans to continue to fatten up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need less posturing and more genuine charisma. Charisma was originally a religious term, meaning "of the spirit" or "inspired." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5673]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need less posturing and more genuine charisma. Charisma was originally a religious term, meaning "of the spirit" or "inspired." It's about letting God's light shine through us. It's about a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects. To let go, to just love, is not to fade into the wallpaper. Quite the contrary, it's when we truly become bright. We're letting our own light shine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was fortunate to get something out over the plate that I could hit out of the park, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35256]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was fortunate to get something out over the plate that I could hit out of the park,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18750]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite. It is death which is m]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24459]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Future Shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Future Shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. -Alvin Toffler.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22110]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff. [Lat., Ficum vocamus ficum, et scapham scapham.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43648]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff. [Lat., Ficum vocamus ficum, et scapham scapham.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still in the early stages (of recovery). The market is still suffering from excess capacity on the North Atlantic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31739]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still in the early stages (of recovery). The market is still suffering from excess capacity on the North Atlantic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people think Great God will come from the sky,Take away ev'rything, and make ev'rybody feel high.But if you know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people think Great God will come from the sky,Take away ev'rything, and make ev'rybody feel high.But if you know what life is worth, you would look for yours on earth,And now you see the light, you stand up for right, yah.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. -Arabian Proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18964]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. -Arabian Proverb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. -Much Ado ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55435]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody dies. Not everybody ever really lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody dies. Not everybody ever really lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24171]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep, And in his simple show he harbors treason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep, And in his simple show he harbors treason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54472]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway;  And as their subjects ought them to obey,   So kings should feare and serve their God againe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf and the SheepA wolf, sorely wounded and bitten by dogs, lay sick and maimed in his lair. Being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf and the SheepA wolf, sorely wounded and bitten by dogs, lay sick and maimed in his lair. Being in want of food, he called to a Sheep who was passing, and asked him to fetch some water from a stream flowing close beside him. For, he said, if you will bring me drink, I will find means to provide myself with meat. Yes, said the Sheep, if I should bring you the draught, you would doubtless make me provide the meat also. Hypocritical speeches are easily seen through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men forget but never forgive. Women forgive but never forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men forget but never forgive. Women forgive but never forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a right to a defense. A defense is [Tim] did it, or someone else did it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29213]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a right to a defense. A defense is [Tim] did it, or someone else did it!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would say there are very few fixed-rate cards left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32294]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would say there are very few fixed-rate cards left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have formed a legal defense team that includes prominent American, European, Asian and Arab lawyers who were chosen on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28222]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have formed a legal defense team that includes prominent American, European, Asian and Arab lawyers who were chosen on the basis of competence and merit to put up a strong defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4437]]></link><description><![CDATA[This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In cold blood he leapt into burning Etna. [Lat., Ardentem frigidus Aetnam insiluit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4856]]></link><description><![CDATA[In cold blood he leapt into burning Etna. [Lat., Ardentem frigidus Aetnam insiluit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you are the most evil of all sinners, you will cross over allevil on the raft of knowledge. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you are the most evil of all sinners, you will cross over allevil on the raft of knowledge. Just as a flaming fire reduces wood toashes Argina, so the fire of knowledge reduces all actions to ashes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're learning now that the destruction was even greater than we thought. What we need most now is skeleton staffs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34147]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're learning now that the destruction was even greater than we thought. What we need most now is skeleton staffs to protect these collections not just in New Orleans but all along the Gulf Coast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27403]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kiss till the cows come home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kiss till the cows come home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until the study is complete and presented to NASA and DOD senior officials in October, it is premature to comment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until the study is complete and presented to NASA and DOD senior officials in October, it is premature to comment on specifics and possible recommendations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear;  And, as their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10454]]></link><description><![CDATA[To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear;  And, as their patron hints the cold or heat,   To shake in dog-days, in December sweat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only tyrant I will accept in this world is the "still smallvoice" within me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only tyrant I will accept in this world is the "still smallvoice" within me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62738]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There cannot be a stressful crisis next week. My schedule is already full. Stress - Kids Feel It Too (an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57988]]></link><description><![CDATA[There cannot be a stressful crisis next week. My schedule is already full. Stress - Kids Feel It Too (an article) Social scientists say living in an affluent neighborhood has little to do with whether your child will be resilient, happy and successful. They are finding that when you locate a resilient child, you'll also find a caring adult that has guided her. More stress quotes coming soon. If you have a quote, saying or proverb about stress that you would like to submit to this site please fill-in the "Submit a Quote" form below. -Henry Kissinger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  If you have failings, ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  If you have failings, ask God often whether it be His honour and pleasure to take them away from you; for without Him you can do nothing. If he takes them away, thank Him; but if He does not do that, you will bear it no more, however, as the defect of a sin, but as a great trial with which you are to gain merit and practice patience. You should be content, whether or not He accords you His gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With ravish'd ears The monarch hears,  Assumes the god,   Affects to nod,    And seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17747]]></link><description><![CDATA[With ravish'd ears The monarch hears,  Assumes the god,   Affects to nod,    And seems to shake the spheres.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, we are weary pilgrims; to this wilderness we bring A Church without a bishop, a State without a King. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, we are weary pilgrims; to this wilderness we bring A Church without a bishop, a State without a King.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17969</guid></item></channel></rss>