<?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[Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gen. Alexander will have to clean up the mess. We need to know if the money is being properly spent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gen. Alexander will have to clean up the mess. We need to know if the money is being properly spent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action. So act! Whatever it is you know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/562]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action. So act! Whatever it is you know you should do, do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting has been very useful to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting has been very useful to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know myself now, and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities,  A still and quiet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know myself now, and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities,  A still and quiet conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Providence is a greater mystery than revelation. The state of our world is more humiliating to our reason than the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Providence is a greater mystery than revelation. The state of our world is more humiliating to our reason than the doctrines of the Gospel. A reflecting Christian sees more to excite his astonishment, and to exercise his faith, in the state of things between Temple Bar [in Dublin] and St. Paul's [in London], than in what he reads from Genesis to Revelation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25238]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3447]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64375]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be that contented person who looks beyond circumstances and see better days rather than the discontented who looks at circumstances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be that contented person who looks beyond circumstances and see better days rather than the discontented who looks at circumstances and see no other way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.  [Fr., L'heure de la justice ne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58317]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.  [Fr., L'heure de la justice ne sonne pas   Aux cadrans de ce monde.]   - Maurice Maeterlinck, Measure of the Hours,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1265]]></link><description><![CDATA[True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality of construction and the design excellence are the key ingredients that set the homes that bear our name apart. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality of construction and the design excellence are the key ingredients that set the homes that bear our name apart. With our high level of customer service, we take a personal interest in every home we build.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65437]]></link><description><![CDATA[To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28048]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For now, the corn house filled, the harvest home, Th' invited neighbors to the husking come;  A frolic scene, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18760]]></link><description><![CDATA[For now, the corn house filled, the harvest home, Th' invited neighbors to the husking come;  A frolic scene, where work and mirth and play   Unite their charms to cheer the hours away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most expensive wedding usually ends with the quickest divorce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most expensive wedding usually ends with the quickest divorce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's best friends are his ten fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23960]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's best friends are his ten fingers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33534]]></link><description><![CDATA[At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The steady demand for our product in the face of fare increases indicates that the market currently is less price-sensitive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The steady demand for our product in the face of fare increases indicates that the market currently is less price-sensitive that it has been in the past. It also tells us that we are hitting the mark in delivering customer value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12792]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22108]]></link><description><![CDATA[You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,  This longing after immortality? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20594]]></link><description><![CDATA[It must be so--Plato, thou reasonest well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,  This longing after immortality?   Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror,    O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul     Back on herself, and startles at destruction?      'Tis the divinity that stirs within us;       'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter,        And intimates eternity to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65707]]></link><description><![CDATA[As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47087]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64914]]></link><description><![CDATA[For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the enjoyment of God is the heaven of the Saints, so the loss of God is the hell of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7894]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the enjoyment of God is the heaven of the Saints, so the loss of God is the hell of the ungodly. And, as the enjoying of God is the enjoying of all, so the loss of God is the loss of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57861]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5415]]></link><description><![CDATA[If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are only trying to protect our investments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32606]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are only trying to protect our investments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternity is really long, especially near the end ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternity is really long, especially near the end]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm kind of disappointed. I've had (5,000 points) taped up on my mirror for a couple of weeks. I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29681]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm kind of disappointed. I've had (5,000 points) taped up on my mirror for a couple of weeks. I would have had it, but I had a really bad long jump.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great is truth, and strongest of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is truth, and strongest of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to be a veterinarian when I grow up, because I really, really like helping animals and being with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31148]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to be a veterinarian when I grow up, because I really, really like helping animals and being with animals, ... I've just liked that for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31148</guid></item></channel></rss>