<?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 Autumn wood the aster knows, The empty nest, the wind that grieves,  The sunlight breaking thro' the shade, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3386]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Autumn wood the aster knows, The empty nest, the wind that grieves,  The sunlight breaking thro' the shade,   The squirrel chattering overhead,    The timid rabbits lighter tread     Among the rustling leaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56212]]></link><description><![CDATA[The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10696]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26045]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59818]]></link><description><![CDATA[How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a little early, we weren't quite ready yet and all of our funding wasn't there. But we felt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41497]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a little early, we weren't quite ready yet and all of our funding wasn't there. But we felt, and still feel, that it was the right thing to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we would like a presence for the block party we have planned for April 22, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32388]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we would like a presence for the block party we have planned for April 22,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12223]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had eight before, but nine has got to be the very outer edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38759]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had eight before, but nine has got to be the very outer edge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we devote our time disparaging the products of our business rivals, we hurt business generally, reduce confidence, and increase ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15784]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we devote our time disparaging the products of our business rivals, we hurt business generally, reduce confidence, and increase discontent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many have screwed the truth, but fewhave called her the next day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many have screwed the truth, but fewhave called her the next day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The waters wear the stones: thou washeth away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46157]]></link><description><![CDATA[The waters wear the stones: thou washeth away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is sweetened by risk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is sweetened by risk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53991]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man will not live without answers to his questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man will not live without answers to his questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379   Love is careful of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379   Love is careful of little things, of circumstances and measures, and of little accidents; not allowing to itself any infirmity which it strives not to master, aiming at what it cannot yet reach, desiring to be of an angelic purity, and of a perfect innocence, and a seraphical fervor, and fears every image of offense; is as much afflicted at an idle word as some at an act of adultery, and will not allow to itself so much anger as will disturb a child, nor endure the impurity of a dream. And this is the curiosity and niceness of divine love: this is the fear of God, and is the daughter and production of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man-like it is to fall into sin; fiendlike it is to dwell therein. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man-like it is to fall into sin; fiendlike it is to dwell therein.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in debt is so far a slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11473]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in debt is so far a slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24573]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life can be seen through your eyes butit is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life can be seen through your eyes butit is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunman have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59002]]></link><description><![CDATA[These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should listen first and foremost to our own experience...We should stop looking for saviors... Society has not existed for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52154]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should listen first and foremost to our own experience...We should stop looking for saviors... Society has not existed for thousands of years because it had a succession of saviors. It's existed because it has institutions and processes through which people can realize their own goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. Every person in this life has something to teach me - and as soon as I accept that, I open myself to truly listening. -John Lahr.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18112]]></link><description><![CDATA[To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43578]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His heart and hand both open and both free; For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows; Yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56071]]></link><description><![CDATA[His heart and hand both open and both free; For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows; Yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iv. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29463]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62328]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62333]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills. [Fr., Il est plus facile de paraitre digne des emplois qu'on n'a pas que de ceux que l'on exerce.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it's everything in between that makes it all worth living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it's everything in between that makes it all worth living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64273]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That 400-person party would cost about $500 a head, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32947]]></link><description><![CDATA[That 400-person party would cost about $500 a head,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61987]]></link><description><![CDATA[O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird that soars on highest wing, Builds on the ground her lowly nest;  And she that doth most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24098]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird that soars on highest wing, Builds on the ground her lowly nest;  And she that doth most sweetly sing,   Sings in the shade when all things rest:    In lark and nightingale we see     What honor hath humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24871]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8144]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8144</guid></item></channel></rss>