<?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[Journalism consists largely in saying 'Lord Jones died' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism consists largely in saying 'Lord Jones died' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I 'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55904]]></link><description><![CDATA[I 'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way -- by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's timing in moving me down here was perfect, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39159]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's timing in moving me down here was perfect,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need a plumber to install showers; we want to expand the playground for the children; we also want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41498]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need a plumber to install showers; we want to expand the playground for the children; we also want to incorporate classes that will benefit the mothers into our schedule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wafer fab (fabrication plant) is something very complex and a difficult business to run and operate, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32193]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wafer fab (fabrication plant) is something very complex and a difficult business to run and operate,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelqu'un comme ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60389]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelqu'un comme il veut l'etre.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and beget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and beget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A compliment is verbal sunshine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9259]]></link><description><![CDATA[A compliment is verbal sunshine]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many Christians are reluctant to become involved in public affairs be cause politics is a "dirty business", but the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many Christians are reluctant to become involved in public affairs be cause politics is a "dirty business", but the same people are generally quite happy to go into business life, which is in its way just as "dirty". If the dubious practices and moral compromises of every walk of life were dissected and made known with the glare of publicity which shines on the activities of politicians, then those who like to think that they can keep their hands clean would have very few professions to choose from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's infamous. She was all excited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39755]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's infamous. She was all excited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build Her humble nest, lies silent in the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24112]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes 26 muscles to smile, and 62 muscles to frown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56666]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes 26 muscles to smile, and 62 muscles to frown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Child abuse does not go away, but 90 percent of child abuse is preventable, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Child abuse does not go away, but 90 percent of child abuse is preventable,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, butrather as a problem with ourselves, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21369]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, butrather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we willimmediately feel overwhelmed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10930]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every mile is two in winter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every mile is two in winter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ama me fideliter!Fidem meam noto:De corde totaliterEt ex mente tota,Sum presentialiterAbsens in remota."Lat: "Love me faithfully!/See how I am faithful:/With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ama me fideliter!Fidem meam noto:De corde totaliterEt ex mente tota,Sum presentialiterAbsens in remota."Lat: "Love me faithfully!/See how I am faithful:/With all my heart/And all my soul/I am with you/Though I am far away. - Carmina Burana, "Omnia Sol Temperat".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11382]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: so the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43671]]></link><description><![CDATA[I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, "Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[In Overdosed America, Dr. Abramson cites CDC data indicating that over the course of the past 100 years, life expectancy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38392]]></link><description><![CDATA[[In Overdosed America, Dr. Abramson cites CDC data indicating that over the course of the past 100 years, life expectancy has increased by a remarkable 30 years. Yet according to the CDC report quoted by Abramson,] 25 years of this gain are attributable to advances in public health. ... These include improvements such as sanitation, clean food and water, decent housing, good nutrition, higher standards of living, and widespread vaccinations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know we've got to create time out of no time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know we've got to create time out of no time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50135]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the justice that examines all offenders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the justice that examines all offenders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59279</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[Wise men still seek Him today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men still seek Him today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1176]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee stands not surely, that never slips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee stands not surely, that never slips.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22247]]></link><description><![CDATA[The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63600]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little house well fill'd, a little land well till'd, and a little wife well will'd, are great riches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61370]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little house well fill'd, a little land well till'd, and a little wife well will'd, are great riches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28769]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools;  Yet now and then your men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16177]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools;  Yet now and then your men of wit   Will condescend to take a bit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To finish first, you must first finish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22219]]></link><description><![CDATA[To finish first, you must first finish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a child all weather is cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49990]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a child all weather is cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54873</guid></item></channel></rss>