<?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[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground--long heath, brown furze, anything. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground--long heath, brown furze, anything. The wills above be done, but I would fain die a dry death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like part of my family. It's like one of my children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39753]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like part of my family. It's like one of my children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't tell you I'm satisfied with the results of the whole camera situation, because I'm not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28711]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't tell you I'm satisfied with the results of the whole camera situation, because I'm not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221  Verily, if thou desirest to have the Creator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221  Verily, if thou desirest to have the Creator of all creatures, thou must renounce all creatures; for it cannot be otherwise, but only insomuch as thy soul is emptied and bared; the less of the creature, the more of God: this is but a fair bargain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't knock it back now it's just going to get worse and worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33558]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't knock it back now it's just going to get worse and worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between cause and effect. [Fr., Entre le bon sens et ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between cause and effect. [Fr., Entre le bon sens et le bon gout il y a la difference de la cause a son effet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basketball is a discipline game. There is a time for running and gunning and a time to slow things down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basketball is a discipline game. There is a time for running and gunning and a time to slow things down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2822]]></link><description><![CDATA[By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is not knowing but doing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is not knowing but doing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47366]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16931]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's essentially the entire refining capacity of Canada. That's called a severe supply shock, and that really affects the wholesale ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32982]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's essentially the entire refining capacity of Canada. That's called a severe supply shock, and that really affects the wholesale market, or the price at the refineries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All green was vanished save of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue;  Save the green holly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19583]]></link><description><![CDATA[All green was vanished save of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue;  Save the green holly with its berries red,   And the green moss that o'er the gravel spread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24453]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64985]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They simply don't want a recession. It's an insurance policy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37051]]></link><description><![CDATA[They simply don't want a recession. It's an insurance policy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26294]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5265]]></link><description><![CDATA[My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success begins with belief and ends with doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success begins with belief and ends with doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can't find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can't find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn to be receptive of that gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who knows where the skeletons are in the closets of (WTO) member states better than Pascal Lamy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who knows where the skeletons are in the closets of (WTO) member states better than Pascal Lamy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no retracing our steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50363]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no retracing our steps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad excuses are worse than none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe witha person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe witha person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouringall right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that afaithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keepingand, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spiders are relatively high in protein, but they tickle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spiders are relatively high in protein, but they tickle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it's your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's the furthest thing from a distraction, I think it brings an excitement. We've played a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's the furthest thing from a distraction, I think it brings an excitement. We've played a lot of games in a short stretch here, and this should certainly be something that brings out a spark in us, no doubt about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told,  Now shade--now bright and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43079]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told,  Now shade--now bright and sunny--   But of all the lunar things that change,    The one that shows most fickle and strange,     And takes the most eccentric range,      Is the moon--so called--of honey!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  To be right with God has often meant to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373  To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asian governments are making significant progress in the fight against poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Asian governments are making significant progress in the fight against poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wished your venison better--it was ill killed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13270]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wished your venison better--it was ill killed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is but little in this world which can go wrong because everything is a blessing in disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62225]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is but little in this world which can go wrong because everything is a blessing in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think, oh, grateful think! How good the God of Harvest is to you;  Who pours abundance o'er your flowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think, oh, grateful think! How good the God of Harvest is to you;  Who pours abundance o'er your flowing fields,   While those unhappy partners of you kind    Wide-hover round you, like the fowls of heaven,     And ask their humble dole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habits of close attention, thinking heads, Become more rare as dissipation spreads,  Till authors hear at length one general ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits of close attention, thinking heads, Become more rare as dissipation spreads,  Till authors hear at length one general cry   Tickle and entertain us, or we die!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16082]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48018</guid></item></channel></rss>