<?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[An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48331]]></link><description><![CDATA[An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valencia has done an excellent job of building and guiding a very thoughtful and effective diversity and inclusion strategy at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valencia has done an excellent job of building and guiding a very thoughtful and effective diversity and inclusion strategy at our company. Her long history of service at BellSouth and in the community combined with her breadth of business knowledge makes her a tremendous asset to this Board.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no slavery but ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47476]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no slavery but ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People's Democratic Party, which is a coalition partner in the state with Congress, has been issuing such statements and Gandhi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34852]]></link><description><![CDATA[People's Democratic Party, which is a coalition partner in the state with Congress, has been issuing such statements and Gandhi must take strong notice of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dew of compassion is a tear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9171]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dew of compassion is a tear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Goneril:) I have been worth the whistle. (Albany:) O Goneril,  You are not worth the dust which the rude ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62337]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Goneril:) I have been worth the whistle. (Albany:) O Goneril,  You are not worth the dust which the rude wind   Blows in your face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  It must have been a most blessed discovery, that of an old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  It must have been a most blessed discovery, that of an old Latin Bible which he found in the Erfurt Library about this time. He had never seen the Book before. It taught him another lesson than that of fasts and vigils... Luther learned now that a man was saved not by singing masses, but by the infinite grace of God: a more credible hypothesis. He gradually got himself founded, as on the rock. No wonder he should venerate the Bible, which had brought this blessed help to him. He prized it as the Word of the Highest must be prized by such a man. He determined to hold by that, as through life and to death he firmly did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one's ever going to shag you if you cry all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41104]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one's ever going to shag you if you cry all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eloquence is the poetry of prose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eloquence is the poetry of prose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave, But not remember'd in thy epitaph! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave, But not remember'd in thy epitaph! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2187]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too bus to take care of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50963]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too bus to take care of his tools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An elephant wasn't sitting on my chest, so I couldn't be having a heart attack. I'm very glad to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31087]]></link><description><![CDATA[An elephant wasn't sitting on my chest, so I couldn't be having a heart attack. I'm very glad to be here today, because a couple years ago it wasn't a sure thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/376]]></link><description><![CDATA[High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28687]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed of winde that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled Enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed of winde that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled Enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46325]]></link><description><![CDATA[What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have exceeded forecasts. Such large growth was not expected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42608]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have exceeded forecasts. Such large growth was not expected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cause is hidden, but the result is known. [Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cause is hidden, but the result is known. [Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gard'ner, for telling me these news of woe, Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gard'ner, for telling me these news of woe, Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19276]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sing out my soul, thy songs of joy; Such as a happy bird will sing,  Beneath a Rainbow's lovely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sing out my soul, thy songs of joy; Such as a happy bird will sing,  Beneath a Rainbow's lovely arch,   In early spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. [Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. [Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18620]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks--especially with cranks. . . . Sweating, slums, the sense of semi-slavery in labour, must go. We must cultivate a sense of manhood by treating men as men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let none admire That riches grow in hell; that soil may best  Deserve the precious bane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let none admire That riches grow in hell; that soil may best  Deserve the precious bane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58785]]></link><description><![CDATA[So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most meaningful growth was in diamond jewelry at higher price levels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41669]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most meaningful growth was in diamond jewelry at higher price levels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23427]]></link><description><![CDATA[They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48660]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People aren't going to be happy if it goes down this way. I hope we get a simpler solution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35013]]></link><description><![CDATA[People aren't going to be happy if it goes down this way. I hope we get a simpler solution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/978]]></link><description><![CDATA[One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2118]]></link><description><![CDATA[We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since you know all, and I nothing, tell me what I dreamed last night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since you know all, and I nothing, tell me what I dreamed last night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349   Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349   Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love without measure; desire without limit; longing without order; burning without discretion. Truly the better the love of Thee is, the greedier it is; for neither by reason is it restrained, nor be dread thronged, nor by doom tempted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60984]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still harping on my daughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still harping on my daughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19882]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the fawn just died. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41802]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the fawn just died.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41802</guid></item></channel></rss>