<?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[If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63164]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14482]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless he knew you wouldn't believe the truth even if he told it to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless he knew you wouldn't believe the truth even if he told it to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're sort of the soundtrack to these wonderful, wonderful images, ... The subject is the universe, but we interpret that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31146]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're sort of the soundtrack to these wonderful, wonderful images, ... The subject is the universe, but we interpret that loosely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentecost  Every time we say, 'I believe in the Holy Spirit,' we mean that we believe that there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentecost  Every time we say, 'I believe in the Holy Spirit,' we mean that we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's going to a good team, but also to a team where they do things differently. It may take him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42470]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's going to a good team, but also to a team where they do things differently. It may take him some time to adjust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future will be better tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47072]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future will be better tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one-way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22798]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one-way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man. -Alan Paton.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40153]]></link><description><![CDATA[He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now this is the ground and original of the Spirit of Love in the creature, it is and must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now this is the ground and original of the Spirit of Love in the creature, it is and must be a will to all goodness; and you have not the Spirit of Love in you till you have this will to all goodness at all times and on all occasions. You may indeed do many works of love and delight in them -- especially at such times as they are not inconvenient to your state or temper or occurrences in life. But the Spirit of Love is not in you till it is the spirit of your life, till you live freely, willingly, and universally according to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66918]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53622]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13459]]></link><description><![CDATA[In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were devastated, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40069]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were devastated,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61415]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22289]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20104]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58892]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--  Not shrink and let the shaft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--  Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast   To pierce another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5367]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time stoops to no man's lure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time stoops to no man's lure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5256]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[weak persons because they are new faces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41294]]></link><description><![CDATA[weak persons because they are new faces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19894]]></link><description><![CDATA[It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the first half we were a little sloppy in different parts of the field, but I think in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30785]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the first half we were a little sloppy in different parts of the field, but I think in the second half we were much more solid. Obviously, we could have scored more goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abused patience turns to fury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abused patience turns to fury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came out swinging today and it paid off. We have a few guys in the middle of the lineup ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41145]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came out swinging today and it paid off. We have a few guys in the middle of the lineup who can take the ball deep; that pitch that Turner hit got up in the jet stream and just took off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rain forest has spent a lot of money and done extensive research on Johnson County and the Corridor. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rain forest has spent a lot of money and done extensive research on Johnson County and the Corridor. If you were not going to upset the whole flow of your deal, you choose somewhere nearby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21319]]></link><description><![CDATA[HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's Agamemnon, an honest fellow enough, and one that loves quails, but he has not so much brain as ear-wax; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's Agamemnon, an honest fellow enough, and one that loves quails, but he has not so much brain as ear-wax; and the goodly transformation of Jupiter there, his brother, the bull, the primitive statue and oblique memorial of cockolds; a thrifty shoeing-horn in a chain, hanging at his brother's leg, to what form but that he is should wit larded with malice and malice forced with wit turn him to? To an ass, were nothing; he is both ass and ox: to an ox, were nothing; he is both ox and ass. To be a dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchew, a toad, a lizard, an owl, a puttock, or a herring without roe, I would not care; but to be Memelaus! I would conspire against destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steps with a tender foot, light as on air, The lovely, lordly creature floated on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steps with a tender foot, light as on air, The lovely, lordly creature floated on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more thou dam'st it up, the more it burns. The current that with gentle murmur glides,  Thou know'st, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4926]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more thou dam'st it up, the more it burns. The current that with gentle murmur glides,  Thou know'st, being stopped, impatiently doth rage;   But when his fair course is not hindered,    He makes sweet music with th' enameled stones,     Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge,      He overtaketh in his pilgrimage.       And so by many winding nooks he strays        With willing sport to the wild ocean.         Then let me go and hinder not my course.          I'll be as patient as a gentle stream           And make a pastime of each weary step,            Till the last step have brought me to my love;             And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil              A blessed soul doth in Elysium.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every historian discloses a new horizon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every historian discloses a new horizon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9003]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city. [Fr., L'Art supreme  Seule a l'eternite   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3179]]></link><description><![CDATA[High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city. [Fr., L'Art supreme  Seule a l'eternite   Et le buste    Survit la cite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3179</guid></item></channel></rss>