<?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[Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historians say this will lead to civil conflict. It doesn't lead to girls being treasured. It leads to them being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians say this will lead to civil conflict. It doesn't lead to girls being treasured. It leads to them being traded as commodities and stolen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goths are sort of like mimes with long hair and trenchcoats. Neat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goths are sort of like mimes with long hair and trenchcoats. Neat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slow let us trace the matchless vale of Thames; Fair winding up to where the Muses haunt  In Twit'nham ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slow let us trace the matchless vale of Thames; Fair winding up to where the Muses haunt  In Twit'nham bowers, and for their Pope implore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13964]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . Years steal Fire from the mind, as vigor from the limb;  And life's enchanted cut but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1726]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . Years steal Fire from the mind, as vigor from the limb;  And life's enchanted cut but sparkles near the brim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor is he solicitous about fine and fashionable apparel; aspiring rather after robes of divine light, and the raiment of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor is he solicitous about fine and fashionable apparel; aspiring rather after robes of divine light, and the raiment of glorified bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know it sounds overused, but truthfully, each department is interdependent upon the other. You couldn't have done it without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32887]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know it sounds overused, but truthfully, each department is interdependent upon the other. You couldn't have done it without physicians, hospital board and staff members, city council all different stakeholder groups consistently working together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, gentle dames! it gars we greet, To think how mony consels sweet,  How mony lengthened, sage advices,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, gentle dames! it gars we greet, To think how mony consels sweet,  How mony lengthened, sage advices,   The husband frae the wife despises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I feel good about the way I played tonight. I was moving well and feeling healthy so it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29173]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I feel good about the way I played tonight. I was moving well and feeling healthy so it was all good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every countrey the sun rises in the morning. [In every country the sun rises in the morning.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49538]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every countrey the sun rises in the morning. [In every country the sun rises in the morning.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How shall I lose the sin yet keep the sense, And love th' offender, yet detest the offence? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56396]]></link><description><![CDATA[How shall I lose the sin yet keep the sense, And love th' offender, yet detest the offence?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slapped him in the mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36314]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slapped him in the mouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cholesterol in and of itself isn't harmful; it's an integral part of the normal function of our body, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cholesterol in and of itself isn't harmful; it's an integral part of the normal function of our body,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9316]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come Tuesday morning, everybody's going to be here working. As soon as the insurance company gives us the OK, we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come Tuesday morning, everybody's going to be here working. As soon as the insurance company gives us the OK, we're going to go ahead and rebuild. We should have a slight transition for our customers and our help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4281]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organizations are pressured to grow revenues, reduce costs, and provide higher levels of customer service in a global marketplace where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organizations are pressured to grow revenues, reduce costs, and provide higher levels of customer service in a global marketplace where purchasers have more choices and less time than ever before. Selectively investing in high-value customers empowers organizations to boost revenues, reduce operational costs, and to increase customer retention/acquisition rates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty, all-powerful money gives them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50222]]></link><description><![CDATA[For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty, all-powerful money gives them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act as if it were impossible to fail ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act as if it were impossible to fail]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35301]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14230]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. -Albert Schweitzer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10056]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5544]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  To worship is to quicken ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, and to devote the will to the purpose of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63877]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks;  News from all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23339]]></link><description><![CDATA[He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks;  News from all nations lumbering at his back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10220]]></link><description><![CDATA['My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenesare to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily,enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as afitting climax for the journey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we now come to the park expecting to win instead of playing not to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44215]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we now come to the park expecting to win instead of playing not to lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That person proves his worth who can make us want to listen when he is with us and think when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22199]]></link><description><![CDATA[That person proves his worth who can make us want to listen when he is with us and think when he is gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This power of being outwardly genial and inwardly austere, which is the real Christian temper, depends entirely upon the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7856]]></link><description><![CDATA[This power of being outwardly genial and inwardly austere, which is the real Christian temper, depends entirely upon the time set apart for personal religion. It is always achieved if courageously and faithfully sought; and there are no heights of love and holiness to which it cannot lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   Be patient, not only with respect to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   Be patient, not only with respect to the main trials which beset you, but also under the accidental and accessory annoyances which arise out of them. We often find people who imagine themselves ready to accept a trial in itself who are impatient of its consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9284]]></link><description><![CDATA[The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10685]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity is the first path to truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity is the first path to truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23618</guid></item></channel></rss>