<?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[Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23791]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let this be an example. Everybody out there, all those young people, learn from this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let this be an example. Everybody out there, all those young people, learn from this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23026]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the way you love, but I hate the way I'm supposed to love you back ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18804]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the way you love, but I hate the way I'm supposed to love you back]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents  The armorers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents  The armorers accomplishing the knights,   With busy hammers closing rivets up,    Give dreadful note of preparation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issues of redistricting using the 2000 Census doesn't seem likely to me to be successful. The political gerrymandering is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42504]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issues of redistricting using the 2000 Census doesn't seem likely to me to be successful. The political gerrymandering is going to be the primary issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest eloquence is that which gets things done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2292]]></link><description><![CDATA[One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negotiations, in the view of the government, are the only constructive way to a solution of this question, ... In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Negotiations, in the view of the government, are the only constructive way to a solution of this question, ... In this way, the international community can feel confident in Iran's statements that its nuclear program serves only peaceful intentions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20443]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to light 1 candlethan to curse the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59225]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to light 1 candlethan to curse the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9336]]></link><description><![CDATA[A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57479]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14754]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of corporations that aren't paying their share at all. We need a more comprehensive mix of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41579]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of corporations that aren't paying their share at all. We need a more comprehensive mix of taxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/90]]></link><description><![CDATA[The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/90</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would he were fatter! But I fear him not. Yet if my name were liable to fear,  I do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would he were fatter! But I fear him not. Yet if my name were liable to fear,  I do not know the man I should avoid   So soon as that spare Cassius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Shepherd's Boy and the WolfA sheperd boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1578]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Shepherd's Boy and the WolfA sheperd boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the villagers three or four times by crying out, Wolf! Wolf! and when his neighbors came to help him, laughed at them for their pains. The Wolf, however, did truly come at last. The Shepherd-boy, now really alarmed, shouted in an agony of terror: Pray, do come and help me; the Wolf is killing the sheep; but no one paid any heed to his cries, nor rendered any assistance. The Wolf, having no cause of fear, at his leisure lacerated or destroyed the whole flock. There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience, time and money accommodate all things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience, time and money accommodate all things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to us well-nigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7749]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to us well-nigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds of the world die out in the soul, or sink low, then we hear these whisperings of God. He is always whispering to us, only we do not always hear, because of the noise, hurry, and distraction which life causes as it rushes on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He stands erect; his slouch becomes a walk; He steps right onward, martial in his air,  His form and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57147]]></link><description><![CDATA[He stands erect; his slouch becomes a walk; He steps right onward, martial in his air,  His form and movement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If two wrongs don't make a right, try three. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57879]]></link><description><![CDATA[If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I went to the copy machine, the medal went to the copy machine, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35436]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I went to the copy machine, the medal went to the copy machine, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think there's enough evidence to support the argument that there is a recovery in information technology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28343]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think there's enough evidence to support the argument that there is a recovery in information technology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53398]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solon wished everybody to be ready to take everybody else's part; but surely Chilo was wiser in holding that public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solon wished everybody to be ready to take everybody else's part; but surely Chilo was wiser in holding that public affairs go best when the laws have much attention and the orators none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can play about anything, but I gotta get it all rigged where I could get to it, you know, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can play about anything, but I gotta get it all rigged where I could get to it, you know, so I can play it all at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11341]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to complain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  Persons that are well affected to religion, that receive instructions of piety ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6945]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  Persons that are well affected to religion, that receive instructions of piety with pleasure and satisfaction, often wonder how it comes to pass that they make no greater progress in that religion which they so much admire. Now the reason of it is this: it is because religion lives only in their head, but something else has possession of their heart; and therefore they continue from year to year mere admirers and praisers of piety, without ever coming up to the reality and perfection of its precepts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that he wrought so high the specious tale, As manifested plainly 'twas a lie.  [Lat., Se non volea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26108]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that he wrought so high the specious tale, As manifested plainly 'twas a lie.  [Lat., Se non volea pulir sua scusa tanto,   Che la facesse di menzogna rea.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872   Infant Baptism... has been a witness for the Son of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872   Infant Baptism... has been a witness for the Son of Man and the universality of His Kingdom, like no other. It has taught parents that to bring children into the world is not a horrible crime. It has led them to see Christ and His redemption of humanity through all the mists of our teachings and our qualifications. It has explained the nature of His Kingdom to the hearts even of the poorest. Christ has preached at the fonts, when we have been darkening counsel in the pulpits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If that child is a message in a bottle, ... it has just washed up on shore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30811]]></link><description><![CDATA[If that child is a message in a bottle, ... it has just washed up on shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2380]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3258]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the people we’ve become, well, they’ve never been the people who we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12552]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the people we’ve become, well, they’ve never been the people who we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29578]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness. [Ger., In gahrend Drachengift hast du  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46870]]></link><description><![CDATA[To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness. [Ger., In gahrend Drachengift hast du  Die Milch der frommen Denkart mir verwandelt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are born mad. Some remain so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are born mad. Some remain so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21006</guid></item></channel></rss>