<?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[Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her beads while she numbered, The baby still slumbered,  And smile in her face, as she bended her knee; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her beads while she numbered, The baby still slumbered,  And smile in her face, as she bended her knee;   Oh! bless'd be that warning,    My child, thy sleep adorning,     For I know that the angels are whispering with thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart is half a prophet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13742]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart is half a prophet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55812]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? O, no! the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Builders are using every nook and cranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Builders are using every nook and cranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44127]]></link><description><![CDATA[People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabitwith dignity all the days of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21417]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabitwith dignity all the days of his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20194]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, bright women who do not have the stamina for husbands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  He enters by the door who enters by Christ, who imitates the suffering of Christ, who is acquainted with the humility of Christ so as to feel and know that, if God became man for us, men should not think themselves God, but men. He who, being man, wishes to appear God, does not imitate Him who, being God, became man. Thou art not bid to think less of thyself than thou art, but to know what thou art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap. [Sp., Ut sementem feceris, ita metes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54043]]></link><description><![CDATA[As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap. [Sp., Ut sementem feceris, ita metes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37970]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24730]]></link><description><![CDATA[By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just extremely happy to win the championship with the second quickest car, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34880]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just extremely happy to win the championship with the second quickest car,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Identity is theft of the self ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Identity is theft of the self]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prison'd in a parlour snug and small, Like bottled wasps upon a southern wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prison'd in a parlour snug and small, Like bottled wasps upon a southern wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17926]]></link><description><![CDATA[None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The players want to get in the playoffs and win a championship for Bob. We still are very committed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The players want to get in the playoffs and win a championship for Bob. We still are very committed to his vision. The foundation of this team happened through Bob.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61189]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We purposely created Bob out of the ashes of George. I would be insane not to measure things against 'Seinfeld.' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37332]]></link><description><![CDATA[We purposely created Bob out of the ashes of George. I would be insane not to measure things against 'Seinfeld.' I've stolen as much of the 'Seinfeld' crew as I could to give me a hedge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,--a personage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier, in full military array.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58620]]></link><description><![CDATA[They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women's virtue is man's greatest invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16267]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To learn what is good, a thousand days are not sufficient; to learn what is evil, an hour is too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63010]]></link><description><![CDATA[To learn what is good, a thousand days are not sufficient; to learn what is evil, an hour is too long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We then use the empty containers that we off load and fill them back up with cotton from the United ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37134]]></link><description><![CDATA[We then use the empty containers that we off load and fill them back up with cotton from the United States and send it to China.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have an exciting adventure ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33199]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have an exciting adventure ahead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47799]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24754]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63750]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18445]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insanity is my only means of relaxation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insanity is my only means of relaxation]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a caldron, and at some point it's just going to boil over. We're at the edge, and this administration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31860]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a caldron, and at some point it's just going to boil over. We're at the edge, and this administration and this Legislature need to do something before we lose (control of) a prison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5890]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To the bottom of the worst. -Troilus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To the bottom of the worst. -Troilus and Cressida. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42933]]></link><description><![CDATA[As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he feels the door has been opened, and he's getting some shoves from behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he feels the door has been opened, and he's getting some shoves from behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15823</guid></item></channel></rss>