<?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[The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24656]]></link><description><![CDATA[The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16871]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged. [Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitia munus expletum sit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64034]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll have to step up our game, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37506]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll have to step up our game,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It helps keep those areas open for future use. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40582]]></link><description><![CDATA[It helps keep those areas open for future use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They want to have everything but can't afford it. Their belief is that home prices will go up, and their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35895]]></link><description><![CDATA[They want to have everything but can't afford it. Their belief is that home prices will go up, and their income will go up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who won't be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50988]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who won't be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The horse thinkes one thing, and he that sadles him another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49874]]></link><description><![CDATA[The horse thinkes one thing, and he that sadles him another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You either move toward something you love or away from somethingyou fear. The first expands. The second constricts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22099]]></link><description><![CDATA[You either move toward something you love or away from somethingyou fear. The first expands. The second constricts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Palestinian intellectual friend tells me that he mightbe willing to admit that God in Hebrew said Jews couldhave Israel. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43701]]></link><description><![CDATA[My Palestinian intellectual friend tells me that he mightbe willing to admit that God in Hebrew said Jews couldhave Israel. But he said Allah did not speak it in Arabicto the Arabs.spoken on the Terry Gross Show.. Arthur Hertzberg is a founder of the Jewish peace groupPeace Now and is the author of The Fate of Zionism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up and down! Up and down! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown;  And amidst the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up and down! Up and down! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown;  And amidst the flashing and feathery foam   The Stormy Petrel finds a home,--    A home, if such a place may be,     For her who lives on the wide, wide sea,      On the craggy ice, in the frozen air,       And only seeketh her rocky lair        To warm her young and to teach them spring         At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the nature of babies to be in bliss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3600]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20529]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with anopen one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with anopen one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The housing report today and other numbers from last week indicate more strength in this economy than had previously been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34706]]></link><description><![CDATA[The housing report today and other numbers from last week indicate more strength in this economy than had previously been thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43380]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christian musicians are certainly as talented as any performers in mainstream music. Yet, these Christian artists also have positive images ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christian musicians are certainly as talented as any performers in mainstream music. Yet, these Christian artists also have positive images and messages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not what the mind thinks, but what the heart feels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not what the mind thinks, but what the heart feels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is still not as fast as today's silicon chips, but we can make it orders of magnitude better. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38298]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is still not as fast as today's silicon chips, but we can make it orders of magnitude better. We have a very clear picture of how to move on. Developing the first car is much harder than making a car that can go faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morale is faith in the man at the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morale is faith in the man at the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  It is of no use to say that Christ, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  It is of no use to say that Christ, as exhibited in the Gospels, is not historical, and that we know not how much of what is admirable has been super-added by the tradition of his followers. Who among his disciples or among their proselytes was capable of inventing the sayings of Jesus or of imagining the life and character revealed in the Gospels? Certainly not the fishermen of Galilee; as certainly not St. Paul, whose character and idiosyncrasies were of a totally different sort; still less the early Christian writers, in whom nothing is more evident than that the good which was in them was all derived, as they always professed that it was derived, from the higher source.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no regrets because I did everything by the book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28865]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no regrets because I did everything by the book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Busily engaged in doing nothing. [A squirrel in a cage.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is tobe full of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22449]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is tobe full of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10078]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In her eyes a thought Grew sweeter and sweeter, deepening like the dawn,  A mystical forewarning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14815]]></link><description><![CDATA[In her eyes a thought Grew sweeter and sweeter, deepening like the dawn,  A mystical forewarning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort -- the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort -- the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing -- the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now we’re apart and you’re just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all my family members and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65764]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now we’re apart and you’re just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all my family members and all my quirks and flaws and it doesn’t make sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home improvement retailers like Lowe's have large bulky merchandise in our stores and we carry big quantities of these products, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home improvement retailers like Lowe's have large bulky merchandise in our stores and we carry big quantities of these products, as many as 40,000 products,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31542</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[Ghosts only exist for those who wish to see them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ghosts only exist for those who wish to see them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we had the slowest bus driver in Pennsylvania. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37572]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we had the slowest bus driver in Pennsylvania.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture is the art of how to waste space. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Architecture is the art of how to waste space.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves. 'Cause I'll always miss her wherever she goes. And I'll always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves. 'Cause I'll always miss her wherever she goes. And I'll always need her more than she could ever need me. I need someone to ease my mind, but sometimes a someone is so hard to find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61373]]></link><description><![CDATA[And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38800]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15885]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15635]]></link><description><![CDATA[To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut Some cureless limb, before in use he put  His violent Engins ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut Some cureless limb, before in use he put  His violent Engins on the vicious member,   Bringeth his Patient in a senseless slumber,    And grief-less then (guided by use and art),     To save the whole, sawes off th' infected part.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sinews of business (or state). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sinews of business (or state).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63781]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1318]]></link><description><![CDATA[To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63897]]></link><description><![CDATA[No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man naturally yearns for novelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man naturally yearns for novelty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50908</guid></item></channel></rss>