<?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[Competitiveness has been a big thing for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competitiveness has been a big thing for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45136]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are certainly past the point where we need an increase, especially with the situation with how fuel has been. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39991]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are certainly past the point where we need an increase, especially with the situation with how fuel has been. It's absorbing all of our profits, and we can't make a living,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be Prepared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be Prepared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we have had a very successful construction season this summer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32421]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we have had a very successful construction season this summer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17721]]></link><description><![CDATA[How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what a mansion have those vices got Which for their habitation chose out thee,  Where beauty's veil doth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60512]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what a mansion have those vices got Which for their habitation chose out thee,  Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot   And all things turns to fair that eyes can see!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you. -Charlie Brown to Snoopy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to give people something to dream on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64459]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to give people something to dream on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the good and gentle; for this is a naturally pleasing to all, and everyone willingly enjoyeth peace, and loveth those best that agree with him. But to be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace, and a most commendable thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really didn't want to get that far back but the turns were really tough, I didn't really run them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41782]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really didn't want to get that far back but the turns were really tough, I didn't really run them right. I'm a long-strider and I had to shorten them up. I felt really uncomfortable on the track.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television networks don't deliver the audiences that they did a year ago or five years ago and yet (ad) prices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television networks don't deliver the audiences that they did a year ago or five years ago and yet (ad) prices continue to go up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Management: First fix the blame. Then fix the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Management: First fix the blame. Then fix the problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non performance can always be explained away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non performance can always be explained away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is leading, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is leading, with the thoughts he is thinking, with the deeds he is doing; when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is still, in spite of all, the child of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No more prizes for predicting rain. Prizes only for building arks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46666]]></link><description><![CDATA[No more prizes for predicting rain. Prizes only for building arks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanaticism is . . . overcompensation for doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanaticism is . . . overcompensation for doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gentlemen do not read each other's mail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gentlemen do not read each other's mail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house, and the bricks are alive at this day to testify it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house, and the bricks are alive at this day to testify it. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it stops one person from taking the next step and killing somebody else, then it will be worth it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40485]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it stops one person from taking the next step and killing somebody else, then it will be worth it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went crazy looking for another place down there. I'm still looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39376]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went crazy looking for another place down there. I'm still looking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39376</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[There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45925]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[At the Garden of Olives Monastery]  "Why are you all so quiet all the time?" I say, still whispering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7385]]></link><description><![CDATA[[At the Garden of Olives Monastery]  "Why are you all so quiet all the time?" I say, still whispering at him in this hoarse voice.  "We are teachers and workers," he says, "not talkers."  "Workers, O.K.," I say, "but how can a teacher be quiet all the time and teach anybody anything?"  "Christ was the best," he says, thinking of something. "He lived thirty-three years. Thirty years he kept quiet; three years he talked. Ten to one for keeping quiet.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chances of drawing hard-bucking bulls is much greater today than it was 10 to 15 years ago. Exponentially, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33788]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chances of drawing hard-bucking bulls is much greater today than it was 10 to 15 years ago. Exponentially, it increases the risk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63627]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They know who keep a broken tryst, Till something from the Spring be missed  We have not truly known ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57799]]></link><description><![CDATA[They know who keep a broken tryst, Till something from the Spring be missed  We have not truly known the Spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're trying to recreate habitat, you do it in hopes the amphibians can use it, and you have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33807]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're trying to recreate habitat, you do it in hopes the amphibians can use it, and you have to manage it in hopes you keep the bullfrog from being successful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was playing a little catch-up this spring and wasn't as sharp as we would have anticipated him to be. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38081]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was playing a little catch-up this spring and wasn't as sharp as we would have anticipated him to be. He has quickly turned that around and really has played some great lacrosse in recent weeks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that the truth will come soon. He will be a free man soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that the truth will come soon. He will be a free man soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/513]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[North Providence is young. They're inexperienced. They have some goal scorers. But I think we have the skating advantage. They're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36155]]></link><description><![CDATA[North Providence is young. They're inexperienced. They have some goal scorers. But I think we have the skating advantage. They're obviously a decent team or they wouldn't be in the playoffs. We don't take any team lightly. But I think we have the speed and depth advantage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She hath made me four and twenty nosegays for the shearers--three-man songmen all, and very good ones; but they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56472]]></link><description><![CDATA[She hath made me four and twenty nosegays for the shearers--three-man songmen all, and very good ones; but they are most of them means and bases, but one puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms to hornpipes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky,  I gaze upon each orb of light, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky,  I gaze upon each orb of light,   And wish that thou wert by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me-I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me-I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48190]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bear and the Two TravelersTwo men were traveling together, when a Bear suddenly met them on their path. One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bear and the Two TravelersTwo men were traveling together, when a Bear suddenly met them on their path. One of them climbed up quickly into a tree and concealed himself in the branches. The other, seeing that he must be attacked, fell flat on the ground, and when the Bear came up and felt him with his snout, and smelt him all over, he held his breath, and feigned the appearance of death as much as he could. The Bear soon left him, for it is said he will not touch a dead body. When he was quite gone, the other Traveler descended from the tree, and jocularly inquired of his friend what it was the Bear had whispered in his ear. He gave me this advice, his companion replied. Never travel with a friend who deserts you at the approach of danger. Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788  Matthew xi. 27. JESUS, the infinite I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788  Matthew xi. 27. JESUS, the infinite I AM, With God essentially the same, With him enthroned above all height, As God of God, and Light of Light, Thou art by thy great Father known, From all eternity his Son. Thou only dost the Father know, And wilt to all thy followers show, Who cannot doubt thy gracious will His glorious Godhead to reveal; Reveal him now, if thou art he, And live, eternal Life, in me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How bright the sunshine dances in its joy, O'er the still flow of this majestic river! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54334]]></link><description><![CDATA[How bright the sunshine dances in its joy, O'er the still flow of this majestic river!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this technology, we can now begin to gather reliable information on the movements, home range, and habitat of wolverines ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39744]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this technology, we can now begin to gather reliable information on the movements, home range, and habitat of wolverines in the Pacific Northwest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39744</guid></item></channel></rss>