<?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[Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be absolutely a mistake to think that you can just eat what you want and you're going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31453]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be absolutely a mistake to think that you can just eat what you want and you're going to be OK.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimately if the cost goes up ... over some period of time, the jewelry industry would need to pass that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ultimately if the cost goes up ... over some period of time, the jewelry industry would need to pass that through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43950]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58365]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36265]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26402]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65941]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44243]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66410]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart. Itis not the conviction that something will turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart. Itis not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certaintythat something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HEAP is a great program, providing much needed assistance to thousands of New Yorkers every year. Our fear is that, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40901]]></link><description><![CDATA[HEAP is a great program, providing much needed assistance to thousands of New Yorkers every year. Our fear is that, even with the new funds, the program will run out of money this spring and thousands of New Yorkers will find themselves in need of assistance to keep their power on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53674]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People like port because it's got a really interesting flavour - it's rich. There are quite a lot of liqueurs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39990]]></link><description><![CDATA[People like port because it's got a really interesting flavour - it's rich. There are quite a lot of liqueurs with fruit flavours but nothing quite like port.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57971]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57971</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[Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47789]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25577]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doth the moon care for the barking of a dog? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doth the moon care for the barking of a dog?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe in and are developing a broad-based equity plan so that all our people can participate in a stock-option ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34291]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe in and are developing a broad-based equity plan so that all our people can participate in a stock-option program that will enable them to share in the growth potential of the company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doingordinary things extraordinarily well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doingordinary things extraordinarily well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did make a few adjustments at halftime, but part of that is probably North had a big lead and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did make a few adjustments at halftime, but part of that is probably North had a big lead and didn't play with the same intensity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61468]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25433]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28479]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True and genuine worship is when man, through his spirit attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7554]]></link><description><![CDATA[True and genuine worship is when man, through his spirit attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship is not to come to a certain place; it is not to go through a certain ritual or liturgy; it is not even to bring certain gifts. True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole. [Lat., Incipe quidquid agas: pro ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole. [Lat., Incipe quidquid agas: pro toto est prima operis pars.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47033]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This movie is about forgiveness, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29222]]></link><description><![CDATA[This movie is about forgiveness,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   What is the Christian? Everywhere the man who, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   What is the Christian? Everywhere the man who, so far as he comprehends Jesus Christ, so far as he can get any knowledge of Him, is His servant -- the man who makes Christ a teacher of his intelligence and the guide of his soul -- the man who obeys Christ as far as he has been able to understand him... I would know any man as a Christian, would rejoice to know any man as a Christian, whom Jesus would recognize as a Christian; and Jesus Christ, I am sure, in these old days recognized His followers even if they came after Him with the blindest sight, with the most imperfect recognition and acknowledgment of what He was and of what He could do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23699]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't find people of integrity who operate in that zone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35955]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't find people of integrity who operate in that zone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lost our bona fide closer and our No. 1 guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41375]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lost our bona fide closer and our No. 1 guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50651]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to your universe is that you can choose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to your universe is that you can choose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire. [A little wind kindles; much puts out the fire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49044]]></link><description><![CDATA[A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire. [A little wind kindles; much puts out the fire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45260]]></link><description><![CDATA[To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is not determined by majority vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is not determined by majority vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woo the fair one when around Early birds are singing;  When o'er all the fragrant ground   Early ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woo the fair one when around Early birds are singing;  When o'er all the fragrant ground   Early herbs are springing:    When the brookside, bank, and grove     All with blossom laden,      Shine with beauty, breathe of love,       Woo the timid maiden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This confirms what we have long suspected that the government is involved in putting together a deal to sell out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42457]]></link><description><![CDATA[This confirms what we have long suspected that the government is involved in putting together a deal to sell out British sovereignty and try and bounce the people of Gibraltar into accepting such a deal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13236]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58666]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58666</guid></item></channel></rss>