<?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[A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50423]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48644]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards andexamine ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22741]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards andexamine ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22247]]></link><description><![CDATA[The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45976]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now-always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now-always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty. - Definitions, 1953.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63222]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The testimony of the New Testament cannot be lightly disregarded, nor can the claims of Christ be airily dismissed. Many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The testimony of the New Testament cannot be lightly disregarded, nor can the claims of Christ be airily dismissed. Many otherwise intelligent people have never read with adult attention either the four Gospels or the Letters of the New Testament. When they so do, to my certain knowledge they not infrequently become converted. Indeed, I know of no adult who has seriously studied the New Testament and rejected the stories of Christ as mythical or the evidence of changed lives in the Letters as mere fabrication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're overwhelmed with the orders and requests but it just seemed to be the thing to do. And it worked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33008]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're overwhelmed with the orders and requests but it just seemed to be the thing to do. And it worked out and fell in place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm only 45, you always think you have something to offer and with someone like Kevin Sheedy, you'd certainly look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35429]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm only 45, you always think you have something to offer and with someone like Kevin Sheedy, you'd certainly look at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and our needs should come second.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's an innocence that has kind of gone away. Umm . . . the novelty factor hasn't been there for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44690]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's an innocence that has kind of gone away. Umm . . . the novelty factor hasn't been there for a while.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's here to stay, but there are problems to be ironed out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40258]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's here to stay, but there are problems to be ironed out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39699]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pro football gave me a good perspective. When I entered the political arena, I had already been booed, cheered, cut, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pro football gave me a good perspective. When I entered the political arena, I had already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded, and hung in effigy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can look into the seeds of time And say which grain will grow and which will not,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20732]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can look into the seeds of time And say which grain will grow and which will not,  Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear   Your favors nor your hate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down. -King Richard III. Act iii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down. -King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to Dispatch than Method. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to Dispatch than Method.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no reason to believe the two crimes are linked together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31043]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no reason to believe the two crimes are linked together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said, 'Is there a Cherie here?' ... and I'm waiting for the lightning bolt to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39927]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said, 'Is there a Cherie here?' ... and I'm waiting for the lightning bolt to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buy the rumor and sell the fact ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Buy the rumor and sell the fact]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the unlearned, and, as it were, throw a bridge between those two great divisions of the public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee;  A clover, any time, to him   Is aristocracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee;  A clover, any time, to him   Is aristocracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open rebuke is better than secret love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Open rebuke is better than secret love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that experience tells me is you can't be 100% sure about any player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that experience tells me is you can't be 100% sure about any player.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44255]]></link><description><![CDATA[For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37224]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3486]]></link><description><![CDATA[For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17621]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65226]]></link><description><![CDATA[I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12218]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The immediate priority is 2006. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36016]]></link><description><![CDATA[The immediate priority is 2006.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23795]]></link><description><![CDATA[The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. . -Charles Kuralt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among Mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among Mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems almost within reach. A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. De Tocqueville in his researches into the state of society in France before the revolution was struck by the discovery that "in no one of the periods which have followed the Revolution of 1789 has the national prosperity of France augmented more rapidly than it did in the twenty years preceding that event." He is forced to conclude that "the French found their position the more intolerable the better it became.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17873]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than arich person who is unhappy because the poor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22368]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than arich person who is unhappy because the poor person has hope. He thinksmoney will help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early on, I knew what I was getting into. But it's been very tough. It's hard to watch knowing I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early on, I knew what I was getting into. But it's been very tough. It's hard to watch knowing I can't be out there helping the guys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38296</guid></item></channel></rss>