<?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[There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17038]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers.  It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66120]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers.  It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage.  Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is nothing but perception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is nothing but perception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable- as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable- as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach. [The Royal Crown cures not the headache.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach. [The Royal Crown cures not the headache.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the quarter's financials are important, the stock performance keys off the PeopleSoft decision. A resolution will be positive one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35286]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the quarter's financials are important, the stock performance keys off the PeopleSoft decision. A resolution will be positive one way or another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who moves not forward, goes backward ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10259]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who moves not forward, goes backward]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63970]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an adventure in forgiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an adventure in forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27619]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever complains about a speech being too short! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27841]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever complains about a speech being too short!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parent of golden dreams, Romance! Auspicious queen of childish joys,  Who lead'st along, in airy dance,   Thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parent of golden dreams, Romance! Auspicious queen of childish joys,  Who lead'st along, in airy dance,   Thy votive train of girls and boys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44122]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one has a right to happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47607]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has a right to happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes reality has a way of sneaking up and biting us in the ass. And when the dam bursts, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes reality has a way of sneaking up and biting us in the ass. And when the dam bursts, all you can do is swim. The world of pretend is a cage, not a cocoon. We can only lie to ourselves for so long. We are tired, we are scared, denying it doesn't change the truth. Sooner or later we have to put aside our denial and face the world. Head on, guns blazing. De Nile. It's not just a river in Egypt, it's a freakin' ocean. So how do you keep from drowning in it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43220]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25475]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Employers recognize that the value in tying awards to performance, as opposed to the holidays, better connects employees to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Employers recognize that the value in tying awards to performance, as opposed to the holidays, better connects employees to the company's goals and objectives, eliminates 'entitlement' issues, and leads to increased productivity and improved business results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, 1932   Now what ought to have been the attitude of thoughtful Christians towards ecclesiastical authority, resulting from our Lord's whole attitude towards it? I think that the Catholic Church ought to have maintained and used ecclesiastical and sacerdotal authority, but that its maintenance and its use ought to have been accompanied with a continual fear. Because they had before them this fact, that however divinely authoritative, however securely resting on a basis of legitimate and genuine inspiration, yet the ecclesiastical authority of the Old Covenant, by no process of sudden revolution, but simply by a process of gradual development, was capable of becoming something so utterly alien in spirit from what it was intended to be, that when the Christ came, to prepare for whom and to welcome whom was the one reason for which it existed, it did in fact reject Him utterly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. - Lacon, 1825. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. - Lacon, 1825.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan,  Earth stood hard as iron,   Water like a stone; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61725]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan,  Earth stood hard as iron,   Water like a stone;    Snow had fallen, snow on snow,     Snow on snow,      In the bleak midwinter,       Long ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   Be patient, not only with respect to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   Be patient, not only with respect to the main trials which beset you, but also under the accidental and accessory annoyances which arise out of them. We often find people who imagine themselves ready to accept a trial in itself who are impatient of its consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only person I had any trouble with was Gloria Swanson, and her objections were completely off the wall. She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only person I had any trouble with was Gloria Swanson, and her objections were completely off the wall. She didn't have any legal leg to stand on. And she took me to court, saying that I libeled her. There's absolutely no libel in the chapter on her. She was the mistress of Joe Kennedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I can tell you what I believe: When tens of thousands of innocent souls have perished in Darfur-when 11 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18969]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I can tell you what I believe: When tens of thousands of innocent souls have perished in Darfur-when 11 million children are without health insurance-when our colossal debt subjects our economic future to the whims of Asian bankers-no one can tell me that faith demands this Senate spend its time arguing over a handful of judges. No one with those priorities can use my faith to intimidate me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty consists in wholesome restraint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not going to be easy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32980]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not going to be easy,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965   But first I said, ... "Some people think it is not proper for a clergyman to dance. I mean to assert my freedom from any such law. If our Lord chose to represent, in His parable of the Prodigal Son, the joy in Heaven over a repentant sinner by the figure of "music and dancing', I will hearken to Him rather than to man, be they as good as they may." For I had long thought that the way to make indifferent things bad, was for good people not to do them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18489]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem is why Bush at this time made this kind of statement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem is why Bush at this time made this kind of statement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49014]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30152]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To change one's life: 1. Starte immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions. -William James. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5563]]></link><description><![CDATA[To change one's life: 1. Starte immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions. -William James.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Stag in the Ox-StallA stag, roundly chased by the hounds and blinded by fear to the danger he was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1600]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Stag in the Ox-StallA stag, roundly chased by the hounds and blinded by fear to the danger he was running into, took shelter in a farmyard and hid himself in a shed among the oxen. An Ox gave him this kindly warning: O unhappy creature! why should you thus, of your own accord, incur destruction and trust yourself in the house of your enemy?' The Stag replied: Only allow me, friend, to stay where I am, and I will undertake to find some favorable opportunity of effecting my escape. At the approach of the evening the herdsman came to feed his cattle, but did not see the Stag; and even the farm-bailiff with several laborers passed through the shed and failed to notice him. The Stag, congratulating himself on his safety, began to express his sincere thanks to the Oxen who had kindly helped him in the hour of need. One of them again answered him: We indeed wish you well, but the danger is not over. There is one other yet to pass through the shed, who has as it were a hundred eyes, and until he has come and gone, your life is still in peril. At that moment the master himself entered, and having had to complain that his oxen had not been properly fed, he went up to their racks and cried out: Why is there such a scarcity of fodder? There is not half enough straw for them to lie on. Those lazy fellows have not even swept the cobwebs away. While he thus examined everything in turn, he spied the tips of the antlers of the Stag peeping out of the straw. Then summoning his laborers, he ordered that the Stag should be seized and killed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not fashion, it's passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36259]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not fashion, it's passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;  Willing to wound, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;  Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,   Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;    Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,     A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vaine is the mill-clacke, if the Miller his hearing lack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49553]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vaine is the mill-clacke, if the Miller his hearing lack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality has to be caused, not controlled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality has to be caused, not controlled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26524]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60045]]></link><description><![CDATA[And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. [Lat., Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. [Lat., Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree  Of creatures rational. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree  Of creatures rational.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much.  The French ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5020]]></link><description><![CDATA[In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much.  The French are with equal advantage content--   So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20 per cent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5020</guid></item></channel></rss>