<?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[Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66629]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course he's going to tell you about all the great benefits, ... He's going to stand on the table ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course he's going to tell you about all the great benefits, ... He's going to stand on the table and dance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had chances. Even at nine points we come out and throw the ball away three or four straight times ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33764]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had chances. Even at nine points we come out and throw the ball away three or four straight times to start the third quarter. We just got into force mode a little early and when you don't take care of the basketball, nothing good is going to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belief is best when uncomplicated by reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Belief is best when uncomplicated by reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4095]]></link><description><![CDATA[One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13986]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4771]]></link><description><![CDATA[By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are limited by knowledge, not by courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66097]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are limited by knowledge, not by courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10775]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240  As a man increases in moral strength of character, so his conscience becomes more sensitive; he realizes more keenly the distance that separates him from the ideal, and hence the weight of the feeling of guiltiness oppresses him ever more heavily. Growth in goodness does not, therefore, necessarily imply increased happiness, on the contrary, it may mean greater unhappiness. And his unhappiness increasing in proportion to the elevation of his ethical standards, a man's end is either Buddha or suicide if he knows no God; while if he knows God, it is despair or that conversion which, having sobbed away its tears on the Father's breast, thence derives ever new strength to fight the battle of life, sure of the final victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chip is an outstanding executive with solid resources industry experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chip is an outstanding executive with solid resources industry experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawyers are like morticians. We all need one sooner or later, but better later than sooner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lawyers are like morticians. We all need one sooner or later, but better later than sooner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25045]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all appliances and means to boot. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55929]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all appliances and means to boot. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the winning spirit on the inside because we were brought up as winners. Some of these athletes that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33376]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the winning spirit on the inside because we were brought up as winners. Some of these athletes that you get now just want to play. It has to be taught and instilled in them. That's basically what we had to do with this group. They're just now getting the concept of what it takes to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not quite where we want to be right now. But we'll give them everything we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36105]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not quite where we want to be right now. But we'll give them everything we have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The interest in programs for 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds is unbelievable. I think that's because they are getting their first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37545]]></link><description><![CDATA[The interest in programs for 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds is unbelievable. I think that's because they are getting their first shot at signing up for organized recreation and the parents are eager to get them enrolled and out socializing with other children. I think that developing their skills and physical abilities and keeping them fit starts at an early age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, little old Noisyville-on-the-Subway is good enough for me. . . . Me for it from the rathskellers up. Sixth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, little old Noisyville-on-the-Subway is good enough for me. . . . Me for it from the rathskellers up. Sixth Avenue is the West now to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46758]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43597]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4762]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62148]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26957]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with some women is that they get allexcited about nothing and then marry him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with some women is that they get allexcited about nothing and then marry him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call Grover, tell him I am in Michigan and that I have two checks for him totaling 160 and need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call Grover, tell him I am in Michigan and that I have two checks for him totaling 160 and need a check back for Faith and Family for $150K.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52835]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is a philosophical reason...The resources on earth won't last forever, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32983]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is a philosophical reason...The resources on earth won't last forever,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The communities' response to our newsletter has been phenomenal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The communities' response to our newsletter has been phenomenal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet moon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45942]]></link><description><![CDATA[But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63594]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am no longer a curmudgeon.I am a curmudgeon emeritus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20113]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am no longer a curmudgeon.I am a curmudgeon emeritus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins  (Not of old victors, all whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42956]]></link><description><![CDATA[How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins  (Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests   Weigh not the thin ore where their visage shines,    But) of find unclipt gold, where dully rests     Some likeness, which the glittering cirque confines,      Of modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;--       Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It never crossed my mind that it would be Marla. I didn't want to push God ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ it didn't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31174]]></link><description><![CDATA[It never crossed my mind that it would be Marla. I didn't want to push God ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ it didn't have to be her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buying on trust is the way to pay double. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Buying on trust is the way to pay double.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60633]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose of war is not to annihilate an enemy but to get him to mend his ways. And we are confident we can get the enemy to mend his.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60633</guid></item></channel></rss>