<?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[I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51425]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46744]]></link><description><![CDATA[For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41048]]></link><description><![CDATA[I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did you ever hear anyone say "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did you ever hear anyone say "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very dangerous to me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19399]]></link><description><![CDATA[That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew we'd have to bring our 'A' game. But I never expected our best score in the state tournament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40303]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew we'd have to bring our 'A' game. But I never expected our best score in the state tournament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11449]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On South Cloverdale Road, there were both poles and lines down, which took crews four hours to replace. Most of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32815]]></link><description><![CDATA[On South Cloverdale Road, there were both poles and lines down, which took crews four hours to replace. Most of the customers hit were residential. There may have been a school without power, but that is less of a problem on a Sunday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attired to please herself: no gems of any kind She wore, nor aught of borrowed gloss in Nature's stead;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attired to please herself: no gems of any kind She wore, nor aught of borrowed gloss in Nature's stead;  And, then her long, loose hair flung round her head   Fell carelessly behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are reluctant to consider the future, arguing that it must be left to solve its own problems and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are reluctant to consider the future, arguing that it must be left to solve its own problems and to shape its own beliefs. In all right efforts for the future, religion must be given first place. No provision to secure peace or just social principles can be worth much unless the foremost aim be to establish the Kingdom of God. It is not the minds and bodies only of generations to come that have to be remembered, but their immortal souls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light,  Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer;   Their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25083]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light,  Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer;   Their pure breath sanctifies the air,    As its fragrance fills the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our long-range goal, once we get high-school students off the yellow buses, is to start looking at adjusting the bell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our long-range goal, once we get high-school students off the yellow buses, is to start looking at adjusting the bell time of elementary schools. Then we can reduce the number of buses, and then we will see the savings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49837]]></link><description><![CDATA[The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he profits most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he profits most who serves best," and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying. -B. F. Harris.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of values and deliberately to choose the lower ones: to know that, however much these values may differ with different people at different stages of spiritual growth, for one's self there must be no compromise with that which one knows to be the lower value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a new experience for me. I've had a good preparation this season and I'm just trying to grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36702]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a new experience for me. I've had a good preparation this season and I'm just trying to grow in my game. I just have to keep playing the same way I have been this week and give 100 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10653]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a human approaches the mother disappears down a hole, abandoning her young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35947]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a human approaches the mother disappears down a hole, abandoning her young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time we enjoy wasting is usually a good indicator of our real values… The best things in life feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60361]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time we enjoy wasting is usually a good indicator of our real values… The best things in life feel like we feel when we waste our time!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65059]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really happy with the set-up (of the car). We worked on different aspects in each session. I hope it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42298]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really happy with the set-up (of the car). We worked on different aspects in each session. I hope it will be a clean race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57364]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow! -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow! -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a beautiful thing to experience. Venezuelan fans really inspire you. Usually when you play here, the crowd is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30331]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a beautiful thing to experience. Venezuelan fans really inspire you. Usually when you play here, the crowd is a bit more sedate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many men in Court and so many strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49753]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many men in Court and so many strangers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47179]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60640]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-rate power and to see this Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66583]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing politics and soft-soaping their bosses. Boards don't like tough, abrasive guys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the greatest blessing to the inner man. If God, then, puts or permits anything hard in our lives, be sure that the real peril, the real trouble, is that we shall lose if we flinch or rebel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20017]]></link><description><![CDATA[We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(He) put that which was most material in the postscript. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47805]]></link><description><![CDATA[(He) put that which was most material in the postscript.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider myself more exportant than important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55054]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider myself more exportant than important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30322]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delightful praise!--like summer rose, That brighter in the dew-drop glows,  The bashful maiden's cheek appear'd,   For Douglas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delightful praise!--like summer rose, That brighter in the dew-drop glows,  The bashful maiden's cheek appear'd,   For Douglas spoke, and Malcolm heard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17043]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5361]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that ;their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5361</guid></item></channel></rss>