<?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[Despite facing some growing pains in 2005, it was an outstanding year for Drew. We made significant strides by gaining ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite facing some growing pains in 2005, it was an outstanding year for Drew. We made significant strides by gaining market share and increasing efficiencies for new products, as well as improving results at businesses acquired over the last two years, all while maintaining excellent customer service. We continue to invest heavily in growth in terms of capital improvements, product quality programs, and most importantly, in people, and we are optimistic that these investments will continue to yield favorable returns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is time, as a matter of pride, as well as a matter of national security, for the United States ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13883]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is time, as a matter of pride, as well as a matter of national security, for the United States of America to lead the world in the energy revolution, and not lag behind Japan or Germany]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet be sad, good brothers, For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.  Sorrow so royally in you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet be sad, good brothers, For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.  Sorrow so royally in you appears   That I will deeply put the fashion on    And wear it in my heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And poets by their sufferings grow,-- As if there were no more to do,  To make a poet excellent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46848]]></link><description><![CDATA[And poets by their sufferings grow,-- As if there were no more to do,  To make a poet excellent,   But only want and discontent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonesome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be good and you will be lonesome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/578]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wind, the wandering wind Of the golden summer eyes--  Whence is the thrilling magic   Of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wind, the wandering wind Of the golden summer eyes--  Whence is the thrilling magic   Of its tunes amongst the leaves?    Oh, is it from the waters,     Or from the long, tall grass?      Or is it from the hollow rocks       Through which its breathings pass?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8361]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13715]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else . . . was to be indifferent to that difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it the vase will never be same again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it the vase will never be same again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes, almost two genera- a small minority that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52198]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes, almost two genera- a small minority that plays with ideas and is capable of taking them in, and a vast majority that finds them painful, and is thus arrayed against them, and against all who have traffic with them. The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority, and to the minority only. The majority has no more to do with it than it has to do with ecclesiastic politics on Mars. In so far as that heritage is apprehended, it is viewed with enmity. But in the main it is not apprehended at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63833]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is mighty and will prevail. [Lat., Magna est veritas et praevalebit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is mighty and will prevail. [Lat., Magna est veritas et praevalebit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65472]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set the ground rules and make sure it feels right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set the ground rules and make sure it feels right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52355]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense which cramps and restrains our nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely encouraging. I'm fairly certain that the majority of state legislators would support this if given the opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39506]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely encouraging. I'm fairly certain that the majority of state legislators would support this if given the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of his fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of his fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil. It is the Heavenly Father's will thus to exercise them so as to put his own children to a definite test. Beginning with Christ, his first-born, he follows this plan with all his children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62977]]></link><description><![CDATA[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13870]]></link><description><![CDATA[You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirits run riot in youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50778]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirits run riot in youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59579]]></link><description><![CDATA[One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59579</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[He threw the ball well. He just couldn't get out of that inning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41144]]></link><description><![CDATA[He threw the ball well. He just couldn't get out of that inning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18946]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48691]]></link><description><![CDATA[But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Layer by layer art strips life bare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Layer by layer art strips life bare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not over. These kids believe in each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40593]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not over. These kids believe in each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50867]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned,  The highest peak hasn't been climbed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned,  The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet,   The mightiest rivers aren't spanned;    Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted,     The chances have just begun      For the best jobs haven't been started,       The best work hasn't been done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me;  Hatching my tender heart so long, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me;  Hatching my tender heart so long,   Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47240]]></link><description><![CDATA[My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59080]]></link><description><![CDATA[What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17511]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can no more give what you haven't learned than you can come back from a place you've never been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters to Young Men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5715</guid></item></channel></rss>