<?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[We think it's a good step for Afghanistan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40047]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think it's a good step for Afghanistan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31406]]></link><description><![CDATA[15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8822]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate Of mighty monarchs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51771]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate Of mighty monarchs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each,  Even to the meanest; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each,  Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all   Where pity is, for pity makes the world    Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16841]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has a ton of talent. He has always put up numbers in the minor leagues. And he's a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31537]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has a ton of talent. He has always put up numbers in the minor leagues. And he's a great cook - great Mexican food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no question average selling prices are dropping all over the marketplace, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35149]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no question average selling prices are dropping all over the marketplace,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63094]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They keep saying the right person will come along, I think mine got hit by a truck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27045]]></link><description><![CDATA[They keep saying the right person will come along, I think mine got hit by a truck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder you work, the luckier you get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder you work, the luckier you get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52402]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't cry for a man who's left you, the next one may fall for your smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't cry for a man who's left you, the next one may fall for your smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rovers have proven their value with major discoveries about ancient watery environments on Mars that might have harbored life, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35709]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rovers have proven their value with major discoveries about ancient watery environments on Mars that might have harbored life,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61100]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28706]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy is going to catch the attention of the market. It's probably a force that's not going to leave because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energy is going to catch the attention of the market. It's probably a force that's not going to leave because we're in transition from concern about oil to concerns about natural gas and how that will affect consumer spending as we head into winter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3044]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for- because unless we stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for- because unless we stand for something we shall fall for anything]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I first noticed the trees, swaying in the wind, and then I saw, or maybe I heard, one being twisted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I first noticed the trees, swaying in the wind, and then I saw, or maybe I heard, one being twisted from its roots. That's when I knew something bad was coming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. -The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55558]]></link><description><![CDATA[My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40472]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66781]]></link><description><![CDATA[The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried,... still displays the self- reliant watchfulness which man has never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried,... still displays the self- reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Additionally, we are seeing wholesale prices for natural gas to drop and expect approximately an 11 percent decrease in February. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Additionally, we are seeing wholesale prices for natural gas to drop and expect approximately an 11 percent decrease in February.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are outraged by somebodys impudence, ask yourself at once, Can the world exist without impudent people? It cannot; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41482]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are outraged by somebodys impudence, ask yourself at once, Can the world exist without impudent people? It cannot; so do not ask for impossibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13525]]></link><description><![CDATA[The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm  Of his own country;--seldom since that day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm  Of his own country;--seldom since that day   Has Spain had heroes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rational individualist is not the enemy of benevolence or civility, but their truest exemplar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rational individualist is not the enemy of benevolence or civility, but their truest exemplar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18999]]></link><description><![CDATA[A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2061]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24989]]></link><description><![CDATA[The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars damage the civilian society as muchas they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars damage the civilian society as muchas they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secret admirers make us believe things about ourselves that we always hoped were true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secret admirers make us believe things about ourselves that we always hoped were true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65943]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind a frowning Providence He hides a smiling face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind a frowning Providence He hides a smiling face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth  It is the custom of unbelievers to speak as if the air of Palestine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth  It is the custom of unbelievers to speak as if the air of Palestine were then surcharged with belief in the supernatural, miracles were everywhere. Thus they would explain away the significance of the popular belief that our Lord wrought signs and wonders. But in so doing they set themselves a worse problem than they evade. If miracles were so very common, it would be as easy to believe that Jesus wrought them as that He worked at His father's bench, but also it would be as inconclusive.  And how then are we to explain the astonishment which all the evangelists so constantly record? On any conceivable theory, these writers shared the beliefs of that age, and so did the readers who accepted their assurance that all were amazed, and that His report "went out straightway everywhere into all the region of Galilee." These are emphatic words, and both the author and his readers must have considered a miracle to be more surprising than modern critics believe they did. Yet we do not read of any one was converted by this miracle. All were amazed, but wonder is not self-surrender. They were content to let their excitement die out -- as every violent emotion must -- without any change of life, any permanent devotion to the new Teacher and His doctrine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22990]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2003</guid></item></channel></rss>