<?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[Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4011]]></link><description><![CDATA[When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cforce does exactly what we need. Working from within Salesforce, I was immediately able to start sending emails without having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cforce does exactly what we need. Working from within Salesforce, I was immediately able to start sending emails without having to deal with a confusing list import process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So bent on self-sanctifying,-- That she never thought of trying  To save her poor husband as well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61869]]></link><description><![CDATA[So bent on self-sanctifying,-- That she never thought of trying  To save her poor husband as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord of human kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord of human kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23732]]></link><description><![CDATA[My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So when Andy called, I asked him if he would mind waiting, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39310]]></link><description><![CDATA[So when Andy called, I asked him if he would mind waiting,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49085]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his master.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God loves to help him who strives to help himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19189]]></link><description><![CDATA[God loves to help him who strives to help himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ill that comes out of our mouth falles into our bosome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ill that comes out of our mouth falles into our bosome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21830]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64191]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy makes us giddy, dizzy. [Ger., Die Freude macht drehend, wirblicht.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy makes us giddy, dizzy. [Ger., Die Freude macht drehend, wirblicht.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He loves basketball, and he loves the Heat. So it was a beautiful, beautiful thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29220]]></link><description><![CDATA[He loves basketball, and he loves the Heat. So it was a beautiful, beautiful thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.  [Ger., Der Freunde Eifer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.  [Ger., Der Freunde Eifer ist's, der mich   Zu Grunde richtet, nicht der Hass der Feinde.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage . . . to listen to his own goodness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  Of course, it all depends upon what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  Of course, it all depends upon what we are praying for. If we are whimpering, and sniveling, and begging to be spared the discipline of life that is sent to knock some smatterings of manhood into us, the answer to that prayer may never come at all. Thank God! Though, indeed, it is not easy to say that, with honesty. Still, it may never come at all, thank God. But if you have attained as far as Epictetus--pagan though you would call him--whose daily prayer was this: "O God, give me what Thou desirest for me, for I know that what Thou choosest for me is far better than I could choose"; if you are not bleating to get off, but asking to be given grace and strength to see this through with honour, "the very day" you pray that prayer, the answer always comes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25075]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10169]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An excess of courtesy is discourtesy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14442]]></link><description><![CDATA[An excess of courtesy is discourtesy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm personally not against billboards, but I am worried about the looks within the city limits. I see billboards as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm personally not against billboards, but I am worried about the looks within the city limits. I see billboards as more of a process of, as you're coming into town, wanting people to stop and service our businesses, buy their gas and stuff like that. Once you come into town and get into high density growth and mini-stores it becomes more of a distraction and a nuisance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people who are doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people who are doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63654]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I get a lot more playing time than I have in the past. I think it has made me a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I get a lot more playing time than I have in the past. I think it has made me a lot better player, getting in there more and getting to go against all of the hitters on the other team instead of just one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63096]]></link><description><![CDATA[An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide is a permanent solutionto a temporary problem(quoted by Judy Collins on Diane Rehm Show). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suicide is a permanent solutionto a temporary problem(quoted by Judy Collins on Diane Rehm Show).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56700]]></link><description><![CDATA[smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been three years since the government published details of the options regarding the regulation of private military companies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42455]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been three years since the government published details of the options regarding the regulation of private military companies, yet ministers have failed to find a solution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61129]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know that you are in love when the hardest thing to do is say good-bye!! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25971]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know that you are in love when the hardest thing to do is say good-bye!!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55283]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45541]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for we lived in our ancestors 1,000 years ago, and those ancestors are still living in us]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door neighbors. No man keeps such a jealous lookout as a rival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26469]]></link><description><![CDATA[No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13563]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred -- may not even be encumbrances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56213]]></link><description><![CDATA[A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56213</guid></item></channel></rss>