<?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[Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24216]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never was strumpet faire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never was strumpet faire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away. [Lat., Gaudia non remanent, sed fugitiva volant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away. [Lat., Gaudia non remanent, sed fugitiva volant.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58549]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58711]]></link><description><![CDATA[No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45377]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54834]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. [Lat., Timor non est diuturnus magister officii.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. [Lat., Timor non est diuturnus magister officii.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The role of research has always been to do the groundbreaking work and, as part of IBM, to transfer the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The role of research has always been to do the groundbreaking work and, as part of IBM, to transfer the work to products. I see my career as standing on a wall and seeing both ways. One way is seeing new possibilities and the other is building new products.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The missionary work of the non-professional missionary is essentially to live his daily life in Christ, and therefore with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7862]]></link><description><![CDATA[The missionary work of the non-professional missionary is essentially to live his daily life in Christ, and therefore with a difference, and to be able to explain, or at least to state, the reason and cause of the difference to men who see it... His preaching is essentially private conversation, and has at the back of it facts, facts of a life which explain and illustrate and enforce his words... It is such missionary work, done consciously and deliberately as missionary, that the world needs today. Everybody, Christian and pagan alike, respects such work; and, when it is so done, men wonder, and inquire into the secret of a life which they instinctively admire and covet for themselves... The spirit which inspires love of others and efforts after their well-being, both in body and soul, they cannot but admire and covet -- unless, indeed, seeing that it would reform their own lives, they dread and hate it, because they do not desire to be reformed. In either case, it works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been telling our clients that their portfolios should be over-weighted in investment services and credit cards. Those are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42447]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been telling our clients that their portfolios should be over-weighted in investment services and credit cards. Those are the two segments of the financial services industry that we think have the best fundamentals. And we stick by that advice right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fishy ancestors had the anatomy for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fishy ancestors had the anatomy for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so rewarding when you hear the audience respond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29917]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so rewarding when you hear the audience respond.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of doues I haue a dainty paire Which, when you please to take the aier,  About your head shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of doues I haue a dainty paire Which, when you please to take the aier,  About your head shall gently houer,   Your cleere browe from the sunne to couer,    And with their nimble wings shall fan you     That neither cold nor heate shall tan you,      And like umbrellas, with their feathers       Sheeld you in all sorts of weathers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65277]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11397]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25338]]></link><description><![CDATA[We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52099]]></link><description><![CDATA[As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. - Aphorisms and Reflections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First, you had to have a tutor at home, who prepared you and talked all the time about the examination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42042]]></link><description><![CDATA[First, you had to have a tutor at home, who prepared you and talked all the time about the examination you would have to pass, till you were scared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9912]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our liberty and of our property under the Constitution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had our chance. We were up by two games with three to play ? that's all you can ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39823]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had our chance. We were up by two games with three to play ? that's all you can ask for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God;  And only he who sees takes off his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God;  And only he who sees takes off his shoes;   The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been spoiled. We didn't have a lot of money but creatively, they were great. When I came into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33994]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been spoiled. We didn't have a lot of money but creatively, they were great. When I came into the meeting after the first screening I had ten times more notes than they had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting state management is a nice first down, but delisting is crossing the goal line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Getting state management is a nice first down, but delisting is crossing the goal line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellows as I am put them down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38820]]></link><description><![CDATA[How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellows as I am put them down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I so enjoyed working with Jessica on our Rushmore project. Sharing the art is important to both of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41383]]></link><description><![CDATA[I so enjoyed working with Jessica on our Rushmore project. Sharing the art is important to both of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17651]]></link><description><![CDATA[God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each one to his own trade; then would the cows be well cared for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each one to his own trade; then would the cows be well cared for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of us would enjoy the ability to check out e-mails and work on documents in the air with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of us would enjoy the ability to check out e-mails and work on documents in the air with a broadband connection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our cities are saturated with fast-food purveyors. ... With the concentration of fast food even worse in school neighborhoods, our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our cities are saturated with fast-food purveyors. ... With the concentration of fast food even worse in school neighborhoods, our schools, parents, and policymakers need to take a serious look at this issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do our cats name us? My former husband swore that Humphrey and Dolly and Bean Blossom called me The Big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do our cats name us? My former husband swore that Humphrey and Dolly and Bean Blossom called me The Big Hamburger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66191]]></link><description><![CDATA[A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The current earnings and the forward-looking guidance, in general, have not met expectations among a lot of companies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The current earnings and the forward-looking guidance, in general, have not met expectations among a lot of companies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41155]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  For Christian consciousness, paradise is the Kingdom of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  For Christian consciousness, paradise is the Kingdom of Christ and is unthinkable apart from Christ. But this changes everything. The cross and the crucifixion enter into the bliss of paradise. The Son of God and the Son of Man descends into hell to free those who suffer there... To conquer evil, the good must crucify itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television networks don't deliver the audiences that they did a year ago or five years ago and yet (ad) prices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television networks don't deliver the audiences that they did a year ago or five years ago and yet (ad) prices continue to go up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48331]]></link><description><![CDATA[An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56868]]></link><description><![CDATA[When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for. All forms of dedication, devotion, loyalty and self-surrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our futile, spoiled lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're happy to support organizations like the YMCA that support great programs in the communities that we serve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34618]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're happy to support organizations like the YMCA that support great programs in the communities that we serve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34618</guid></item></channel></rss>