<?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[Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All serious daring starts from within. -Harriet Beecher Stowe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10415]]></link><description><![CDATA[All serious daring starts from within. -Harriet Beecher Stowe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[main line of investigation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29315]]></link><description><![CDATA[main line of investigation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators save only he  Did that they did in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44585]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators save only he  Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;   He, only in a general honest thought    And common good to all, made one of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have closed all the holes and gaps. The situation on the border is now stable. The mess that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41318]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have closed all the holes and gaps. The situation on the border is now stable. The mess that we have had in the last few days is over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears:  Pause where we may upon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears:  Pause where we may upon the desert road,   Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I distrust those sentiments that are too far removed from nature, and whose sublimity is blended with ridicule; which two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54215]]></link><description><![CDATA[I distrust those sentiments that are too far removed from nature, and whose sublimity is blended with ridicule; which two are as near one another as extreme wisdom and folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/97]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/97</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28687]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2190]]></link><description><![CDATA[No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is feeling a tremendous amount of disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32786]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is feeling a tremendous amount of disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, work and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never practice two vices at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never practice two vices at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20108]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58522]]></link><description><![CDATA[He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the '60s, everyone tried to follow Pontiac's lead and put big engines in mid-sized cars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34888]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the '60s, everyone tried to follow Pontiac's lead and put big engines in mid-sized cars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight starts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15652]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight starts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1421]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48108]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome! all Wonders in one sight!   Eternity shut in a span. Summer in winter, day in night,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome! all Wonders in one sight!   Eternity shut in a span. Summer in winter, day in night,   Heaven in earth, and God in man. Great little one! whose all-embracing birth   Lifts earth to heaven, stoops heav'n to earth!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the state and local distribution plans that will define victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28828]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the state and local distribution plans that will define victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There written all Black as the damning drops that fall  From the denouncing Angel's pen,   Ere Mercy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23544]]></link><description><![CDATA[There written all Black as the damning drops that fall  From the denouncing Angel's pen,   Ere Mercy weeps them out again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/276]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20245]]></link><description><![CDATA[With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15962]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blasphemy is a victimless crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blasphemy is a victimless crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my ownefforts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22084]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my ownefforts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsely luxurious, will not man awake? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, we started about 24 years ago demonstrating corn-husk weaving at the Boone County Conservatory and, well, one thing leads ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, we started about 24 years ago demonstrating corn-husk weaving at the Boone County Conservatory and, well, one thing leads to another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23188]]></link><description><![CDATA[As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15439]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday, I didn't let it get to me, ... I've shot enough bad rounds and I know everyone is going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I didn't let it get to me, ... I've shot enough bad rounds and I know everyone is going to make bogeys in tough conditions. When you want to throw in the towel, you've got to remember that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God hath made this world so fair,Where sin and death abound,How beautiful beyond compareWill paradise be found!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11293]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God hath made this world so fair,Where sin and death abound,How beautiful beyond compareWill paradise be found!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism is Man Exploiting Man; Communism is just the opposite ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism is Man Exploiting Man; Communism is just the opposite]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gross ignorance: 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gross ignorance: 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65524]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've come to the time in my life where I'd like to step back and look at different avenues of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37609]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've come to the time in my life where I'd like to step back and look at different avenues of life and see where they lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46385]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Good, well-dress'd turtle beats them hollow,-- It almost makes me wish, I vow,  To have two stomachs, like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13205]]></link><description><![CDATA["Good, well-dress'd turtle beats them hollow,-- It almost makes me wish, I vow,  To have two stomachs, like a cow!"   And lo! as with the cud, an inward thrill    Upheaved his waistcoat and disturb'd his frill,     His mouth was oozing, and he work'd his jaw--      "I almost that that I could eat one raw."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; friendships formed without prayer; the daily act of prayer itself hurried over, or gone through without heart: these are the kind of downward steps by which many a Christian descends to a condition of spiritual palsy, or reaches the point where God allows them to have a tremendous fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61925]]></link><description><![CDATA[But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61925</guid></item></channel></rss>